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Amazon Kindle |OT| of eInk superiority
- Thread starter HiroProtagonist
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JoshuaJSlone
Member
Man, inconsistent naming schemes is one of my Kindle store peeves. Here are the Kindle titles of some Stargate books, for instance, none of which use quite the same format.Gvaz said:
Stargate SG-1: Trial by Fire: SG1-1
Stargate SG-1: Sacrifice Moon
Roswell (Stargate SG-1, No. 9)
Stargate SG-1: Relativity: SG1--10 (Stargate Sg-1)
Stargate SG-1: The Barque of Heaven: SG-11
SG1-15 - The Power Behind the Throne (Stargate SG1)
SG1-17 Sunrise (Stargate SG1)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000013251
I used that offer to get the kindle for cheap but I've haven't received my email with the prom coupon yet...
I used that offer to get the kindle for cheap but I've haven't received my email with the prom coupon yet...
LocoMrPollock
Banned
Dany M said:
Did you sign up for the full year at once? It's like one payment for $149. You can't do the month by month thing since it's easily exploited.
LocoMrPollock said:
I'm already locked in for twelve months, which I'm ok with. I went through their process and its a monthly plan that they offer along with the promo code
EDIT: After an entire day of not getting the email, it finally arrived, you know in the day where emails are sent instantly upon order completion, waiting 9 hours is kinda excruciating.
Tornado Condor
Member
Is there any reason why the kindle can't search by page and not location?
LocoMrPollock
Banned
Dany M said:
Oh right on. Actually not a bad deal if you enjoy audio books.
Tornado Condor
Member
Manics said:
Ah ok, thanks.
HamPster PamPster
Member
Just two random questions (nothing about them in the OP but I'm sure they have been answered somewhere before):
- Is it a pain to have multiple kindles on the same account? If my wife and I each have a kindle but use the same amazon account will we have to deal with eachothers books cluttering up our kindles?
- Also can you organize books on a kindle? From playing with it in the store the books just list straight down. Can I folder them, for example the home screen has "Dad's Books" and "Daughter's Books"
- Is it a pain to have multiple kindles on the same account? If my wife and I each have a kindle but use the same amazon account will we have to deal with eachothers books cluttering up our kindles?
- Also can you organize books on a kindle? From playing with it in the store the books just list straight down. Can I folder them, for example the home screen has "Dad's Books" and "Daughter's Books"
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Deleted member 1235
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something due to different sizes of ebooks? It would essentially have to repaginate everything I guess, so it's easier to do location, maybe they have jack all processing power?salva said:
no, it's fine. you can also delete them and they go to árchived items. But when you do the '1click buy' it gives you the option to deliver it to a certain kindle. It will go in the archived items of the other one (I think)
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
:lol Fucking publisher just raised the price of the Dune books to $7.99 from $6.99 in the US shop. So aggravating.
ChoklitReign
Member
You mean the sequels? The original's still over $13 the last time I checked.Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
Not sure how good this is, but since it's relevant to GAF:
Well Played 1.0 is free, along with some others here, if you guys are looking for free Kindle offers or eBooks in general.
Well Played 1.0 is free, along with some others here, if you guys are looking for free Kindle offers or eBooks in general.
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
What a shitty thing to do...now they are the same price as the paperbacks. It boggles the fucking mind. Publishers must really hate the ebook model, or they realize that they can bleed money from their customers with a dirt-cheap eproduct.
Most of you have probably already seen this, it's from June 13th, but the video shows off the Kobo Touch's features. It looks pretty good, I think.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/13/review-kobo-ereader-touch-edition/
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
I have, what may be a dumb question: I went to the beach today to do my daily swim. Today, I was gone for two hours instead of one. When I came back to my stuff, the water had risen and all my stuff was wet. I had taken a paperback of Game of Thrones with me that I just purchased Saturday. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about (it's not too fantasy-ish so far, which is good) and had gotten 3 chapters in.
The book is now ruined for the most part. Is there any way that I can get the eBook if I bought the paperback? Maybe with my receipt? I really hope you can, I know some publishers have similar programs (I've bought some books that offer both). There is no lending program from the publisher for Game of Thrones either!
I really good eReader. I still like the Kindle better, and I'm not sold on the touchscreen, but I still like the Kobo better than the Nook. I really wish the Kindle 3 had a microSD slot though!
The book is now ruined for the most part. Is there any way that I can get the eBook if I bought the paperback? Maybe with my receipt? I really hope you can, I know some publishers have similar programs (I've bought some books that offer both). There is no lending program from the publisher for Game of Thrones either!
Help Me! said:
I really good eReader. I still like the Kindle better, and I'm not sold on the touchscreen, but I still like the Kobo better than the Nook. I really wish the Kindle 3 had a microSD slot though!
Alpha-Bromega
Member
i have access to my UNI's e-library which has many e-books uploaded, is there a way to get these on a kindle? i really want to be able to read the poision king without buying it, i already paid for the service and its available on my laptop so...
