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.
― known for melding an outrageous stage presence with tenacious hooks (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
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
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
anyone else quite regularly notice spelling mistakes in the ebooks they download on the kindle? or is it just me reading trashy books
― seasoning sauce all over me (tpp), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
what's up
http://www.kindlepost.com/2011/09/kindle-books-now-available-at-local-libraries.html
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
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
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
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
― When I Stop Meming (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 September 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
$99 for wi-fi, $149 for 3G
or $79 for a new smaller, lighter, non-touchscreen kindle
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
79 is the right price, bare bones the right features. Don't need the other crap. Bought.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
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the new Portable Cash Register, from amazon
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
announcing the kindle fire tablet now, looks tiny (like kindle-sized)
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
with their own browser too!
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
"Kindle FIre's Silk browser will do part of the work on the tablet itself, and farm the rest out to cloud computing"
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
phwoah
Silk learns your behavior patterns and pre-loads pages. Read the NY Times frequently? Silk will load the Biz section ahead of time.
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
$199 - suck it, Apple
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
amazon seems like the only company serious abt competing w/apple tabletwise
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
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
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
well its all abt the specifics isnt it
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
ipad is def nicer/more versatile, also costs 2.5x
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
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
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait to get groceries through my fire
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
silky http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/amazon-tablet-silk-web-browser
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
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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.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
all the quoted e-reader prices are for the special offers versions
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
triiicky
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
ah the new e-readers all say "kindle" on the back in big letters, lame
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
not visible in any of the pics on the amazon page, only in the intro video, classy amazon
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
They also come with a battery pack shaped like a sandwich board with "BUY AMAZON PRODUCTS" on one side and "ENJOY THE GREAT NEW TASTE OT SOYLENT GREEN" on the other.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
i like how amazon makes base mercantilism work as a counterpoint to apples visionary user experience based approach
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
like theres more than one way to skin a tablet
amazon: we got stuff
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
A big cloud of stuff.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
just realized the new e-readers also don't have keyboards. hmm, guess the note-taking feature is being deemphasized.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
oh he didn't demo an onscreen keyb did he
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
i thought keyboards were a bit of a killer app, searching for the first mention of that guy who has suddenly reappeared in ch. 32, who the hell is he again? can't do that in my sony e-reader.
― ledge, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's weird, even searching for books on the amazon store will be more of a pain with a virtual keyboard, especially on the non-touch versions.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I AM THE TABLET
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
^ any tablet wars news makes me hear loutallica now
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
you know, RIM's playbook was actually a pretty awesome piece of hardware, they failed because a) no native integration with their bread-and-butter BES, b) no apps, and c) price. amazon's apparently integrated the fire pretty well into their own cloud/content arena and the price is double-dip recession appropriate so hey welcome to the partay
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link