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Guilty posted:We probably should stop with that kindle manga bullshit not only because is it loving stupid, but you're also pretty much committing Can someone confirm this? I put it in the OP so the question wouldn't come up that often, but I can change it to "files" if that is what it is. Edit: Gotcha. Fixed in the OP that is it 
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Feb 4, 2011 18:17
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How long should it take for Calibre to convert a file? I set it to convert a PDF rip of some Malstrom articles last night before I went to bed and it was still converting the text when I went to work this morning.
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Feb 4, 2011 18:51
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trdn89 posted:How long should it take for Calibre to convert a file? I set it to convert a PDF rip of some Malstrom articles last night before I went to bed and it was still converting the text when I went to work this morning. Depends on the complexity of the PDF. If it's just straight up plain text with no formatting it can be done in seconds, if it's a really complex one it can take a long time.
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Feb 4, 2011 18:55
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Guilty posted:We probably should stop with that kindle manga bullshit not only because is it loving stupid, but you're also pretty much committing It's not all that different than people putting TV shows or MP3s up on YouTube and I don't think anybody here really has a problem with that. If it really bothers you, talk to a mod and see what the official word is.
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Feb 4, 2011 19:04
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Guilty posted:We probably should stop with that kindle manga bullshit not only because is it loving stupid, but you're also pretty much committing So is SAnzbd+, but that's been around forever and will continue to be. I'm pretty sure the mods don't care. Want to weigh in 900ftjesus? I'm pm you but I don't have plat so I'll just leave this here 
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Feb 4, 2011 19:26
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Murodese posted:When you're at the booklist screen, press a letter. It'll auto-popup the find box with whatever letter you put in, then just press enter to go straight to that letter. This works for author and book title, depending on how it's sorted at the moment. You can also use Alt + the top row of letters to enter a specific page number and jump there. Q = 1, W = 2, etc. all the way to O = 9 and P = 0.
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Feb 4, 2011 20:58
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Murodese posted:When you're at the booklist screen, press a letter. It'll auto-popup the find box with whatever letter you put in, then just press enter to go straight to that letter. fishmech posted:Well I think you'd prefer over Wi-Fi (since receiving documents over email over 3G costs 15 cents per kilobyte), but go to https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/manage?ie=UTF8&ref_=ya_kindle_banner_myk and set up the email address and approved email sending addresses for your Kindle. I f you also set a charge limit of $0.00 you'll never receive an emailed thing over 3G, it will instead wait for you to connect to Wi-Fi to deliver so you don't get charged. Thanks. Pressing that pressing the first letting thing is so much faster than pressing next page 30 times. I don't have wifi access in my house but do have 3G. Also, when I go travelling I can have calibre running on a friends PC, downloading the news and sending it to me to read and that's easier to access over 3G than wifi. I've found http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Calibre2opds which possibly will help share my news on personal webspace which should let me download them without having to pay 3G charges.
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Feb 5, 2011 01:11
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Sad Panda posted:edit : Is there some way to have Calibre e-mail the news subscriptions it downloads straight to my Kindle so I can get it over 3G rather than having to plug it in? Waking up in the morning and turning my Kindle on to read the news would be so much more awesome than having to walk all the way to my computer to plug it in. To be specific, if you tell Calibre to email news to yourname@free.kindle.com, your Kindle will only download it over wifi--a wifi download is always, always free. If you email something to yourname@kindle.com, it'll download over 3G for a fee if wifi isn't available. You seem to have everything under control, but I don't know how http/opds downloads over 3G work, and whether they entail a fee or not. For people who have a wifi-only Kindle, it's a moot point, as every download is free. Also, check my post history in this thread for some more screensavers--the second post has 10 nicely contrast-adjusted Gustave Dorč engraving, whereas I've uploaded a few hundred somewhat darker engravings. Choose wisely.
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Feb 5, 2011 04:16
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Murodese posted:So is SAnzbd+, but that's been around forever and will continue to be. I'm pretty sure the mods don't care. Believe it or not the mods do care about pirating poo poo, and openly talking about it can get you banned.
