Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

i'm confused about the point of the case. these things already have insane battery life.

yeah I was thinking the same, short of getting marooned somewhere without power for more than a few days, it is pretty hard to get caught short with these devices. It does look very nice though.

This is the innovation I want.

When my e-ink reader is asleep, instead of displaying a default logo (like my wife's nook) or a randomly displayed ad for a shitty book (like my kindle) I'd like it if it could display the cover image of whatever book I happen to be in the middle of at the time. Do any of them do this? A pleasurable thing about a real book is the way it sits there reminding you what you're reading, beckoning you to pick it back up.

one thing that keeps me from buying a Kindle and sticking with my Nook Simple Touch is that you can load your own screensavers and let it randomly choose one when the device is sleeping... although I like the idea of it defaulting to the cover of the book you're currently reading!

all my screensavers on my Nook, for example, are Paget illustrations of Sherlock Holmes, with accompanying original captions from the story they come from.

i fkin loved the simple touch. When ours died there was no way to get one anymore. Never knew about the custom screensavers option on it, dang!

my Kobo shows the current cover but then slaps an ugly status bar on there, about 20 pixels from the top. "Sleeping" it says. Sometimes it gives a percentage.

If the book doesn't have a cover it uses a rendering of the first page instead. Which is often the same page of project Gutenberg licence information in unreadably tiny letters. Makes it impossible to tell what the current book is.

I was just gifted a cheap end kobo glo by my feller, and I like the book cover as screen saver thing, its neat. I cant help worrying it'll do screen burn in, but I know it wont, I just cant get my head round this e-ink concept haha.

I was a bit miffed when I got the kobo that my entire kindle library is wasted and cant be used on it, but eh, I can (re)read those on my PC anyway.

Trayce, Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/ ) and Apprentice Alf (https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/) are your friends for that

I very nearly got a kobo instead of a kindle but they are frustratingly hard to actually buy

James: yeah as it turned out the bf already had a stack of .mobis on his PC anyway which Ive already loaded in =)

The e-ink seems a little blurry, but maybe I just have a bottom end model.

Theyre not that hard to buy here! A few of the chain hifi stores sell em.

That DRM tool looks neat tho!

If there's something calibre can't do with ebooks I haven't seen it yet

Calibre has an available plug in that automatically removes drm from everything as soon as you add it to your library. Zero extra steps required once it's installed.

My main concern is I thoght the kobo store would be more than amazon but as it turns out, theyre competitive.

The main hassle is the fact Australians cant buy cheap ebooks :( Some fucked up law got passed that means we pay around $15-20 for ours.

Kobos are available from the biggest UK high street stationers / newsagent but where there used to be a whole table and lots of banners pushing them there's now about 3ft of wall space ticked away somewhere and 3 display models, 2 of which are generally showing the charging screen. I think the main problem is a) Kindle has much better brand recognition and B) they aren't something you buy more than once a decade.

I read a lot of public domain books on mine, Victorian novels mainly, and Australia, with its death+50 copyright laws has a better selection of these than UK or us (death + 75). Try project Gutenberg.

i like https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/authors

Gutenberg is a good idea! I could stand to do some more older-book reading tbh.

Also, once you have the DRM remover, there are plenty of more recent books legally available at at Openlib.org: they're PDFs that you can download to the PC, strip the DRM and then chuck on the kindle/nook/ipad/whatever. You just have to delete the PDF when the borrowing time is up, presumably, to stay legal.

It's https://openlibrary.org

(Oh, it's death + 70 in Europe, not 75. And US is slightly different (worse))

if i wanted to splurge and upgrade my paperwhite, is the difference between the voyage and oasis worth the extra $$$?

For me, definitely - I have nerve damage in my left hand and the lightness makes a lot of difference.

Other than that, it's just what Calzino said ("it looks very nice") - apart from the buttons, there's no specific technical advantage over the Voyage - it's the same display and the same clunky OS.

