Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

i replaced a first gen fire, which my kid dropped, with a 4th gen and sorta grudgingly got ads. these are pretty unobtrusive and i really find them easily ignored. as a complete non-gamer, i find the persistent game of war ads weird tho.

power button on this thing deserves its own section of hell, impossible to find and toggle.

I keep resolving to spend the $30 to get rid of ads, but that's more than I spend per year on Kindle books, so I doubt it will ever happen. it seems like most the ads I get are budget-priced Weird Fiction megapacks, paranormal romance novels, and electric razors. the only featured item I've ever bought is Thomas Ligotti's monograph on philosophical pessimism, which I still haven't read.

(or maybe it's $20; I don't remember. I'm sure there's a way to jailbreak the Kindle to get rid of the special offers, but I've never properly researched it)

now i'm getting dresses

they do look very fetching

but i don't think they come in my size

lol

Kindle Fire HD7 is hella cheep today only.

Did not get.

i do have Paperwhite 2. Software is only on 5.4.3.2 and it is not offering me any updates. Wonder why.

Madchen got me the Voyager for my birthday and it is *lovely*. The screen (especially the backlight) is miles better than my first-gen Paperwhite. Doesn't have the new Bookerley font though, boo.

Voyage*

front page sez 'starting at $59' today

What? Where?

Fixed my problem, with Kindle at least. Had so much stuff not enough room to download update, so just reset, wiping everrything before updating and restarting. Even better than Delete All My Bookmarks.

oh i dunno just in that flippy banner, the giant splash screen one

http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=ods_gw_d_h1_family_mday?_encoding=UTF8&node=10394030011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-hero-kindle-A&pf_rd_r=0J23KT91C3CVH3MAA8VY&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2087433182&pf_rd_i=desktop

apparently only old-kindle is that low, nu-kindle starts at 99

Oh, I thought you were saying V'ger was at that price as well.

Indexing, searching now much faster with update.

i thought i was too, didn't click thru at first

i keep having low-memory problems on my paperwhite lately, loaded it too full of books i'm not reading but swear i might want to look at if they're right there

have same problem. As of past few days have learned to plug in USB and look at Kindle Documents in Finder to see which books are taking up the most space.

that doesn't help that much when there are a bajillion of them, all tiny little memory piglets

You sure?

In that case, you need to "Delete All Bookmarks" every once in a while and redownload

yeah well i mean, there's just only so much space you can clear by deleting a couple 20-meg pdfs.

how large are the bookmarks??

Sorry, I don't mean delete the bookmarks. I mean delete everything using Reset and start again.

oh but my 'content' is like 95% stolen and side-loaded, is it just a tidying up kind of issue?

Oh then forget it.

well nuts

Couldn't you just pull some of that stuff off of the kindle into another folder on your computer?

impossible, what if i need to read one of six virginia woolf novels and i'm located at any of the several places far away from my computer i go

When I send my side-loaded mobis to my Kindle I use the Send to Kindle PC app and check the "save copy to Amazon cloud drive" option. That way if I'm in a ~book emergency~ I can toggle to cloud view to find it and save it to my Kindle but it won't clog up my Kindle library unless I want it to.

oh i hadn't realized i could save sideloads to the cloud, i kinda figured it would be best not to since some of the mobis must have been stolen from amazon at some point lol

This looks useful if you don't want Amazon to see your public domain book collection: https://getbookdrop.com/start

ooh, that sounds nice. calibre works like shit on my machine, so i haven't found a good way to convert epubs yet

Calibre is fucking brilliant, maybe you need to reinstall or something? For me it consistently strips drm or converts formats usually within 20 secs or so.

i think it's a support issue? i gotta run an old os x version, the only calibre available for it is a monstrous piece of garbage, looks like it was ported from xwindows or something.

Borges Infinite Library, every book ever, now digital: http://libraryofbabel.info/

well that was certainly illuminating

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nobody folded down that page in my copy

hmm

now i've gone from… KINDLE versions of children's coloring books about ~emotions~ to… larry the cable guy ads for prilosec

expecting the boner pill ads any day now

Leave the wifi off and the ad never changes. I transfer everything via usb now.

oh i like to send it web pages from my browser so that i can pretend i'm going to read them later though

I noticed that the ads don't change when wifi's off by accident, I have a library book on my kindle that's gonna expire as soon as I turn wifi back on so I've had it off for a really long time. Whole time I've had a generic kindle ad.

