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Parker Lewis posted:Cool idea, I'm going to give that a try with some of my favorite passages. Thanks!  Click here for the full 600x800 image.
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gmq posted:Are you absolutely sure about this? Do you have a source? I ordered my Kindle in Japan from Amazon US at launch. There was no special international version. It was just the Kindle 3, shipped to Japan. This could have changed, but I have no idea why it would have. fake edit: Guess they've changed it. I tried the exact same checkout process I used and it spits out an error for my shipping address and links me to the "international Kindle" page. Guess you should have ordered sooner!
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The OP only mentioned Gutenberg and Feedbooks as places to get free eBooks. Is there anywhere else?
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Satire Forum Mom posted:The OP only mentioned Gutenberg and Feedbooks as places to get free eBooks. Is there anywhere else? Feedbooks is just nicely-formatted version of PG stuff. For old public domain books, pretty much any other site is going to be taken from PG originally.
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withak posted:Feedbooks is just nicely-formatted version of PG stuff. For old public domain books, pretty much any other site is going to be taken from PG originally. Awesome, thanks. Is the Amazon store the best place to find free modern books? Also, is it worth looking into those ebook lending libraries? They feel kind of pointless to me with all the free ebooks available, but I'm not sure.
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Satire Forum Mom posted:The OP only mentioned Gutenberg and Feedbooks as places to get free eBooks. Is there anywhere else? [Illegal site] was great, but he had to pull everything down due to expense. e: fair nuff! Chad Sexington fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Dec 2, 2010 |
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Dec 2, 2010 22:51
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That site is illegal as hell, and even shadier if he is charging for access.
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Ara posted:I ordered my Kindle in Japan from Amazon US at launch. There was no special international version. It was just the Kindle 3, shipped to Japan. This could have changed, but I have no idea why it would have. You can still have an American order for you no issue. I guess they want to ensure domestic supply at a priority along with the 3 per person order limit.
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fishmech posted:There's no special International version now. There was an International Kindle 2 which was the later model of the Kindle 2 though. You should try having someone in the US order to a US address, since there is no delay here, and then have it shipped to you. I know the two are the same, but Amazon's website redirects anyone shipping internationally to some special international version order page. I was just wondering if it would seriously take 7-9 weeks just to ship. It seems like they have two piles of the same product but the international pile is empty. Edit: Guess she shoulda ordered sooner. Oh well, what's another month? 
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Satire Forum Mom posted:Awesome, thanks. Is the Amazon store the best place to find free modern books?
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Don't know about the best, but if you go to the Kindle store and look for free books, you'll have to wade past pages and pages of romance novels. Roll them dice for Kindle screensavers. Also, the only good arguments for paper books (or color ebook readers): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal announces the imminent launch of a Google E-Book store called Google Editions: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704369304575632602305759466.html?mod=djemalertTECH#articleTabs%3Darticle highlights posted:... I hope that there will be a way to download files of the books purchased from Google Editions to a device that can't connect to the internet. But even if the ebooks are confined to the cloud I think I would still use this service on my laptop over the Nook and Kindle software. This sounds very lucrative for Google and very convenient for readers who want access to hard-to-find books. Mathlete fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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Guys, I have a PRS-600 with a dead battery.Are there any sites which sells replacement batteries? haven't had much luck in finding one. I need a reader for reading journal articles in PDF... hence I'm deciding if I shouold get a Kindle 3 but after reading the thread, the only doable way is to use it in landscape mode as the pdf converters messes with the format. Any student goons want to chime in on this? The next option is to get an iPad but thats like triple the costs of an e-book reader 
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The Aphasian posted:Roll them dice for Kindle screensavers. What is it with Penguin and amazing book covers?
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http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix Wiki comparing the various readers. Shud be in the OP.
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Guess I won't be getting the Kindle after all. The no PDF reflow is a big bummer for me. Looks like I have to scrounge for a batt replacement for my Sony reader.
