Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

Kindle Fire's pretty good, though

My 2nd Kindle screen died (most pixels were locked on a screensaver) in 14 months, just out of warranty, and his 3rd Kindle screen died in the same manner in two weeks. This seems fairly common.

http://cflove.org/warehouse/UserImages/IMG.jpg

Fortunately, the warranty replacement is prompt if you contact Kindle support (not Amazon service) by telephone. Still neat devices, still fill a useful niche that lcd-screen tablets cannot, but the reliability is atrocious.

I've had mine (2nd gen) for over 3 years now without a single problem. My stepmother just replaced her 1st gen one a month ago - it's still working fine though, she just wanted one with wifi.

http://craigmod.com/journal/hack_the_cover/

good thing

it sure is easy to publish kindle book

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0089N21OS

as I am an amazon prime member, I will be reading this for free soon

I recently got an iPad and I am enjoying reading e-books on it, and I want to be more staunchly in favor of them but it's bothering me that you can't borrow and lend so many of them! A friend has a book I'd like to read and she'd like to lend it to me, but it is impossible and that irks me.

piracy for sure

There's money to be made for someone who knows how to set up a system whereby you can buy US-only ebooks from outside the US: they buy them from Amazon for you, and then send you the file in your electronically fenced-off third world country like Australia

It's called BitTorrent iirc

I think most of the drm is crackable. I could only find a book on google's bookstore and was able to strip drm and put it on my kindle.

Having some weird issues recently with unwanted JUMBO FONTIFICATION. Can sort of fix it by going forward and backing up or going to footnotes and back again.

http://craigmod.com/journal/hack_the_cover/

― markers, Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:48 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great article!

Best Selling Kindle Titles:

Fifty Shades of Grey (Kindle Edition)
by E. L. James
Kindle Price: £3.09

Fifty Shades Darker (Kindle Edition)
by E L James
Kindle Price: £3.09

Fifty Shades Freed (Kindle Edition)
by E L James
Kindle Price: £3.09

Fifty Shades Trilogy (Kindle Edition)
by E L James
Kindle Price: £9.89

why is the trilogy more expensive than if bought them all seperately?

I know how to crack the DRM, it's not that: it's that if you're in Australia and you look for certain books on Amazon or other ebookstores, they won't show up. If you virtual ISP it you can see them but you can't buy them unless you have a credit card with a US address. It sucketh.

And these books aren't on bittorrent, and also I'd quite like to give the authors $

Got a kindle for my birthday, and it's great, really enjoying using it.

But I think there's a weird part of my reading brain that does something like cross-referencing the nature of the words I'm reading with the externals and physical aspects of a book.

Maybe it's not that weird - I knew I did this already: the bleached, brown-edged pages of The Myth of Sisyphus are as much a memory of reading that book as the content, or to take another example, I can clearly visualise the wide leading, spacious margins and heavy boards of the library copy of In a Glass Darkly by le Fanu that I first read.

I'm reading some Thomas Ligotti on the kindle at the moment (My Work is Not Yet Done) and enjoying it, but I've had a weird sense of taking in its aesthetic without an anchor - it takes a moment to get my bearings and relocate the sensation of the specific work whenever I pick it up.

I don't record this as any failing of the e-reader, but an example of a psychology scrabbling at the transition between different abstract surfaces.

Gibbon, on the other hand, seems to like being on the kindle very much. There's a new-found lightness to him perhaps ill-served by the multiple darkly-bound Victorian volumes from within which he usually finds himself discoursing. (Tho as I've said elsewhere the formatting of the footnotes is useless).

That's definitely a common feeling, in fact there are studies about it: http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/

i only seem to be able to read throwaway, story-led content on my kindle. but that's p much all i seem able to read these days anyway, so..

It was the opposite for me. Put a 500+ page book on the Kindle and you'll never miss carrying it around

(carrying the book, that is)

heh, my throwaway reading tends to come in fantasy epic sized portions tbh, so that aspect isn't lost on me

the footnotes on the kindle gibbon are really a problem; in the print copy i have they appear in the huge margins right next to their tags and it's so so beautiful but ugh you can't carry that thing around.

i feel like i should read it standing at a plinth.

A future third-party accessory, let's hope

Wait, I thought about this Gibbon on Kindle thing a little while back but I couldn't figure out which version to get.

The free one

B-b-but sometimes it is worth 99 cents to get a decent index or table of contents.

http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/

horrible article

Jakob Nielsen, a Web “usability” expert and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, believes e-reading does lead to a different type of recall.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/27/why-switch-off-kindle-takeoff-landing

can anyone recommend an e-reader with a larger screen that won't cost the earth? my dear old auntie loved my kindle but thought the 6-inch screen too small.

I think they're pretty much all the same size unless you go Kindle DX (which I'm not sure they're making anymore) or iPad.

i was hoping that wasn't the case. kindle dx still on sale but it's 400 quid.

part of the appeal of an e-reader is that an ipad/table would probably be over the top, battery doesn't last, screen harder on eyes, etc.

Any e-readers let me read CBR files?

xp The regular Kindle can be set to display in landscape orientation.

yeah i was tryin to convince her re landscape or changing text size but i was pooh-pooh'd tbh

sony ereader can display cbrs i think

it displays tiny tho, there's a lot of scrolling involved

Ah, thanks.

wifi Kobo's are kinda tempting at £50.

this is pretty gross
http://gizmodo.com/5941434/confirmed-all-the-new-kindle-fires-will-have-ads-that-you-cant-get-rid-of

glad to see them making improvements to e-ink displays, but i'll skip this generation.

lol ads, good luck wankazon

Ordered a Paperwhite to replace my second-gen Kindle. Reading on e-ink still way better than on my iPad 3, the new lighting setup looks great.

the comments on that article and other tech pages dispute the ads fwiw. might be another two-tier system like the last time.

Hey I've got a question: I left my kindle at my friends place just before embarking on a 30+ hour series of flights to the other side of the world. How annoying. If I buy another kindle can I re-download all the books I bought from Amazon on my old one to my new one?

what do u do just take the book and slide it in there idgi

yes, everything you've purchased in the Kindle store is available on all future Kindles