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Citizen Tayne posted:Before I sent the Touch to my mom, i send the Touch to your mom every day. lol
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it pisses me off so bad that libraries essentially solved their mandate via ebooks and publishers were all LOL NOPE THOSE EBOOKS WEAR OUT NOW JUST LIKE REAL BOOKS PAY US
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Feb 13, 2017 02:31
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Sagebrush posted:i send the Touch to your mom every day. lol No, you don't.
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Feb 13, 2017 02:36
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:it pisses me off so bad that libraries essentially solved their mandate via ebooks and publishers were all LOL NOPE THOSE EBOOKS WEAR OUT NOW JUST LIKE REAL BOOKS PAY US This is why I pirate every fuckin book I can
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Feb 13, 2017 02:37
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Sagebrush posted:i send the Touch to your mom every day. lol
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Feb 13, 2017 02:37
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Citizen Tayne posted:This is why I pirate every fuckin book I can it's like the easiest thing in the world too lol at thinkin they could possibly DRM fuckin text lmao
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Feb 13, 2017 02:38
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same. plus you need like zero infrastructure to set up a repository of 500kb MOBI files. throw up a VPS with a stolen credit card and welp, you can now host the entire library of congress
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Feb 13, 2017 02:41
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Shaggar posted:my tv is an old Panasonic plasma and its too stupid to have ads same. it's really good even tho it is that weird 1024x768 rectangular pixel panel.
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Feb 13, 2017 03:03
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Citizen Tayne posted:Before I sent the Touch to my mom, I checked with my brother who still lives near her to see if he could replace the battery and he said it's about fifteen minutes and $18. Flawless. oh poo poo that's all? my old 2010 3g kindle keyboard needs to be charged about once a week now and it seems like half the time i actually have time to read a thing on it, the battery is dead. gonna have to do this.
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Feb 13, 2017 03:07
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Citizen Tayne posted:This is why I pirate every fuckin book I can no joke, my wife sends me an email when she gets new books on overdrive. I log into amazon, "download to transfer over USB" import them into calibre, then I hook her kindle up and put the books on and she "returns them to the library"
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Feb 13, 2017 03:21
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Citizen Tayne posted:Before I sent the Touch to my mom, I checked with my brother who still lives near her to see if he could replace the battery and he said it's about fifteen minutes and $18. Flawless. this was my plan until i found that $5 touch in the store, now i want to case swap the keyboard to white because those are less common Elder Postsman posted:oh poo poo that's all? my old 2010 3g kindle keyboard needs to be charged about once a week now and it seems like half the time i actually have time to read a thing on it, the battery is dead. gonna have to do this. for a while i ran mine with the wifi off and it did much better, but now its down to a few weeks maybe. its worth it if only because its such a workhorse. theyre also the last model with good 3g internet and tts support without some dongle and a speaker Agile Vector fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Feb 13, 2017 |
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Feb 13, 2017 03:24
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yeah it's seriously one of the best tech purchases i've ever made.
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Elder Postsman posted:yeah it's seriously one of the best tech purchases i've ever made. It really is the platonic ideal of a good tech product, and a silent revolution in electronics. More people need to use Kindles and expect the same out of their other technology.
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Feb 13, 2017 04:00
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the thing about kindles is this. . . no matter if you get a "special offers" one or not. you don't see a lot of folks out there going stupid to jailbreak the loving kindle to get rid of ads. is a good product, it works, has a long battery life, you can get them dirt cheap left and right. . . just be a smart nerd, and if you buy an ebook, strip the drm, keep it locally, cause it ain't like you gonna have to have some huge cloud backed storage for all the azw3s you ain't actually reading
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Feb 13, 2017 04:26
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if you just keep it from latching onto your wifi it'll run outta ads p quick and you get a default sleep screen begging you to let it download more ads
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Feb 13, 2017 04:40
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I just go to #bookz on undernet and download txt files to read on my iPod nano 1G with rockbox
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Feb 13, 2017 08:34
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i hope ur not jokin m8 bcoz the 1g ipod nano is well top kit bruv
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Feb 13, 2017 08:37
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Sweevo posted:they're ads ads are good
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Feb 13, 2017 09:01
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i use my kindle every day but i worry that ppl will think im a fucktard since i dont got a lot of paper books so i buy books anyways and crease their spines with a rock sometimes. hth and also its good 2 give authors some money a lot of times they dont got a lot
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Feb 13, 2017 09:07
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u can tell by my sick diction that i read a lot hehe (star wars, trek, gate, etc etc)
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Feb 13, 2017 09:08
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u ever wonder why ppl who say they read a lot of books always say the "devour" books and are "voracious" readers? ud think these brainiacs would find another word some time or another to describe their mass reading. always question these folks commitment to literature when they use one of these old and busted words. anyways i dont value the Old Book smell, but i do value the smell my of rotting smegma. coincidence? maybe.
