Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

whoa

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/23/amazon-is-at-war-with-monster-erotica/?hpt=hp_t3

man i already hated amazon and now they are going after the human/velociraptor fantasy genre idk what i'm gonna do

I was undecided, wavering and maybe would have bought the Centaur at the Resort, but you've really brought home the very tangible fact that the human/velociraptor genre may become "extinct" in the very near future

With that in mind, I have purchased "In the Velociraptor's Nest"

It's only 46 pages long and there are massive breaks in between paragraphs. What a rip

this is a really weird question but it's been on my mind since i found out about Sims' books - what kind of genitalia does the titular velociraptor sport?

The screen on my 3rd-gen Kindle broke :( So I had a good reason to buy a paperwhite yay :)

paperwhite now under 100 EUR - very tempting. Wondering if price will drop even further and whetehr there is any sense in waiting for the following generation.

https://medium.com/editors-picks/c947c66c985b

Feeling regret that I didn't buy Taken by the T-Rex instead

My Kindle is about three years old now, and it's starting to have these little ink blots in a few locations on the screen. They look like misplaced commas. Kind of annoying. I got the first one awhile back, now I have three.

Brave New World is public domain now and I have learned that free e-books can be a crap shoot. So many misplaced hyphens and extra spaces and wrong characters.

i fixed over 500 problems with gutenberg's Dombey and Son. and just yesterday did the same with Little Dorrit. mostly 's and paragraph breaks in the wrong place (which i think is a function of the pagebreaks in the scanned copies).

at least i submitted these back to gutenberg.org and the new version was on the website the next day (not heard back about LD yet). i doubt the paid-for copies get updated as easily.

> Brave New World is public domain now

only in canada, which uses life + 50 rule. UK has life + 70. US is different again - only stuff published before 1923 is PD and BNW was 1932 (AH died 1963, hence ok in canada since start of year)...

https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?t=11406
"Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
First published in 1932, US copyright will expire in 2028."

unless disney gets it changed in the next 14 years, which is likely.

Oh, oops. I read that the copyright expired in 2008.

The copyright expired in some countries, but not the U.S.

yeah, there's a copy on archive.org with no warning about availability. probably the source of the bad hyphens (it's kept the hyphens from the original by the look of things and looks ridiculous on any other width of page).

Some decent daily deals today, including 100 Bradbury Stories for $2.

Cool, thanks. What else?

Complete flannery oconnor stories, Cryptonomicon, American Gods, a bunch of other stuff

> including 100 Bradbury Stories for $2.

two volumes, 100 stories each... (£1.99 in uk)

Here's the US link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000677541 Canadian link: http://www.amazon.ca/ebooks-kindle/b?ie=UTF8&node=2980423011

Flannery O'Connor and CS Lewis are public domain in Canada fwiw

wait: FO'C becomes public domain next year.

Downloaded eBook from project Gutenberg yesterday and it had 40 pages of TOC - every page had notes, every note had its own TOC entry. Gah.

(Tain bo cualnge, the Irish epic)

oooooohhh

Just updated iPhone app to 4.2 but don't see the left side panel TOC anywhere

$45 for a kindlewhite today, dunno if it's amazon prime only or what but i figured what the hell.

What? Where? Are you sure you are not just talking about the protective cover?

I got a Nook glowlight for my birthday and am extremely happy with it. Reading in the dark is great for defeating insomnia and the choices of buttons or the touch screen are a winner.

xp
Is kindlewhite the basic model? It's the paperwhite that is the more expensive model, I think.

i don't think any of them are called "kindlewhite"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007HCCNJU/#kindle-compare

I am slightly disappointed with the paperwhite. I dislike tapping the screen -- you can't wipe off smudges while reading, and it's a bit finicky about how long you need to tap it. also you need to use both hands, one to hold it and one to tap -- it's just easier when you're tucked in bed or taking a bath to use it one-handed (no masturbation jokes please).

just about the one-handed or the whole post cos

I prefer using buttons other than when I am lying in bed reading. That's what i like about the nook having both options. Admittedly the backlight is stronger on top and not perfectly diffused but for half the price I am p chuffed.

My fear with the Nook is B&N's inevitable bankruptcy.

wow, just got the $44 paperwhite for our upcoming year in gaul, since reading is my kids' main hobby and books are heavy to ship overseas.

xp
Nothing to stop you legally buying books on your pc and transferring them to your nook, even in the instance that B+N went bankrupt. I bought a P Garnier ebook off amazon, was pissed to discover it could only be read on my pc, so I downloaded a program called Calibre to sort that shit out.

Where is that $44 one? We in the Redd family are seeing $119 as basic paperwhite price, no 3G without special offers.

guess it's a special deal if you have prime?

Mrs. Redd has it. Thought she checked.

Did you get an email or something? Link please.

I just went to amazon & a banner showed up at the top

Maybe it's regional. Are you in France right now?

Being reminded of this classic thread

My fear with the Nook is B&N's inevitable bankruptcy.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, April 27, 2014 4:37 PM

do not buy one. period.

if you already have, sell it and get a kindle or, even better, an ipad with the kindle app.

no, I'm in the USA still

are epubs hard to buy in the US? Over here if/when b&n go under I feel like there are a lot of other sites (waterstones, foyles, etc) where you could buy books for the nook.

even better, an ipad with the kindle app
do you read whole books on your ipad markers? I think my eyes would get really tired if I did this. Plus blue light in bed etc..

(but maybe it's different with retina? idk)

Thought about getting the $32.20 model, but I believe it's most too light.