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Feb 5, 2011 04:54
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big mean giraffe posted:Believe it or not the mods do care about pirating poo poo, and openly talking about it can get you banned. Believe it or not the mods don't usually ban people for talking about programs used for pirating. They can correct me if I'm wrong, but talking about a program used to manage mangas is not treated the same as distributing or posting links to pirated mangas. Sure, the primary use is primarily for pirated books, just like PS3 backup managers are primarily used for pirating games. Since either one can conceivably be used for legitimate content, it's ok to talk about them.
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Feb 5, 2011 05:12
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It's probably been said, but using Mobipocket Creator to convert PDFs to texty PRCs isn't perfect, but it's a darn sight better than reading the PDF on the Kindle directly. e: What I'd like to know, though, is what all do you need from the mobibook output to make the document read properly, with images and such? So far I think it's ok to just use the PRC, I'll update if I find out more. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Feb 5, 2011 |
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Feb 5, 2011 05:15
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Has anyone here played text adventures on the Kindle (or other platform) yet? I still visit Baf's and Xyzzy semi-annually and rediscover one of my favorite game formats. I know some of the games can kind of be played online, but is there a z-code/tads interpreter for Kindle that anyone's discovered? Alternatively, does anyone understand any of the above paragraph?
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Feb 5, 2011 05:36
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Vertigus posted:Believe it or not the mods don't usually ban people for talking about programs used for pirating. They can correct me if I'm wrong, but talking about a program used to manage mangas is not treated the same as distributing or posting links to pirated mangas. Not to mention that the vast majority of manga is unlicensed, which makes this entire discussion fairly moot.
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Feb 5, 2011 05:41
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The Aphasian posted:Has anyone here played text adventures on the Kindle (or other platform) yet? I still visit Baf's and Xyzzy semi-annually and rediscover one of my favorite game formats. I know some of the games can kind of be played online, but is there a z-code/tads interpreter for Kindle that anyone's discovered? You can give this a shot: http://adq.livejournal.com/108011.html
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Feb 5, 2011 08:08
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Vertigus posted:Believe it or not the mods don't usually ban people for talking about programs used for pirating. They can correct me if I'm wrong, but talking about a program used to manage mangas is not treated the same as distributing or posting links to pirated mangas. I don't understand why you're fighting so hard to keep your 'artsy' children's books discussion, but his program seems to actively go on a site, and rip licensed series in order to put it on your kindle.
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Feb 5, 2011 10:16
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The calibre community are wonderful. I asked a question here a few pages back about being able to capitalise title_sort, turned out you can't do it so I submitted a request 2 days ago. I load up calibre now to find an updated version where the feature has been added. So speedy!
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Feb 5, 2011 10:21
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Guilty posted:I don't understand why you're fighting so hard to keep your 'artsy' children's books discussion, but his program seems to actively go on a site, and rip licensed series in order to put it on your kindle. Because it's for a goddamn e-reader. This is inspect your gadgets, not the loving book barn. Get off your high horse long enough to read this quote: Murodese posted:Not to mention that the vast majority of manga is unlicensed, which makes this entire discussion fairly moot.
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Feb 5, 2011 11:49
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:Because it's for a goddamn e-reader. This is inspect your gadgets, not the loving book barn. Get off your high horse long enough to read this quote: Torrents and other P2P system discussions aren't allowed even though it's possible to use it for legal content. It doesn't change the fact that all people have used it so far is for stealing licensed poo poo. The instructions in the posts so far are for stealing the top 3 most popular licensed series. Not to mention if you look on those sites it's mostly licensed series that you can buy in stores. Maybe if there was an actual manga e-book that you needed to upload or could actually buy, it would be pretty fine, ok. But the program basically just goes on a site, clicks save as a bunch of times, and arranges it for your ebook. Seems really sketchy to me since most of those sites don't even have the rights to those series anyways. Whatever, if the mods haven't said anything by now, they probably think it's ok. Just realize you're walking a fine line.
