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I think Feedbooks deserves to be in the OP. Tons of public domain books much more nicely formatted than Gutenberg. You can go to it with the Kindle browser and download books directly. And in the first few pages of the book you downloaded, there are direct download links for every other book by that author on Feedbooks. Click one and it downloads. Really nice. Also my favorite feature of Calibre that I didn't pay attention to for a while, the news downloads. Set one of the news sources to automatically download every day, and you'll not only get it on Calibre, but it's automatically mailed for free to your Kindle (not sure if other readers support this). I automatically have a new day's worth of The Onion, Associated Press, and New York Times top stories on my Kindle when I wake up every morning, and a couple more every Saturday morning.
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hatersg2haet posted:The Kindle allows you to highlight text quite simply. While it's not touch highlighting (you use the arrows and the cursor clicking center once to start highlighting moving the cursor to the end of your highlight and clicking a second time.) in my opinion it's superior to Sony's highlighting. It syncs across platforms. It provides on the fly definitions from highlighted items, and it allows you to save those highlighted items into bulleted cliff notes for later use. Yeah, I actually really like the Kindle's highlighting. If it's an Amazon-bought book, you can load up Kindle for PC and see and jump to all the bits you've highlighted on the Kindle. Also, for the "limited newspapers" you can use Calibre to get free Associated Press stories automatically sent to your device every day. And from a lot of the actual papers as well, to the point where I don't think it would even be worth paying for the official ones. But then I live outside of the US so it costs a million billion dollars for them anyway. For newspapers, you click the center of the directional thing to bring up a table of contents with links to all the stories. Ara fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Nov 20, 2010 |
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Parkettpolitur posted:How do I get it to do this? The Kindle App on my Mac isn't showing the Notes & Highlights I've made on my Kindle. I've already turned on Annotations Backup in the Kindle menu. It was totally automatic for me, just right-click the book and "My Notes and Annotations". Try deleting and re-downloading the book?
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Nov 20, 2010 17:49
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For Japanese books: I don't know if this was around before (I sure didn't notice it and the guy who posted the site in the other thread sure didn't notice it), but the Aozora Bunko PDF conversion thing now has a tool where you can enter your own text and it will make it a vertically-formatted PDF, rather than only working for Aozora stuff. Even works with ruby! http://a2k.aill.org/text.html Now to wait for an XMDF converter. And for all the big publishing houses to start selling ebooks 
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Nov 21, 2010 05:52
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Parkettpolitur posted:Weird, now some of my notes are showing up in the Kindle apps on my iPhone and iPad, but only some. Maybe I should just leave the Kindle's Wifi on a bit longer, so it can sync everything? I never turn mine off, and the only people who ever posted in the last thread with syncing problems of any kind were ones who turned their wireless off when not using it, so it's probably that.
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Nov 22, 2010 14:12
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Calibre problem: For a couple months now I've had Calibre auto-downloading and mailing news to my Kindle and it's never had a problem. For the last 3 days or so (maybe after a patch?), I hadn't been getting anything delivered to me, so I checked my mail account and it's suddenly switched to sending all my news in epub format instead of mobi, so they all get rejected. I can't find an option to change the file format of downloaded news anywhere. Help 
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Nov 22, 2010 17:43
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Oben posted:Go to Preferences/Sharing books by email, and change the Formats bit (double click it) to only say MOBI Thanks, I thought that that might be it, but it's not actually clear that that's what's created, only what is auto-emailed.
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Nov 22, 2010 18:36
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movax posted:Argh, I was afraid of what you guys said about PDF viewage. I do have academic papers I'd like to be able to view, as well as just general classroom materials (lecture notes and stuff). Anything without images, just use Calibre to convert it to a mobi/epub file. withak posted:It can convert any ebook format to any other ebook format. Not XMDF 
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Nov 27, 2010 03:07
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brylcreem posted: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 You ever re-download the book later to see whether they fixed it? I never bother because I doubt it'd ever get changed.
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Nov 29, 2010 17:19
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Samurai Sanders posted:I'm kinda sorta thinking about a Kindle, but for one specific purpose: to replace the mountains of PDFs of articles I keep printing out for class, for reading in places that I don't take my laptop. How well would that work out? Also concerning heavy use of highlighting. Text-only should be fine. Load one of your PDFs in Calibre, right click it and convert it to a mobi file, then use Calibre to view the mobi file. That's what it will look like on the Kindle.
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Dec 1, 2010 10:51
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pienipple posted:pretty good. anything with strong linework looks great. artists who use a lot of ~whispy pencils~ and typesetters that make the asides too small to read are an annoyance. I just tried Canti and it's a lot worse for me than Mangle is. Since there's a progress bar at the bottom of the PDF, everything is scrunched up and the image quality is noticeably worse.
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Dec 2, 2010 11:52
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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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Dec 2, 2010 21:26
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8-bit Miniboss posted:So in short, Kindle owners are pretty much assed out for using Google eBooks? It's trivial to break the DRM and convert it to a mobi file.
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Dec 6, 2010 20:56
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Cardboard Box A posted:Archos is determined to have the worst naming convention in the history of technology, creates "70b eReader" Sorry, Bookeen Cybook is by far the worst. Every time I see it written I think it says "Broken Cybook." Somebody in this thread posted "I have a bookeen cybook" and I seriously thought "No wonder it's broken, I've never even heard of the thing" before re-reading it. edit: Jesus, that thing needs a pinhole button press for a hardware restart. My piece of poo poo generic ebook reader just froze up on the subway, let me dig out a paperclip Ara fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Dec 7, 2010 |
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Dec 7, 2010 11:41
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Doctor Zero posted:Is there a way to buy foreign language eBooks for devices we have here in the US? I'd love to get an eBook reader for my wife for Christmas since she reads voraciously, but I'm not sure if there would be a way to buy books in Japanese. You can get a lot of old stuff at 青空文庫, and if you want those in 縦書き then you can convert them to a Kindle-formatted PDF with this page. That page also has a tool where you paste in your own text, so if you can actually find Japanese ebooks in a convertible format somewhere then you can use that to read them vertically. Works with furigana, too. But yeah, the major problem is actually finding the books. It really is a shame.
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Dec 8, 2010 11:25
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z0331 posted:So, just to clarify for the millionth time cause I'm dumb - If I get any epub file, Calibre will be able to convert it to whatever format Kindle uses no problem and I can read it? I'm just talking basic books like if I wanted to buy something off another site. Is that correct? Any Google Books document or anything from a third party, Calibre can handle? There's no problem at all, this argument about epub is stupid and misleading. Buy the epub, strip the DRM, convert it in Calibre, right click and mail it to your Kindle, read it on your Kindle. Who the hell cares?
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Dec 9, 2010 10:30
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oldy posted:My Kindle 3 does this annoying thing where when I'm browsing the Kindle Store, maybe 50% of the time I click a link or make a search, it just goes back to the Store start page instead. I press back to get where I was, and it generally works if I try again, but it's really annoying. Just to make sure, you're clicking the middle of the directional pad to click links, not using the return key, right? The return key refreshes the page in some situations.
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Dec 15, 2010 06:15
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oldy posted:...haha, no, I've mostly been using the return key. What situations? (I'm going to look it up now as well) I'm honestly not sure when it refreshes. I think it might be when the current page hasn't completely loaded yet.
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Dec 15, 2010 19:13
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I've been looking at a few reviews of these cases - there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference in the protection they offer. Looks more like a matter of personal preference than anything else. God I'm so indecisive. I really, really love my official leather case with light. If someone kidnapped it I would probably pay the ransom and then spend the night comforting it. Just saying, those sleeve-style cases seem like a huge pain in the rear end in comparison.
