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Well don't I feel silly now! As far as the eink nook goes I do know you can change font and font size, and I'm pretty sure line distance can change too.
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thedouche posted:Also: is there any way to tweak text size/line spacing ala Kindle on the Nook (my wife uses a e-ink Nook)? It's under Preferences > Text Size when you have a book open:   The next two options up are "Extra large" and "Extra extra large"...  edit: replaced with better pictures with natural lighting RightClickSaveAs fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Feb 24, 2011 |
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I cleaned up and resized some images from Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur and was pretty happy with how they turned out, so I decided to share. I've cycled through most of them on my Kindle to make sure they look right, but if anyone notices something funky I can always fix it. Download link Examples:  Click here for the full 600x800 image.  Click here for the full 600x800 image.  Click here for the full 600x800 image.  Click here for the full 600x800 image.
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Can you buy Kindles from stores in the US? If so is it is it the sort of thing some tax/duty-free stores at airports might have? My folk are visiting the UK at the moment, but are popping over to New York for a few days and if I could get it at US prices + duty free that would be a pretty good deal, but I have no idea if they're available anywhere other than online.
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Gravy Jones posted:Can you buy Kindles from stores in the US? If so is it is it the sort of thing some tax/duty-free stores at airports might have?
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Gravy Jones posted:Can you buy Kindles from stores in the US? If so is it is it the sort of thing some tax/duty-free stores at airports might have? They have them at Target and Staples (and possibly other office supply stores).
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Gravy Jones posted:Can you buy Kindles from stores in the US? If so is it is it the sort of thing some tax/duty-free stores at airports might have? It's not super likely they'll be sold in airports. Maybe the Best Buy vending machines have them.
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Kilometers Davis posted:How do you actually activate the page numbers post-update? Can anyone answer this? I think I've looked through every single menu and it's not there.
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Kilometers Davis posted:Can anyone answer this? I think I've looked through every single menu and it's not there. The answers people have already given are: 1) Once the update has been downloaded you need to put the Kindle to sleep to update it, so you might not have been updated to 3.1 yet. 2) Not every book in the Kindle store has page numbers yet. It's up to the publisher to update them, I believe.
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Gravy Jones posted:Can you buy Kindles from stores in the US? If so is it is it the sort of thing some tax/duty-free stores at airports might have? Given it's only certain retailers selling them in the US, I doubt they'd be in a duty-free store. I was going to suggest having Amazon ship to the hotel since Amazon doesn't generally have to collect sales tax if they don't have a legal presence in the state, but New York is one of the states that Amazon does have to collect tax for. If they bought it in the city, there's a sales tax in NYC of 8.875%. You wouldn't be paying anything other than sales tax for purchases in the US (no VAT or the like). If they're visiting places other than NYC you can look here to find the cheapest place. Delaware's a wonderful place to visit!
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maxnmona posted:It's not super likely they'll be sold in airports. Maybe the Best Buy vending machines have them. They'd definitely be a more suitable item for an airport vending machine than a drat iPod. It'd be a great marketing decision. You've got a sale every time somebody with a bit of money realizes they didn't bring anything to read and the bookstore only has 20 stacks of Vince Flynn novels and The Situation's bio.
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Who is picky enough to not want to shop for books at the airport but goes to the airport with nothing to read?
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withak posted:Who is picky enough to not want to shop for books at the airport but goes to the airport with nothing to read? People who have a layover and then get bumped to a flight four hours later than they were planning, or someone who scheduled a chauffeur or taxi service ahead of time and arrived at the airport to discover their flight was extremely delayed. I normally sleep on planes, but I'm way to paranoid to sleep in an airport and miss them switching gates or whatever.
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Thanks for the tips. They're just doing the tourist thing in Manhattan so probably aren't going to encounter them in the shops mentioned. I'll check if the exchange rate makes it worthwhile trying to get Amazon to deliver to the hotel. I was all set to buy one but my Kindle money went to buying one for my Mother-in-law who just had back surgery and is stuck in bed for six weeks. It arrived today and she rang me almost in tears saying it was the best present anyone had bought her in her life and she loved it. Dawww.
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Gravy Jones posted:Thanks for the tips. They're just doing the tourist thing in Manhattan so probably aren't going to encounter them in the shops mentioned. I'll check if the exchange rate makes it worthwhile trying to get Amazon to deliver to the hotel. If they're doing the tourist thing in Manhattan, they're likely to walk by a bunch of stores selling it.
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maxnmona posted:If they're doing the tourist thing in Manhattan, they're likely to walk by a bunch of stores selling it. OK. I'll have a think about it then. At current exchange rates the wifi version is about $40 cheaper in the US than the UK. Not sure if that's worth the hassle and any potential adapter/warranty issues.