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
Alpha-Bromega said:
I'm not sure since those books tend to be locked and require Adobe. I'm guessing you're likely going to have to wait until the end of the year when Amazon opens the Kindle to library lending programs.
Go check on booklending.com and see if you can get it there.
Marty Chinn
Member
Alpha-Bromega said:
Unfortunately for stuff like that, a Nook is a better choice for an e-reader.
Dany M said:
HiroProtagonist said:
get this plugin and add it.
It shows up in Plugins under Preferences.
In the File type section it's seen here:
Enter in your data here:
when you configure the plugin. If you did it properly, it will do it automatically when you move the file off your kindle into your calibre library, or when adding it to your library (say from downloading it to your kindle4pc program or whatever.
If you didn't purchase the book, you wouldn't be using this plugin soooo
also a mod okayed talking about it on neogaf for the same exact reasons.
The only people removing the drm are those who like me either want all their files named properly and with proper metadata, or want their books on another device without having to rebuy it.
also a mod okayed talking about it on neogaf for the same exact reasons.
The only people removing the drm are those who like me either want all their files named properly and with proper metadata, or want their books on another device without having to rebuy it.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
Gvaz said:
Fuck DRM. I bought a book on iTunes that I couldn't transfer to my Kindle until someone helped me remove that crap.
Eh, fuck waiting. Just bought the special offers Kindle. =D
I'm about 100 pages from finishing A Storm of Swords, and think I'll read A Feast for Crows on the Kindle. I had bought that 4 book paperback set, but I guess I can just buy the single book for kindle. Dunno. Might be nice to have all 4 plus ADWD on Kindle though....medium changes are always a bitch.
I'm about 100 pages from finishing A Storm of Swords, and think I'll read A Feast for Crows on the Kindle. I had bought that 4 book paperback set, but I guess I can just buy the single book for kindle. Dunno. Might be nice to have all 4 plus ADWD on Kindle though....medium changes are always a bitch.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
Esiquio said:
I don't see why it wouldn't be the same process. I think the process is different depending on format. I'm not 100% certain though.
outunderthestars
Banned
Schlep said:
I love my Special Offer Kindle.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
I just saw this story on CNN. I'll post the video below.
Video report
Florida. We are awesome. "The Kindle State"
EDIT: In the video, please note the student who thinks a Kindle is something out of Star Trek: "it automatically beams to your thing."
Video report
Florida. We are awesome. "The Kindle State"
EDIT: In the video, please note the student who thinks a Kindle is something out of Star Trek: "it automatically beams to your thing."
leroy hacker
Member
Question about the special offers kindle:
Is it possible to set it to not display the promotional screensavers? I don't understand what purpose a screensaver serves on an e-ink device-it seems like it would only waste energy given that the device could simply keep the current page on screen without using any.
Is it possible to set it to not display the promotional screensavers? I don't understand what purpose a screensaver serves on an e-ink device-it seems like it would only waste energy given that the device could simply keep the current page on screen without using any.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
Jintor said:
If textbooks were only $70, I would have saved a lot of money on college where I regularly paid $100-200 for a textbook.
bengraven
Member
My Kindle keeps shutting down and then gets a loading screen, then it kicks me back to my home page. I go back to my book (after waiting for all my books to reappear) and my book is stuck on the same page that I started reading when I woke up this morning.
It's done that three times.
Don't fucking remind me. I remember how horribly expensive they were when I was in community college waaaaay back in the day. Now I'm returning to school and the prices at my university are ridiculous.
It's done that three times.
Jintor said:
Don't fucking remind me. I remember how horribly expensive they were when I was in community college waaaaay back in the day. Now I'm returning to school and the prices at my university are ridiculous.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
While this would be cool in theory (and no, I don't know of a way), more than anything it would probably make you notice how many books just use some generic cover template rather than the image actually used for the print version.kaizoku said:
dr3upmushroom
Banned
I've been wondering this well, what's the point of the Kindle's screensaver? I assume that having the screensaver doesnt use any less power than displaying the page of a book. It's not a huge deal, but often I'll set my kindle down to do something and it'll be on the screensaver when I get back so I have to wake it up. If there's no reason for the screensaver I'd like it to just display the page I'm on until I turn it off, and it's weird Amazon would make such a superfluous design choice.leroy hacker said:
But maybe there is a reason? Maybe the version with ads was planned all along and that's it?
dr3upmushroom said:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128704 There is a link on that page describing how to change the length of time before the screensaver comes on. So you could set it to 1,000,000 hours so that it never really comes on. The screensaver is just there for esthetics.
HiroProtagonist
Member
The program on the kindle that displays books has to be running (it's not just displaying a single image like the screensaver, but it has the whole thing loaded - searchable, capable of highlights, notes, and bookmarks). I'm also guessing that it is constantly writing the furthest page read to the memory. I have no real clue, but I have a feeling that a lot of background shit is happening when you have a book open, and it shuts all of that off when you put it to sleep.dr3upmushroom said: