Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

"Can you put books on to the Kindle app for iPad, do you know?"

Well, I purchased some books. I think if you connect your account to your ipad maybe you can do the others you bought before? Haven't tried.

I fucking LOVE my ipad. Absolutely amazing. I use it mainly for internet and my knitting (store my patterns on it). FUCKING LOVE IT.

i just ordered the velocity cruz e-reader for my wife. cant afford ipad....sigh.

Can you put books on to the Kindle app for iPad, do you know?

The Android app only lets you access books in your archive from the Kindle store at this point - I'd assume the iPad app is the same.

Slocki, you should check out Calibre. It's open source and free, so if you don't like it, it's no harm no foul.

I did and found it useful for conversions! Tho it seems to use a weirdly large amount of horsepower

It also sports the worst UI in history.

ya i was gonna say, i have NO idea what these icons are supposed to mean. oh i get it, the recycling icon means "trash." cuz it's a book. yeesh.

Not to mention the fact that the giant icons and other useless shit produce so much clutter that the book list YOU KNOW THE BIT THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY USE gets about 10% of the window allocation.

totes

Well, I did say that the interface was a bit unpolished!

Got a color nook for my birthday. So stoked. I've had a few days to play with it and love the hell out of it so far. Needs a wider selection, but I'm not exactly wanting. One of the highlights of this is going to be reading magazines again - don't have to carry a floppy, dog-eared thing around in my bag all day, don't have to remember to dig it out and recycle it after it's been sitting in there for two months and I'm totally done with it. Once again, the magazine selection is pretty slight, but I'm hoping it'll get better.

Has anyone bought a copy of Infinite Jest for ereader? I'm wondering how they handle the endnotes.

I did and found it useful for conversions! Tho it seems to use a weirdly large amount of horsepower

Found this exactly.

Someone remind me and I'll post the photo from last Christmas with my Dad, a kindle, and a puppy.

Just ordered one of these for my mom for her birthday next weekend. I think she's going to love it.

i'm totally attached to mine

Been on vacay all week and it is the BEST for that

this seemed like a thoughtful review from someone who shares my views about books

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/12/open-mike-mike-does-kindle.html

love my kindle but am having a hard time deciding when i should get a "meat" book or a "kindle" book

like its obv great for trashy beach reading type stuff im embarrassed to have around anyway, but what about stuff that's actually good?

dear someone, please invent a kindle/non-apple ipad thing that combines kindle books, pdfs (and all other text/ebook files) + the instapaper site to create one unbeatable magazine/book reading machine.

still eagerly awaiting a kind of extension of a site like rocksbackpages to allow me to buy e-reader-ready articles from magazines across the globe.

ooh update, just looked at instapaper site in more depth and they have a kindle/mobi button that converts all articles to text for reading on there (files transferable by usb or wirelessly with a surcharge). getting v tempted now but im still holding out for a version with colour images and basic web browsing for trawling guardian/nytimes etc for articles.

New Nook? I know it's US-only but it's probably closest to what you're after.

ty for the link dayo, the typesetting issue is the one that concerns me most tbh

yuh that poem layout looked really awful :(

cheers AA, i'll keep an eye on that, actually sounds perfect!

the kindle basically does everything u want (u can use "calibre" to convert any other format of file) except colour. but for that you need an LCD/LED screen - e-ink is one of the nicest things about the kinds. so easy on the ol' eyes.

can have the guardian (or the NYT, new yorker etc) 'delivered' to ur kindle over night too w/calibre

If you have a kindle 3, you can send stuff wirelessly to your kindle and not have to pay a surcharge (use your "free.kindle.com" email address). Works great for Instapaper, I hear.

I've been reading so much more since I got my nook. This thing is great.

can you browse the web on a kindle? i think i need to see this e-ink stuff vs colour lcd/led nook. damnit i would love to be able to carry tons of reading material around with me.

what's it like reading the kindle in bed? can it be dark enough not to wake a very-light-sleeping partner?

You can browse the web, although it's not a great experience (no color, and no video/animation). The screen is reflective, so you have to turn on a reading light to use it. K3 has a cover with a built-in booklight that powers itself off the unit.

If you have a kindle 3, you can send stuff wirelessly to your kindle and not have to pay a surcharge (use your "free.kindle.com" email address). Works great for Instapaper, I hear.

