Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

Cool, thanks. What else?

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

> including 100 Bradbury Stories for $2.

two volumes, 100 stories each... (£1.99 in uk)

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

wait: FO'C becomes public domain next year.

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)

oooooohhh

Just updated iPhone app to 4.2 but don't see the left side panel TOC anywhere

$45 for a kindlewhite today, dunno if it's amazon prime only or what but i figured what the hell.

What? Where? Are you sure you are not just talking about the protective cover?

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.

xp
Is kindlewhite the basic model? It's the paperwhite that is the more expensive model, I think.

i don't think any of them are called "kindlewhite"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007HCCNJU/#kindle-compare

I am slightly disappointed with the paperwhite. I dislike tapping the screen -- you can't wipe off smudges while reading, and it's a bit finicky about how long you need to tap it. also you need to use both hands, one to hold it and one to tap -- it's just easier when you're tucked in bed or taking a bath to use it one-handed (no masturbation jokes please).

just about the one-handed or the whole post cos

I prefer using buttons other than when I am lying in bed reading. That's what i like about the nook having both options. Admittedly the backlight is stronger on top and not perfectly diffused but for half the price I am p chuffed.

My fear with the Nook is B&N's inevitable bankruptcy.

wow, just got the $44 paperwhite for our upcoming year in gaul, since reading is my kids' main hobby and books are heavy to ship overseas.

xp
Nothing to stop you legally buying books on your pc and transferring them to your nook, even in the instance that B+N went bankrupt. I bought a P Garnier ebook off amazon, was pissed to discover it could only be read on my pc, so I downloaded a program called Calibre to sort that shit out.

Where is that $44 one? We in the Redd family are seeing $119 as basic paperwhite price, no 3G without special offers.

guess it's a special deal if you have prime?

Mrs. Redd has it. Thought she checked.

Did you get an email or something? Link please.

I just went to amazon & a banner showed up at the top

Maybe it's regional. Are you in France right now?

Being reminded of this classic thread

My fear with the Nook is B&N's inevitable bankruptcy.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, April 27, 2014 4:37 PM

do not buy one. period.

if you already have, sell it and get a kindle or, even better, an ipad with the kindle app.

no, I'm in the USA still

are epubs hard to buy in the US? Over here if/when b&n go under I feel like there are a lot of other sites (waterstones, foyles, etc) where you could buy books for the nook.

even better, an ipad with the kindle app
do you read whole books on your ipad markers? I think my eyes would get really tired if I did this. Plus blue light in bed etc..

(but maybe it's different with retina? idk)

Thought about getting the $32.20 model, but I believe it's most too light.

Calibre converts epubs>mobis or whatever to whatever in seconds.

hey markers. let's say i can get a second hand nook real cheap and all the free pdfs/epubs i want. is there still a real reason not to get the nook?

yeah that waterstones nonsense was a mealymouthed way of saying pretty much this ^

I've not had good luck with the coughfree pdfs/epubs in terms of formatting, tbh and the usual freebie sources haven't had a lot of things I wanted to read.
Kinda makes me want to get a cheaper Nook Glowlight for the buttons, though, if the lighting were up to par with my Paperwhite.

With a retina iPad, reading is okay as long as you turn the brightness way down - using the sepia toning in the Kindle app helps too. I still prefer the Paperwhite even w/o buttons and the occasional wonkiness of double touching and stuff.

hey markers. let's say i can get a second hand nook real cheap and all the free pdfs/epubs i want. is there still a real reason not to get the nook?

― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Sunday, April 27, 2014 7:03 PM

if you're going to be storing those files somewhere (dropbox, your pc, etc.) that's not just on the device and you don't intend on using the nook store, then you should probably be fine, unless there's something i'm not seeing, as long as nooks either come with or can be loaded up with an app or apps capable of dealing with those file formats. but i wouldn't buy any actual ebook *from* b&n, because as others have noted their business seems to be in a really bad place right now.

blue light in bed

i read white on black

i got used to it

ymmv

xp

ok cool, the nooks seem to be the cheapest option around at the moment and i just want something to read pdfs from so i reckon for my purposes it's probly ok - don't need any of the interconnective stuff

i just wrote this so i'm going to post it even though it looks like you might be all set:

the best tablet, though, is an ipad, ideally the newest one you can get. (mine is like a year and half old at this point, and i wouldn't recommend that anyone buy it now, even though it works fine.) you get access to whatever bookstores you want to have access to (ibooks, kindle, nook, kobo, etc.), you can use some really nice software to look at epub, pdf, doc, txt, and other files, you know that apple's gonna be around for a bit, and you're going to be able to get software updates for both your apps and the os for a while. it'll be super solid for at least two years probably and will still be good for three, maybe even four years beyond that, before you'd really really want to upgrade.

if you want more opinions, the apple lust objects thread isn't a bad place to ask, but as the title implies we're all a bit biased there.

there are also relatively cheap tablets, like the nexus 7, which might be a little small for pdf reading, but still get good reviews. it's difficult to give a recommendation because the field is complicated. just know that there's a chance b&n gives up the digital books market in some way at some point.

and that your device and the ecosystem around it might not be supported. it's a risk! but if it's cheap, that might not matter. you can always just get a new device later on and copy the files back onto it as long as you keep a backup of them.

i've got no ideological opposition to an ipad, just nowhere near being able to afford even a used one, whereas i can pick up a used Nook v. cheap and i have a whole stack of lovely books on the computer that i want to be able to read at will. take your point that it's a long way short of the best solution - i have read that elsewhere too

can someone else back me up on this or refute me? i want to make sure i don't screw nv over here by giving bad advice, especially because i've never owned a nook and don't know much about it

xpost totally understand. i got mine as a gift and have a flip phone. i just don't want to send you off in a bad direction. hopefully someone else will chime in.

please make sure that whatever model your buying will handle those two file formats, too. i just did two seconds of googling, and i don't what model the dude was talking about, but someone mentioned formatting issues wrt pdfs. (could've been talking about one of the non-tablet models for all i know.) i assume bn.com has some basic information and other specifics can be answered by google or someone here who actually owns one of these things. good luck!

i assume of the 3 (nook, ipad + kindle) the ipad is the only one that does an okay job displaying pdfs (maybe the kindle fire too?)?

i have a no-brand knockoff chinese android tablet that's two years old, pdf, kindle and all etc formats are no problem on it.