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Dec 17, 2010 06:16
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Bean posted:I may have an iPad or a Nook in the future, because the ITunes store and the B&N store appeal to me most. Don't buy an ipad to read books Buy an ipad if you want an ipad, but buying it to read books is the dumbest thing. Buying it because you specifically want to buy books from the Apple store which is inferior to other stores is taking it to a whole new level. It's giant and covered in glass and weighs a million pounds. Plus it costs like five or six times what an ebook reader does. If you want it to play flash games or read color comics or something then okay, but I can't imagine anyone seriously buying it so that they can have access to the fantastic Apple ebook store and read books on it.
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LtStorm posted:Just got the Wi-fi+3G Nook for Christmas. That's because nobody in Mississippi has wi-fi networks. Or computers. Or electricity. Or shoes.
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Dec 25, 2010 10:47
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Fintilgin posted:At least with the Kindle 2, I think the top latch on the leather case slides down and then the Kindle sort of pivots on the bottom latch and you can unhook it. Yeah, you just do the exact opposite of putting it INTO the case.
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Dec 26, 2010 05:29
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Fitret posted:Got a Kindle for Christmas and I'm loving it so far. What I'd really like to be able to do is read books in Japanese on the Kindle and then lookup words that I don't know (translation into English would be best, into Japanese would be okay). Is there any way to do this with a Kindle? As far as I know there isn't a Japanese dictionary, and good luck finding much of anything in a readable format in Japanese in the first place. If you actually do manage to find what you want to read in a convertible format (not XMDF goddammit), you can use this thing to make a 縦書き PDF, at least. It's obviously set up for 青空文庫, but you can enter your own text as well.
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Centipeed posted:I imagine a state similar to a laptop being in standby, but now that I consider it, it's no faster to turn on when the screen-saver is up than when you switch it off completely. Wait... what? When it's completely off, it takes more than a minute to boot up. When the screensaver is up, it should take less than 5 seconds.
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Centipeed posted:Just for clarity, when I say "Screen-saver" I mean I slide the power switch briefly, and it puts up a random image as a screen-saver. Yeah, to shut it completely off you need to hold it down for a long time, it's pretty finicky. I only know because I've had to shut it down when the browser's frozen it up. When it starts up from a complete shutdown, you get a loading screen while it boots up. I think you can also shut it down from the menu in settings, there's a restart option in there at least.
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Factory Ten posted:A couple of times now, my Kindle seems to have "reset" itself. Which is fine. I'm at the main menu with all my books there. The problem is that I've lost my bookmark on what I've been reading. I have to flip through dozens of pages to find where I left off. It should remember automatically, there is a "go to last read page" for Amazon-bought books though. The only people who have complained about this happening in the threads are people who keep their wireless turned off, so if that's the case then just turn your wireless on. edit: Or if you mean it physically restarted then you probably have one of those defective cases, yeah.
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Sensurround posted:Can someone give me a rundown on the real difference the 3G upgrade adds for the new kindle? Are you only able to use it to purchase books through the kindle store or can you use the web browser on 3G to check google maps / wikipedia / whatever? I'm struggling to see how the extra $50 would be justifiable for just the ability to get to the store but I can't find any solid info on this. Depending on your country (most major countries have full access as far as I know, it works here in Japan), you have unrestricted browser access. You can use Google Maps, but the shades of grey can make the map a little hard to read. It works, but I've only used it when I've really been in a pinch. Wikipedia is an automatic search option, you can start typing while reading a book, scroll over to the Wikipedia option, and it will open your browser and search for whatever you typed on Wikipedia. It also works fine with GMail. I use the browser almost exclusively for Anki Online, which works fantastically with it. The countries who don't have unrestricted access, only Wikipedia and the store are supposed to work.
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Trench_Rat posted:As a filthy unwashed non 'MURRIKAN can I somehow "aquire" the amazon kindle and still be able to buy books of the kindle store. or will my ip be cock blocked like hulu does? I think it's down to your payment method. I'm in Japan with an American credit card and can buy everything at normal prices. It's been reported that if you live in a country whose Amazon page doesn't have Kindle books (so outside the US and UK) and use a credit card from that country, then you buy from the American store with an extra dollar or two added onto the price of books as an "international roaming fee" whether you have 3G or not. I got the thing shipped to me here, so they probably ship it everywhere.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Apologies if this is asked all the time, but I know there are ways to let other family members view your kindle books on their kindle. I've had mine for over a year now & have hundreds of books on it, and my nephew just got a new kindle; how do I let him view my books? Pretty sure you can link multiple Kindles to the same account, but he'd be able to buy books with your credit card.
