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All kindle purchases in Canada go through the international Amazon.com store. If you have a Canadian shipping address they will refuse to sell you anything but the $110 Kindle 4, $140 Kindle Keyboard, $190 Kindle Keyboard 3G, and $380 Kindle DX, as well as a presumably smaller selection of books. I'm not sure, but I recall some people complaining that they also have this restriction based on the address on your credit card too.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2011 02:20 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 16:22 |
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Codiusprime posted:So, I've played with Caliber a bit but I don't really understand the appeal. Am I doing it wrong? Can someone tell me why the use caliber? I just buy and download the book from my Nook and it seems to work alright. What advantages does caliber offer? I tried to set it up for my mom because she was going to have to download books on her computer then transfer them to the Nook but I never got an iTunes for ereader vibe. It's really nice if you want to get ebooks from sources other than your e-reader manufacturer's store, but they don't come in a compatible format. It also has this feature where it will download articles from websites you specify, and convert them into the ebook format of your choosing for your reading pleasure.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2011 20:44 |
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I'd like to here some opinions on the Kindle touch v. Kindle 4. I can get the K4 severely discounted because I have Amazon.com gift cards, but I'd have to get the touch somewhere else because I live in a third world country that Amazon won't ship their more advanced devices to. Is the touch that much better? Is it even really better at all? I would think that the slow response of an e-ink screen would make for a frustration touch experience, but I haven't actually been able to try one to see for myself.
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2011 20:36 |
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I got a Kindle 4 for Christmas, and I see I can email myself a mobi file that I converted from epub through whispernet. I was under the assumption that it should be able to sync the last read page between my Kindle and my phone, but I'm not even given the option to deliver it to devices other than the Kindle. Is this behaviour intended? Is there a way to make this work? edit: nevermind, seems that only works with iOS. ZShakespeare fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Dec 27, 2011 |
# ¿ Dec 27, 2011 07:38 |
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The screensavers on the (non-touch-non-ad because I live in Canada) Kindle 4 are gorgeous. I wouldn't think to replace them.
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# ¿ Jan 3, 2012 06:58 |
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I'm really glad that they decided to get rid of those horrid pictures for the 4th gen kindle.
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2012 03:23 |
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Amazon knows that there is no particular reason that your epubs could not have been legitimately acquired through one of the many stores that sell ebooks. Format shifting these books is perfectly legal as long as you got them in a legal manner. It's not Amazon's job to punish someone because they have files that weren't purchased from their store.
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2012 20:27 |
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Lazyhound posted:I got the basic, keyboardless Kindle (international version), and I'm pleasantly surprised at how well it handles PDFs. I thought it would dire, based on the the OP and my other research, but even files formatted for letter-size pages are perfectly legible. O'Reilly and Apress books look much better in their original layout than the .mobi versions. My only complaint is that it won't sync / back up last read positions, even if the files are uploaded through PDS. Personal documents only sync to other kindles and iOS devices. The iOS thing is brand new, so hopefully they will push this functionality out to other platforms soon.
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2012 06:23 |
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PRADA SLUT posted:Is the cheap kindle difficult to use for anyone? I want to get one, but I'm not sure about the lack of a keyboard. I will only read novels on it (front to back, so no searching and such). Would it be better to have the keyboard anyway? I only use mine for reading books and I'm definitely glad I don't have the extra bulk of the keyboard or those terrifying screensavers that come with the keyboard kindle.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2012 00:56 |
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If you look very closely at the text on the kindle you can see where the text could be crisper from a higher resolution display, but even knowing it's there you won't notice it at a normal (> 6") reading distance. I imagine this has a lot to do with the Kindle's proprietary font, because it was very noticeable on my wife's Kobo.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2012 19:50 |
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BlueLaser posted:That or email it to yourself so it is in your portable documents. Syncing personal documents only works with Kindles and iOS devices. It does not work with the Android app.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2012 07:39 |
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It's a textbook and would look like poo poo on a 6-7 inch screen because it has all kinds of diagrams and poo poo. Rather than give you a lovely experience they make it available only on devices with larger screens.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2012 03:50 |
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Why don't you just strip the DRM and convert it to a PDF? If you are going to try to shoehorn it into doing something it was never meant to do you might as well give it some effort.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2012 05:11 |
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Splizwarf posted:
Look at the size of a physical textbook, and then look at the size of your ereader screen. In most cases you will notice a difference. Some textbooks might reflow to the size of the smaller screen very well. Others not. I have three textbooks, this semester, that look absolutely awful on the smaller screen and are near impossible to read without zooming and panning. If I hadn't had to jump through hoops to read the books in an unsupported configuration I might have felt that I was spending money on something that was a really substandard. I'm certain that Amazon thinks many of its customers would also feel this way and would rather have a few people go on internet rants about customer choice and openness rather than devalue its brand.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2012 17:26 |
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Splizwarf posted:For that matter, why would anyone buy movies on DVD? They don't have a 2 story screen like a theater does. Because you're sitting a lot closer to the screen and it still fills your field of vision? If you had a 5 inch TV and sat 8 feet away on your couch then it would be a pretty dumb idea to buy a DVD because it would be terrible to watch.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2012 20:24 |
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Splizwarf posted:
Is it that hard to believe that someone thinks is dumb to complain that publishers are evil for minorly inconveniencing you as you attempt to squint at 6.5 pt font and graphics on a small screen designed specifically to display human readable prose?
