Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

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.

same

i pay when forced to

Not to mention the. . . ethical thing?

My post was about breaking the DRM on an e-book I have bought, people. Although I will admit to many crimes, but I can't always afford to buy stuff. Actually fuck ethics.

I can't always afford to buy stuff but i draw the line at stealing to get it. When it comes to copyrighted books. Office supplies? Guilty. Also a feed tube pusher for a cuisinart but that's another story.

congrats

my children have to read

For me the drm removal thing is for getting *bought* Kindle books into a format I can use on non-kindle devices, there's no stealing or distribution going on here.

My reading is probably 50/50 things bought in Amazon sales and public domain Victorian novels from Gutenberg.

The very same reason myself, when I buy an e-book I think it is totally unreasonable for it to be tethered to one device/format.

There's so much pre-1922 and other public domain/creative commons licence stuff out there, that I haven't found need to buy more than 3-4 Kindle books. Generally, I prefer the cheap used hardback for non-travel books.

Yeah, i always break the DRM on stuff i buy, so can read on ipad without amazon monitoring/monetising my reading, and so can keep book if amazon deletes or changes it. Had to do the same thing as calzino and get an old version of the kindle software. You need go tell it to not check for updates, too, otherwise it keeps updating itself to the new calibre-frustrating version.

Anyone else can't watch certain youtube videos on their kindle? It's been like this for months and I fucking hate it, none of the directions to fix it seem to work.

"Also a feed tube pusher for a cuisinart but that's another story."

yes but I think this is a story that needs to be told so we can understand the depths of your criminal malice

I pay for some e-books but I'm honestly using it mostly to read shit that is out of print or otherwise unavailable (like loads of dr who target novelizations etc; I'm not going to go pay $400 for Lungbarrow on the second hand market). most of them are formatted pretty shittily.

Man, Lungburrow shouldn't be read at any price

I read it a couple of months ago (via OCR on Kindle) and it's kinda fun. Approximately 100x better than Cat's Cradle.

the vonnegut book? are you insane?

Also, a question: why in the world doesn't amazon make digital versions free when you buy a hardcopy?

Books with multiple translations are a fucking nightmare to buy on the Kindle store - they just get listed together as different versions so the cheapest that pops up first is some badly formatted public domain shit.

translations editions of any kind are a fucking nightmare to buy on the Kindle store - they just get listed together as different versions so the cheapest that pops up first is some badly formatted public domain shit.

p. true of any kind of book with a complicated publication history, kindle or no - amazon's catalog management is really garbage for such a ~cutting edge~ company

It isn't right that you get free mp3 downloads with physical music purchases and these rapacious fucks are charging twice for a book.

xxp otm, Cat's Cradle is classic.

Just to defend sic here, pretty sure he's talking about

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/9/9f/NA005_timescrucible.jpg

not
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/CatsCradle%281963%29.jpg/220px-CatsCradle%281963%29.jpg

why in the world doesn't amazon make digital versions free when you buy a hardcopy?

This. Been driving me nuts. I still fetishize paper copies and like to have certain books on a shelf, ready to be rediscovered - and yet I do most of my reading on a kindle in the dark so as not to wake up my wife. Why can't I have both

Re: why not physical + digital packages for books, this link is from Reddit, but has a lot of enlightening input from people who work for publishers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1xtpee/why_dont_publishers_include_a_free_digital_copy/#bottom-comments

I usually, er, "source" a MOBI file online if I've bought a book and send it to my phone and Kindle. (It's easier to get away with reading at work that way.) (Also I can use my Kindle version to carry on reading in the dark when my partner's asleep.)

It's obvs v. difficult to source stuff if it's not popular lit, though.

http://bookos-z1.org/?signAll=1

this is an excellent dd source for back-up mobis/epubs etc

I usually end up buying a digital copy if it's a favorite book and I know I'll read it more than a couple times... it's not like I haven't bought a lot of my favorite albums four or five times. Of course this is usually after I've read a pirated digital copy and established the publisher didn't do a shitty OCR job and include jpegs of the book illustrations that are like 3MB each.

is there any reason not to upgrade windows calibre to v. 3.3?