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loving hell, every day it's another e-mail from another professor for another article recommendation sent to me in PDF and every day it's another day schlepping around the netbook and getting out the necessary books to cross-reference this bull poo poo and that. I cannot wait till my goddamn kindle arrives. I'm placing bets right now, it's going to be a required buy for grad students in literature at the very least if not all grad students.
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Duckman2008 posted:Ironic from my rant above, but the Kindle has been experimented in using with college/scholarly pursuits and got mixed reviews. Personally I think it would be mostly decent, but in terms of studies I could see how an iPad would be the required buy. Plus Angry Birds in class is always a good idea. Probably. a Tablet or e-reader of some sort will definitely make life infinitely easier for students. It's already pretty bad that I've got to pack a backpack and a messenger bag once or twice a week. Can't wait till I just need that kindle. edit: I can really only speak for literature studies, but very frequently we're required to have a ton of books on hand in order to facilitate discussions or conferences, or even if we're doing the research it's a lot easier to have the primary source on hand. schlepping around a bag full of books is no fun at all. Guilty fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Nov 27, 2010 |
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cybrancyborg posted:Okay so if I use calibre to convert pdfs, what relatively small ereader that's <150$? The Kindle wifi? Sony pocket reader? Expandable storage sounds nice but I don't know if I need it. You've spent about a week asking a question that could easily be answered in the OP
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Nov 27, 2010 19:38
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Daric posted:Is someone really going to ask about PDF support every other post? That's what I was kind of wondering. You'd think people would read the last 2 or 3 pages if not the OP
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Does anyone have a recommendation on how to make .doc files into .pdf? vvv oh sweet, thanks! Guilty fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Dec 17, 2010 |
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Dec 17, 2010 03:42
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I have kind of a frustrating problem. Certain books originally in epub format show up on my kindle with a big bar of space on the left hand side. Is there anyway to fix that? The text isn't fitting to the page, it looks like there's a huge left hand margin. I'd say 1/4th of the screen is that margin
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Jan 6, 2011 10:23
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I know I sound like a huge baby but I really wish Calibre would figure out an auto-update system if they're going to update their stupid loving program every week
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Jan 8, 2011 12:47
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Well if it helps, I think most people put 10 bucks as the breaking point between too expensive, and cheap enough to buy. I certainly do. 5 bucks is my 'buy without thinking' price. 10 is my 'do I really want/have the time/need this?' price for each paperback in general. I can sometimes get away with impulse buying 10
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Jan 10, 2011 08:23
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Welp, if anyone cares, the web browser on the 3G of the kindle 3 doesn't work in Germany and I assume most of Europe if you have an American version. I can still use the amazon store fine. Also, gave a 2 hour presentation on intertextuality using T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land as a source and did it using the Kindle. My God is this thing loving awesome....
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Jan 12, 2011 09:23
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Can you even buy manga on an online book store? legally?
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Jan 18, 2011 10:55
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you have over 33,000 masterpieces of human endeavor over thousands of years of mankind's existence free and at your fingertips for wherever you are in the world and yet you spend your time specifically coding for japanese manga. I will never understand this next generation
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Jan 28, 2011 21:16
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fishmech posted:It's not like it'd be any less nerdy if it was American comic books. It's comic books, period. The one medium designed to be light weight and easily carried and widely available. There's a reason why it comes out in issues
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Jan 28, 2011 22:39
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We probably should stop with that kindle manga bullshit not only because is it loving stupid, but you're also pretty much committing  since those series, Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, etc. are all licensed and those websites don't really have them up there legally.
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Feb 4, 2011 18:03
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Vertigus posted:Believe it or not the mods don't usually ban people for talking about programs used for pirating. They can correct me if I'm wrong, but talking about a program used to manage mangas is not treated the same as distributing or posting links to pirated mangas. I don't understand why you're fighting so hard to keep your 'artsy' children's books discussion, but his program seems to actively go on a site, and rip licensed series in order to put it on your kindle.
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Feb 5, 2011 10:16
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:Because it's for a goddamn e-reader. This is inspect your gadgets, not the loving book barn. Get off your high horse long enough to read this quote: Torrents and other P2P system discussions aren't allowed even though it's possible to use it for legal content. It doesn't change the fact that all people have used it so far is for stealing licensed poo poo. The instructions in the posts so far are for stealing the top 3 most popular licensed series. Not to mention if you look on those sites it's mostly licensed series that you can buy in stores. Maybe if there was an actual manga e-book that you needed to upload or could actually buy, it would be pretty fine, ok. But the program basically just goes on a site, clicks save as a bunch of times, and arranges it for your ebook. Seems really sketchy to me since most of those sites don't even have the rights to those series anyways. Whatever, if the mods haven't said anything by now, they probably think it's ok. Just realize you're walking a fine line.
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Feb 5, 2011 13:37
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a Shakespeare collection for the kindle that includes line numbers? I know it might be kind of hard for that format to show up on the kindle, but if anyone could find one it would help me out immensely. Preferably a complete collection rather than individual plays, I find myself having to do a lot of intertextual stuff.
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Mar 9, 2011 15:17
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withak posted:Wouldn't line numbers depend on the font and screen size? Well, within academia it's not supposed to, since they're all supposed to be based on his original Folio prints. There are several publishers using several editions and the line numbers are pretty uniform throughout, in print editions. But I've perused about 7 samples of kindle editions and they all don't have numbers so I'm thinking they just got lazy with these.
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Mar 9, 2011 16:00
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I would be ok with that weird coding. It's just that it would make my life infinitely easier when I do my citations. I'll probably try one of your suggestions until someone comes up with a better solution. Thanks!
