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Burn your books! [eReaders] are here!
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I have not used Calibre yet, but I assume its an easy download and installation.
Well, even without that it still is anyway. Once you have it connected, it's as simple (or more simple) than syncing with iTunes. Love Calibre.
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$140 Google eBooks reader, iriver Story HD, hits stores July 17
looks rather ugly
you have 2 email addresses (check your amazon account, kindle options)
kindlename[@]kindle.com
and
kindlename[@]free.kindle.com <--
that's the one you want. anything you send will be transferred, there might be a size limit. the difference is that shit sent to @free.kindle.com will only sync via wifi, whereas @kindle.com will use the 'whispersync 3g' and that's the one that gets charged.
To be safe, put the max charge limit to 0 or 0.01 in kindle options.
It doesn't convert, it sends pdfs as straight pdfs.
I use it all the time as I'm too lazy to put the cable in and it works great with instapaper to send web articles straight to your kindle.
Not exactly. You have two email addresses, and they're both used for conversion. The free one e-mails the converted file back to you, and you load it onto the Kindle via your computer. The for-cost one delivers it directly to your Kindle via the whisper synch. Not sure if they still charge for wi-fi delivery though.
Demo-y video
Every time a new e-reader comes out that isn't big I die a little inside. I just want my giant eReader. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?!
Also I don't know why anyone would ever buy that Google thing. I mean, $140 for a "worse than a Kindle" thing? What's the point?
edit: I guess higher resolution is neat? From what I've seen of eReader screens the resolution has been fine thus far though. Maybe if you read comic books this is nice. Or perhaps it makes reading small text (like a zoomed out PDF) easier?
From what I can see, Amazon.com still has "A Dance With Dragons" as a preorder, while I DLed it on my nookColor at around 12:19. Odd time to put it out, but I guess that it took a bit for it to propagate from the publisher to the store.
What am I doing here? I should be reading for the next few hours!
It isn't a great sign that a piece of it fell off while the guy was looking at it.
edit: and damn it is ugly even for something made by google.
I'm trying to figure out why they went with that white/brass look. Am I the only one who thought it would have been super fucking obvious to use a wood grain look instead of white?
Brass and wood e-reader anyone?
And yeah, I'd love to have an e-reader that was capable of handling comics and textbooks. It's getting to the point where I'm seriously considering saying fuck it and ordering a Samsung Galaxy Tablet.
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For comics, you need a colour screen. Which means using a tablet and your eyes falling out, dealing with monochrome or waiting for decent colour eInk.
I suspect I'll have a Samsung Galaxy 10.1 in my hands fairly soon.
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it's especially weird coming from who have no problem reading message forums all day
anyway I got the lighted cover for the kindle in the mail today, so now I don't have to worry about cleaning the damn thing so often
only downside is that the thing barely fits in my pocket now
Soo.... now I might buy a Kobo? Or even a Kindle? Or maybe I'll just do what I've been doing for like, 2 years, and keep waiting and trying to will an A4 size reader into existence.
Option 2: Use a book scanning service (like this one), which can actually get pretty expensive.
You mean a library of physical paper books? The ebook industry doesn't care about what paper books you have. If they happen to be freely available on Project Gutenberg or something then you can download it for your e-reader, otherwise you have to repurchase them.
Presently, no-one is doing a "dead-tree edition amnesty" wherein you can swap your p-book for an e-book and such a thing is not on the horizon either, sadly.
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Not that hard? You have to
1) Own a decent scanner that is also pretty fast, because even for a short book you're going to be running like 100 scans.
2) Have a lot of time on your hands to sit around running scans
3) Be willing to break the spines on all your paper books, because you get terrible scans of the middle section if you're treating your books right during the process.
At a rough estimate I have about 232000 pages I'd need to scan (29 shelves of books that aren't comic books x an average of about 400 pages x 20+ books a shelf) to get my entire collection into electronic format. Generously assuming 10 seconds per scan, that would be 13.4 solid days of work. And at the end of all that, you're left with PDFs, which are the absolute worst ebook format for anything that doesn't have a bunch of images in it.
It's the reason everybody prints out documents of over a page to read them. Hence why a reasonably priced a4 eReader would really be revolutionary.
interesting. love how it easily combines several papers at once.
Long story short, text book rentals are now a thing, anywhere from 1 month, to 1 year. Cheaper than buying the book, but I'm not sure it's still cheaper after selling back the book (except when they won't buy it back anymore). I'm glad this is an option, but it wouldn't really be conducive to my study-style.
but, the more important thing here is: i need a more sturdy case of sorts to keep my kindle in when not using it
can anyone recommend me one?
a soft sleeve ain't gonna work it seems
How long are they supposed to last? I can see the ebooks are cheaper than paper ones, but if I have to get a new kindle or battery every couple of years does that negate the savings?
Pricing aside it would be awesome to be able to read while eating my cereal in the morning, not having to hold a book open.
Well, mine is about two years old, and while I've been having some battery issues, it's still running fine. The battery isn't technically user replaceable, but if you don't mind cracking it open, you can get replacements anyway for $20-25.
My wife's Kindle 1 is still going strong as well.
So I got a Nook Color as a birthday/xmas gift. I ended up getting one of the Dresden Files books and trying it out - it locked up and crashed my Nook. Not exactly a great first impression. However, since then, it's worked fine. It's a nice e-reader, that tries its best to dabble in being a tablet. The book/library apps are pretty solid, but I found the web browsing really kinda clunky. The apps for it aren't bad, if basic. You have your usual apps, like Angry birds, Gmail, etc., but nothing even close to what most tablets have.
Really though, it's starting to grow on me a lot.
And that was before I hacked it with the nook2android last night. I ended up getting one of their pre-loaded SD cards, popped it in, and now it's pretty much a full on tablet/slate. Netflix runs on it really great, but Hulu and HBOGo, not so much. I guess it's to be expected given it's a homebrew Android development, but outside of those points, web browsing is really fast, and there are tons of really cool apps, way more than the basic Nook. And the sweet thing about the SD card method is you can still boot to your Nook OS if you want, so you don't have to trade off between the two if you don't want too. So far, two thumbs up for the nook2android.
Edit: It's also kind of perverse, but I have the kindle app loaded on my Nook/Android. It feels strange, but really, kinda fun. Works well on the nook too, heh.