Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

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

With books you can usually have 6 copies or devices. Magazines are tied to just one kindle.

"Dear Kindle Customer,

We have good news. You are entitled to a credit for some of your past e-book purchases as a result of legal settlements between several major e-book publishers and the Attorneys General of most U.S. states and territories, including yours. You do not need to do anything to receive this credit. We will contact you when the credit is applied to your Amazon.com account if the Court approves the settlements in February 2013.

Hachette, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster have settled an antitrust lawsuit about e-book prices. Under the proposed settlements, the publishers will provide funds for a credit that will be applied directly to your Amazon.com account. If the Court approves the settlements, the account credit will appear automatically and can be used to purchase Kindle books or print books"

guess i get some free books then! :)

30 quid off Kindle Fire for Black Friday, no problem ordering, shame Santa will get the kudos but hey

not quite interested in nexus or fire yet (got a cheap tablet earlier in the year and still struggling to see the point, would go for transformer ahead of anythin else atm i think).

i'm not real fussed but i know a young lady who is v. fussed

show me anyone still qualifies as young that doesn't easily fuss, i spose

Totally wanted to get a Paperwhite for our big family trip to Australia, but it looks like they're so backlogged they don't ship until Dec. 21, which is when we're leaving. Oh well. Serves you right to be Xmas-centric, Amazon. You just lost this Jew's order. (Until they're back in stock.)

apologies if this has already been covered. just been buying some ebooks from amazin, using the 'one click' thing then thought hang on no, i'll try a sample out first. dug around and saw there's a refund button so did that, all went ahead easily, two mouse clicks and my money is refunded the book removed from my kindle.

at first i thought a refund must only be available an hour or so after purchase but then i saw this: http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2011/12/27/kindle-ebooks-can-be-returned-up-to-7-days-after-purchase-heres-how/

so my questions are these:

- if you read the entire book in that 7 days then tried to get a refund, would amazon accept it? (say if you scanned back to page 1 so it didn't show up as 100% read)

- could you go into your kindle after purchase, copy the file to your pc and do some calibre stuff to remove any secret drm thingies, get a refund THEN wack the ebook back on the kindle for free naughty/illegal reading?

not that i'd do either of course, just curious.

30 quid off Kindle Fire for Black Friday

Yeah I got this. Arrived today.

I've only just got the one book (Mysterious Island), one of the free offerings just to try it out. As usual with these nice clean touch screen things I'm like a shy squirrel using it but I'm sure it won't be long before I'm chucking it about and covering it in filth.

Found page turning and holding etc no problem, it's quite a bit heavier than the old kindle which is to be expected but probably won't bother most people. Nice interface as well, was quite surprised at how accessible everything is on the screen including my email and normal web access.

so if i buy the audiobook of danny baker's autobiography off audible via amazon it's £18.72. but if i sign up to some 30 day trial offer i get it for free, then £7.99 monthly fees kick in. there aren't many upcoming audiobooks coming out that i'm keen on so i figure i'll buy all future ones at full price. couple of questions:

1) is danny baker going to get his usual share of royalties from me doing this, will it count towards his sales figures

2) i've downloaded the book now, gona cancel my account tomorrow. the sneaky tykes have made this only possible by phoning them up. is my scheme likely to go wrong? do i need lie about my motives for signing up?

(and fear not, i'm going to buy the hard copy of danny's book when it goes down to a more reasonable price. or probably the kindle one when it goes below a fiver - it's currently MORE expensive than the hardback, unbelievably.)

as for my above unanswered questions about the amazon ebook refund policy which seems open to scamming:

1) if you read the entire book in that 7 day period then tried to get a refund, would amazon accept it? (say if you scanned back to page 1 so it didn't show up as 100% read)

as far as i can tell, nothing would be flagged. a boon for fast readers with low morals

but 2) could you go into your kindle after purchase, copy the file to your pc and do some calibre stuff to remove any secret drm thingies, get a refund THEN wack the ebook back on the kindle for free naughty/illegal reading?

dunno about this and i'm too scared of getting booted out of the amazon gang to risk trying, plus i like the idea of my favourite writers getting cashmoney. halfhearted ideas of hunting down their paypal email to transfer a few quid, or mailing them a cheque

what would be good - free ebook copy with the hardback, the same way they do for vinyl.

really obvious move too.

price and release schedules for ebooks are beginning to annoy me greatly.

http://i.imgur.com/wW87h.jpg

I was on Amazon looking at the comparison chart of features between different models of Kindle. I was trying to figure out if the most basic e-ink Kindle or the paperwhite had an earphone jack and the ability to play MP3s. The chart didn't list MP3 as a supported file format and claimed those two Kindles had zero "audio support". This seems rather incredible to me.

My question is, was Amazon just overlooking these simple and obvious features and they really exist on all the Kindles? Or did they actually cripple the cheap ones that much?

my entry-level kobo doesn't have mp3 playback. at only 2GB it wouldn't be much use as a player anyway, but 2GB is >1000 books.

yeah I don't think the basic e-ink Nooks, Kindles, etc are meant to do anything but display books. That's actually what I like about my nook. There's no clicking away to check this or that or futz with the music.

I don't need mega-capacity for the music. I am thinking of using the Kindle while camping. I could scrape by with 200 songs and maybe only 100 books for the couple of weeks I'd be out.

No more audio support for eInk Kindles. I think the Kindle Touch has it, but not the Paperwhite.

No text-to-speech at all then? I don't really use it but I know a few people who do.

the old kindles had an experimental mp3 player option, it was really shitty though. new ones don't have it.

The idea was that people who wanted audio features would buy a Kindle Fire. Almost nobody used the audio on the eInk Kindles.

The el cheapo reader I had before I got a nook, the Skytex Primer, does everything. MP3s, videos, voice memos... sadly the battery life SUXXORZ.