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smackfu posted:Is there any way to send corrections for a Kindle book? I have one (Anathema) that used negative dates in a few places, like "the year -1492", and they didn't put a proper space before the minus so it ends up as "the year-1492". Use kindle-feedback@amazon.com - I sent in the location numbers, and I got a $5 gift certificate once. The second time I did it, I got nothing. YMMV
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Ara posted:You ever re-download the book later to see whether they fixed it? I never bother because I doubt it'd ever get changed. I actually just did - IT (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SR2PKG/) is still full of OCR errors. Misplaced italics, misplaced punctuation, "Deny" instead of "Derry", line breaks, missing spaces, all that poo poo. I started to put notes on the errors after the first couple of times, and in checking, I have 58 notes on http://kindle.amazon.com A few of them are genuine notes, though.
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Parkettpolitur posted:After the page turn, the previous page sort of persisted on the new page, albeit faintly. As a result, the new page became illegible or at least very hard to read, since the previous page was still visible. A hard reset fixed this and now I'm wondering how common this issue is. I have a faint, "ghostly" image of the previous page all the time on my kindle. It's normal. The problem is that e-Ink only refresh(es?) the needed areas of the screen. Press Alt-G to force-refresh the whole screen. That should be faster than a reset. If that doesn't work -> Amazon support.
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Kerafyrm posted:I got my Kindle 3 today and have already read quite a bit on it; I actually feel a little guilty because I have a regular book I've been reading, but I want to play with my new toy, darn it. I was reading the first book in a trilogy when my Kindle arrived, so I just went ahead and bought them all in e-book format (I had them all as regular books). I wanted to start right away, too 
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maxnmona posted:The free books mostly have lovely formatting, but all the professional ebooks I've seen on my kindle look exactly like printed books. Stephen King's IT has horrific OCR-errors. I told Amazon about it 3 months ago, just redownloaded it, and they're still there. I made a point out of making a note for every error. To be fair, it's the only "horrific" one I've seen.
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hope and vaseline posted:If anyone here is a Jose Saramago fan Hitler posted:This title is not available for customers from your location in:  Ahahhahahha! gently caress yoooouuuuuuu Amazon!
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Mar 7, 2011 14:15
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Centipeed posted:Can someone explain to me how library lending is defensible these days? I'm obviously glad that the public has free access to books from a central source, but aside from the "We should be living in a free utopia" argument, I don't know how libraries can be defended now that books are cheap enough. Yeah, gently caress poor people! They're all so poor, with no money! They don't deserve to read, they can just wallow in filth like they deserve! :aynrand: brylcreem fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Apr 21, 2011 |
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Centipeed posted:For some terrible reason, I hadn't thought of this at all. I guess I assumed that public institutions couldn't lend books in the same way as private people could, unless they had permission? In Denmark authors get money from the state in compensation for their books being available for lending. http://www.bibliotekspenge.dk/oversigt/2010 The top author gets 795,411.49 DKK ~ 150,000 dollars a year. Read about it in Danish!
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Centipeed posted:But if libraries are perfectly within their rights to lend books that they own at no cost, then why do authors get compensated? Centipeed posted:Or are the rules concerning this sort of thing different in Denmark? Apparently.
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Guilty posted:Awesome, how fun, playing devil's advocate against a beneficial social institution. Can we do hospitals next? I don't see why I have to pay for other people's use of hospitals. I've never needed them! People just need to be more careful.
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Calibre finally sees the light of day, regarding the insane update-cirkus he has! Downloading a 35 MB file EVERY time? Really?!  Also, the translation is a little wonky.
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Jun 11, 2011 07:58
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m0isty posted:Yes it can. Not straight "out of the box", sure, but it definitely can. He does know that, he's being intentionally obtuse. He's "technically right" - the best  kind of right!
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fishmech posted:They're ready for calls anytime of day or night actually, might as well call right now. Yeah, sounds like they use Indians or something, the times I've called them. And they'll replace anything, no problem.
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Amazon finally allows last-page-read in your own personal documents! I got this e-mail:quote:Dear Kindle Customer, Of course it's not available for me, because I only have a 2nd generation Kindle, but hey! Good news for everybody else! Read more: https://www.amazon.com/kindlepersonaldocuments
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