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Humerus posted:So I just got my Kindle on Saturday and can I just say I don't know how I ever got along without it. It's simply amazing. Question though: is there a way to "hide" books off my home screen without deleting them from the device? I have a bunch of Philip K. Dick books and I put them all under a category, trying to make things cleaner on my home screen. Only now it shows the catgory and all of his books and stories anyway. I would love a way to just have a list of authors then just click on their names to be taken to all their works on my device. Is this possible? I had two user guides on mine as well for some reason, I went to the "Manage My Kindle" portion of their website and deleted the older version and it hasn't come back. Your folder problem sounds like you might not be sorting the home screen by "Collections".
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I also got myself a Kindle. I've been reading from my iPhone ever since iBooks came out, and compared to that, the Kindle is a thousand times better. I really don't like the way collections work, though. Is there any kind of jailbreak or hack or anything that would let me to organize my books into folders? Or at least have "sub-collections"? I like to keep all my books on my device, and it's quite annoying to have to go through 10 pages of books.
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May 17, 2012 05:44
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Now that ReadItLater has changed to Pocket, does the website still work ok with the old Kindle Keyboard browser?
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May 17, 2012 12:35
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Raii posted:I also got myself a Kindle. I've been reading from my iPhone ever since iBooks came out, and compared to that, the Kindle is a thousand times better. It's a shitter isn't it. Your only real option is to put them all in collections and sort your home screen by collection. Not sure what model you have but on the Kindle Keyboard you do it like this: 1. With the top book on the screen selected, press up on the D-Pad. 2. Press right on the D-Pad and you'll see a range of sorting options "by author, by collection" etc. If you choose by collection then your collections will be listed first, followed by any books that are not in a collection.
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May 17, 2012 15:14
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Kindle needs better collections sorting/organising, but I'm happy now that I've abandoned any need to organise that way. These days I keep on collection: "Read". Anything I've finished goes in there, to be filed away. Anything I haven't finished stays on the main home screen. I have about 90 books on my Kindle, so it's a long list, but given that I'm only reading one at a time, and for a month or two, I don't have to trawl through that long list often at all.
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May 17, 2012 15:32
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I just logged into my library's eBook collection for the first time in a while, and I'm noticing a lot of the books are only transferrable via USB. Does anyone know whether this is Amazon's fault (that they don't want to pay for the transfer) or the publisher's fault (for wanting to increase friction)?
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May 17, 2012 20:20
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That's the publisher creating friction.
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May 17, 2012 21:02
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Sperg Victorious posted:That's the publisher creating friction.
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May 17, 2012 21:56
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It's pretty effective, I haven't been in a library in 10 years. Oh, maybe that was because I was worried about how many sets of dickbeaters had fondled the books I was reading. I dunno. Well, anyway, the point is the publishers won in their fight against me because I conceded and don't read books anymore. Any time I get nostalgic about books and how I liked reading, I just go play a video game or get on the Internet. gently caress 'em, they can keep their bat and their ball.
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May 17, 2012 22:06
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Splizwarf posted:It's pretty effective, I haven't been in a library in 10 years. Oh, maybe that was because I was worried about how many sets of dickbeaters had fondled the books I was reading. I dunno. And as you're not paying $Ridiculous, they're pretty happy to see you go. It's all incredibly stupid (of them), of course.
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May 17, 2012 22:51
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Does anyone in this thread have a nook glowlight and if there are any people who have one what are their impressions of it? My Kindle3 Keyboard's screen got squashed today and I'd rather not spend the $85 they'd charage for an out of warranty replacement when I have $110 in b&n giftcards and could pick up the glowlight for $30.
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May 17, 2012 23:21
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My mom digs it. She has a kindle, a sony, and a nook (as well as a touchpad), and the glowlight lets her read without turning on a light. Let's her dogs sleep, and lets her read without 2 crazy toy poms going insane. It's kinda retarded how they say its 2 gigs of space for stuff when they only give you 240 megs to load your own poo poo (the rest is formatted for bn.com stuff), but overall she likes the reader.
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May 18, 2012 00:44
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Its only 240mb for your own loaded things? On the site it says storage is 2gb with 750 set aside for b&n things. :\ e: or it says 2gb with 1gb for content and 750 of that set aside for b&n things. Whats that extra 1gb left for?
