Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

piracy for sure

There's money to be made for someone who knows how to set up a system whereby you can buy US-only ebooks from outside the US: they buy them from Amazon for you, and then send you the file in your electronically fenced-off third world country like Australia

It's called BitTorrent iirc

I think most of the drm is crackable. I could only find a book on google's bookstore and was able to strip drm and put it on my kindle.

Having some weird issues recently with unwanted JUMBO FONTIFICATION. Can sort of fix it by going forward and backing up or going to footnotes and back again.

http://craigmod.com/journal/hack_the_cover/

― markers, Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:48 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great article!

Best Selling Kindle Titles:

Fifty Shades of Grey (Kindle Edition)
by E. L. James
Kindle Price: £3.09

Fifty Shades Darker (Kindle Edition)
by E L James
Kindle Price: £3.09

Fifty Shades Freed (Kindle Edition)
by E L James
Kindle Price: £3.09

Fifty Shades Trilogy (Kindle Edition)
by E L James
Kindle Price: £9.89

why is the trilogy more expensive than if bought them all seperately?

I know how to crack the DRM, it's not that: it's that if you're in Australia and you look for certain books on Amazon or other ebookstores, they won't show up. If you virtual ISP it you can see them but you can't buy them unless you have a credit card with a US address. It sucketh.

And these books aren't on bittorrent, and also I'd quite like to give the authors $

Got a kindle for my birthday, and it's great, really enjoying using it.

But I think there's a weird part of my reading brain that does something like cross-referencing the nature of the words I'm reading with the externals and physical aspects of a book.

Maybe it's not that weird - I knew I did this already: the bleached, brown-edged pages of The Myth of Sisyphus are as much a memory of reading that book as the content, or to take another example, I can clearly visualise the wide leading, spacious margins and heavy boards of the library copy of In a Glass Darkly by le Fanu that I first read.

I'm reading some Thomas Ligotti on the kindle at the moment (My Work is Not Yet Done) and enjoying it, but I've had a weird sense of taking in its aesthetic without an anchor - it takes a moment to get my bearings and relocate the sensation of the specific work whenever I pick it up.

I don't record this as any failing of the e-reader, but an example of a psychology scrabbling at the transition between different abstract surfaces.

Gibbon, on the other hand, seems to like being on the kindle very much. There's a new-found lightness to him perhaps ill-served by the multiple darkly-bound Victorian volumes from within which he usually finds himself discoursing. (Tho as I've said elsewhere the formatting of the footnotes is useless).

That's definitely a common feeling, in fact there are studies about it: http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/

i only seem to be able to read throwaway, story-led content on my kindle. but that's p much all i seem able to read these days anyway, so..

It was the opposite for me. Put a 500+ page book on the Kindle and you'll never miss carrying it around

(carrying the book, that is)

heh, my throwaway reading tends to come in fantasy epic sized portions tbh, so that aspect isn't lost on me

the footnotes on the kindle gibbon are really a problem; in the print copy i have they appear in the huge margins right next to their tags and it's so so beautiful but ugh you can't carry that thing around.

i feel like i should read it standing at a plinth.

A future third-party accessory, let's hope

Wait, I thought about this Gibbon on Kindle thing a little while back but I couldn't figure out which version to get.

The free one

B-b-but sometimes it is worth 99 cents to get a decent index or table of contents.

http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/

horrible article

Jakob Nielsen, a Web “usability” expert and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, believes e-reading does lead to a different type of recall.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/27/why-switch-off-kindle-takeoff-landing

can anyone recommend an e-reader with a larger screen that won't cost the earth? my dear old auntie loved my kindle but thought the 6-inch screen too small.

I think they're pretty much all the same size unless you go Kindle DX (which I'm not sure they're making anymore) or iPad.

i was hoping that wasn't the case. kindle dx still on sale but it's 400 quid.

part of the appeal of an e-reader is that an ipad/table would probably be over the top, battery doesn't last, screen harder on eyes, etc.

Any e-readers let me read CBR files?

xp The regular Kindle can be set to display in landscape orientation.

yeah i was tryin to convince her re landscape or changing text size but i was pooh-pooh'd tbh

sony ereader can display cbrs i think

it displays tiny tho, there's a lot of scrolling involved

Ah, thanks.

wifi Kobo's are kinda tempting at £50.

this is pretty gross
http://gizmodo.com/5941434/confirmed-all-the-new-kindle-fires-will-have-ads-that-you-cant-get-rid-of

glad to see them making improvements to e-ink displays, but i'll skip this generation.

lol ads, good luck wankazon

Ordered a Paperwhite to replace my second-gen Kindle. Reading on e-ink still way better than on my iPad 3, the new lighting setup looks great.

the comments on that article and other tech pages dispute the ads fwiw. might be another two-tier system like the last time.

Hey I've got a question: I left my kindle at my friends place just before embarking on a 30+ hour series of flights to the other side of the world. How annoying. If I buy another kindle can I re-download all the books I bought from Amazon on my old one to my new one?

what do u do just take the book and slide it in there idgi

yes, everything you've purchased in the Kindle store is available on all future Kindles

With books you can usually have 6 copies or devices. Magazines are tied to just one kindle.

"Dear Kindle Customer,

We have good news. You are entitled to a credit for some of your past e-book purchases as a result of legal settlements between several major e-book publishers and the Attorneys General of most U.S. states and territories, including yours. You do not need to do anything to receive this credit. We will contact you when the credit is applied to your Amazon.com account if the Court approves the settlements in February 2013.

Hachette, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster have settled an antitrust lawsuit about e-book prices. Under the proposed settlements, the publishers will provide funds for a credit that will be applied directly to your Amazon.com account. If the Court approves the settlements, the account credit will appear automatically and can be used to purchase Kindle books or print books"

guess i get some free books then! :)

30 quid off Kindle Fire for Black Friday, no problem ordering, shame Santa will get the kudos but hey

not quite interested in nexus or fire yet (got a cheap tablet earlier in the year and still struggling to see the point, would go for transformer ahead of anythin else atm i think).

i'm not real fussed but i know a young lady who is v. fussed

show me anyone still qualifies as young that doesn't easily fuss, i spose

Totally wanted to get a Paperwhite for our big family trip to Australia, but it looks like they're so backlogged they don't ship until Dec. 21, which is when we're leaving. Oh well. Serves you right to be Xmas-centric, Amazon. You just lost this Jew's order. (Until they're back in stock.)

apologies if this has already been covered. just been buying some ebooks from amazin, using the 'one click' thing then thought hang on no, i'll try a sample out first. dug around and saw there's a refund button so did that, all went ahead easily, two mouse clicks and my money is refunded the book removed from my kindle.

at first i thought a refund must only be available an hour or so after purchase but then i saw this: http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2011/12/27/kindle-ebooks-can-be-returned-up-to-7-days-after-purchase-heres-how/

so my questions are these:

- if you read the entire book in that 7 days then tried to get a refund, would amazon accept it? (say if you scanned back to page 1 so it didn't show up as 100% read)

- could you go into your kindle after purchase, copy the file to your pc and do some calibre stuff to remove any secret drm thingies, get a refund THEN wack the ebook back on the kindle for free naughty/illegal reading?

not that i'd do either of course, just curious.