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Fire In The Disco posted:Nook and Kindle owners: Thanks, this is awesome! I'll be taking the GRE in the near future so these will be nice to have around.
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Fire In The Disco posted:Nook and Kindle owners: This book says "Ages 10 and up" on the cover. Babies having babies 
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Snuffman posted:I just installed the software update from here and no freezes so far. My kindle would reboot randomly while I was reading. I'd be halfway through a page and the green power light would come on and it would just shut down. I'd lose my place in the book after it would power back up. It would happen quite often and now that I've received the lighted case on Monday it hasn't had a problem since. I emailed customer support from the kindle page since I only have a cell phone and it doesn't get service from inside my house and I really did not want to stand outside in 7 degree weather on the phone. I did not request a new case in my email. I just told them what I was experiencing and they responded back saying that they had credited me a promotional $60 usable only for a new lighted case. Thanks for the link to the update!
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Why are Faulkner and Nabokov (other than Lolita) not available on ebook? 
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z0331 posted:Why are Faulkner and Nabokov (other than Lolita) not available on ebook? I dunno, but the lack of Faulkner in my kindle depresses the poo poo out of me. I mean, I own a number of Faulkner's work already, but it's not the saaaame.
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My Kindle arrived today. It is so awesome. I keep hitting the left page forward thinking it is page back since its on the left, but I'll get used to it. So sleek and sexy. Yeah.
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bigmcgaffney posted:My Kindle arrived today. It is so awesome. I keep hitting the left page forward thinking it is page back since its on the left, but I'll get used to it. So sleek and sexy. Yeah. I've had the same problem and I've had it for a week. 
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Obligatory Toast posted:I've had the same problem and I've had it for a week. Took me 2-3 weeks to get over this one. And I'm in the "smells the leather case" group too.
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I broke my Kindle when I was moving but I have the warranty with it - called in at 4:30 yesterday (Friday) and got my new Kindle at 10 AM today (Saturday) That alone is amazing.
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Gave myself a nook related injury today. Was at Domino's waiting for a pizza, they were swamped. So I ended up reading on my nook for a good 40 mins and I had my arm in the reading position for so long it cramped up. Hurts like hell moving it now
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Do I have to jailbreak/alter my kindle to use mobis that I haven't actually purchased? Or does the kindle synch with them automatically? Bellams fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Jan 16, 2011 |
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Jan 16, 2011 03:34
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I only read the half of that post you shouldn't edit out. Calibre converts any format of ebook to be usable by the Kindle and syncs to it with no effort.
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Bellams posted:Do I have to jailbreak/alter my kindle to use mobis that I haven't actually purchased? Or does the kindle synch with them automatically? Nope. As long as they aren't drm'd you can just copy them to the documents folder in your Kindle and they should work fine.
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My kindle reads me to sleep in Stephen Hawking's voice. Sometimes I light a candle to set the mood.
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GeneralTao posted:My kindle reads me to sleep in Stephen Hawking's voice. Sometimes I light a candle to set the mood. The male robot voice is ok, but the lady robot voice is seriously unsettling.
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This is a somewhat odd question, but I figure it was better here than the e-reader thread in IYG since its more about the books. How do "oddly" formatted books read on the Kindle? Specifically I'm referring to "House of Leaves" style stuff. Now, I know, I know. Any person with half a brain would say that "The House of Leaves" would be impossible to read on the Kindle. I agree! I've also read it in dead tree, and I'm just using it as an example. Specifically I'm curious about Jeff Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen and Steve Hall's Raw Shark Texts. I'd sample the books but neither samples get you far enough into the text to see how they handle the "odd" formatting. There's one review on amazon regarding "Raw Shark Texts" that mentions that its nearly unreadable but it also mentions 2 kindle versions available (I see one  )Actually, which leads to a side question in that reviews would indicate that City of Saints and Madmen goes all "House of Leaves" but I've seen nothing to really indicate it. Is it really that out there? I was hoping for a Mieville-esque romp mashed up with some Gene Wolfe literary-ness and House of Leaves oddness.
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What do you mean by odd formatting? Stuff like ee cummings with crazy spacing? If the ebook was commercially sold (ie you paid for it from Amazon or B&N or whatever) it should be identical to the print version in format. If you didn't buy it commercially then there's more latitude, but it's not like it will be illegible gibberish, it's usually as good as if you had paid for a copy or it's a scanned copy with a handful of OCR errors that could be counted on an average human's digits.
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Depends how much effort was put into preparing the digital edition.
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Snuffman posted:This is a somewhat odd question, but I figure it was better here than the e-reader thread in IYG since its more about the books. Pretty sure Amazon lets you refund your ebook purchases for a couple days for any reason, so you could just try it and return it if the formatting is bad.