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Gravy Jones posted:OK. I'll have a think about it then. At current exchange rates the wifi version is about $40 cheaper in the US than the UK. Not sure if that's worth the hassle and any potential adapter/warranty issues. Warranty issues might be a valid concern, but it charges over USB so that shouldn't be a problem.
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OK, just bought a Nook Color last Thursday (and rooted on Friday, gently caress trying to convert gigs of .CBR/.CBZ using Calibre on my lovely underpowered laptop), and have a couple questions and observations. First off, the previously-mentioned "starts flipping pages" issue: I've have that happening on occasion, but for the most part it seems to be related to the way I'm holding the new toy - it might be the bezel contacting the touchscreen. It seems to happen more when I'm one-handing it with my right hand, and put more pressure on the bezel with my thumb to keep my grip; if I ease off, it'll stop and I can curse and return to where I was previously reading. However, bringing it under the covers (because it was ungodly cold a few times last weekend) would result in assorted touchscreen asspain - page-flipping and touchscreen unresponsiveness, mostly. I'm really thinking that was because the Nook was somewhat cooler, and my hot'n'steamy breath was condensing on the screen. Special note: if copying files to the Nook via USB, make sure you've reset the screen timeout to a longer period (or disabled); I just had multiple file-transfer failures (and accompanying "device disappeared from system" errors) yesterday while shuffling MP3 albums. (Also, XP gagged and thought the transfer was still running even after completion; I had to kill explorer.exe to get the machine to shut down.) Now for questions - would a stylus made for a capacitance screen work on the Nook Color? I have big stubby fingers, and zoom or no, trying to peck small links in the browser is not easy. Next, the manual and everything says that the NC can't use a standard USB cable for computer connection. Is this correct? I'd like to keep a spare cable floating around in case I stupidly forget mine at work (Tuesday  ), but if I can save a few bucks by using a non-Official Branded Nook Color Data And Power Connectivity Enablement Solution, it'd be nice...
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Has anyone had a problem with the nook's battery a few months after they got it? I seem to run it down with light reading after three or four days. Also airplane mode is on, I haven't been indexing a huge amount of books, and I haven't been listening to much music. light reading is like 45 minutes to an hour a day.
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Ygolonac posted:Next, the manual and everything says that the NC can't use a standard USB cable for computer connection. Is this correct? I'd like to keep a spare cable floating around in case I stupidly forget mine at work (Tuesday My experience is that you can't use a standard USB cable to fast charge. Their special cable has actual extra wires in it and stuff to enable that. It will connect fine to the PC and come up as a USB device, and it will charge very very slowly off standard USB (like, overnight). I discovered this when my Nook cable stopped working Fortunately they replaced it for free.
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feedmegin posted:My experience is that you can't use a standard USB cable to fast charge. Their special cable has actual extra wires in it and stuff to enable that. It will connect fine to the PC and come up as a USB device, and it will charge very very slowly off standard USB (like, overnight). I discovered this when my Nook cable stopped working This isn't true of the Kindle, is it? I just ordered a generic USB cable for use with my Kindle.
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feedmegin posted:My experience is that you can't use a standard USB cable to fast charge. Their special cable has actual extra wires in it and stuff to enable that. It will connect fine to the PC and come up as a USB device, and it will charge very very slowly off standard USB (like, overnight). I discovered this when my Nook cable stopped working Is that possible? Isn't the voltage on a USB port fixed by the USB spec? I remember older 2.5in HDDs in external enclosures used to have to use a two-headed USB cable that got power from two ports at once.
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withak posted:Is that possible? Isn't the voltage on a USB port fixed by the USB spec? I remember older 2.5in HDDs in external enclosures used to have to use a two-headed USB cable that got power from two ports at once. Well, USB voltage is 5V always, I think you mean the current; but regardless, I guess with the device in sleep mode (i.e. press the power button, screen goes off) it draws little enough power that it can use the excess to recharge.
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withak posted:Is that possible? Isn't the voltage on a USB port fixed by the USB spec? I remember older 2.5in HDDs in external enclosures used to have to use a two-headed USB cable that got power from two ports at once. If I'm remembering correctly, fast charge is 'enabled' essentially via cutting one of the wires in the USB cable. Normally, this is done in the charger so that any old USB cable can be used. If it's not, then you need a special USB cable (or can open a regular one up and cut the wire yourself).