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May 18, 2012 02:01
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Circle Nine posted:Its only 240mb for your own loaded things? On the site it says storage is 2gb with 750 set aside for b&n things. :\ It's really not important - just pick up a cheap microSD card and all that storage is available to you.
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May 18, 2012 02:20
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Circle Nine posted:Its only 240mb for your own loaded things? On the site it says storage is 2gb with 750 set aside for b&n things. :\ For that nook: 1 gigabyte is completely unusable by the consumer 750 megabytes for purchased content 250 megabytes for your own stuff
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May 18, 2012 02:23
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a friend of mine has a rooted nook tablet but needs vpn for it since he will travel overseas a lot and loves hulu and netflix. He has Astrill VPN. https://www.astrill.com/knowledge-base/23/Android I'm trying to help him but quickvpn doesn't have L2TP/IPSec PSK and openVPN is a nightmare because I can't even begin to parse how to make a .conf file that will work. What should I do?
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May 18, 2012 05:13
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clockworkjoe posted:
Probably ask in the Android/Rooted Android threads for starters.
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May 18, 2012 05:51
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So who do I complain to about formatting errors, Amazon or the publisher? I'm reading Imajica by Clive Barker and there are a ton of typos to the point where it's getting distracting. Normally I don't care but it's a LOT.
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May 18, 2012 14:32
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I learned some fun things yesterday from a guy who worked in print shops for most of his life. Among other things, he complained that one of the shittiest things publishers would do is hand them something that not only needed the fixes that shops expect to get stuck with (reflows and margin tweaks and stuff), they also needed basic spelling and grammar correction. I wonder if the deal here is that some publishers (or individual lovely editors) don't even realize their work is getting cleaned up at the printer like this, so they assume it'll be fine to drop into an ebook format with no changes. Another thing that happens is publishers will OCR their own books if they're old enough to not have a good digital master, which is half "makes sense, very practical" and half  .
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May 18, 2012 14:40
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Cripes, does anybody with a nook still follow the Free Friday blog posts B&N do? I think it's been over a year since they've offered anything worth downloading. Is there an RSS feed anywhere that sends notifications when there's a free book deal that isn't poo poo?
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May 18, 2012 14:42
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LmaoTheKid posted:I'm reading Imajica by Clive Barker and there are a ton of typos to the point where it's getting distracting. Normally I don't care but it's a LOT. Maybe that's how its supposed to be spelled? I mean, with words like "Yzordderrex" who can tell, anyway?  The forward that's in my edition of the book has a great anecdote about how Barker reacts when people ask how poo poo in the book is pronounced; apparently he's changed it a few times over the years when he hears a pronunciation that's cooler than the one he was currently using.
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May 18, 2012 14:49
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Meldonox posted:Cripes, does anybody with a nook still follow the Free Friday blog posts B&N do? I think it's been over a year since they've offered anything worth downloading. Is there an RSS feed anywhere that sends notifications when there's a free book deal that isn't poo poo? I would imagine that's fallout from the agency pricing model. I doubt they can offer any books covered under that for free since that would be discounting them below the publisher set price.
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Circle Nine posted:Does anyone in this thread have a nook glowlight and if there are any people who have one what are their impressions of it? My Kindle3 Keyboard's screen got squashed today and I'd rather not spend the $85 they'd charage for an out of warranty replacement when I have $110 in b&n giftcards and could pick up the glowlight for $30. It's rumored that Amazon is releasing their own glow in July, if you want to stay in the same walled garden. LmaoTheKid posted:So who do I complain to about formatting errors, Amazon or the publisher? Amazon, who will contact the publisher. Scroll down near the bottom of the webpage for the book.  I guess you can also contact the publisher too on your own. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 16:04 on May 18, 2012 |
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May 18, 2012 15:59
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Boxman posted:Maybe that's how its supposed to be spelled? I mean, with words like "Yzordderrex" who can tell, anyway? Hahhaa, well played. That's not what I mean. There are a lot of words smushed together like "hewent" (he went) and so on and so forth. Since Barker speels a lot of poo poo weird it trips me up because I go WHAT THE gently caress IS THAT then reread the sentence and yep, I split the word up and it makes sense. It's definitely formatting.