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7 days. Awesome return policy. Sometimes the book just looks like rear end for some reason. http://genedoucette.me/2010/11/28/immortal-as-ebook/ is a nice link written by an author who had to redo his formatting to make it match up with amazon, etc. It really does show that not everyone actually checks this stuff out before throwing out an ebook. It's a great book too 
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IRQ posted:If the ebook was commercially sold (ie you paid for it from Amazon or B&N or whatever) it should be identical to the print version in format. I forget whether it was this thread where I talked about it, but William T Vollmann's Imperial uses all sorts of fonts for effect, and the ebook version (retailing at around $25) gets rid of all of them, completely changing the experience of reading the book. So, nope.
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What do you guys do when the Kindle edition of a book costs more than hardback? I've had my Kindle for a month and I REALLY love the platform and I've been blazing through stuff on it, but I really have a huge psychological barrier telling me not to pay more than a loving hardcover for a 700kb file.
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I hardly even buy e-books that are over $10, charging more than the hardcover price is ridiculous. If it's something that I really want to read, I order it through my library's online reservation system. If my library doesn't have it, then I usually give up. It's not like there's any shortage of other books that I'm interested in.
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A friend of mine is looking at readers, and asking advice. I've got a Sony Touch, and I wouldn't trade it for anything, in my opinion it does everything Kindle does, but better, with a touch screen. However it is about $100 more on average. He's also looking at a PanOptics something-or-other. Can anyone with Kindle experience legitimately recommend it over a Sony for reasons other than price?
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Quad posted:A friend of mine is looking at readers, and asking advice. Better battery life, hardware keyboard, not a touch screen, different page turn locations, Amazon customer support is amazing, Kindle store, free 3G internet if you buy the more expensive one, web browser. I mean, all of these are subjective and depend on whether you use them or care about those things - you seem really jazzed about having a touch screen, but it's a negative to me. The differences really come down to personal preference and price, so take your friend to a Best Buy where they have them out on display and let him try out the various readers and see which one he likes best.
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yeah, I can't really see the advantage of a touch screen, but then I'm interested in something pretty much exclusively for reading, so maybe I'm weird.
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Weinertron posted:What do you guys do when the Kindle edition of a book costs more than hardback? I've had my Kindle for a month and I REALLY love the platform and I've been blazing through stuff on it, but I really have a huge psychological barrier telling me not to pay more than a loving hardcover for a 700kb file. I don't buy it. v v IRQ posted:Better battery life, hardware keyboard, not a touch screen, different page turn locations, Amazon customer support is amazing, Kindle store, free 3G internet if you buy the more expensive one, web browser. This, it's all down to personal preference. The sony definitely has the superior sorting options, but I far prefer the hardware keyboard and buttons on the Kindle to any touch screen.
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Weinertron posted:What do you guys do when the Kindle edition of a book costs more than hardback? I've had my Kindle for a month and I REALLY love the platform and I've been blazing through stuff on it, but I really have a huge psychological barrier telling me not to pay more than a loving hardcover for a 700kb file. I'd buy the physical copy then, poo poo. It is not worth paying more than $10 for any loving ebook.
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As much as I love my sony, the only reason I returned the kindle and got it was the collections option. If he has a lot of books, or will have a lot of books that he wants to keep in order, then the sony is less of a headache (especially if he is OCD like I am with my books). If he doesn't give a happy gently caress, the kindle is a loving awesome reader. Both sony and amazon have amazing customer service, and both readers are terrific. The touchscreen is pretty cool on the sony but I still generally turn pages with the button on the bottom. There are things I would change about both of them, but overall, either one is a great buy. I think there is even a sale still going on for the kobo wifi reader from borders. It's 99 bucks, so it's about 40$ cheaper than the wifi kindle, plus they have em in store to play with.
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The kindle wins, hands down, for one simple reason. If your friend finishes his current book (or all the books he bought to take with him in fact) while sitting on a beach in Southern France, Barbados, Jamaica or Spain, or while sitting in front of a log fire in Canada, Norway, the Alps or Scotland, he's either; Kindle: Able to buy a new book there and then, via the Amazon Kindle store, through the device itself. Sony: hosed. Has to go out and socialise with real people until he can get to a PC, internet connection and a USB wire.
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Masonity posted:The kindle wins, hands down, for one simple reason. It's too bad that ebook readers can only hold one book  I mean I love my Kindle and I love its 3G, but that's not a very good argument. You can always load up on books from Feedbooks as backups when you finish up all your bought stuff.
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Yeah I love my Kindle but that argument never rang true to me. I got the non-3G version because if I ever lack the foresight to have a dozen or more books that I haven't read on the thing, especially if I'm going to be some place where I would want them (and where Sprint's CDMA 3G wouldn't work anyway), well, I really just don't see that happening. I have to figure someone with that little planning skills would also forget to charge the bloody thing in the first place.
