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Just made the only screensaver I can see myself having:
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Is there any downside to having only one screensaver image? As far as I can tell it doesn't change between images except when you wake it, if you leave it asleep for a day or two the image stays the same, right? Or am I just imagining things?
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May 5, 2011 01:39
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Is there any downside to having only one screensaver image? As far as I can tell it doesn't change between images except when you wake it, if you leave it asleep for a day or two the image stays the same, right? Or am I just imagining things? That's correct, at least it is for my nook. Not sure about Kindle. If there was a problem with having a static image held, then I'm sure the developers would have it cycle through the images. The screen savers are just there for your own enjoyment, as far as I can tell.
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May 5, 2011 01:50
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Screensavers are just "Hey, the screen keeps a picture when it's off, we might as well have it have something cool!" You can have the same one every time if you want. (and yes, it stays the same until you wake the device)
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May 5, 2011 01:57
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Here's something interesting. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1383903/PaperPhone-The-smartphone-paper-shape-pocket.html Its a prototype for a smartphone that uses a flexible paper like E-INK display. I wouldn't be surprised to see somebody make an E-reader out of this technology, though I'm honestly not sure I'd be sold. I like the solid sleek feel of my current Kindle, but it would be interesting to see what Amazon would do if they get ahold of this technolgy.
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May 6, 2011 13:55
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quote:Most impressively, the PaperPhone uses no power when nobody is interacting with it. 
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May 6, 2011 15:16
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People use their phones to call people? 
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May 6, 2011 16:27
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Had some fun with the Nook today: 1. Bought a book. 2. Tried to download book. 3. ERROR ERROR ERROR CALL SUPPORT 4. Call support. 5. My credit card was declined, because I got a new cc number after the PSN Hack. This information was not in the error message on the nook. 6. Now she offers to guide me through updating the credit card. 7. Why Not? 8. Unregister the nook. 9. Update the cc online. 10. Register the nook, which means using its lovely UI to type in my login info again. 11. Then the nook is even more unresponsive than normal for a while. 12. Book downloaded! I am unimpressed with the Nook, it's LCD is an unresponsive gimmick, and the software sucks in many other ways. I'd guess I have to reclick about 25% of clicks on the lcd, even when the button flashes to recognize the click. All this because we refused to buy a Kindle because it didn't support ePub. And now we are locked in, since we can't transfer books from the nook to a kindle. (Is the Kindle actually any better?) Once I'm actually reading a book, I like it pretty well, though the next page buttons could be better.
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May 7, 2011 02:00
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I never had those problems with my nook, sorry to hear that  If you still can, I guess you can get it refunded and get a sony (assuming you aren't sour on them after the credit card hack), they also support epub.
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May 7, 2011 02:03
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modig posted:Had some fun with the Nook today: The kindle is stellar, and Calibre can easily convert epub to Mobi for the kindle. I've never had any responsiveness, other-file, or purchasing issues with my kindle and I've been loving with the thing nonstop since I got it the other day. If anything won't convert, there are Calibre plugins to make it work. Hell, I bet there's one to turn a JPG into ascii art or something and load it in.
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May 7, 2011 02:15
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Calibre is poo poo though for library management. Is there anything better?
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May 7, 2011 03:16
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Calibre is poo poo though for library management. Is there anything better? http://alfaebooks.com/ looks nice - haven't tried it but plan on it.
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May 7, 2011 03:23
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Calibre is poo poo though for library management. Is there anything better? It kind of reminds me of iTunes in the way that you don't know what the gently caress it's actually doing to your files. It's definitely capable but using it is a bit of a chore.
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May 7, 2011 03:29
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It takes a bit of getting used to, but Calibre does a pretty good job of making a library. You can sort by Title, Date, or Series (personally I use date unless I am digging for a book), but gently caress if I understand how it creates the folders or what sstrange wizardry it uses for using book title instead of an author sometimes. Beats the hell outta the sony software though.
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May 7, 2011 03:45
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I wish it was like itunes, because it copies poo poo to the library, but if you have a duplicate file of say like 20k leagues, then what it does is it copies the same file instead of moving it. You now have 2 of them. Yeah sounds great.
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May 7, 2011 03:48
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modig posted:And now we are locked in, since we can't transfer books from the nook to a kindle. (Is the Kindle actually any better?) Having used both, yes, it really is a lot better. I hate the Nook's interface and I really like the Kindle's. If you did get a Kindle, it would take all of 5 minutes to strip the DRM and use Calibre to convert your books to mobi files. epub and mobi are meaningless since they're so easy to convert between.