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Sad Panda posted:I downloaded a Spanish->English dictionary that someone had made and that'll be lovely when I find some very easy Spanish ebooks to read. Where'd you find it? I've been looking for a german-english option for a while and haven't had much luck. There's one on Amazon but it doesn't have the best reviews andd apparently it isn't available in Europe.  SeaGoatSupreme posted:This is inspect your gadgets, not the loving book barn. It's also not ADTRW. Why make everyone wade through all this manga poo poo just to read the occasional post about actual ereaders when there's obviously enough interest to warrant a dedicated thread? Armed Neutrality fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Feb 5, 2011 |
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Feb 5, 2011 13:45
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Armed Neutrality posted:It's also not ADTRW Completely agree. My post was more of a reaction to: Guilty posted:'artsy' children's books discussion Armed Neutrality posted:Why make everyone wade through all this poo poo just to read the occasional post about actual ereaders when there's obviously enough interest to warrant a dedicated thread? The same can be said for Calibre sometimes. SeaGoatSupreme fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Feb 5, 2011 |
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Feb 5, 2011 14:13
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Guilty posted:Torrents and other P2P system discussions aren't allowed even though it's possible to use it for legal content. I once again refer you to the SABnzbd+ thread. quote:It doesn't change the fact that all people have used it so far is for stealing licensed poo poo. The instructions in the posts so far are for stealing the top 3 most popular licensed series. Not to mention if you look on those sites it's mostly licensed series that you can buy in stores. As I already said, the vast majority of manga series are unlicensed. You're right as to onepiece/bleach etc - I'll remove them from the post. That said, it's a little like the TV poo poo of the last couple of years; the licenser (the Australian one, at least) is a year behind. Does that make it okay? No, but it means that the majority of people interested in the series are going to be reading the scanlations anyway and then possibly purchase the volumes when they're released. quote:Maybe if there was an actual manga e-book that you needed to upload or could actually buy, it would be pretty fine, ok. But the program basically just goes on a site, clicks save as a bunch of times, and arranges it for your ebook. Seems really sketchy to me since most of those sites don't even have the rights to those series anyways. As I said, most of these series are unlicensed and will likely never be released in english. That said, the program does have the ability to convert series that you supply to kindle format - though, the only manga available in any kind of ebook format is usually yaoi, anyway. quote:Whatever, if the mods haven't said anything by now, they probably think it's ok. Just realize you're walking a fine line. From memory, one of them is actually using it, so whatever. The reason I posted it was because it was for personal use, but nothing else like it really exists so I decided to share it. The reason I posted it _here_ was because this is the only ebook thread on the entire forum and seemed the logical place. Maybe if there was an ereader application thread, but there's a grand total of about 6 kindle applications, limited access to the sdk, and those ereaders that can run applications (nook color etc) are all android and come under the android application threads. All in all, I doubt there's enough interest to warrant a thread by itself for an ereader application thread - there's not that many questions about calibre.
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How about just accepting that it's there and that no one has been probated and mods haven't said anything and just moving on? Armed Neutrality posted:Where'd you find it? I've been looking for a german-english option for a while and haven't had much luck. There's one on Amazon but it doesn't have the best reviews andd apparently it isn't available in Europe. I found the Spanish-English one at http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35451 mentions a way to make your own dictionary but that sounds like a lot of effort. If you're willing to pay for them then I think https://www.mobipocket.com has some you can use.
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Sad Panda posted:How about just accepting that it's there and that no one has been probated and mods haven't said anything and just moving on? Capital idea! quote:I found the Spanish-English one at http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68852 You could also take the database from something like http://quickdic.org/index_e.html and dump it to html, then convert with calibre. It's not going to look pretty, but their database is pretty large. e; you have to ask them to use their db, but I suspect they probably won't mind
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Steer clear of Joyce from the amazon store, they cut out all of the quotes from other works. I don't know why they bothered to upload chopped up books, it's disgraceful. also, this is the gooniest thread ever. and I mean that in a bad way
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I just started paying more attention to the battery life on my Nook (E-ink), and I seem to be getting about a week and a half out of it. This is with the wireless turned off, reading maybe 30 minutes a day average, and just idling showing the screensaver for the majority of the time. Does this seem low? I'm curious as to what everyone else is getting. I didn't really pay attention before, I'd just recharge every week or so, but recently I had it completely drain a couple times without me realizing it. According to the battery meter on the settings screen, it's losing about 10% of the charge every 24 hours. radiatinglines posted:also, this is the gooniest thread ever. and I mean that in a bad way
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RightClickSaveAs posted:I just started paying more attention to the battery life on my Nook (E-ink), and I seem to be getting about a week and a half out of it. This is with the wireless turned off, reading maybe 30 minutes a day average, and just idling showing the screensaver for the majority of the time. Does this seem low? I'm curious as to what everyone else is getting. I suspect that if you have the screensaver up then that's using more battery than if you hold the power slider for four seconds to turn the screen off. I know the screen doesn't draw power, but it turns on so much faster when you have the screensaver up versus when you turn it off that I suspect something is still on.