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I'm not particularly worried about charging it without the fancy charger, but I usually go home at lunchtime, and it'd be nice to transfer more data to the new toy on occasion. So far, this thing takes forever to use up a charge - between autosleep, and (at work) not using any wifi, I've yet to get down to "must recharge" levels. (Thought I was there the other day, but I was looking at onboard memory available, not the juice. )
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:Has anyone had a problem with the nook's battery a few months after they got it? I seem to run it down with light reading after three or four days. Also airplane mode is on, I haven't been indexing a huge amount of books, and I haven't been listening to much music. light reading is like 45 minutes to an hour a day. If you're getting much less than that I'd imagine it's a bad battery. If you take it in to a store, they may be able to replace your battery for you, or if they don't want to do that then try to get a replacement on the unit. You should still be covered under the one year limited warranty (depending on how long you've had it). And the last option is you could buy a replacement battery, they're easy to change out, although they're about $30.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:You're saying it's draining completely after three or four days to the point where it won't wake back up? Yeah, and it's till covered by the warranty. I'll end up getting in touch with customer service sooner or later about it. It's not a big worry though since I'm still measuring battery life in days. Thanks for the confirmation that I've got a dud battery.
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Centipeed posted:This isn't true of the Kindle, is it? I just ordered a generic USB cable for use with my Kindle. Well, how long does it take you to charge it? My Kindle goes from empty to full plugged into an outlet with the provided cable and adapter in about 2 hours.
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Man I just spilled my drink over my Kindle 3. There's a small patch on the top left of the screen that's all hosed up. I've emailed Amazon, hope I can get it fixed or replaced. Maybe if I leave it for a while it'll dry out and be fine, right?  
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Megadyptes posted:Man I just spilled my drink over my Kindle 3. There's a small patch on the top left of the screen that's all hosed up. I've emailed Amazon, hope I can get it fixed or replaced. Maybe if I leave it for a while it'll dry out and be fine, right? That's the one thing I wish they'd work on, in my opinion the kindle's just far too fragile.
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LooseChanj posted:That's the one thing I wish they'd work on, in my opinion the kindle's just far too fragile. Name a mainstream electronic device that won't get hosed up if you spill a bunch of liquid on it.
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Megadyptes posted:Man I just spilled my drink over my Kindle 3. There's a small patch on the top left of the screen that's all hosed up. I've emailed Amazon, hope I can get it fixed or replaced. Maybe if I leave it for a while it'll dry out and be fine, right? does it affect the actual text?
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maxnmona posted:Name a mainstream electronic device that won't get hosed up if you spill a bunch of liquid on it. Ereaders are in a bit of a unique category though, you can drop a book 3-4' onto concrete and not need to replace it. You can also spill cups of coffee on them and mostly just cause cosmetic damage. I'm not saying the thing has to stand up to a nuclear blast, but people might expect a little more durability than what the kindle delivers. A lot of laptops are built to withstand abuse as a matter of course that would send a kindle to the scrap bin.
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thedouche posted:does it affect the actual text?
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withak posted:Is that possible? Isn't the voltage on a USB port fixed by the USB spec? I remember older 2.5in HDDs in external enclosures used to have to use a two-headed USB cable that got power from two ports at once. I don't have mine handy, but somebody should take a picture of the NC's "microusb" vs a standard microusb. The NC's is about half again as long as the standard -- if you try to plug it into your phone or etc. you're likely to break something if you're not careful.
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LooseChanj posted:Ereaders are in a bit of a unique category though, you can drop a book 3-4' onto concrete and not need to replace it. You can also spill cups of coffee on them and mostly just cause cosmetic damage. I'm not saying the thing has to stand up to a nuclear blast, but people might expect a little more durability than what the kindle delivers. A lot of laptops are built to withstand abuse as a matter of course that would send a kindle to the scrap bin. I don't know, my Kindle 1 got beat up a bit sitting in a backpack with heavy books and being dropped, having small amounts of liquid spilled on it and all that. What finally made it unusable was, I poo poo you not, having a sledgehammer fall on the top of it. And all that really did was ruin the top inch of the display. But hey that's why they have such an awesome return/repair policy and why it's so easy to transfer your books to a new device, you know?
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maxnmona posted:Name a mainstream electronic device that won't get hosed up if you spill a bunch of liquid on it. I once left my SNES next to an open window and it rained and it got all soaked, I let it dry for a day or two and it was fine after that hahah.
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El Hefe posted:I once left my SNES next to an open window and it rained and it got all soaked, I let it dry for a day or two and it was fine after that hahah. There is a big difference between that and a device getting wet while turned on.
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El Hefe posted:I once left my SNES next to an open window and it rained and it got all soaked, I let it dry for a day or two and it was fine after that hahah. I had a friend take a machete to his SNES and a golf cartridge, both still worked afterwards.
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thedouche posted:I'd be happy with the percentage centered in the very bottom of the screen like a page number without the bar. Perhaps a decimal option. This is my biggest complaint with the nook... line spacing, margins, and base font size are all unadjustable without tweaking the epub file itself. I end up having to strip the DRM off books I've bought because of annoying margins and whatnot.
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