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2012 20:39 |
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Alucard posted:I also noticed that it does a full flash every page turn now as opposed to every 5 pages. It's probably too early for any statistics on this, but I assume that it's going to have a notable effect on the battery life? I have had mine since Xmas and I'm just getting around to needing to recharge, so I held off on the update until I had to give it a full charge. I don't know if this is the case for the touch, but the non-touch kindle 4 got a software update to make full page refreshing ever page turn an option. You may be able to turn it off.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2012 05:46 |
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Civil posted:My wife and I both have Kindle 4's with ads (no keyboard/no touch), and it's not easy to tell them apart. I have this problem as well. I've been looking for a nice sticker to put on the back of mine or something. As far as I know there isn't a way to gain root access the the Kindle 4, and so there is no way to change the screen savers.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2012 06:09 |
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Trico posted:Can any Canadians help me out here: Would the Kobo sleeves they sell at Indigo or Chapters be a good fit for my Kindle 4? The K4 is actually slightly smaller in dimensions to Kobo, so it shouldn't be too loose a fit, right? I don't have any experience with that specific sleeve, but my wife created a sleeve for her Kobo before she got a kindle herself and before she modified it to fit the kindle properly, it fit fairly well.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2012 03:44 |
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You should probably check some other ebook stores to see if the publisher has worked out a deal with another distributor in Canada.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2012 03:56 |
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Anne Whateley posted:In general when a publisher doesn't have a digital edition available in Canada, it's because they don't have the rights (Canada is sometimes with other Commonwealth countries / digital rights are sometimes US-only), so unfortunately this probably won't help. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you claiming that all Canadian ebook stores have identical selection, or that Amazon's ebook selection covers all other ebook stores?
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2012 04:11 |
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Bhodi posted:Before this descends into b-b-but ~*My Freedom*~ If they don't make the content available in the format that doesn't make me leave my basement is justified right?
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2012 18:28 |
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Splizwarf posted:Still have one of those, do you? All over the place in our socialist paradise They even lend eBooks. Crazy.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2012 04:25 |
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melon cat posted:Do any Canadian e-inkers have a preference for Kindle vs Kobos? We're about to splurge on one or the other, but we're not sure which direction to go. Kindle wins hands down. Page turns are faster, the battery lasts longer, the build quality is MUCH better, and the library is much larger. The only downside is that you can't borrow books from a library.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2012 07:13 |
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Hell yes, the Android Kindle app just updated to sync personal documents including last read page.
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2012 22:43 |
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spixxor posted:I've never even opened the app on my phone before today, so what does this mean, exactly? There's no way to sync all the books on my Kindle to the app, right? Only the ones I've bought from Amazon? Either they're classed (personal documents and non-Amazon books, I mean) as two different things or I'm a dummy (possibly both). Any of the books you emailed to your kindle through amazon personal documents will now sync to your phone. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_pdoc_main_short_us?nodeId=200767340
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2012 23:50 |
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I personally prefer the non–touch kindle simply for the reason that responsiveness is what makes touch interfaces work well, and e–ink just isn't there yet. On the other hand the battery is bigger in the tough version; though I've only had to plug mine in four times since I got it on Christmas. I heard someone complain that you can't page forward if you hold it in your left hand, but that sounds like a huge thing for amazon to overlook and it's more likely that person was overlooking something.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2012 04:11 |
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The one single feature that makes the kindle the better choice for me is the personal documents syncing feature. I convert whatever book I have to mobi using calibre and email it to my kindle, then amazon will remember which page I read last and sync between my kindle and my android phone. Really handy for when I find myself delayed and want to bust out a chapter or two.
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2012 17:06 |
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I've got a Wi-Fi Kindle 3. As far as I know personal document syncing only works for Android and iOS currently.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2012 03:12 |
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mistermojo posted:Is there a way to sync progress with Kindle and the iPhone app? It works for me. Sometimes it takes a minute or two to update on the server. I've never tried it with a PDF though, just mobi files. When you manage your kindle on the amazon website does the file in question appear?
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2012 06:26 |
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Honey Im Homme posted:Does any software exist that will allow me to sync ebooks to multiple devices at once? Calibre would be perfect but it only supports one device at a time. If all you use is a Kindle/Kindle App for Android/iOS you can do this simply by emailing the ebook to you personal document service. e: should have expanded the image first. You're screwed.
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2012 04:07 |
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Too bad none of this will make its way outside of the us except maybe the e-ink reader. We don't even have amazon mp3 let alone video or prime. It's still an Apple world.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2012 21:47 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 16:22 |
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Crackbone posted:Well, that's kind of the point, isn't it? Amazon isn't really interested in supporting somebody with 32G of non-amazon purchased materials. It's a consumer electronic that's not intended for commercial/enterprise use. Don't forget amazon's cloud storage either. That's an additional 6GB for non-amazon content and unlimited storage of all your legally obtained ebooks. The only reason to complain is if you suddenly need all of that and you're in the middle of the wilderness with no Internet.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2012 22:00 |