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It all goes back to when publishing in another country meant shipping poo poo 2 weeks over the ocean.
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| # ? Dec 8, 2011 05:22 |
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Has anyone found anything good in the Kindle Lending library. Its a cool concept but I haven't found anything that I would want to read. I did find The Oatmeal's book, but thats about it.
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| # ? Dec 9, 2011 00:51 |
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Flaggy posted:Has anyone found anything good in the Kindle Lending library. Its a cool concept but I haven't found anything that I would want to read. I did find The Oatmeal's book, but thats about it. They have Hunger Games, if you haven't read that yet, it is pretty well regarded going-to-be-a-movie young adult dystopian sci-fi.
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| # ? Dec 9, 2011 01:31 |
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I just found out the Kindle Fire in unavailable in Canada. I wanted to buy it for my mother for x-mas. Oh well, I'll just get her a 4, from the posts in this thread it seems good. Yes, I know I can border jump and get it but to lose most of the features? Ehh...
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| # ? Dec 9, 2011 06:39 |
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Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is on the Kindle Daily Deal today for £0.99. Clicky. I've not read it myself but for £0.99 I can't really say no.
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| # ? Dec 9, 2011 10:29 |
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This is an interesting article about publisher releasings fancy covers/bindings to lure people away from ebooks.quote:There are indications that an exquisitely designed hardcover book can keep print sales high and cut into e-book sales. For instance, “1Q84” has sold 95,000 copies in hardcover and 28,000 in e-book — an inversion of the typical sales pattern of new fiction at Knopf. Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, published “11/22/63.” Amazon: 1Q84 hardcover $16.03, ebook $14.99 11/22/63 hardcover $19.24, ebook $14.99 (the ebook price has dropped from $17 in the last week or so) UltimoDragonQuest fucked around with this message at Dec 9, 2011 around 22:02 |
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I actually regret buying King's book in hardcover. Mostly because holy poo poo is it a strain on my wrists.
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| # ? Dec 9, 2011 22:21 |
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:This is an interesting article about publisher releasings fancy covers/bindings to lure people away from ebooks. It could also be the fact that 1Q84 has a stupid 1 kindle at a time limit in the drm, so you can't share it with your wife/girlfriend and you can't even read it on your iPhone when you don't have your kindle with you
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| # ? Dec 9, 2011 23:36 |
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Slo-Tek posted:They have Hunger Games, if you haven't read that yet, it is pretty well regarded going-to-be-a-movie young adult dystopian sci-fi. I dont know how I feel about reading a YA series. Im well beyond the realm of YA age wise.
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 02:20 |
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Flaggy posted:I dont know how I feel about reading a YA series. Im well beyond the realm of YA age wise. Read it anyway.
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 02:27 |
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Flaggy posted:I dont know how I feel about reading a YA series. Im well beyond the realm of YA age wise. You're going to miss out on a lot of good books with that mindset. YA doesn't translate to "won't enjoy this unless you're 13".
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 07:03 |
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I can use the iPhone power adapter with my kindle USB cord without having to worry about it frying, right?
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 07:46 |
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ghableska posted:I can use the iPhone power adapter with my kindle USB cord without having to worry about it frying, right? Everything that charges by USB is coming off the same +5 volt pin.
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 08:44 |
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I just found that I can turn the screensaver off on my Kindle 3 with these commands Home screen: (enter) ;debugOn (enter) ~disableScreensaver (enter) ;debugOff (enter) It is something that I have been wanted to do forever, but now that its done I wonder if there is a chance its going to gently caress something up. I guess I am asking, did the screensaver have a reason to be there?
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 10:13 |
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loudog999 posted:I just found that I can turn the screensaver off on my Kindle 3 with these commands So you don't flip pages or suchlike if you put the Kindle down and something hits the buttons unintentionally.
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 10:39 |
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spixxor posted:You're going to miss out on a lot of good books with that mindset. YA doesn't translate to "won't enjoy this unless you're 13". Fair enough. I just bought the Hunger Games Trilogy and added them to my pile to be read next.
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 16:25 |
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loudog999 posted:I just found that I can turn the screensaver off on my Kindle 3 with these commands It's so you know that the Kindle is off, and isn't just frozen on whatever you were last reading.
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| # ? Dec 10, 2011 18:38 |
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Is there a simple way to circumvent Kindle's location restrictions? The book I want to get isn't allowed in Australia, but I see it is available in the US store. Could I potentially gently caress up my Amazpn account for this?
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Dorepoll posted:Is there a simple way to circumvent Kindle's location restrictions? The book I want to get isn't allowed in Australia, but I see it is available in the US store. Could I potentially gently caress up my Amazpn account for this? I did it by adding a new address to the account, a made up one in America. I was able to buy a couple of books without issue.
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Dorepoll posted:Is there a simple way to circumvent Kindle's location restrictions? The book I want to get isn't allowed in Australia, but I see it is available in the US store. Could I potentially gently caress up my Amazpn account for this? http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ I don't think anyone's had issues putting a fake address into their account.
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| # ? Dec 11, 2011 18:41 |
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I'm glad to see Hunger Games in the Lending library. As soon as I finish Blood Meridian I plan on giving them a shot.