My device is in aeroplane mode till the death. Anything purchased is done on the PC kindle app and then rendered "portable" by Calibre which is imo the best software you can get to manage a library/convert formats/strip drm. I have been trying to convert j to it but his pc doesn't like it.

For free books lately I have been using l18g3n (thanks Nakh) which is an incredible source and mercifully you can direct download the files rather use a torrent client.

I looked into sending internet content to my kindle but decided I have too many books queued up to start clogging it up with other shit.

lol why don't they have the library expirations keyed to the device clock

'longreading' might not be working for me on my kindle because i don't really have shit to do that calls for any brief waits out and about, basically i use the thing as a portable library when i'm away from home writing, or i read montaigne and sloterdijk at home with whatever strength i have to turn off the big computer, encouraged by the quaintness of the leetle one

I think it is healthy to draw a line between the two, the simplicity of e-ink is everything that is beautiful about it.

it's funny, the first few days i thought there was something… trying… about making out what was on the screen. now it seems fine. probably been damaged in some way by my encounter with technology but oh well.

oh man, thanks for reminding me of libgen, I used it years ago but forgot. I bought paperbacks of John Barth's The Floating Opera/The End of The World and a couple of Joan Didion books this week and discovered I just can't do paper books anymore. They're awkward and feel funny and I can't read them in bed in a pitch-black room.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/books/review/Schuessler-t.html?pagewanted=all

But today, Brown is perhaps best remembered for THE READIES (Rice University, various formats and prices), a 1930 manifesto blending the fervor of the Futurists with the playfulness of Jules Verne. “The written word hasn’t kept up with the age,” Brown declared in the first line. “The movies have outmaneuvered it. We have the talkies, but as yet no Readies.” Enough with the tyranny of paper and ink! “Writing has been bottled up in books since the start,” Brown wrote. “It is time to pull out the stopper” and begin “a bloody revolution of the word.”

Brown’s weapon of choice was not ideological but mechanical. “To continue reading at today’s speed, I must have a machine,” he wrote. “A simple reading machine which I can carry or move around, attach to any old electric light plug and read hundred-thousand-word novels in 10 minutes if I want to, and I want to.” The machine he described, in which a ribbon of miniaturized text would scroll behind a magnifying glass at a speed controlled by the reader, sounds a lot like microfilm, then in development. But its truest inspirations, Saper argues, lay in the ticker-tape machine and in modernist experiments like Gertrude Stein’s “Tender Buttons,” which Brown first read as a young man while working as a stock trader and hanging out with poets. In 1931, after word of his machine spread, he published “Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine,” an anthology of experimental texts sent to him by Stein, Marinetti, Pound and others.

Reading Brown’s manifesto, it’s hard not to recognize uncanny preludes to today’s claims that digitization will establish a new utopia of cheap books, downloadable from even the most obscure library while you’re waiting for the bus. (“The Readies” itself, previously available only to those who could afford one of the 150 original copies, was reissued last year by Rice University Press, which is now entirely a digital print-on-demand operation.) The machine, Brown argued, would allow readers to adjust the type size, avoid paper cuts and save trees, all while hastening the day when words could be “recorded directly on the palpitating ether.”

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046678/the-kindle-finally-gets-typography-that-doesnt-suck

hmph

Just a quick note if you don't see the improved layout engine when you update the app. Amazon needs to reprocess each book in their Kindle catalog to support the feature. They're currently working through an extensive backlog, so if you don't see any improvement, re-download your book, or try again later. Some of the books updated so far can be found here.

fat chance they're getting to a fly-by-night ocr scan of a 500-year-old book any time soon

the weird thing is they could just put a hyphenation dictionary on the device, rather than re-do each book.

why wouldn't they?

well i can imagine that if the page layout engine had to do a lookup in the hyphenation dictionary for every single line ... maybe expensive in terms of CPU/battery? especially if the Kindle can't keep the dictionary in RAM all the time.

Thoughts on Voyage anyone? It's expensive, but I spend most of my life reading, often in the dark, and I have a ton of books left to read on my account. Plus I have shitty vision and I actually find Kindles easier to read than some books. So...