But, given that I use the thing all the time, after a couple months of use I found the very-niceness totally worth the price. It's just a low-level addition to quality of life - it fits in pockets nicely, because of the cover I worry less about damaging the screen, the buttons feel good, and the jacket makes it feel less like a device.

I would say the nightlight is workable rather than excellent - I tend to keep the light as low as possible for as long as I can. But it's fine and doesn't make my eyes glare like an iPad in the dark.

http://www.mhpbooks.com/ownership-and-other-e-book-fallacies/

i got a kindle version of heidegger's 'being and time'

some things get a lot harder to read when you scramble their visual appearance from the familiar one!

a) Kindle has much better brand recognition and B) they aren't something you buy more than once a decade.

Kobo screen just broke after three years :(

Thought I would have a go at replacing, no disassembly videos for my model but I got the back off, removed the main board, now there is an impenetrable seamless plastic barrier.

huh, networked kindles don't update themselves upon daylight savings time beginning/ending

is there such a thing as a simple ebook metadata editor with batch file renaming? i'm that awesome guy that hates directory structure libraries

I think you can do all that with Calibre, not that I've ever used it for that purpose but Google answer confirms it can do that type of editing.

huh, networked kindles don't update themselves upon daylight savings time beginning/ending

kindle ad for book says on it

'this book includes photos and video that you can switch on & off'

WHY WOULD I EVER

Does anyone else get the ad for the book with the tag line "hacking in was hard...hacking OUT would be even harder"? Nothing has surpassed that to me quite yet.

Think I did notice that out of the corner of my eye.

My kobo aura which broke doesn't exist anymore, it's been replaced with kobo aura EDITION 2.0 which is thicker, doesn't take memory cards, has same or worse resolution and a crap recessed screen instead of a lovely entirely smooth front surface. Or I could spend twice as much on another model ;_;

interesting. the new models have passed me by.

the website says there is an "aura one", was that the same as your old version? (it wasn't called the aura one at the time, has it been retrospectively renamed now that the two exists?). can't really tell from the pictures. (no, it's not. it's probably the expensive model you mention))

http://uk.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one

"This eReader flew off the shelves. More stock coming early 2017."

the glo seems to have been retired. in fact everything is now an aura - the aura one, the 2.0 and the h20, everything except the old touch.

has anyone been able to purchase a kobo in-person (not ordering online) in NYC? Supposedly Word Bookstore in greenpoint sells them?

All Verso ebooks are 90% off until January 1st.

UK, right?

The site says some books are £1/$1 so i would guess it's at least US as well.

I never paid attention to the Kobo offerings, but if they offered the big one with buttons I'd jump on it. Slightly thicker seems like it might make the thing more comfortable to hold than the Kindles I've had.

Verso thing applies worldwide

Kindle daily deal (UK) currently features someone in the year above me at school and who lives opposite my gran, two roads over. Can't vouch for the quality of his books though (have read the first, was OK)

The monthly deals have been going through the Inspector Rebus books two at a time, which has been handy for me. I have about 8 waiting to be read with more to come, probably. At least they aren't taking up physical space.

Is there a good website that catalogs the non-shitty free kindle books on amazon?

Have looked for similar, but not found.

There used to be a kindle book with such a list in it

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21623373-which-something-old-and-powerful-encountered-vault

from a few years back, didn't see it upthread - basically on the disruption of ~teh book~ by ~teh ebook~, w/ lots of industry observations

There is a new version of Kindle for pc that it automatically updates to on a purchase and turns the AZW files into a format that calibre doesn't recognise. I solved it by downloading the older 1.17 version here:https://s3.amazonaws.com/kindleforpc/44170/KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44170.exe and deleting the AZW file and getting amazon to re-send it. It might just be a temp solution if they stop supporting 1.17 though.

(that reminds me, MacBook at work and new laptop at home means I don't have a working Kindle for PC setup. Might be the end of the Kindle daily deals for me)

(Um, does wine work?)

Am I the only dummy who pays for e-books

I pay. Path of least resistance.