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| # ? Dec 11, 2011 23:39 |
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Thanks for the help, dudes. Reading Matt Taibbi's Griftopia now, as I am apparently a proud US citizen.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 09:45 |
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Amazon announced that they've been selling over a million Kindles a week, for the past 3 weeks. 
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| # ? Dec 15, 2011 22:19 |
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Everyone knew $99 was the magical price.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2011 22:56 |
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Apparently they are losing money on every device sold as it costs more to make then they sell it for. But they are gaining market share against apple, and will receive returned revenue from people purchasing kindle books.
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| # ? Dec 16, 2011 00:42 |
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Party Plane Jones posted:Amazon announced that they've been selling over a million Kindles a week, for the past 3 weeks. Time to put my Nook Color and 3G Kindle 3 up on Craigslist to take advantage of Christmas Shortages~~~
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| # ? Dec 16, 2011 05:00 |
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Is there any better form of migration from Nook to Kindle or Kindle to Nook than breaking DRM with calibre and loading the books onto the new device?
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| # ? Dec 16, 2011 05:27 |
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Nope.
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| # ? Dec 16, 2011 05:36 |
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Apparently they are losing money on every device sold as it costs more to make then they sell it for. But they are gaining market share against apple, and will receive returned revenue from people purchasing kindle books. For sure. They've already made way more on me through ebooks than I ever spent on my Kindle. And since the actual cost of an ebook is like a cent it's pretty much all profit for them, unlike the physical device. It's the razor and blades / printer and ink model. Joramun fucked around with this message at Dec 17, 2011 around 21:28 |
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What is a good tips n' tricks site for the kindle fire? I don't think I want to root mine, but I'd like more information on what it can be encouraged to do, or what clever, interesting, unexpected thing it does out of the box that the near total lack of instruction failed to mention. The gallery software is pretty shameful so far. It works, but it doesn't work anything like easily or well. Is there another that is better regarded? Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at Dec 17, 2011 around 22:06 |
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Fire does what I need it to do, which is annotate pdfs and books for research, plus some entertainment type stuff. I must say it's good enough for that, and it's tough to beat the price tag. But on the other hand I was expecting a little more and feel slightly disappointed, even though I really shouldn't because it does what I need it to do and didn't cost me an arm and a leg. So I don't know what to think. I'd probably give it a 3.5 star rating, with the caveat that I like it but people without my specific interests would probably be disappointed.
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| # ? Dec 18, 2011 00:10 |
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Does the non-touch Kindle support dictionary and "x-ray" search (the thing where it shows you instances of a name or word throughout the book, ie. remembering who the hell minor characters are in Game of Thrones) like the touch? If so, I assume you just navigate to the word using the physical buttons to highlight? I really like that feature on my Ipad2 but don't use it enough to warrant getting a larger touch (wont fit in my jacket pocket) if the actual capabilities are the same. Also, any slim case recommendations that will protect the edges from drops?
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| # ? Dec 18, 2011 04:35 |
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So I don't have a kindle but looking to get one is kindle touch that much better then the regular kindle in terms of using it for just books?
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shizen posted:So I don't have a kindle but looking to get one is kindle 3g that much better then the regular kindle in terms of using it for just books?
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| # ? Dec 18, 2011 13:36 |
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False posted:Maybe I'm misunderstanding but its just a Kindle...with 3G. Unless you mean non-touch vs 3G touch (there is no non-touch 3G). yeah meant the touch sorry edited first post, like is the touch just easier to use and worth the little extra money?
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| # ? Dec 18, 2011 13:56 |
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False posted:Does the non-touch Kindle support dictionary and "x-ray" search (the thing where it shows you instances of a name or word throughout the book, ie. remembering who the hell minor characters are in Game of Thrones) like the touch?
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| # ? Dec 18, 2011 14:32 |
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shizen posted:yeah meant the touch sorry edited first post, like is the touch just easier to use and worth the little extra money? I love mine. It's a lot more convenient for me than the non-touch one was. I would say the only reason I wouldn't have gotten it would've been if I was a bath person (because I used to put my non-touch Kindle in a big ziploc bag to read on the rare occasion I took a bath, and obviously that wouldn't work for a touchscreen).
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| # ? Dec 18, 2011 15:54 |
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False posted:Unless you mean non-touch vs 3G touch (there is no non-touch 3G). There's a 3G Kindle Keyboard (aka Kindle 3). It's non-touch
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| # ? Dec 18, 2011 16:06 |
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Island Nation posted:There's a 3G Kindle Keyboard (aka Kindle 3). It's non-touch This is the one I got from Target on Black Friday and I love that loving think. Touch is always a weird thing to me, so I actually like the keyboard/direction pad better.
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| # ? Dec 19, 2011 00:32 |
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enigmahfc posted:This is the one I got from Target on Black Friday and I love that loving thing. Touch is always a weird thing to me, so I actually like the keyboard/direction pad better. I loved mine as well, I'm still bitter over its theft (among other items). Maybe I should buy one after Christmas since I think Target has it on sale until New Years.
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