wonder why some (new) kindle books don't display page numbers (on the mobile app)?
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 23 August 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Fuck a Jezz Bezos for killing the pursuit of reading just to make a profit
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
what does that even mean?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
How he done that then xp
― firelance photographer (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
I don't understand why people who love books would want to drive bookstores out of business
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 24 August 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
Oh you meant something else Ok then good talk
― firelance photographer (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 August 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
books and reading aren't the same thing
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 25 August 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
do book fetishizers actually read books or do they keep them on shelves to impress people?
― President Keyes, Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
Who else would be impressed?
― a solitary sext (sic), Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
the Melville House blog is obsessed with how Amazon is destroying bookstores, the publishing industry, and literacy
http://www.mhpbooks.com/tag/amazon/
― i too went to college (silby), Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
this is sort of like saying that if you read Moby Dick in paperback instead of hardcover you are a heathen
― President Keyes, Sunday, 25 August 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
Not quite. If nothing else, the flooding of the world with spam books is something Amazon is heavily responsible for.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Sunday, 25 August 2013 07:47 (ten years ago) link
Exhibit A. I found this book for sale on Amazon:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M9SQV1H5L._SX260_.jpg
― Aimless, Sunday, 25 August 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
I guess you're talking self-published e-books? are those really luring people away from Dalkey Archive books?
― President Keyes, Sunday, 25 August 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
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
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 26 August 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
James, please link to your webpage on this topic.
― The O RLY of Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 August 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
Sounds more like a problem with Amazon's search engine than anything else
― elan, Monday, 26 August 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
James you're posting those things because they are delightful right?
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 26 August 2013 01:18 (ten years ago) link
I mean come on that Ulysses cover is sublime beyond human imagining
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 26 August 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
I just turned this thread into an e-book you can buy for $400
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 August 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
Suffer along with me...
http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/wordart-1-james-joyce-0.htmlhttp://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/tutis-has-challenger.htmlhttp://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/tutis-has-rival.htmlhttp://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Tutis%20bashing
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 26 August 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
ledge, have you pushed the button yet? kobo have new models on the way in a couple of weeks.
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/08/kobo-has-three-tablets-and-an-e-reader-for-your-plastic-pile/
(which might be a better purchase, might mean that the perfectly good old ereaders are discounted)
(4GB of storage in the new ones = 4 lifetimes worth of reading...)
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 10:14 (ten years ago) link
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link
pushed the button last night.
beats breast, gnashes teeth, ponders options.
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 10:46 (ten years ago) link
oh, the one thing i would recommend is updating the software asap - the mini was dreadful out of the box, unresponsive and ugly. software update made the world of difference. chances are the glo software includes most of those changes, being newer, but if you have problems...
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 10:54 (ten years ago) link
also, put a bit of black insulating tape over the logo on the front. 8)
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 10:58 (ten years ago) link
main diff w/ new version seems to be double the memory, possibly double battery life, and '6" High-res Pearl E Ink ClarityScreen with low-flash waveform' vs. '6" XGA Pearl E Ink touchscreen'
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 12:15 (ten years ago) link
kobo minis down to £30 in store on saturday, i noticed, with other discounted prices for other models which i can't remember (website says touch is £40, others look usual price). ditto nook simples (although no stock in local foyles. and the kobos are better imo)
― koogs, Monday, 9 September 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone been loaning books to other people? Seems like you can only do it once per book.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 September 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
But looks like you can do it for lots of books now.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 September 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
right, was going to a while back, but it wasn't available for the book i wanted to do it with, so i just herk HERM-ed it off the web and donated it to them that way. seemed... difficult iirc?
― Fizzles, Monday, 9 September 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Please to explain herk HERM-ed. I've been trying to decode it for a while.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
Ha, me too but didn't want to ask.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:31 (ten years ago) link
i think those are just throat-clearing sounds
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
Thought it might have something to do with Kool Herc but couldn't make it work.
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
sorry, Christ - internal code not translating: yes, herk HERM = throat-clearing. just entering object permanence stage of development brb.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 07:23 (ten years ago) link
ha, right--thanks. I was googling herk and HERM and getting all sorts of things but nothing I could make sense of. thought it must have been some sort of cunning pirate site or torrent protocol.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
People are making fun of the return of the Kindle DX, but I'm wondering if it might make a great pdf reader? I don't like reading pdfs on my laptop, and I have a Kindle but it's too small and the note-taking function is hopeless. Wondering if the new one might have made a better job of the note-taking. Might look into a second hand one if so.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 22 September 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I had an old DX and it was great for PDFs
― los blue jeans, Monday, 23 September 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
I have nook HD and it is really great for PDF, esp things like illustrated textbooks etc
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 September 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
Would love to go for the Nook, Kindle Fire, iPad Mini etc. because of their other features, but I'm really after an e-ink screen for the pdfs.
― ljubljana, Monday, 23 September 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
will encourage you to wait for the iPad mini to get bumped up to a retina display, quite possibly in the next couple months, for PDF-reading nirvana.
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 23 September 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
Ah, yeah. I haven't really got any experience of reading a retina display. Will go hang out at an Apple store when the mini comes out...
― ljubljana, Monday, 23 September 2013 11:17 (ten years ago) link
it's like normal seeing, but without your eyes being sliced up with razor blades
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 23 September 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
rofl
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 23 September 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
i am currently considering my options vis a vis course notes and material
i have a laptop, heavy and noisy, that's right out.
i have pens and paper, not cool but a decent backup.
i have a kindle which is good to read on but this thread leaves me to believe would not be a very good pdf reader/study tool
and i have a generic android tablet with pdf reader and notes, which is a pig to type on.
good people of this thread, would you agree that a mix of tablet backed up by pens and paper for note taking is the way to go here?
if this is in another thread, pls redirect.
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
my kindle is a lol kindle 3 btw
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
kindles are incredible for reading things in a linear fashion, point a to b, such as a novel.
for stuff like travel guides, manuals, etc, they're almost worthless. it's really hard to jump around from point to point or "flip through" a book.
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's exactly why i've discounted it- specialised to perfection but not what i need for college
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link