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Rrail posted:When the hell is Kindle For The Web coming out? I need to be able to read at work. I actually was surprised when I found out they didn't have one.
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Aug 3, 2011 19:34
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So the OP says that e-readers are not great for PDF's, and not to ask a question that's already been asked. The OP doesn't get into much more detail about PDF's than that though. I ctrl+F'ed the first few pages for "PDF," read the posts, didn't get the answer I need. Question: My boss sent me a contract with some pages signed, so they decided to scan the entire thing as image pages (no text). It's almost 200 pages long. Unfortunately it's shrunk down, and I have to zoom in a lot to read it on my pc. Is there anyway to convert so it will be visible on my 1st generation Kindle? I have huge margins and tiny text.
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Aug 3, 2011 21:21
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Nah. Well, correction... probably nah without using a shitton of work. You can get an OCR software suite from somewhere and run it through, but remember even the best ones only get about 98% accuracy, so out of every 100 words at least 2 are GUARANTEED to be incorrect. Also, image based PDFs will look like horrid rear end on the kindle. Sorry man 
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Aug 3, 2011 21:52
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Drunk Tomato posted:I actually was surprised when I found out they didn't have one. So was I. Software reader before web reader? Really?
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Aug 3, 2011 22:40
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Nah. I just need to be able to read it. If it messes up a few words, but I can understand it from context, that's fine. All the OCR online stuff I saw is for one-page docs. This is a giant contract. I don't care if it looks bad either. Do you know of any free OCR suites? Or a way to enlarge (not just magnify my view) all pages of the pdf before sticking it on my kindle? I tried calibre, converting the format, but I can't see any way to make the "images" (blocks of text) larger or to cut off the giant margins.
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Aug 3, 2011 23:46
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Need an ipad for what you want... Kindle is pretty terrible at that kind of stuff.
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Aug 4, 2011 00:13
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Unless you already have a tablet you're probably better off just printing it out, no?
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Aug 4, 2011 01:56
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petewhitley posted:Unless you already have a tablet you're probably better off just printing it out, no? Two hundred pages of all image pdf? I'm gonna have nightmares now, thanks. <  >
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Aug 4, 2011 03:55
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particle409 posted:cut off the giant margins http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/
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Aug 4, 2011 05:03
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particle409 posted:I just need to be able to read it. If it messes up a few words, but I can understand it from context, that's fine. All the OCR online stuff I saw is for one-page docs. This is a giant contract. I don't care if it looks bad either. Do you know of any free OCR suites? Or a way to enlarge (not just magnify my view) all pages of the pdf before sticking it on my kindle? I tried calibre, converting the format, but I can't see any way to make the "images" (blocks of text) larger or to cut off the giant margins. If you break up the pdf file into images, you can also try Calibre. Just add the images to a zip archive and rename the extension to cbz. Calibre has trimming support under its Comic Input section when converting from cbz. This won't work well if the scans are dirty, though.
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Aug 4, 2011 06:09
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particle409 posted:My boss sent me a contract with some pages signed, so they decided to scan the entire thing as image pages (no text). It's almost 200 pages long. Unfortunately it's shrunk down, and I have to zoom in a lot to read it on my pc. Is there anyway to convert so it will be visible on my 1st generation Kindle? I have huge margins and tiny text. Since you actually interact with the people involved, perhaps you could ask for a copy of the contract in Word or whatever format it came out of originally? That'd probably be a lot more useful and easy to convert unless knowing what was signed is important.
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Aug 4, 2011 15:23
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Javid posted:http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/ Well, that helps me cut off the legalese on the bottom of every page that's not relevant to me, but I still need to find a way to resize/enlarge every page. I've found resizers/scalers, but they all cost a lot. I'm not comfortable asking for an unsigned copy of the contract, and it's too many pages to resize separately, I may as well just kill a tree and print it out. Yeah, I'm still amazed that somebody had to scan the entire thing in. Only about 15% of the pages have signatures on them, the rest they could have just left as pdf text. edit: Ok, trying something new. I "printed" from the PDF to an XPS format while changing the print layout, so now the XPS reads correctly. I'll see if I can convert it into a MOBI (or PDF, then MOBI) file so it's readable on my Kindle 1. edit2: The PDF is still too small after cropping, and converting to MOBI does something weird. Some blocks of text are normal, others are shrunk down. Looks like I'll be printing it out, thanks anyway guys. particle409 fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Aug 4, 2011 |
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Aug 4, 2011 17:26
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Has anyone tried Papercrop? It looks like it'd work nice, I don't really have any large PDFs to experiment with it though.