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May 18, 2012 16:36
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Yeah, that is bullshit. Complaining to Amazon will definitely let the publisher know, and you can also contact them directly.Splizwarf posted:I learned some fun things yesterday from a guy who worked in print shops for most of his life. Among other things, he complained that one of the shittiest things publishers would do is hand them something that not only needed the fixes that shops expect to get stuck with (reflows and margin tweaks and stuff), they also needed basic spelling and grammar correction.
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May 18, 2012 16:43
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i like nice words
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Sporadic posted:Amazon, who will contact the publisher. Thanks for this. I just bought this yesterday and all the italicized words are missing the spaces before each word. It's driving me nuts, and was looking for a place to leave feedback.
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May 20, 2012 06:45
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My kindle just updated itself, and when I go to SS mode or turn it off, the screen stays where it was (shows the home screen). Is there a way to fix this? I don't have access to my usb cord at the moment and I want to avoid image burn.
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May 21, 2012 21:54
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Kingtheninja posted:My kindle just updated itself, and when I go to SS mode or turn it off, the screen stays where it was (shows the home screen). Is there a way to fix this? I don't have access to my usb cord at the moment and I want to avoid image burn.
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Alright, that was my biggest concern so at least that's not a problem. I've tried a few different things and it's still not working. I've double checked and the screen saver folder I have is still on there, so yeah I'm going to check with amazon later today to see if they have any ideas.
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May 22, 2012 14:36
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Have you tried turning it completely off? Hold the switch long enough to turn it off. Might clear up your problem once it's rebooted.
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May 22, 2012 14:40
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Is it a wifi kindle? Sometimes they go kinda wonky if they haven't connected in a while
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May 22, 2012 22:43
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yeah it's connected and I did the hard reboot and nothing changed.
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May 23, 2012 02:29
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LmaoTheKid posted:So who do I complain to about formatting errors, Amazon or the publisher?
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May 23, 2012 14:56
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smackfu posted:Honestly, from my past experiences, I would just write a bad Amazon review and ask for a refund. Then maybe buy it again later, because they are certainly not very prompt with fixes. I went the ROM route and got a better copy from a back alley of the internet. I bought the book so I don't feel like I'm stealing anything.
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LmaoTheKid posted:I went the ROM route and got a better copy from a back alley of the internet. I bought the book so I don't feel like I'm stealing anything. Should still leave a bad review so others know what to expect.
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May 24, 2012 00:47
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SB35 posted:Should still leave a bad review so others know what to expect. I'll get around to it tonight.
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May 24, 2012 00:51
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SB35 posted:Should still leave a bad review so others know what to expect. I appreciate it. It's great to be warned of a lovely conversion before plunking down the money. One thing that drives me absolutely BONKERS about Amazon is that they lump all reviews for all editions of books into one big messy pile. They really need to separate e-book reviews from print versions, and then separate print version reviews based on editions because there are often vast differences.
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May 24, 2012 17:34
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That is done to a certain extent; I don't know about ebooks but reviews are separated according to edition, at least sometimes. Look at reviews for textbooks, that's where I'd always see it. Actually, I don't know if you can filter by it. But it will say (this refers to X edition) on the review if it's not for the one in the listing.
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tonytheshoes posted:One thing that drives me absolutely BONKERS about Amazon is that they lump all reviews for all editions of books into one big messy pile. They really need to separate e-book reviews from print versions, and then separate print version reviews based on editions because there are often vast differences. It has a bunch of 1-star reviews because both the physical version and Kindle version have significant issues.
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tonytheshoes posted:I appreciate it. It's great to be warned of a lovely conversion before plunking down the money. One thing that drives me absolutely BONKERS about Amazon is that they lump all reviews for all editions of books into one big messy pile. They really need to separate e-book reviews from print versions, and then separate print version reviews based on editions because there are often vast differences. Agreed. Goes especially for books that have been translated. I was trying to select a copy of Crime and Punishment the other week and I didn't notice at first that all the different editions' reviews were lumped in together, so I was reading sentences like "this is the superior translation because blah blah blah" without actually knowing what translation it was referring to.
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