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)
― NI, Monday, 23 December 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
I had that problem while reading 'revolution in the head'... "what song is this again? better stop reading and check youtube"
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah, you wanna go to the iPad-enhanced-always-on-Internet-high-storage-interactive-viewer thread
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Monday, 23 December 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
hmph
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 December 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
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.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 25 December 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
Will buy the first book somebody posts here that is $4.99 or less in the Barnes and Noble Nook store. Quick
― 乒乓, Friday, 27 December 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/most-excellent-love-charles-and-becky-mcquaig/1103573339?ean=2940000822951
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 December 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
or
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/already-home-vicki-lewis-thompson/1109483175?ean=9781426834172
Bought both. Thanks VG
― 乒乓, Friday, 27 December 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link
:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 December 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
is it ever possible to see illustrations on a kindle?
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 30 December 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
yes
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Monday, 30 December 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
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
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 30 December 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
idk, books with illos or Sent To Kindle web articles with illos just show up for me.
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Monday, 30 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Jaq, Monday, 30 December 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
like a goddamned footnote
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 December 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
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
― koogs, Thursday, 2 January 2014 02:50 (ten years ago) link
hm...will try this.
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 2 January 2014 06:29 (ten years ago) link
B&N gave me $5 credit again. I am going to buy a book by Christie Sims
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Christie-Sims
― 龜, Saturday, 4 January 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
whoa
― sent from my butt (harbl), Saturday, 4 January 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/23/amazon-is-at-war-with-monster-erotica/?hpt=hp_t3
― 龜, Saturday, 4 January 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
man i already hated amazon and now they are going after the human/velociraptor fantasy genre idk what i'm gonna do
― sent from my butt (harbl), Saturday, 4 January 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
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"
― 龜, Saturday, 4 January 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
It's only 46 pages long and there are massive breaks in between paragraphs. What a rip
― 龜, Saturday, 4 January 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Mordy , Saturday, 4 January 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
The screen on my 3rd-gen Kindle broke :( So I had a good reason to buy a paperwhite yay :)
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Monday, 20 January 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
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.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
https://medium.com/editors-picks/c947c66c985b
Feeling regret that I didn't buy Taken by the T-Rex instead
― 龜, Thursday, 30 January 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 1 February 2014 12:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Je55e, Saturday, 1 February 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
> 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 HuxleyFirst published in 1932, US copyright will expire in 2028."
unless disney gets it changed in the next 14 years, which is likely.
― koogs, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Oh, oops. I read that the copyright expired in 2008.
― Je55e, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
The copyright expired in some countries, but not the U.S.
― Je55e, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
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).
― koogs, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Some decent daily deals today, including 100 Bradbury Stories for $2.
― qwop zapatos (abanana), Sunday, 9 March 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Cool, thanks. What else?
― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 March 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
Complete flannery oconnor stories, Cryptonomicon, American Gods, a bunch of other stuff
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 March 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
> including 100 Bradbury Stories for $2.
two volumes, 100 stories each... (£1.99 in uk)
― koogs, Sunday, 9 March 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Here's the US link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000677541 Canadian link: http://www.amazon.ca/ebooks-kindle/b?ie=UTF8&node=2980423011
Flannery O'Connor and CS Lewis are public domain in Canada fwiw
― qwop zapatos (abanana), Sunday, 9 March 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
wait: FO'C becomes public domain next year.
― qwop zapatos (abanana), Sunday, 9 March 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
Downloaded eBook from project Gutenberg yesterday and it had 40 pages of TOC - every page had notes, every note had its own TOC entry. Gah.
(Tain bo cualnge, the Irish epic)
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
oooooohhh
― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
Just updated iPhone app to 4.2 but don't see the left side panel TOC anywhere
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
$45 for a kindlewhite today, dunno if it's amazon prime only or what but i figured what the hell.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
What? Where? Are you sure you are not just talking about the protective cover?
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
I got a Nook glowlight for my birthday and am extremely happy with it. Reading in the dark is great for defeating insomnia and the choices of buttons or the touch screen are a winner.
― xelab, Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link