Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

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have i heard of it? dogg i spend 5-10 hours a day watching all the amazing user-generated content that users generate and put on youtube. it is an absolute goldmine for original art filmmaking. if hans richter or michael snow were getting started today... not to speak of all the many great actors and dramatists who got their first breaks on youtube.

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sooooo why not make some amazing user generated content and sell it through amazon, upping yr sales through their recommendation algorithims rather than keeping your fingers crossed and hoping on "related videos" clickthroughs and whatever social media intern you've got on promo?

read that post as 100% sarcasm tbh

ha i didn't even read all the way to the end tbh

^ endemic of the youtube culture

but seriously--there are plenty of people doing interesting orig work on yt, and i suspect they'd be interested in a legit revenue model. there are whole networks out there like indy mogul or impressive standalone shorts like fede alvarez's 'panic attack' that, if given a push, could produce even more impressive things.

i may be 100% wrong tbh

^ also the youtube culture thing etc

not to speak of all the many great actors and dramatists who got their first breaks on youtube.

p claro imo

what's the advantage of filmmakers going through amazon versus doing stuff like this?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2010/10/open-five.html

http://www.nobudgefilms.com/

This page seems to be somewhat hidden (in Canada at least) so I'm throwing it up here

Free ebooks collection
http://www.amazon.com/b?node=2245146011

Includes the kindle daily deal on the top left.

Also I have found mobileread.com to be a good source of free ebooks.

just DL'd 'american book of the dead' free on amazon and lovin it so far

I have one of these now! And have thrown my collection of OCR'd PDFs onto it, which I now realise I should probably organise better (e.g. why indeed I want to read 2499371 tonight). I do have a question though: one of the PDFs I tried to view has the bottom line on each page obscured by the page number bar - is there anything I can do about this? Besides changing the zoom, which is a bit of a pain because it means I have to move lots to get around the page. I couldn't find anything looking it up, and I appreciate that perhaps DIY-scanned and uploaded PDFs aren't necessarily going to be compatible, but I'd quite like a fix.

what's an OCR'd PDF? i run my pdf's through calibre and they generally come out completely readable. good for converting other formats into kindle friendly, iphone friendly etc formats

anyone else quite regularly notice spelling mistakes in the ebooks they download on the kindle? or is it just me reading trashy books

quite a few ocr issues (i.e. once every few pages) in the ONE BILLION BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE t0rr3nt i found.

what's up

http://www.kindlepost.com/2011/09/kindle-books-now-available-at-local-libraries.html

tpp anything i've d/l'd legit has had errors and words bre aki ng up li ke th is but anything i've ahem acquired or that was free has been ok

Just checked out some kindle books from the Seattle library. Easiest if your Kindle has wifi; mine's 3g only so have to copy the files via usb. Still an easy process.

You can get them from the NYPL too. Books were in a weird grayed out limbo when I tried to download over 3G until I realized about the WiFi. So a need for Wifi or USB but no need for
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/libraryken.jpg

because i'm a nerd, i'm watching a livestream of the kindle announcement today. so far they've announced a $99 kindle touch - basically the e-ink kindle with a touchscreen to turn pages, etc.

$99 for wi-fi, $149 for 3G

or $79 for a new smaller, lighter, non-touchscreen kindle

79 is the right price, bare bones the right features. Don't need the other crap. Bought.

i think it's a smart move and they're going to sell a billion of them but i don't really see anything to inspire me to trade up from my kindle 3

don't care about touchscreen, don't really feel like the kindle 3 is unwieldy or heavy, only reason i might upgrade is if the e-ink display is significantly clearer/darker

or $79 for a new smaller, lighter, non-touchscreen kindle

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the new Portable Cash Register, from amazon

announcing the kindle fire tablet now, looks tiny (like kindle-sized)

with their own browser too!

"Kindle FIre's Silk browser will do part of the work on the tablet itself, and farm the rest out to cloud computing"

phwoah

Silk learns your behavior patterns and pre-loads pages. Read the NY Times frequently? Silk will load the Biz section ahead of time.

$199 - suck it, Apple

amazon seems like the only company serious abt competing w/apple tabletwise

in that theyre doing their own thing not just putting out shitty ipad knockoffs no one will ever buy

hardware wise a lotta this was bought up from RIM iirc tho, which is why a lotta ppl were like "meh" before specifics came out

well its all abt the specifics isnt it

i don't really care about tablets so much but this seems really small? i guess that would be nice for commuters but if i'm mainly going to use it at home the ipad still seems way nicer.

ipad is def nicer/more versatile, also costs 2.5x

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2

can def see fire 3G down the way and maybe some kinda fire deluxe that's closer to the ipad in size & feature set on the horizon tho

feel like prob the most interesting thing abt this is on the app sales end, amazon is a company who knows how to sell things on the internet unlike google rim et al their app store w/prob be the first real competitor to apple

It's a Blackberry Playbook underneath, but what really sells it is the Amazon cloud backend. If they come out with a larger iPad sized model, it'll be the first serious competitor to Apple's tablet.

can't wait to get groceries through my fire

silky http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/amazon-tablet-silk-web-browser

can't wait to get groceries through my fire

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pre cooked

no one else cares about this but it doesn't look like the e-ink on the e-readers is updated from the kindle 3 (just based on the fact that they aren't using this as a selling point) - screen size is the same but body is smaller. also $79 is for the version with the "special offers" (ad screensavers), it's $109 without the special offers.

all the quoted e-reader prices are for the special offers versions

triiicky

ah the new e-readers all say "kindle" on the back in big letters, lame

not visible in any of the pics on the amazon page, only in the intro video, classy amazon