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Aug 5, 2011 19:23
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particle409 posted:Well, that helps me cut off the legalese on the bottom of every page that's not relevant to me, but I still need to find a way to resize/enlarge every page. I've found resizers/scalers, but they all cost a lot. I'm not comfortable asking for an unsigned copy of the contract, and it's too many pages to resize separately, I may as well just kill a tree and print it out. Yeah, I'm still amazed that somebody had to scan the entire thing in. Only about 15% of the pages have signatures on them, the rest they could have just left as pdf text. Did you try rotating the screen? That has made some of PDFs I have read readable. You can also zoom in but that is a pain in the rear end to navigate over a multiple page document.
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Aug 5, 2011 22:29
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commish posted:Need an ipad for what you want... Kindle is pretty terrible at that kind of stuff. Even the iPad 2 is slow with large full color PDFs. I have a few from work and it's a pain for me to scroll a lot of pages because it struggles to keep up. I have a friend who is quite a bookworm and would love to be able to browse the Internet easily in addition to book reading but who doesn't care for iPad level apps or anything, what's the general consensus about internet browsing on the ereaders that can do it? [Taken care of, thanks] SpoonsForThought fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Aug 6, 2011 |
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Aug 6, 2011 04:20
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SpoonsForThought posted:Even the iPad 2 is slow with large full color PDFs. I have a few from work and it's a pain for me to scroll a lot of pages because it struggles to keep up. Which special offers coupon are you referring to? BTW, the coupons are tied to the person who owns the Kindle and are non-transferrable. I forwarded my 25% camera coupon to someone and it didn't work. They called Amazon and were told the codes are tied to the original Kindle owner and are not transferrable. I'd be happy to send you one though...which one?
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Aug 6, 2011 04:24
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hotsauce posted:Which special offers coupon are you referring to? BTW, the coupons are tied to the person who owns the Kindle and are non-transferrable. I forwarded my 25% camera coupon to someone and it didn't work. They called Amazon and were told the codes are tied to the original Kindle owner and are not transferrable. Right now it appears there is a 20% that can be applied to laptops. If it doesn't work I might just have to convince my friend that a Kindle is what she is looking for... SpoonsForThought fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Aug 6, 2011 |
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Aug 6, 2011 04:38
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Cross posting from the BB e-reader thread: So are there any good sites besides Amazon where I can find skins for my Kindle? I can't bring myself to pay 20 bucks for a pretty sticker-plus I'd like to find one that is the thick, rubbery sort rather than just an actual sticker.
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Aug 6, 2011 22:01
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spixxor posted:Cross posting from the BB e-reader thread: So, something like this? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ASIN=B0045LG75M - edit Or if you don't mind spending more. http://www.otterbox.com/Amazon-Kindle-3-Commuter-Series-Case/AMZ4-KIND3,default,pd.html Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Aug 6, 2011 |
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Aug 6, 2011 22:26
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Is there any way I can prevent Amazon from sending the 'you have documents waiting' thing to me every time I turn on my wireless? My books always auto-download, and so I get my books and the notification that I have books at the same time.
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Aug 7, 2011 02:19
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2 weeks ago, I highlighted and shared a quote to my facebook. Since then, there has been the "Message Shared" notification at the top of the screen. I have went to other books, turned it on and off, highlighted (and sent) other quotes but it will not go away. Anyone else have that issue before and what could I do to fix it?
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Aug 8, 2011 22:15
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Just got a Nook Touch and loving it so far... makes the Kindle look like quite the beast.
