Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

Kobos are available from the biggest UK high street stationers / newsagent but where there used to be a whole table and lots of banners pushing them there's now about 3ft of wall space ticked away somewhere and 3 display models, 2 of which are generally showing the charging screen. I think the main problem is a) Kindle has much better brand recognition and B) they aren't something you buy more than once a decade.

I read a lot of public domain books on mine, Victorian novels mainly, and Australia, with its death+50 copyright laws has a better selection of these than UK or us (death + 75). Try project Gutenberg.

i like https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/authors

Gutenberg is a good idea! I could stand to do some more older-book reading tbh.

Also, once you have the DRM remover, there are plenty of more recent books legally available at at Openlib.org: they're PDFs that you can download to the PC, strip the DRM and then chuck on the kindle/nook/ipad/whatever. You just have to delete the PDF when the borrowing time is up, presumably, to stay legal.

It's https://openlibrary.org

(Oh, it's death + 70 in Europe, not 75. And US is slightly different (worse))

if i wanted to splurge and upgrade my paperwhite, is the difference between the voyage and oasis worth the extra $$$?

For me, definitely - I have nerve damage in my left hand and the lightness makes a lot of difference.

Other than that, it's just what Calzino said ("it looks very nice") - apart from the buttons, there's no specific technical advantage over the Voyage - it's the same display and the same clunky OS.

But, given that I use the thing all the time, after a couple months of use I found the very-niceness totally worth the price. It's just a low-level addition to quality of life - it fits in pockets nicely, because of the cover I worry less about damaging the screen, the buttons feel good, and the jacket makes it feel less like a device.

I would say the nightlight is workable rather than excellent - I tend to keep the light as low as possible for as long as I can. But it's fine and doesn't make my eyes glare like an iPad in the dark.

http://www.mhpbooks.com/ownership-and-other-e-book-fallacies/

i got a kindle version of heidegger's 'being and time'

some things get a lot harder to read when you scramble their visual appearance from the familiar one!

a) Kindle has much better brand recognition and B) they aren't something you buy more than once a decade.

Kobo screen just broke after three years :(

Thought I would have a go at replacing, no disassembly videos for my model but I got the back off, removed the main board, now there is an impenetrable seamless plastic barrier.

huh, networked kindles don't update themselves upon daylight savings time beginning/ending

is there such a thing as a simple ebook metadata editor with batch file renaming? i'm that awesome guy that hates directory structure libraries

I think you can do all that with Calibre, not that I've ever used it for that purpose but Google answer confirms it can do that type of editing.

huh, networked kindles don't update themselves upon daylight savings time beginning/ending

kindle ad for book says on it

'this book includes photos and video that you can switch on & off'

WHY WOULD I EVER

Does anyone else get the ad for the book with the tag line "hacking in was hard...hacking OUT would be even harder"? Nothing has surpassed that to me quite yet.

Think I did notice that out of the corner of my eye.

My kobo aura which broke doesn't exist anymore, it's been replaced with kobo aura EDITION 2.0 which is thicker, doesn't take memory cards, has same or worse resolution and a crap recessed screen instead of a lovely entirely smooth front surface. Or I could spend twice as much on another model ;_;

interesting. the new models have passed me by.

the website says there is an "aura one", was that the same as your old version? (it wasn't called the aura one at the time, has it been retrospectively renamed now that the two exists?). can't really tell from the pictures. (no, it's not. it's probably the expensive model you mention))

http://uk.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one

"This eReader flew off the shelves. More stock coming early 2017."

the glo seems to have been retired. in fact everything is now an aura - the aura one, the 2.0 and the h20, everything except the old touch.

has anyone been able to purchase a kobo in-person (not ordering online) in NYC? Supposedly Word Bookstore in greenpoint sells them?

All Verso ebooks are 90% off until January 1st.

UK, right?

The site says some books are £1/$1 so i would guess it's at least US as well.

I never paid attention to the Kobo offerings, but if they offered the big one with buttons I'd jump on it. Slightly thicker seems like it might make the thing more comfortable to hold than the Kindles I've had.

Verso thing applies worldwide

Kindle daily deal (UK) currently features someone in the year above me at school and who lives opposite my gran, two roads over. Can't vouch for the quality of his books though (have read the first, was OK)

The monthly deals have been going through the Inspector Rebus books two at a time, which has been handy for me. I have about 8 waiting to be read with more to come, probably. At least they aren't taking up physical space.

Is there a good website that catalogs the non-shitty free kindle books on amazon?

Have looked for similar, but not found.

There used to be a kindle book with such a list in it

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21623373-which-something-old-and-powerful-encountered-vault

from a few years back, didn't see it upthread - basically on the disruption of ~teh book~ by ~teh ebook~, w/ lots of industry observations

There is a new version of Kindle for pc that it automatically updates to on a purchase and turns the AZW files into a format that calibre doesn't recognise. I solved it by downloading the older 1.17 version here:https://s3.amazonaws.com/kindleforpc/44170/KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44170.exe and deleting the AZW file and getting amazon to re-send it. It might just be a temp solution if they stop supporting 1.17 though.

(that reminds me, MacBook at work and new laptop at home means I don't have a working Kindle for PC setup. Might be the end of the Kindle daily deals for me)

(Um, does wine work?)

Am I the only dummy who pays for e-books

I pay. Path of least resistance.

same

i pay when forced to

Not to mention the. . . ethical thing?

My post was about breaking the DRM on an e-book I have bought, people. Although I will admit to many crimes, but I can't always afford to buy stuff. Actually fuck ethics.

I can't always afford to buy stuff but i draw the line at stealing to get it. When it comes to copyrighted books. Office supplies? Guilty. Also a feed tube pusher for a cuisinart but that's another story.

congrats

my children have to read

For me the drm removal thing is for getting *bought* Kindle books into a format I can use on non-kindle devices, there's no stealing or distribution going on here.

My reading is probably 50/50 things bought in Amazon sales and public domain Victorian novels from Gutenberg.

The very same reason myself, when I buy an e-book I think it is totally unreasonable for it to be tethered to one device/format.

There's so much pre-1922 and other public domain/creative commons licence stuff out there, that I haven't found need to buy more than 3-4 Kindle books. Generally, I prefer the cheap used hardback for non-travel books.

Yeah, i always break the DRM on stuff i buy, so can read on ipad without amazon monitoring/monetising my reading, and so can keep book if amazon deletes or changes it. Had to do the same thing as calzino and get an old version of the kindle software. You need go tell it to not check for updates, too, otherwise it keeps updating itself to the new calibre-frustrating version.

Anyone else can't watch certain youtube videos on their kindle? It's been like this for months and I fucking hate it, none of the directions to fix it seem to work.

"Also a feed tube pusher for a cuisinart but that's another story."

yes but I think this is a story that needs to be told so we can understand the depths of your criminal malice

I pay for some e-books but I'm honestly using it mostly to read shit that is out of print or otherwise unavailable (like loads of dr who target novelizations etc; I'm not going to go pay $400 for Lungbarrow on the second hand market). most of them are formatted pretty shittily.

Man, Lungburrow shouldn't be read at any price

I read it a couple of months ago (via OCR on Kindle) and it's kinda fun. Approximately 100x better than Cat's Cradle.