Kindle Fire HD7 is hella cheep today only.
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 April 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Did not get.
i do have Paperwhite 2. Software is only on 5.4.3.2 and it is not offering me any updates. Wonder why.
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 May 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
Madchen got me the Voyager for my birthday and it is *lovely*. The screen (especially the backlight) is miles better than my first-gen Paperwhite. Doesn't have the new Bookerley font though, boo.
― stet, Friday, 1 May 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
Voyage*
front page sez 'starting at $59' today
― j., Sunday, 3 May 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
What? Where?
Fixed my problem, with Kindle at least. Had so much stuff not enough room to download update, so just reset, wiping everrything before updating and restarting. Even better than Delete All My Bookmarks.
― Thank You For Talking Machine, Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
oh i dunno just in that flippy banner, the giant splash screen one
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=ods_gw_d_h1_family_mday?_encoding=UTF8&node=10394030011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-hero-kindle-A&pf_rd_r=0J23KT91C3CVH3MAA8VY&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2087433182&pf_rd_i=desktop
apparently only old-kindle is that low, nu-kindle starts at 99
― j., Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I thought you were saying V'ger was at that price as well.
Indexing, searching now much faster with update.
― Thank You For Talking Machine, Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
i thought i was too, didn't click thru at first
i keep having low-memory problems on my paperwhite lately, loaded it too full of books i'm not reading but swear i might want to look at if they're right there
― j., Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
have same problem. As of past few days have learned to plug in USB and look at Kindle Documents in Finder to see which books are taking up the most space.
― Thank You For Talking Machine, Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
that doesn't help that much when there are a bajillion of them, all tiny little memory piglets
― j., Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
You sure?
In that case, you need to "Delete All Bookmarks" every once in a while and redownload
― Thank You For Talking Machine, Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah well i mean, there's just only so much space you can clear by deleting a couple 20-meg pdfs.
how large are the bookmarks??
― j., Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, I don't mean delete the bookmarks. I mean delete everything using Reset and start again.
― Thank You For Talking Machine, Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
oh but my 'content' is like 95% stolen and side-loaded, is it just a tidying up kind of issue?
― j., Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Oh then forget it.
― Thank You For Talking Machine, Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
well nuts
― j., Sunday, 3 May 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
Couldn't you just pull some of that stuff off of the kindle into another folder on your computer?
― Thank You For Talking Machine Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
impossible, what if i need to read one of six virginia woolf novels and i'm located at any of the several places far away from my computer i go
― j., Monday, 4 May 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
When I send my side-loaded mobis to my Kindle I use the Send to Kindle PC app and check the "save copy to Amazon cloud drive" option. That way if I'm in a ~book emergency~ I can toggle to cloud view to find it and save it to my Kindle but it won't clog up my Kindle library unless I want it to.
― musically, Monday, 4 May 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
oh i hadn't realized i could save sideloads to the cloud, i kinda figured it would be best not to since some of the mobis must have been stolen from amazon at some point lol
― j., Monday, 4 May 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
This looks useful if you don't want Amazon to see your public domain book collection: https://getbookdrop.com/start
― schwantz, Monday, 4 May 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
ooh, that sounds nice. calibre works like shit on my machine, so i haven't found a good way to convert epubs yet
― j., Monday, 4 May 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Calibre is fucking brilliant, maybe you need to reinstall or something? For me it consistently strips drm or converts formats usually within 20 secs or so.
― xelab, Monday, 4 May 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
i think it's a support issue? i gotta run an old os x version, the only calibre available for it is a monstrous piece of garbage, looks like it was ported from xwindows or something.
― j., Monday, 4 May 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
Borges Infinite Library, every book ever, now digital: http://libraryofbabel.info/
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 02:38 (eight years ago) link
well that was certainly illuminating
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― j., Wednesday, 6 May 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
But also: "diatomists resolvedness upstare dorser unpasteurised undertints foreshewn watersmeets ichthyopsid aesthesiogenic scandalizes eyebeam taels cutlines cuckooed and then she pulled off her panties and her vagina erupted in flames strainers tonites pronouncers tuskless"
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
nobody folded down that page in my copy
― j., Wednesday, 6 May 2015 06:03 (eight years ago) link
hmm
now i've gone from… KINDLE versions of children's coloring books about ~emotions~ to… larry the cable guy ads for prilosec
expecting the boner pill ads any day now
― j., Friday, 15 May 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
Leave the wifi off and the ad never changes. I transfer everything via usb now.
― Jaq, Saturday, 16 May 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
oh i like to send it web pages from my browser so that i can pretend i'm going to read them later though
― j., Saturday, 16 May 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
I noticed that the ads don't change when wifi's off by accident, I have a library book on my kindle that's gonna expire as soon as I turn wifi back on so I've had it off for a really long time. Whole time I've had a generic kindle ad.
― musically, Sunday, 17 May 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
My device is in aeroplane mode till the death. Anything purchased is done on the PC kindle app and then rendered "portable" by Calibre which is imo the best software you can get to manage a library/convert formats/strip drm. I have been trying to convert j to it but his pc doesn't like it.
For free books lately I have been using l18g3n (thanks Nakh) which is an incredible source and mercifully you can direct download the files rather use a torrent client.
I looked into sending internet content to my kindle but decided I have too many books queued up to start clogging it up with other shit.
― xelab, Sunday, 17 May 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
lol why don't they have the library expirations keyed to the device clock
'longreading' might not be working for me on my kindle because i don't really have shit to do that calls for any brief waits out and about, basically i use the thing as a portable library when i'm away from home writing, or i read montaigne and sloterdijk at home with whatever strength i have to turn off the big computer, encouraged by the quaintness of the leetle one
― j., Sunday, 17 May 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
I think it is healthy to draw a line between the two, the simplicity of e-ink is everything that is beautiful about it.
