Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

I was reading a book and as soon as I got to the acknowledgements, Kindle popped up the "rate this book! Read this next!" thing. I was so mad.

gah. bought actual official penguin classic version of Notre-Dame de Paris and it's full of typesetting badness. have seen the following several times:

‘some speech’, and then,’ some more speech’

where the third apostrophe is also the wrong shape, a 9 rather than a 6.

épice appears as ¿pice in the footnotes

and generally the footnotes are per-page, and each has its own entry in the toc, meaning the toc is 18 pages long and, of course, the ebook pages aren't the same as the original's so the numbers are pointless. the footnote markers are also superscript leading to a bigger line gap on the lines where they appear.

(all of this fixable locally but annoying)

> I've ordered a nia
> ledge

how are you finding it?

It's my wife's, I haven't used it myself but she's perfectly happy with it. I'll try and have a go with it later.

https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2022/03/22/how-collections-work-after-latest-kindle-update/

Anyone had any luck trying KOReader on the Kindle?

reading Jennifer Saint's Ariadne. but they've hard-coded the font (Sabon LT) and it's very spindly especially on a backlit screen. but i have an editor, i can change that...

20 different 'txt' styles and it's specified in every single one. the C in CSS is for cascading. also fixed the first-line-indent which was way too low. and added a margin before the sections. does nobody ever read these things?

(what's bigger than a paragraph? new paragraphs are indented by a character or two but there's no gap above them. but once in a while, one a major change of subject, there'll be a one-line gap and the next paragraph will be hard to the left. is there a name for this? section?)

CARELLA: What made you cnoindente your mind?
PATRICIA: I cnoindented my mind, that’s right.

took me a while to work out what was happening here. i wonder if the original kindle version was correct?

noindent whoever came up with that find & replace.

it's that time again...

just went to download recent purchases and it's forcing me to upgrade Kindle for PC version, which means more reading around on how to break the d r m. only out £1.99 of this doesn't work but it's annoying.

new plugin needs new calibre...

Crosspost with backward steps I guess but it’s bananas that you can find the kindle edition of a book in the Amazon app & it says “This app does not support purchasing. Books purchased through Amazon are available in the kindle app.” & the kindle app itself has the same message. My gut response is always fuck you then, if I’m doing any extra steps it’ll be to get it on l1bg3n

I was happy to find that Zlibrary is still going, though I had to install Tor to access it. Probably the closest I've ever got to using "dark web"!

Wins I think it’s because Amazon doesn’t want Apple to take a cut of every book purchase, so you have to use the Amazon website to buy ebooks.

Confirming my gut response tbh, if the two omnipresent dystopian tech giants can’t come to slight compromise in the name of usability fuck em

it's the payments thing, but also that apple has their own competing book store