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cash posted:Guess I won't be getting the Kindle after all. Nothing has actual PDF reflow, you can't actually reflow PDF especially image-based ones. You're far better served by using something that attempts to convert PDF into an actual ebook format rather than wasting money on a Sony reader just for a hacky reflow-esque feature.
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Point taken. I shall do the Calibre convertion thingy and see if its to my liking.
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madprocess posted:Nothing has actual PDF reflow, you can't actually reflow PDF especially image-based ones. I'm going to support this post. It is absolutely spot on. Though even with a conversion you won't get a perfect format. Some of the time there will still be little oddities like text scrunching up on one side or pictures being really, really huge. But it is still not a bad way to do things.
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I bought a Kindle on a whim about a week ago and I'm like sort of paralyzed by how good it is. I have a pretty sublime case of technolust and I have to say that I'm more impressed with this little unassuming e-reader than I am with anything I've picked up recently, including my Droid and my Zune HD. There's such a focus on the swiss army knife approach that it's refreshing to see a device focus on accomplishing one task so beautifully. The advent of broadband/streamy technology has sort of broken my brain, to the point of making me totally indolent towards anything that isn't instantly gratifying. But I think the device has sort of bridged the gap between a sophisticated technological experience and the old, long-form experience that used to be so enriching for me. I'm actually reading again, which is really, really cool. Hopefully I don't get bored and go back to mining Netflix all the time for more shallow distractions.
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Mathlete posted:A recent article in the Wall Street Journal announces the imminent launch of a Google E-Book store called Google Editions: Wonder if it'll work well in the Kindle browser.
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madprocess posted:Nothing has actual PDF reflow, you can't actually reflow PDF especially image-based ones. That's not strictly true. The Nook (regular old eink one) has page reflow for PDFs. It's not full document reflow so it leaves you with half full pages because it only reflows one page at a time and you can get some wonky margins, but you can read the stuff easily. But no, it doesn't work great with images. Not even a computer can reflow image based PDFs.
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cash posted:http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix Appreciate it, but I already have it there: duckman2008 posted:eReaders have exploded and there are way to many to list here, so we are going to cover mostly the popular ones and ones in the US (if you want one added message me). For a full list Wikipedia again comes to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_e-book_readers
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Ponuh posted:The advent of broadband/streamy technology has sort of broken my brain, to the point of making me totally indolent towards anything that isn't instantly gratifying. But I think the device has sort of bridged the gap between a sophisticated technological experience and the old, long-form experience that used to be so enriching for me. I'm actually reading again, which is really, really cool. Hopefully I don't get bored and go back to mining Netflix all the time for more shallow distractions.
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My Kindle's been freezing and/or rebooting itself fairly regularly. Thought I had a bad unit, but apparently it's the official leather (nonlighted) case that may be the culprit. I'm going to try it with it off and see if I keep having the issue, but considering--if that is the problem--that it's been shorting out repeatedly for three days, I may exchange it anyway. Anyone else have issues?
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The hinges are used to provide power to the light in the cover with the built in lamp. Are the hinges in yours conductive?
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RockSmart posted:The hinges are used to provide power to the light in the cover with the built in lamp. Are the hinges in yours conductive? Yeah, that seems to be the issue. The non-lit cover still has metal hinges (painted black), but they only barely come in contact when the cover is closed or in rare occasions when it is open. The cover still has >1,000 5-star reviews, so either my cover or the Kindle itself is the odd man out. Just an FYI if anyone else is having issues; some of the people on the Amazon discussion had exchanged their units 3 or more times.
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A gadget obsessed friend of mine recently upgraded his Kindle 2 to a DX, and gave me his old one. I'm floored by how enjoyable it is to read with, I'd been using my iPhone for the past few years to read ebooks. I loaded it up with all my favorites, and while I had to search a bit, bought a nice, heavily discounted canvas case for it. I'm still planning on getting an iPad later this year, but I can't imagine reading on anything else at this point as long as I have the choice.
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I know it really isn't the point of this thread but thanks to whoever linked that Wordle site. I used it to make this poster for my brother for christmas. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2eg7ac3&s=7
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Just a heads up, got a nook 3g and wifi in the SAMart.
