Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

i'd get a nexus over a kindle fire

yeah for sure. Kindle Fires are ridiculously locked down.

Oh yeah I forgot, that was the other thing. Apparently you can root the nook hd and turn it into an android tablet. So I figured if I got sick of their os/if b&n went bust I'd have that option too.

the still-imaginary retina display iPad mini will be the best tablet for PDF-reading tablet people.

and comics...

only for daily strips.

horror stories about the nexus on amazon comments.

now I kinda want an ipad mini for reading pdfs. is it useless without retina display?

yes

there are people who are happy with the 12 ppi chicken wire screen, and they are wrong

ISn't the apple developer thing next week? At least wait that long to see if something's announced.

there won't be ipad hardware news then

otm, it's for developers

it's not so much that the non-retina mini is useless, it's just that when there is a retina mini it will be ~so much better~ that you will feel silly for having bought a current one. Maybe. I mean I read PDFs sometimes on my non-retina iPad 2 and it's fine, but I feel like it does make sense to hold off for the hi-dpi version.

took my kindle fire on the beach for the first and last time wtf i cant read a DAMN thing

lcd screens suck for reading in the sun. E-ink handles it quite well in my experience.

^going on vacation this weekend and i'm breaking out my kindle for the first time in many months (i've just been using the phone app constantly).

on my Nook HD I usually just slide up the brightness when I'm outside. But yeah that is the area where e-ink will always rule.

BTW the smaller (more sensibly sized IMO) nook HD is 129 bucks right now for a father's day sale. I've had mine for 4 months and it's pretty fucking great (though admittedly I hate the beach).

Have any other Kindle Fire users experience incorrect pages being shown? Seems to kick in if you flick back a page, and sometimes its even showing me the same page twice.

It's not the book at fault either, because resetting the Kindle fixes it temporarily. I've had it twice on two different books, in the past two days.

never happened with me. i have had entire pages go blank if you highlight something, which is fixable but annoying.

I had an update this week, I'm wondering if something has happended since then

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E86ENEQ/

Nice work on a very tight deadline by Kindle Singles editor David Blum. And thank you for making it available at no charge on Kindle. I wish a snippet of video had been included, to show the scene where the interview took place. Must have been surreal.

Not everyone has hours to spend reading an in-depth book covering the mind of Obama and his view on issues. This bite-sized interview gave me a great insight into Obama's view on certain topics all for $0. The fact that Amazon chose to release this as free is as enjoyable as a surprise chocolate bar appearing on my desk! I recommend this read.

I noticed that a bunch of Top Shelf comics (From Hell, Superf*ckers) are cheap -- but you can't view them on the reading apps for computers. Why would they do that? From Hell is even too big to fit on a third-gen Kindle.

Wait, I'm wrong about the storage - 3rd gen has 3GB. It still takes up a lot of space.

lost my sony, looking for a replacement. desired: e-ink screen, epub compatible, fuck an amazon. sony looks kinda dated now, kobo glo has better specs than the nook.

i have the entry level kobo and the entry level nook and the kobo wins hands down for me, the nook is just clunky. and, for a reading device, its main page treats your current book and your library as secondary to books it is trying to sell you.

Someone was raving to me about their new kobo this past weekend

i keep hearing good things abt the kobo, i had sorta written it off as the cheapo that'd be worst to use and first to break

Awesome my choice is made.

Can kobo render PDF to the same crude extent as nook simple touch or is it strictly ePub?

wonder why some (new) kindle books don't display page numbers (on the mobile app)?

Fuck a Jezz Bezos for killing the pursuit of reading just to make a profit

what does that even mean?

How he done that then xp

I don't understand why people who love books would want to drive bookstores out of business

Oh you meant something else Ok then good talk

books and reading aren't the same thing

do book fetishizers actually read books or do they keep them on shelves to impress people?

Who else would be impressed?

the Melville House blog is obsessed with how Amazon is destroying bookstores, the publishing industry, and literacy

http://www.mhpbooks.com/tag/amazon/

this is sort of like saying that if you read Moby Dick in paperback instead of hardcover you are a heathen

Not quite. If nothing else, the flooding of the world with spam books is something Amazon is heavily responsible for.

Exhibit A. I found this book for sale on Amazon:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M9SQV1H5L._SX260_.jpg

I guess you're talking self-published e-books? are those really luring people away from Dalkey Archive books?

Partly, but also the millions of things like this: useless expensive POD editions of classics unedited by human hand and with covers "designed" by morons

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eSH6g9fLKZA/UfIByaMP6TI/AAAAAAAANKM/nxDyAD49cZI/s1600/B00CS7HB32.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S6T_BUkMEvA/UfIBulG7g6I/AAAAAAAANJM/8lZ7FxWwD9Y/s1600/A00D39GBU8.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

plus other non-classic out-of-print books ripped from Internet Archive and also packaged by morons

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JFjkeCbASDs/Uenplj39QgI/AAAAAAAANHw/Nyew0pl4ZSY/s1600/science+%281%29.jpg

plus the various Wikipedia pages automated into expensive books by morons and machines working together:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WcY-S3AnXDs/TpOGVcnLEAI/AAAAAAAAJu4/5QyueFuXhA4/s1600/6135191470.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNWlD_4msE4/TpOGYfoGrII/AAAAAAAAJvU/fXBhZqwmv3I/s1600/6136171783.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iowa2SQ1nDQ/TpOGQnS2JVI/AAAAAAAAJuc/gA382WvqkxA/s1600/6130386990.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x5KxWSJmdv0/TpOGNbG3RcI/AAAAAAAAJuE/0LtWBUHf-aI/s1600/613616955X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

All of which clutter up searches for real books with expensive crap unbooks

James, please link to your webpage on this topic.

Sounds more like a problem with Amazon's search engine than anything else

James you're posting those things because they are delightful right?

I mean come on that Ulysses cover is sublime beyond human imagining