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Mar 9, 2011 16:56
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fishmech posted:I'm pretty sure that since reading on some form of computer-run screen has existed since 1968 or so, it'll not go away. Real paper book editions of the same book do not have the same page numbers at all times as other copies, it's silly to expect ebooks to as well, especially because then you have to decided which paper copy has the "real numbers" I'm not asking for the e-reader to do that though. I'm asking if anyone knows a publisher who did do that in any manageable way, because it would be amazingly loving useful to me, especially since a lot of my work cross-references several shakespearean plays and it's nice not having to drag along paper copies and then i'll forget which ones I need, etc. No one knows of a publisher who has made one?
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Mar 10, 2011 00:40
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Also, for extended reading periods, black on grey is a lot easier on the eyes than black on pure white. Even half the paper novels these days don't use pure white. And I would go absolutely loving nuts if I had to charge my e-reader every day or two. Yes, I do use it that much. Thank god for the kindle's battery life.
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Mar 26, 2011 17:02
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Shnooks posted:Have any of you had to quote/cite a book on your kindle? I have a book I had to read for class that I got on my Kindle for free, but there's no page numbers still, even though I upgraded. Do I put location or something? Explain to my professor I have it on my Kindle? My professors have forbidden me to cite from the e-book due to the unreliability of the book. I can understand them, seeing as to how if I really wanted to I could go into Sigil and change it. I just go to the library and look up exactly what I need and use that.
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great, I'm living in loving germany and can't get it. Is there anyway I can just circumvent the whole location thing and get it? Guilty fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Apr 5, 2011 |
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Apr 5, 2011 17:51
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Awesome, how fun, playing devil's advocate against a beneficial social institution. Can we do hospitals next?
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Apr 25, 2011 13:12
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Usually the pricing they're talking about, i.e. $9.99 is on new releases, right? I'm just a little confused because I bought Rushdie's latest novel (2008) on my kindle for 7.45
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Apr 12, 2012 12:01
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 I live in Germany. My Kindle is set to the German store, but that ss is from amazon.com
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Apr 12, 2012 12:53
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If you have a pocket an ereader can fit in, you need to get clothes that fit Edit: i don't know if the paperwhite version of kindle does this, but i do know that the fire imitates the clicky side buttins. Just tap the edge of the screen on the right to go forward, left to go back. Guilty fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Oct 5, 2012 |
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Oct 5, 2012 09:59
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Splizwarf posted:Hipster trap sprung. Fascinating, the People of Walmart are developing more elaborate hunting methods...
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Oct 5, 2012 14:28
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So it seems that Sentinel 3 is on sale for a buck. Worth it?
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Nov 8, 2012 23:42
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Does the Kindle app do everything the Kindle fire does in terms of reading features?
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Mar 12, 2013 15:00
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Ah, I was thinking about getting a nexus instead of a fire
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Got a new paperwhite, fired up Calibre. I see they're still doing a loving update every loving week. How is this poo poo still loving going on? This is seriously the most annoying lovely feature of the program, makes me want to stop using it entirely. vvv: I hate the pop up notice Guilty fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Mar 21, 2013 |
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Mar 21, 2013 07:10
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I tried to use my paperwhite today while it was plugged into the wall and charging, and it seemed to spazz out on me. Instead of flipping the page forward or backwards, it would bring up the font size menu and change the font bigger or larger, but it wouldn't load the whole menu, and then if I FINALLY got rid of the menu, it would auto-flip rather quickly through pages. After I unplugged it, it seemed to work like normal. Did I get a defective kindle?
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Selklubber posted:I've never used a kindle with buttons, but I wish my paperwhite had voice controls. If I'm comfy reading I don't want to move my hands every minute to flip the page! That's pretty much the primary reason why I never read paper books in the first place, moving the page from one end to the other was too much work
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Any indication of an updated Nexus 7 with higher DPI and Tegra 4 this summer? Supposed to be an announcement in mid June
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May 6, 2013 23:39
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Splizwarf posted:What about at I/O next week? Oh yeah that. I keep getting the date mixed up with the Haswell processor news, since those two are the things I'm most looking forward to
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Edit: misunderstood, the new paperwhite isn't out yet
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Sep 17, 2013 00:28
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Has anyone tried the new paperwhite yet? Assuming I've got money to blow, is it worth the upgrade from the old paperwhite?
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Craptacular! posted:Just dropping by to ask, is there a better manager app than Calibre yet? It looks so 1995, seems bloated in size, can't handle it's own updates, etc.
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the littlest prince posted:Or maybe it's a hobby for them and they're tired of hearing about it, and don't feel like spending hundreds of hours on something that isn't a serious issue? 'hundreds of hours'
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Pierson posted:I need a new reader and I'm almost certain I'm going to get a Kindle Paperwhite but one question: I know Calibre can convert non-Kindle formats to Kindle-ready files but how good is it at doing so? Is it basically "yeah you can convert your html/epub/whatever perfectly' or 'take your chances and the results can look anywhere from perfect formatting to awful formatting you can barely read'? It's really good at converting, takes a few seconds. Only downside is (maybe they changed it, haven't used it in awhile) that for some dumb loving reason it needs to update every day. Conversion is pretty good, sometimes there are formatting issues, but 80% of the time it works fine. Response wise, there's a noticeable pause in the paperwhite, but it all depends on how pedantic you are. I like the kindle app on tablet better, which is instantaneous, but I've been using kindles for awhile so the noticeable pause isn't that noticeable to me. I've never had my paperwhite crash or hang up, and I was a first adopter.
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