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Asus is putting out a 9-inch ebook reader. quote:According to the Taiwanese company, the new e-reader is highly portable and has a long battery life. It is less than 10mm thick and weighs just 440g. Its 2GB of internal storage (expandable via SD Card) can store up to 5000 ebooks and the two-week battery life is long enough to read 20 novels back-to-back between recharges. It's called the Eee Reader DR900, it's using SiPix as it's technology, and it's got a capacitive touch screen. Have not looked up price, but I would imagine it's pricey with a touchscreen that size.
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Mathlete posted:A recent article in the Wall Street Journal announces the imminent launch of a Google E-Book store called Google Editions: It's live-ish (the intro video is currently private?). http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html Supported devices: quote:Web browsers. You can read Google eBooks on any browser with JavaScript enabled. No Kindle, . But hopefully soon. I would assume Amazon wouldn't want the competition, but B&N and Apple seem fine with it.The web reader is pretty nice, just as simple and clean as the rest of the Google aesthetic. The Aphasian fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Dec 6, 2010 |
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Probably works in the Kindle's browser at least. Anyone with a K3 wanna test?
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The Aphasian posted:It's live-ish (the intro video is currently private?). You should be able to still convert them with Calibre? Edit: Gah, nevermind, I see how it sucks. Just tested reading it in the kindle browser. Not awful, you just position you mouse on the far left and hit enter to turn the page. Browsing for books isn't awful, although I have pictures turned off, just makes it a lot faster. The text of course will not take up the whole page, and zooming in completely fucks it up. So as long as you only want to flip pages forward, don't mind not using your whole screen and taking the time to search for it via the web browser, its ok. Honestly though i see no feature that it offers over Amazon. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Dec 6, 2010 |
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big mean giraffe posted:Probably works in the Kindle's browser at least. Anyone with a K3 wanna test? Actually, not that bad. You can leave the cursor on the right side and just hit the dpad's button for the next page. The next page come up almost instantly over 3G. Biggest problem is that not much of the screen is devoted to text.
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The Aphasian posted:No Kindle, I think Amazon would prefer to have the book sales than even the Kindle sales. As indicated by their willingness to support things like iPad/Android tablets. I can't imagine they are making that much money off Kindle's ($130 can't be that much more than manufacturing cost), but it does get it out there so they sell more books. I don't forsee a "deal" coming. Unless Google prices are way cheaper and/or selection is more extensive, I'm not too concerned about it anyways.
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There was an interview with Jeff Bezos a while back where he said that they consider the Kindle device and the ebooks themselves to be completely separate markets. They want to sell you hardware if they can but they are also happy to sell you books to read on someone else's hardware. Anyway, think of this google thing more as software. It doesn't necessarily have to support the Kindle format because many devices that can access this website can also run a native Kindle app. There have also been mentions of amazon making a kindle web app before.
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subx posted:I think Amazon would prefer to have the book sales than even the Kindle sales. As indicated by their willingness to support things like iPad/Android tablets. I can't imagine they are making that much money off Kindle's ($130 can't be that much more than manufacturing cost), but it does get it out there so they sell more books. Mostly I'm hoping for compatibility with multiple stores to catch the odd book that's on one and not the other, as well as to take advantage of pricing differences/sales in the various markets. I purged our home library last night, getting rid of mass market paperbacks of public domain works and getting the Gutenberg versions. Only got rid of ~50 out of ~700 (kept the ones with pretty covers), but now I can actually get some of the books off the floor of our library room. I don't think being a book hoarder is a bad thing (will never recover because I will never admit I have problem), but we are looking to move in a year or two and those drat boxes get heavy.
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The Aphasian posted:Mostly I'm hoping for compatibility with multiple stores if only to catch the odd book that's on one and not the other, as well as to take advantage of pricing differences/sales in the various markets. I have the book problem at my place, and when we move next year my goal is to sell most of them and just keep them all on the Kindle.
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