Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

how detailed do you really want your serifs to be

For me the test would be whether the letter forms have a crisp, well-defined edge without blurring or jaggedness. This allows the eye to focus with less strain. Meet that test and further resolution would be superfluous -- until you start talking about pdfs and other images.

One issue with high-res e-ink is that the micro-capsule edges start to dominate at high resolutions, lowering the contrast. Another is that it gets harder to control edge-ghosting, since the electrical fields that move the ink around bleed over into neighboring microcapsules, and it's hard to clean those ghosts up without a full flash of the screen (which everyone seems to hate).

The 212ppi of the newer Kindles/e-readers is pretty sharp, though.

Actually, scratch that first item, I think that's not true. It's a ghosting issue.

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Integration of e-ink for reading and a bright display for photos will be nice.

FAA due to raise all restrictions on use (including during take-off) imminently - the rest of the world are waiting for the USA to say it's OK then fall in line immediately. (Most allow it already but are in principle awaiting on the FAA saying it's fine.)

flew internationally on BA tonight, and they said at the start "ayo since like yesterday, stow yr laptops away but as long as you put your phone or tablet or e-reader in airplane mode, fuckin go for it duders"

FAA due to raise all restrictions on use (including during take-off) imminently

They've been doing this for at least the past month in the US

Integration of e-ink for reading and a bright display for photos will be nice.

there is an dual e-ink / lcd phone. mainly appears to exist for gizmodo to take the piss out of it:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/12/dual-screen-e-ink-yotaphone-is-somehow-now-a-real-phone-that-you-can-buy/

readers of the future will have started their Berenstein Bears books on dad's iPad and won't see any disadvantage to their novels being delivered via pixels

not the near future -- i can tell you from direct experience that 2nd graders read books almost entirely on paper. my kid subscribes to print magazines, which is more than I can say for myself, and often requests that I buy a print newspaper (which we haven't gotten at home since before he was born)

that dual e-ink/lcd phone seems brilliant, would totally buy.

prob not the right thread but waiting for the day when someone invents an add-on keyboard for iphone/android phones as good as the blackberry one (with substantial chunky keys, not like the shitty unresponsive kindle one)

I'm reading this Beatles thing on the kindle atm, and I have this idea that it should have embedded mp3's the songs they talk about - not autoplay, but that you can trigger yourself...and then idk send you to itunes if you play it more than once or w/e. Like for music biographies and such I think it would be a cool enhancement. For me... idk it'd probably annoy the shit out of everyone else haha

and I don't mean just beatles songs, but like there's loads of old rock n roll 45's they talk about and old music hall songs etc

I had that problem while reading 'revolution in the head'... "what song is this again? better stop reading and check youtube"

yeah, you wanna go to the iPad-enhanced-always-on-Internet-high-storage-interactive-viewer thread

hmph

I decided to go with an iPad mini (prob w/ Retina) for my e-reading needs. I don't read in long enough stretches for e-ink to be necessary plus I can use iBooks if I want. Plus I want an iPad and don't want to carry two devices, and I can get a Kindle later if I want.

Sorry to keep you all in suspense for so long.

my eyes strain very quickly and I already spend so much time in front of backlit screens that regular reading on iPad is a no go. I got a Kindle two years ago but don't use much since I mostly read in the dark when wifey and baby are fast asleep - so, as much as I hate the idea of replacing a perfectly working two year old machine, I'm really tempted to get the Paperwhite model.

Will buy the first book somebody posts here that is $4.99 or less in the Barnes and Noble Nook store. Quick

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/most-excellent-love-charles-and-becky-mcquaig/1103573339?ean=2940000822951

or

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/already-home-vicki-lewis-thompson/1109483175?ean=9781426834172

Bought both. Thanks VG

:D

is it ever possible to see illustrations on a kindle?

yes

ok how do i shot kindle. ive had it for a year and i don't understand it at all.

every ebook ive ever read on kindle with illustrations just skips right over the illustration, showing only a caption

idk, books with illos or Sent To Kindle web articles with illos just show up for me.

roxy, try reducing the font size to the smallest. Although, is the caption actually a link? It might be the illustrations are being handled like a footnote.

like a goddamned footnote

kobo-brand ebooks do per-chapter page numbering. how is that useful? can't tell where I am in either the individual story or the entirety of the book.

the one I'm reading is also sourced from project Gutenberg without any of the markup translated so -- are not replaced by emdashes and it still has underscores where italicised words should be. PG books often not the best things in the world but this conversion has been done badly

hm...will try this.

B&N gave me $5 credit again. I am going to buy a book by Christie Sims

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Christie-Sims

whoa

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/23/amazon-is-at-war-with-monster-erotica/?hpt=hp_t3

man i already hated amazon and now they are going after the human/velociraptor fantasy genre idk what i'm gonna do

I was undecided, wavering and maybe would have bought the Centaur at the Resort, but you've really brought home the very tangible fact that the human/velociraptor genre may become "extinct" in the very near future

With that in mind, I have purchased "In the Velociraptor's Nest"

It's only 46 pages long and there are massive breaks in between paragraphs. What a rip

this is a really weird question but it's been on my mind since i found out about Sims' books - what kind of genitalia does the titular velociraptor sport?

The screen on my 3rd-gen Kindle broke :( So I had a good reason to buy a paperwhite yay :)

paperwhite now under 100 EUR - very tempting. Wondering if price will drop even further and whetehr there is any sense in waiting for the following generation.

https://medium.com/editors-picks/c947c66c985b

Feeling regret that I didn't buy Taken by the T-Rex instead

My Kindle is about three years old now, and it's starting to have these little ink blots in a few locations on the screen. They look like misplaced commas. Kind of annoying. I got the first one awhile back, now I have three.

Brave New World is public domain now and I have learned that free e-books can be a crap shoot. So many misplaced hyphens and extra spaces and wrong characters.

i fixed over 500 problems with gutenberg's Dombey and Son. and just yesterday did the same with Little Dorrit. mostly 's and paragraph breaks in the wrong place (which i think is a function of the pagebreaks in the scanned copies).

at least i submitted these back to gutenberg.org and the new version was on the website the next day (not heard back about LD yet). i doubt the paid-for copies get updated as easily.

> Brave New World is public domain now

only in canada, which uses life + 50 rule. UK has life + 70. US is different again - only stuff published before 1923 is PD and BNW was 1932 (AH died 1963, hence ok in canada since start of year)...

https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?t=11406
"Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
First published in 1932, US copyright will expire in 2028."

unless disney gets it changed in the next 14 years, which is likely.

Oh, oops. I read that the copyright expired in 2008.

The copyright expired in some countries, but not the U.S.

yeah, there's a copy on archive.org with no warning about availability. probably the source of the bad hyphens (it's kept the hyphens from the original by the look of things and looks ridiculous on any other width of page).

Some decent daily deals today, including 100 Bradbury Stories for $2.

Cool, thanks. What else?

Complete flannery oconnor stories, Cryptonomicon, American Gods, a bunch of other stuff