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Feb 13, 2017 09:10
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christ marie they're *pronounced britishly* advertisements
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Feb 13, 2017 09:12
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i've found that people who actually talk about "devouring" books or being a "voracious" reader are a lot more interested in appearing to read a lot than in just reading stuff. strange but true! *also they might just be elementary school teachers, those seem to be some of the go-to compliments for "gifted" children
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Feb 13, 2017 09:19
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i buy used paperbacks from the salvation army and the only ebooks i have need to go through a three step process so i can package them for my newton
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Feb 13, 2017 09:19
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i'd rather hear about "devouring" books than "consuming" "media" (watching animes)
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Smythe posted:u can tell by my sick diction that i read a lot hehe (star wars, trek, gate, etc etc) lol
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Feb 13, 2017 15:21
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nilay is great. i got banned from commenting on the verge for calling him a moron when he wrote an entire article about why we dont have arm macbooks because "the benchmark scores are the same between the apple a9 and the core i5" or some poo poo equally moronic
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Feb 13, 2017 16:29
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the tng star trek books aren't bad
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Feb 13, 2017 16:31
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kindle seems like a pretty great product but I have serious concerns about spending real money for ebooks I won't be able to read after amazon goes tits up and my kindle hardware reaches its sub-decade maximum lifespan i buy a lot of hardback books now
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Feb 13, 2017 19:21
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now, if they would throw in a free kindle copy when I bought a hard copy, that would work
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Feb 13, 2017 19:21
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i sometimes pirate ebook copies of the physical books i buy and i don't feel bad about it because they totally should just provide it for free ityool 2017. i'd pay a buck or two for a combo deal too, if they provided it (i know some tech pubs do now)
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Feb 13, 2017 19:24
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i mostly just buy ebooks in the first place now though and i'm not worried about the drm but if i was i'd pirate those too idgaf
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COACHS SPORT BAR posted:kindle seems like a pretty great product but I have serious concerns about spending real money for ebooks I won't be able to read after amazon goes tits up and my kindle hardware reaches its sub-decade maximum lifespan removing amazon drm is trivial
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Feb 13, 2017 19:36
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They do have a new file format that makes it harder to strip DRM IIRC though.
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Feb 13, 2017 19:47
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I've encountered the new format from amazon on one book. I don't remember what I did to strip it, but it was rather easy.
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Feb 13, 2017 19:59
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well good.
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Feb 13, 2017 20:03
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i have darth bane dynasty of evil in hard cover its by the guy wrote mass effect and he does epic force moves on ppl and has bug armor FTW and also this chick makes evil force tentacles.... WOW!
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Feb 13, 2017 20:05
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in star wars shatterpoint epic jedi mace windu goes to his home planet which is a jungle planet and does battle with this powerful savage guy who has like a super strong shield made of something that his light saber isnt good against. and some other poo poo happens. one time there is a mountain or something falling on a car with a guy whos stuck in it and he uses the force to hold up the land slide while throwing the car somewhere else. incredible power. kind of reminds me of like that game where you pull a star destroyer out of space and crash it into the floor with the force. wow. such increidble powers. also in the mace windu book he has a hot and sexy girlfriend iirc which i like to read about.
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Smythe posted:in star wars shatterpoint epic jedi mace windu goes to his home planet which is a jungle planet and does battle with this powerful savage guy who has like a super strong shield made of something that his light saber isnt good against. and some other poo poo happens. one time there is a mountain or something falling on a car with a guy whos stuck in it and he uses the force to hold up the land slide while throwing the car somewhere else. incredible power. kind of reminds me of like that game where you pull a star destroyer out of space and crash it into the floor with the force. wow. such increidble powers. also in the mace windu book he has a hot and sexy girlfriend iirc which i like to read about. 
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another cool thing that happens in a space wars book is yoda teams up with some teens and one teen shes not very powerful but she has a lot spunk and is scrappy you know. anyways they go to a far away planet where count dooku i think lives and its a raining planet and dooku lives in a giant mansion where he plots his evil deeds. dooku used to be bffs with yoda and he was his apprentice until he became evil. yoda is sitting in a zen garden at one point and hes remembering what good friens they were. they was kinda sad to me to think about yodas life like that. hes really old you know and hes had a lot of friends who died or became evil or whatever. that would be sad. anyways at another time in this cool book they are at the mall or the airport idk IG-88 busts in an starts loving owning ppl left and right. that was badass he was using his epic droid speed and weapons to hose down ppl with lasers and rockets. man that owned. they ended up defeating him by throwing bombs on him i think. that was cool. i love to read, books.
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