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Duckman2008 posted:Out of curiosity, what's your method of checking email? I use Gmail and always assumed gmail.com would be too obnoxious for the Kindle. Same with maps actually. Gmail basic HTML version works fine and it remembers that setting after the first time.
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Tutu posted:That looks like it would work because it uses paypal, thanks. It says that their mobi books are unlikely to work with the kindle though... so just buy it in epub or something and convert it to mobi? The epub is an Adobe Digital Editions, so if you can break the DRM on that then you can convert it in Calibre. Are you buying that because the movie just came out? I'm going to see it this week, pretty stoked for it.
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FidgetyRat posted:Probably because everyone and their mother is downloading it post holdiay gifting.. The Windows version is a pig, too, but not that big. But the install file for every version is ~30 megs, don't know if every file is that big for the Mac. The thing grinds my computer to a halt with my hard drive going crazy for a good minute when starting up, and if it starts auto-downloading and converting news while I'm playing a game, my whole computer just about dies.
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El Hefe posted:it doesn't overheat? Have you ever used a Kindle? I'm sure it generates some amount of heat, but it's such a small amount that you'd probably need a special device to detect it.
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frozenpeas posted:How do I know which version of the Kindle Screensaver hack I should apply? The Kindle 3's serial is in the settings menu somewhere. You might have to go to settings and then go to the menu again from there. Guilty posted: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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BetaTested posted:This makes me pretty sad : That's total bullshit, I just looked up a couple books and they don't have War and Piece or The Holy Bibble either
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thedouche posted:What is the best case for the Kindle 3? http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Lighted-Leather-Display-Generation/dp/B003DZ165W
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Lamquin posted:I've read up a bit about different eReaders, but it keeps coming back to one thing with them all - Shopping restrictions. Kindle does have a gifting system like Steam. You can also get Amazon gift cards registered to your account and use the credit to buy books. I've had no problem using one bought in the US from Asia, but I also have a US credit card and an Amazon account with my country set as the US. If you have US friends and it works, that might be the easiest thing to do. They sell Amazon gift cards in stores like Target.
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njbeachbum posted:I have a kindle and my wife was sharing it. She put some books on there that she is still reading. She received a kindle as a gift. Is there anyway to transfer the books to her kindle or does she have to re-purchase them? You can link both of the Kindles to the same account and share all of your books all the time, unless I'm mistaken.
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El Hefe posted:You are gonna have to change the country to Netherlands in the Manage Your Kindle webpage, I had it set to US while leaving in Venezuela and I got an email from Amazon after I bought a few books. They mostly care about publishing rights and some books are not available everywhere. Delivery it's still free. This isn't necessarily true. I've never used my US Kindle outside of Japan (had it since August or whenever it was released), my country is still registered as the US, and they've never done anything about it. I'm using a US credit card to pay, though (which is great because the USD is terrible). edit: And to answer the actual question, there are no extra fees if it's set to US except on periodicals and personal document conversion, which you get destroyed on. Just set the maximum charge to $0 in your settings and don't get the official periodicals. If you set it to another country, they tack a couple dollars onto book prices to cover "roaming fees", even if you don't have 3G. Ara fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Jan 20, 2011 |
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Original_Z posted:I occasionally have issues with my Kindle's refresh rate. It seems that most of the time it's really fast to change pages, but every once in awhile it slows down to a noticeable degree. Sometimes it's a little slower which is bearable, but othertimes it's significantly slower, like over a full second to refresh. It seems to fix itself after awhile, but I'm wondering what's causing it in the first place. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think it refreshes more slowly when it's really cold. I don't think I've ever had a refresh that was over a full second, though.
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