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Yeah I was just thinking my biggest problem wouldn't be books, it'd be power because I use the light so much and it drains the kindle pretty fast. I also have 3G and the only situation I've thought that the 3G would be amazing is if you're deployed in the military. I'd still choose the kindle over the sony though.
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Anecdote time, but I've found myself using it plenty of times. Sometimes I'll see a cool book while out and want to start it now. Or like when I went to see Sherlock Holmes at the Cinema. On the way home, I managed to buy the complete collection. Well worth the extra cost for 3G. If/when I upgrade from my K2 international it'll be the 3G version of whichever model is out. edit: and only ran out of battery once.
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Am I the only one who has a kobo and really likes it? It was cheap, it was Canadian, :canuck: so I could get my stupid patriotic boner, it has wifi, it came with 100 books, I have half my textbooks on it, I was able to download all my notes onto it, it's light, it's easy enough to carry. I bought it two weeks ago, and haven't had to charge it since the initial charge yet.
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I don't dislike the Kobo, but it really depends on how cheap you can get it. At its MSRP in the bookstore I work in ($140) it's the same price as a WiFi Kindle with none of the refinement that Amazon has made in the several years the Kindle has been on the market. At that price it's buttfucking stupid to consider a Kobo unless you are absolute deadset on avoiding giving Amazon more market share. At a discount of $99 it's not a bad bargain reader by any stretch. It's a bit laggy in my opinion, and the lack of a keyboard or touch-screen makes searching for books a bitch, but while I wouldn't get one myself I can understand the appeal. At $50-$75, where I think the Kobo should be priced, it's a great bargain and has a real market niche as the basement-variety Kindle--at least until Kobo's manufacturers can refine their product and improve on just about every aspect of it so it can compete with the Kindle, Nook, and Sonys. So bottom line is--Current gen Kobos are good if you can get them cheap. The device has real potential even just a year or two down the line, but at full price it's laughably bad in comparison to anything else on the market. Personally I love the Sony Pocket as the best bang for my buck. It doesn't have wifi or 3G, which sucks, but it does have the fastest speed I've seen on a reader, a stylus and built in touch-screen with highlighting and rudimentary drawing capability, it's small and discreet, looks nice, and accepts .rtf and .txt files in addition to ePub and .PDF. It's just a shame that my store is too loving stupid to keep stocking the Sonys, instead investing in over 75 Kobos that we can't move even when it's on heavy discount.
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I have a quick Kindle question. Is there a way, as an American, to attune my Kindle to the amazon.uk Kindle store? There are a few books available to the Kindle in their store right now that you can't get in America until a month or so from now, and I wants them. A few of the series that I read have a history of being published across the pond up to four or five months before they're available over here, and it'd be rad if I could grab 'em for my Kindle on the British release date.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Am I the only one who has a kobo and really likes it? It was cheap, it was Canadian, :canuck: so I could get my stupid patriotic boner, it has wifi, it came with 100 books, I have half my textbooks on it, I was able to download all my notes onto it, it's light, it's easy enough to carry. I bought it two weeks ago, and haven't had to charge it since the initial charge yet. As a Kindle owner, and a Canadian, I have to say I'm pretty jealous of the Kobo store. The selection seems better (from a Canadian perspective) than the Amazon ebook store. There are, however, ways to buy books from the Kobo store and still read them on the Kindle. Best of both worlds.  That said, I sell the Kobo at work. It does some things I like (silly, but I like how it shows the cover of the book you're reading when its asleep). A lot of the "extra" features the Kindle offers, I've tried once and never used again (webbrowser, text to speech). For Canadians just getting into e-reading, the Kobo is a pretty solid choice. The price just seems wayyy off for what it is. The screen just doesn't even begin to compare to the Kindle. The Kobo needs a few tweaks before its perfect. They have to stop with the stupid directional pad and get some dedicated page turning buttons, they need a pearl e-ink display and they need to fix the on-device store interface.
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A Nice Boy posted:I have a quick Kindle question. Is there a way, as an American, to attune my Kindle to the amazon.uk Kindle store? There are a few books available to the Kindle in their store right now that you can't get in America until a month or so from now, and I wants them. A few of the series that I read have a history of being published across the pond up to four or five months before they're available over here, and it'd be rad if I could grab 'em for my Kindle on the British release date. I'm not sure if Amazon sanctions this, but I've done the following dozens of times with no problems:
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I just downloaded calibre and transferred in all of the books I had bought on the Sony store and am trying to convert them to go on my Kindle, but I'm getting DRM issues. I saw a post earlier about some guy saying he could use calibre to strip out the DRM and manage his books like that. Can anyone familiar with the program help me out? Thanks.
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