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I wish this applied to the older first edition nook, as I desperately need an excuse to get the new fancy e-ink touch screen.
The dictionary isn't so much for those as it is for Moby Dick. It's a tough read for me at the moment.
Maybe he's like me, and he's simply buying more books than before, because he doesn't have to make a trip to the bookstore anymore?
[Edit] Looking at these Dodocases, and they're pretty nice. Can anyone comment?
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I like it a lot, but it apparently is not currently available for some reason.
Are there deals when you purchase a Kindle? I'm dwelling on blowing my Amazon Credit and Points on a Kindle and have my heart set on LotR, but A Song of Ice and Fire sounds pretty sweet to me.
It's expensive, but totally worth the money.
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I wish I could burn my paper books onto a disk.
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Which also includes any phone versions of kindle, or kindle PC
Per Amazon it's 6 but the way I understand it is the "limit" doesn't apply to registered devices, the limit is to how many devices can read the same book simultaneously. So you could register 10 kindles to the account, but only 6 of them could read Lord of the Flies at the same time.
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well that does sound pretty excellent, although the 5 one should impact us to heavily. me, wife, daughter, my cell phone, and computer. still if more is allowed that wouldnt hurt
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I don't recall any deals when I bought my Kindle in February. There is the Kindle with Special Offers now that's a bit cheaper and has "ads" that seem to mostly be deals on things. Plus, the ads never actually show up while reading (just the screen saver and a banner on the home menu). Maybe look into that? It's only available in the US, though (well, at least it wasn't available in Canada in May).
A Song of Ice and Fire is pretty sweet--highly recommend it--and for $17, it can't be beat!
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Having said that, a built in 3G connection sure as hell wouldn't be a bad thing when alternatives aren't available. Maintaining a 3G network (or buying access to existing networks) is likely cost prohibitive for amazon though, given they only get the one time payment up front then have to continue supporting the 3G connectivity throughout the life span of the the device.
The books are the first three A Song Of Ice And Fire books, if that matters. And yes, they're the new 'improved' versions, which means that the old versions must have been atrocious.
If you're getting public domain books, I highly recommend that you get them through Project Gutenberg instead of Amazon. PG has a very intricate proofreading process and their finished books are excellent.
Naturally proof-reading and/or typesetting errors exist even in printed media, so that accounts for some of them. I've noticed that sometimes you do see ebooks with more of those errors than might be considered normal, and I wonder if it has something to do with the copy of the text they used to make the ebook.
It seems like an isolated issue, though, most ebooks I own have the same small number of errors you'd expect to see in a paperback.
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I almost never come across proof reading errors when I'm reading. At least no more than I did with paper books. The only time they're noticeably more frequent is with the cheap and/or free classics that have been digitized.
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It's not just Amazon and mobi files. For whatever reason I find that ebooks often have way more mistakes than the print versions (like a good half dozen per book on average). Which is utterly backward.
I can only assume that I must just not notice errors in print.
I hardly come across any either, unless they're free books that didn't get any proofreading or something. Also, badly converted pdf files tend to have a lot of errors.
And I'm rereading A Song of Ice and Fire and I'm on the second book and haven't seen any errors yet.
What kind of problems are you seeing? I'm about 90% thru Clash of Kings (got the quartet on sale a couple weeks ago) and haven't noticed any problems. I've had some issues where on resume I'm a page back from where I left it. I'd probably ignore typos, since those happen even in print, but am wondering about the format issues.
Cersei being spelt Cer-sei.
Dorne appearing as Dome.
Burn becoming bum.
Full stops appearing in the middle of sentences, and also not appearing at the end of sentences.
Stark becoming Stork (this might have been in the third book, can't remember offhand).
The entire text of the third book not being right-side aligned (I bought the two-in-one version).
Etc.
I don't deny that typos also happen in print, but almost never (except for vanity presses) in this number, and especially not in such high profile books.
I'm reading the books again through the #1-4 bundle I bought (it's one file with all four books) and haven't really noticed any. In the books where I have noticed them, it's seemed to me to be OCR errors--some issues with dashes, spacing out names or words that are actually compound words, etc. I definitely haven't noticed anything to the level of what Bogart's experiencing (luckily).
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Yeah, I've come across those types of situations... although I don't recall if they've been with my Song of Ice and Fire 4-pack, or other files previously.
Those are OCR errors, clearly. Notice how the visual form of the words is similar. 'm' looks a lot like 'rn', and vice versa. So yes, they have more errors because many books are scanned and OCR'd to turn them into ebooks rather than converting the text source itself, as would be logical. It's a shame. It'll probably get better as books are published with both physical and ebook copies in mind from the outset.
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The Nook version of The Gunslinger was excellent. It went downhill rather quickly from there.
It's about two years old at this point, so I'm trying to decide if I should pay Amazon to fix it, or just buy a new one.
If Amazon swaps the battery out, and that doesn't solve the problem, meaning there's something wrong with the Kindle itself, I'm wondering if they'd just swap it out for a new one, or if they'd send me a K2 refurb.
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