― schwantz, Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:35 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

really?? had no idea this was a thing

i think i posted on here, i got my wife the velocity cruz reader...pretty nice tablet.

sounds like a japanese motorcycle

it looks like one.

@s1ocki -

Looks like we don't trumpet that feature, but yeah. If you have WiFi, documents sent to your <username&✧✧✧@f✧✧✧.kin✧✧✧.c✧✧ address get emailed back to you, but also sync automatically to your kindle when you wake it up.

huh. are you an amazonian? i thought it cost me for amo to send u stuff!

that was <username>"at"free.kindle.com

I work in the kindle group. It costs for Amazon to send you stuff over 3G, but not over WiFi. If you send it to your free address, it will sync once you connect via WiFi.

cool!

is the username a self-assigned thing or

this is awesome, i just figured it out

i mean, you told me. but i figured out how to do it.

I gotta get Instapaper working. Seems like Kindle WiFi+Instapaper would be a really pleasant way to read stuff on the Internet, especially longer articles.

it's amaaaazing

like a wicked lil magazine edited by YOU

my girlfriend bought me a kindle for xmas and i'm so so pleased with it. really easy on the eye and im amazed at all the extra things you can do on it - things like go online, listen to music, etc. just great. esp love having the page layout horizontal, just looks beautiful, shame it wasn't designed that way in the first place with keyboard the same way but that's a very minor gripe.

what i need to do next is work out how to angle a nightlight to give enough light so i can read the kindle without waking up a snoozing girlfriend. currently using this with normal books but not sure if it'll clip on the kindle as easily. she also bought me that mighty bright clip on tool, but it's crazy powerful - im considering wrapping masking tape round it to dull the intense searing light.

could any kindle powerusers help me answer these questions?

1) is there any way of using msn messenger on it? i've logged into facebook which is great, but the instant message system there doesn't seem to be active. on the mobile facebook site anyway.

2) is there any way of making the 'next page' button even quieter? i know its barely audible as it is, but is there any simple way (ie. without unscrewing the whole device) of softening it even more? my partner wakes up at the slightest noise and i can it really bugging her if im clicking on it every 40 seconds.

3) downloaded a ton of books and i'd like to stick them all on the kindle in one folder (think they're called 'collections' on there) so it doesn't overload the home page. also want one folder/collection for instapaper articles and another for pdf magazines. what's the easiest way of doing this? i stuck all the books in a folder called 'books' and dragged that on but they all showed up on the homepage regardless. really hope there's an easier way than going through each book and manually putting it into a specific folder/collection.

4) trying to get my head round the whole emailing articles thing. i don't have 3g on mine but i've set up my wireless for it, so if i do mail a few things to my kindle address im not risking any charges am i?

For 2 - you could use Text-to-Speech (if it's enabled for the book) with the sound turned off. The pages will turn automatically.

ah that's handy! although i can imagine getting panicky as i reach the end of the page worrying it's gonna turn before i've finished reading it. either that or get ridiculously annoyed at having to wait a few seconds before it turns. could definitely work though, thanks very much.

just been readin more about this collections thing. looks like the only way is to set up a collection then manually add all the books. i've got about 66 to add so won't take more than a minute really. however i am finding that it won't add my instapaper article files (i have 3 on there, each with 20 articles on) to any collection. the whole instapaper thing is a bit weird and confusing, like why is the maximum 20, and how come they're classed as periodicals? im reading up on this calibre thing now and hopefully that'll help.

I haven't done anything with organizing into collections - I keep 80 - 100 things on mine and just page through them. I do archive off the fiction and periodicals I've finished, but that's about it for my housekeeping.

I believe if you sort your homepage by collection, the individual titles will not appear, only the name of the collections.

Here's 10 ebooks I downloaded (4 in .mobi format and 6 in .pdf format). I was planning on getting my dad a Kindle for xmas but that fell through. Anyways these books are paperbacks from guys like Dean Koontz, Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver...

Amazon does a Kindle case with a built-in light that's powered by the Kindle itself. Worth a look imo.

So I've yet to meet anybody who owns one of these yet.... am I begging the obvious when I ask if the appeal of buying one is so that you can illegally download books?

So I've yet to meet anybody who owns one of these yet.... am I begging the obvious when I ask if the appeal of buying one is so that you can illegally download books?

Not for me. Everything on mine is either in the public domain or paid for.