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Aug 8, 2011 23:56
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Yeah well the Nook touch is short and fat and smells like ketchup
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Aug 9, 2011 00:01
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Mu Zeta posted:Yeah well the Nook touch is short and fat and smells like ketchup 
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Aug 9, 2011 00:35
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Eyecannon posted:Just got a Nook Touch and loving it so far... makes the Kindle look like quite the beast. Can your Nook give you 20% off a new Macbook Air?  The Nook Touch really is neat, but my money is on Amazon as compared to B&N for long term ebook success. At least B&N saw the writing on the wall with physical books going the way of the dodo...hopefully it's a good long term play for them.
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Aug 9, 2011 00:50
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Yeah I'm really impressed with the new Nook, I just invested too much into the Amazon store so I stuck with the Kindle. There's no doubt the next Kindle will be similar to the Nook.
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Aug 9, 2011 00:53
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Eyecannon posted:Just got a Nook Touch and loving it so far... makes the Kindle look like quite the beast. See? See what bullshit comments like this cause? Now we're back to "squatter versus shorter" again. Kindle, Kobo Touch, Nook Touch, same same, we likey.
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Aug 9, 2011 02:40
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Here are a bunch of screen savers I made. Some of them were really tough to get good enough quality images of. Album: http://imgur.com/a/XwzQY Also, the GoT cover below is not in the album:   
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Aug 9, 2011 03:22
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I noticed someone posting earlier asking about Kindle for the Web Well, here it is: http://steampunkkindle.com/Free-Samples/beneath-gray-skies.html sorta. It's official, it's actually called "Kindle for the Web", but it's not quite what you're asking for. Yet.
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Aug 9, 2011 21:33
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Quantify! posted:You should mention that it's actually BIGGER than the Kindle (if you measure by volume!) because that's a key point in explaining why the Kindle is better Well played.
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Aug 9, 2011 21:36
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dont eat a carb posted:I noticed someone posting earlier asking about Kindle for the Web Or there's this that launched today (Chrome/Safari only): https://read.amazon.com/
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Aug 10, 2011 15:06
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Cool, this works with my amazon.co.uk account. I wasn't expecting it to.
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Aug 10, 2011 15:10
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Maneki Neko posted:Or there's this that launched today (Chrome/Safari only): Wow, fantastic. Thanks! Goodbyyyyyyyyye work productivity!
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Aug 10, 2011 17:10
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I'm looking at a new eink Ereader - never have had one before. My problem is that I have a bunch of ebooks on Google Books and Amazon, and am having trouble finding which of the two (Kindle/Nook) will best support my existing collections. I don't mind if I have to have third party software convert formats, but I'd like it to be as native as possible.
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Aug 10, 2011 17:36
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Gyshall posted:I'm looking at a new eink Ereader - never have had one before. My problem is that I have a bunch of ebooks on Google Books and Amazon, and am having trouble finding which of the two (Kindle/Nook) will best support my existing collections. I don't mind if I have to have third party software convert formats, but I'd like it to be as native as possible. Kindle supports mobi It's easy to convert, buy for features not for what files are supported.
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Aug 10, 2011 17:49
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No matter what you do, you are going to have to break DRM for your reader. If you get a nook, the google books will work fine but you would have to break the Kindle DRM and convert to ePub. If you get a Kindle, you'll have to break the adobe digital editions DRM for google books and convert to mobi.
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Aug 10, 2011 17:51
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The DRM is such annoying bullshit and feels like it's 2004 again. If the music industry can offer DRM-free music on Amazon and iTunes then you'd think book industry would get their poo poo together.
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Aug 10, 2011 17:59
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It's nice that the DRM this time isn't one device/person ever like music drm was. Also video content is still DRM'ed to hell and back despite being around online in a big way almost as long as music, i doubt the comparatively young mass-market ebook industry will drop DRM before Hollywood.
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Aug 10, 2011 19:37
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Thanks for the responses. Both the Nook and Kindle look comparable, any quick recommendations on either or?
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Gyshall posted:Thanks for the responses. Both the Nook and Kindle look comparable, any quick recommendations on either or? Nook touch capability is awesome, and it's convenient to go in to the store if you have a question, but Amazon is the bigger company and they are Customer Service Gods. Also, they will be announcing several new kindles soon - I'm currently waiting to purchase something off the kindle line after they announce the Touch Kindle!
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