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May 7, 2011 03:49
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What is the process for putting new wallpapers on a sony reader? I'm tired of the palm tree. Also what image sizes should I be looking for?
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May 7, 2011 03:56
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Does anyone have any info on when Library of America e-books will be released? All I've been able to find are these two blog posts from months ago, one saying that there would be January releases, but I can't find any info on their web site. I love their collections and I really want them on my nook http://blog.loa.org/2011/02/forthcoming-from-library-of-america.html http://evanstonpubliclibrary.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/library-of-america-ebooks/
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May 7, 2011 03:58
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dont eat a carb posted:The kindle is stellar, and Calibre can easily convert epub to Mobi for the kindle. I've never had any responsiveness, other-file, or purchasing issues with my kindle and I've been loving with the thing nonstop since I got it the other day. If anything won't convert, there are Calibre plugins to make it work. Hell, I bet there's one to turn a JPG into ascii art or something and load it in. I'm not actually as upset with the Nook as I sounded. It usually does fine, though not great. I'll definitely look into this if we think about replacing it or getting a 2nd reader. As far as I can tell Calibre won't strip DRM, so I probably can't move purchases over without finding some borderline  .
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May 7, 2011 04:01
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I wish it was like itunes, because it copies poo poo to the library, but if you have a duplicate file of say like 20k leagues, then what it does is it copies the same file instead of moving it. You now have 2 of them. Select the version of 20k with all the good metadata and the nice cover art. Now control-click on the not-as-nice version. Now press 'm' to merge the second one into the first. This will also tidy the folders and everything.
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May 7, 2011 04:03
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modig posted:As far as I can tell Calibre won't strip DRM, so I probably can't move purchases over without finding some borderline It will if you download the DRM cleaning plugins. You set them up the one time in Calibre, then add the files and it just goes automatically, it's great. I'm not really sure if that's Ok to link to here, though..?
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May 7, 2011 04:04
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Arnold of Soissons posted:It will if you download the DRM cleaning plugins. You set them up the one time in Calibre, then add the files and it just goes automatically, it's great. Well it's nice to know we aren't totally locked in.
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May 7, 2011 04:12
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modig posted:I am unimpressed with the Nook, it's LCD is an unresponsive gimmick It really is. Someone was having trouble with one and asked me to help and holy crap the touchscreen bit of the nook was the worst touchscreen I've ever used. GreenBuckanneer posted:I wish it was like itunes, because it copies poo poo to the library, but if you have a duplicate file of say like 20k leagues, then what it does is it copies the same file instead of moving it. You now have 2 of them. It's kind of dumb yeah, but ebooks are like a few hundred kilobytes at most so what's the big deal?
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May 7, 2011 04:16
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Select the version of 20k with all the good metadata and the nice cover art. So how do you do this for multiple files? or is this on a per book basis?
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May 7, 2011 04:18
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GreenBuckanneer posted:So how do you do this for multiple files? or is this on a per book basis? "m" merges whatever you selected into a single entry, so it's per book title really. e: there's more you can do under the merge menu, but I haven't really messed with it a ton. There might be something more sophisticated, I'll play with it tomorrow.
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May 7, 2011 04:22
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dont eat a carb posted:http://alfaebooks.com/ looks nice - haven't tried it but plan on it.
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May 7, 2011 09:19
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Quad posted:What is the process for putting new wallpapers on a sony reader? I'm tired of the palm tree. Also what image sizes should I be looking for? It's very easy, just copy images to the images folder on the data drive. Then go into pictures under applications, hit the options button and chose new standby screen. As far as I can tell, there are no real size limits on the images, just make sure they're portrait.
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May 7, 2011 13:32
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Charlie Mopps posted:Looks like it cant update metadata for .mobi files though. As far as I know .mobi files don't have that capacity at all, so it's a limitation of the format not of calibre.