― xelab, Sunday, 17 May 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
it's funny, the first few days i thought there was something… trying… about making out what was on the screen. now it seems fine. probably been damaged in some way by my encounter with technology but oh well.
― j., Sunday, 17 May 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
oh man, thanks for reminding me of libgen, I used it years ago but forgot. I bought paperbacks of John Barth's The Floating Opera/The End of The World and a couple of Joan Didion books this week and discovered I just can't do paper books anymore. They're awkward and feel funny and I can't read them in bed in a pitch-black room.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 17 May 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/books/review/Schuessler-t.html?pagewanted=all
But today, Brown is perhaps best remembered for THE READIES (Rice University, various formats and prices), a 1930 manifesto blending the fervor of the Futurists with the playfulness of Jules Verne. “The written word hasn’t kept up with the age,” Brown declared in the first line. “The movies have outmaneuvered it. We have the talkies, but as yet no Readies.” Enough with the tyranny of paper and ink! “Writing has been bottled up in books since the start,” Brown wrote. “It is time to pull out the stopper” and begin “a bloody revolution of the word.”Brown’s weapon of choice was not ideological but mechanical. “To continue reading at today’s speed, I must have a machine,” he wrote. “A simple reading machine which I can carry or move around, attach to any old electric light plug and read hundred-thousand-word novels in 10 minutes if I want to, and I want to.” The machine he described, in which a ribbon of miniaturized text would scroll behind a magnifying glass at a speed controlled by the reader, sounds a lot like microfilm, then in development. But its truest inspirations, Saper argues, lay in the ticker-tape machine and in modernist experiments like Gertrude Stein’s “Tender Buttons,” which Brown first read as a young man while working as a stock trader and hanging out with poets. In 1931, after word of his machine spread, he published “Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine,” an anthology of experimental texts sent to him by Stein, Marinetti, Pound and others.Reading Brown’s manifesto, it’s hard not to recognize uncanny preludes to today’s claims that digitization will establish a new utopia of cheap books, downloadable from even the most obscure library while you’re waiting for the bus. (“The Readies” itself, previously available only to those who could afford one of the 150 original copies, was reissued last year by Rice University Press, which is now entirely a digital print-on-demand operation.) The machine, Brown argued, would allow readers to adjust the type size, avoid paper cuts and save trees, all while hastening the day when words could be “recorded directly on the palpitating ether.”
Brown’s weapon of choice was not ideological but mechanical. “To continue reading at today’s speed, I must have a machine,” he wrote. “A simple reading machine which I can carry or move around, attach to any old electric light plug and read hundred-thousand-word novels in 10 minutes if I want to, and I want to.” The machine he described, in which a ribbon of miniaturized text would scroll behind a magnifying glass at a speed controlled by the reader, sounds a lot like microfilm, then in development. But its truest inspirations, Saper argues, lay in the ticker-tape machine and in modernist experiments like Gertrude Stein’s “Tender Buttons,” which Brown first read as a young man while working as a stock trader and hanging out with poets. In 1931, after word of his machine spread, he published “Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine,” an anthology of experimental texts sent to him by Stein, Marinetti, Pound and others.
Reading Brown’s manifesto, it’s hard not to recognize uncanny preludes to today’s claims that digitization will establish a new utopia of cheap books, downloadable from even the most obscure library while you’re waiting for the bus. (“The Readies” itself, previously available only to those who could afford one of the 150 original copies, was reissued last year by Rice University Press, which is now entirely a digital print-on-demand operation.) The machine, Brown argued, would allow readers to adjust the type size, avoid paper cuts and save trees, all while hastening the day when words could be “recorded directly on the palpitating ether.”
― j., Tuesday, 19 May 2015 05:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046678/the-kindle-finally-gets-typography-that-doesnt-suck
― j., Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
hmph
Just a quick note if you don't see the improved layout engine when you update the app. Amazon needs to reprocess each book in their Kindle catalog to support the feature. They're currently working through an extensive backlog, so if you don't see any improvement, re-download your book, or try again later. Some of the books updated so far can be found here.
fat chance they're getting to a fly-by-night ocr scan of a 500-year-old book any time soon
― j., Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
the weird thing is they could just put a hyphenation dictionary on the device, rather than re-do each book.
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
why wouldn't they?
― j., Thursday, 4 June 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
well i can imagine that if the page layout engine had to do a lookup in the hyphenation dictionary for every single line ... maybe expensive in terms of CPU/battery? especially if the Kindle can't keep the dictionary in RAM all the time.
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Thursday, 4 June 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
Thoughts on Voyage anyone? It's expensive, but I spend most of my life reading, often in the dark, and I have a ton of books left to read on my account. Plus I have shitty vision and I actually find Kindles easier to read than some books. So...
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 5 June 2015 11:43 (eight years ago) link
That new Bookerly font is actually harder to read than Caecilia, I think.
I really like the Voyage. Screen was a lot better than my v1 Paperwhite, the battery life seems fine too. I wish it had real buttons instead of the haptic things, but that's all.
― stet, Friday, 5 June 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
I managed to get a near brand new, blocked Paperwhite for £40 that the seller claims is from unclaimed lost property. It cant be registered with amazon but you can load books via the usb. I will probably cop some bad karma for this but times are hard.
― xelab, Friday, 31 July 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Forgot to pack my kindle charger for the long hols. Any tips on where I could find a compatible cable? Might have to rely on small electronic shops and gas stations since I won't be in big cities
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
are u in the US? walgreens should carry micro usb cable accessories
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link