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doctorfrog posted:It's probably been said, but using Mobipocket Creator to convert PDFs to texty PRCs isn't perfect, but it's a darn sight better than reading the PDF on the Kindle directly. I was actually pretty surprised about how well I can read PDF files when I turn the screen sideways. doctorfrog posted:e: What I'd like to know, though, is what all do you need from the mobibook output to make the document read properly, with images and such? So far I think it's ok to just use the PRC, I'll update if I find out more. This is an extremely long, complicated way but... Get a OCR program like ABBYY PDF Transformer. In it, you have to go through page by page and mark text as text and pictures as a picture to get the best result. It will export as a .DOC file. Open it up in MS Word, fix the formatting (usually spaces in between pages), any major OCR errors and remove the header/page number. Save and feed that file into Mobipocket Creator. Centipeed posted:I suspect that if you have the screensaver up then that's using more battery than if you hold the power slider for four seconds to turn the screen off. If it is like the Kindle, nothing should be on unless he just put new books on it (in that case, it will index the books while in sleep mode)
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Sporadic posted:If it is like the Kindle, nothing should be on unless he just put new books on it (in that case, it will index the books while in sleep mode) Oh, wait. I thought he was talking about the Kindle. Well, I checked my Kindle a few days ago after having not used it for a week or two, and the battery was flat.
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I was just wondering how the Nook Color handles comics? Is there any sort of comic reader app, or means to do so? How does it look? Thanks
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Sporadic posted:If it is like the Kindle, nothing should be on unless he just put new books on it (in that case, it will index the books while in sleep mode) But the issue is, it's definitely burning the charge while it's in inactive mode, and I was wondering if everyone else has noticed this. I haven't added new books or anything, and the wireless has been off for about a week.
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If you don't do a hard shutdown, the Kindle stays in a low-power sleep mode. Why would you think it draws power only if it has books to index? It's obvious that the startup from sleep is much faster, regardless of whether or not you just added books to the Kindle.
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It always bugged me that the eink nook cycled through screensavers & wasted my battery.
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Vertigus posted:If you don't do a hard shutdown, the Kindle stays in a low-power sleep mode. Why would you think it draws power only if it has books to index? It's obvious that the startup from sleep is much faster, regardless of whether or not you just added books to the Kindle. It's a very low power mode, unless it's indexing. When indexing it's basically running at full power.
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I love wading through what Cletus and Jimbo have to say about the merit of classic works before I can find a review stating whether amazon has cut quotations.
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radiatinglines posted:I love wading through what Cletus and Jimbo have to say about the merit of classic works before I can find a review stating whether amazon has cut quotations. What do you mean by "amazon cut quotations"?
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Flyboy925 posted:I was just wondering how the Nook Color handles comics? Is there any sort of comic reader app, or means to do so? How does it look? Thanks I personally use Perfect Viewer. ACV doesn't really work as well on the NC for some reason, maybe I'm just weird and picky I don't know. At any rate, comics are okay but not great. The screen is a bit too tiny, which is super disappointing. Really good scans are good enough, but if you've got a mediocre scan of a comic from the 80's or 90's before they started using the bright stock of paper it's a little iffy. I don't really enjoy zooming and floating around on the page, i like a one-page thing and to be totally honest the screen is a bit too tiny. I'm real interested to get my hands on a 9-10" tablet to see the real difference, but for the NC I'd give it an "okay, not awesome, it'll do" kinda rating.
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Has anyone else been having problems with Calibre converting HTML > MOBI and it shows a bunch of boxed question marks? I've tried all different kinds of methods to get it to work but I can't seem to figure out how to make them work right.. Any ideas?
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madprocess posted:What do you mean by "amazon cut quotations"? In some books (I know Dubliners and Ulysses for sure), the quotes from other books / poems have been cut out, so it will look like this: Some guy recites: <nothing> Everyone comments on what the guy just said.
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radiatinglines posted:In some books (I know Dubliners and Ulysses for sure), the quotes from other books / poems have been cut out, so it will look like this: Um, that's not Amazon. That's whoever actually put the thing up to be published.
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