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May 8, 2011 22:31
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Hah, I'm not really upset about this because it's not a big deal (and printing errors occur in real books all the time), but I'm reading book 3 of the Malazan series on my new Kindle and there are some weird formatting screw ups (like inconsistent italics at times) and the name of one area in the world got mistakenly changed to Mom instead of Morn in a couple of instances, lol It's slightly aggravating because it's like, I paid for the reader and the book and I'm getting formatting errors that someone should have proofread through and made sure didn't exist, but on the other hand, it's not like it's ruining the book or actually making it hard to read. Just slightly surprised there is apparently no proofreading for books converted to electronic format
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May 9, 2011 15:04
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Levitate posted:Just slightly surprised there is apparently no proofreading for books converted to electronic format It really varies a lot. Some of the publishers do a good job, some of the books are simple enough that even lazy pub work doesn't show up and some of the books are just a hash of shittyness. It's pretty frustrating. I imagine 5 years from now it will be totally different and errors like that will be pretty much nonexistent. I hope.
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May 9, 2011 15:18
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Yeah it's just poo poo that having one person do a quick read through would catch, I dunno. Can something like Calibre actually let you edit the text in an ebook and fix minor stuff like that?
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May 9, 2011 15:34
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Levitate posted:Yeah it's just poo poo that having one person do a quick read through would catch, I dunno. If it's just one error over and over Sigil will work a treat, but if it's a different thing each time it won't take you long to see why the publishers were too lazy to do it. It gets to be a pain in the rear end pretty quick.
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May 9, 2011 15:40
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Levitate posted:Hah, I'm not really upset about this because it's not a big deal (and printing errors occur in real books all the time), but I'm reading book 3 of the Malazan series on my new Kindle and there are some weird formatting screw ups (like inconsistent italics at times) and the name of one area in the world got mistakenly changed to Mom instead of Morn in a couple of instances, lol I just read The Wise Man's Fear on my nook, and the typos were numerous and obvious. Lots of times the space between the first two words in the chapter was missing. I don't know how they manage to gently caress it up worse than the print book, but they do.
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May 9, 2011 15:45
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Arnold of Soissons posted:It really varies a lot. Some of the publishers do a good job, some of the books are simple enough that even lazy pub work doesn't show up and some of the books are just a hash of shittyness. The part that really puzzles me about the formating errors, especially knowing that some books are just OCD'ed in, is that doesn't the author submit their work in an electronic format? Seems like that would keep those kinds of errors at bay.
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May 9, 2011 18:37
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Sperg Victorious posted:The part that really puzzles me about the formating errors, especially knowing that some books are just OCD'ed in, is that doesn't the author submit their work in an electronic format? Seems like that would keep those kinds of errors at bay. Yeah, but if you use the manuscript as submitted then you are depending on the author to NOT do a whole ton of really easy and-or common stupid things that will wind up making the e-version FUBAR. The long story short is that doing a Good Job making an ebook out of a manuscript isn't impossible, but it does take through effort and a bit of time, both of which add up to $$, and lots of publishers either don't pay attention or flat out don't want e-books to succeed, so they don't want to spend that extra money when they can get 90+% of the way there with OCR.
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May 9, 2011 19:28
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I never read Piers Anthoy's Bio of Space Tyrant books until I saw them available in the kindle store last month. They were legible, but filled with bad paragraph breaks, missing dialogue quotations ["], and spelling issues. It was clearly a poo poo job, whoever did the scan. By the way, don't read these books ever. Its like watching a bad train wreck, you can't look away.
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May 9, 2011 19:53
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Here's the wallpaper I use for my Sony PRS-650. I didn't make it, don't know who did.
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May 9, 2011 23:59
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Sperg Victorious posted:The part that really puzzles me about the formating errors, especially knowing that some books are just OCD'ed in, is that doesn't the author submit their work in an electronic format? Seems like that would keep those kinds of errors at bay. I can understand the lazy OCD (although someone should still correct the errors) with older books - I hate it though, but even newer books, were you would expect the text that's to be printed into the physical book edition would be available in a digital form in all its corrected, formatted, error-free glory. But no, even stuff like Brandon Sanderson's "Way of Kings" is still full with errors, incorrect spaces, formatting errors, typos. And it is one of the better books (since they at least included the maps, drawings and headers, even if they are nearly unreadable on the small display). Despite this, publishers still have the audacity to charge doubledigit prices for such eBooks. Decius fucked around with this message at 09:18 on May 10, 2011 |
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May 10, 2011 09:09
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Finally caved in to buying a kindle yesterday. Looking forward to its arrival! Has anyone read the Song of Ice and Fire series on the kindle? Back when I was looking at amazon reviews before Christmas people were complaining the first book was full of random mistakes. Is this still the case or have they released flashy new editions to go along with the TV show?
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