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As soon as I got an eReader I stopped buying regular books. And I now buy a lot more books. If I can't get something on my eReader I will literally just go to the library because I've eliminated the bookshelf from my home. So yeah it's easy to see how ebooks have become so popular and will continue to become more popular. deety posted:I like to read fluff, but there's still often a large quality difference between self-published genre fluff and the books that have gone through a traditional editing and publishing process. If a work has obvious sockpuppet reviews, don't buy it. If legit reviews are from people that don't have the same tastes as you, don't buy it. This is how reviews work: you read a quality review that mentions WHY the person liked the product, and if it matches what you're looking for in a product, you buy it. If you have a backlog, stop looking for new books. Read your backlog. If you want to find books anyway, you can use sites like Goodreads and search by tags. Something look good? Check the rating. High rating? Read some reviews. It's not that hard to find good books. It's just hard to read all of them.
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I'm a heavy Goodreads user already. It's the main reason my to-read list is as long as it is, but thanks for the suggestion. It's great if you find value or entertainment in them, but I really did try to give self-published books a fair shake at one time and my experience was that 90% of them were eye-bleedingly awful. Maybe that makes me too picky, but spending more time with reviews and samples isn't going to change my mind when there's so much else available.
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Jul 27, 2011 23:58
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Hey guys, I made a public domain/free books thread in TBB. I also included a list of good free books and where to get them.
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Jul 28, 2011 03:29
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Hu guys. The screen on my kindle 3 is shot. Does anyone know where to get replacement parts (It's one i kept after they sent me a new one) i would like to fix and give it to my girlfriend if i can find reasonably priced parts.
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Jul 28, 2011 09:16
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as far as i know they dont officially sell parts, your best bet is buying another broken one and cannibalizing it probably
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Jul 28, 2011 09:52
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just_a_guy posted:Hu guys. The screen on my kindle 3 is shot. Does anyone know where to get replacement parts (It's one i kept after they sent me a new one) i would like to fix and give it to my girlfriend if i can find reasonably priced parts. Are you sure you're not supposed to send it back? When mine broke, I had to send back the old one within 30 days or be charged for the replacement.
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Jul 28, 2011 10:03
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Yeah you're meant to send it back. Otherwise what's to stop me ringing up, tell them the screen is hosed on my working Kindle, and then selling it?
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Jul 28, 2011 10:44
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Yeah i know. but this is my 3rd kindle already (and i don't abuse them its in an amazon lighted cover inside my messenger bag). When i got my first replacement i never got around to sending it and they never brought up the issue. This one i will send back anyway in case something else breaks and they take issue with me collecting kindle's. Amazon costumer support is great and i love the kindle but these things are flimsy. On a more practical note. Does anyone know how i can copy the contents from one kindle to the other while keeping the collections intact? just_a_guy fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jul 28, 2011 |
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Jul 28, 2011 14:11
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I can't believe so many Kindles get damaged.
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Jul 28, 2011 14:42
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I see a shocking amount of them on the subways with no case. So I believe it.
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Jul 28, 2011 15:11
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I've got mine in a crappy £5 neoprene pouch and it goes everywhere with me in my bag. Admittedly I've only had it a few months but so far it's in mint condition.
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Jul 28, 2011 16:12
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Hey, I couldn't control my inner speculator anymore and wanted to ask about trade magazines/oversized paperbacks. In light of the color Triton e-ink screens that are coming soon, do you think we'll start to see more full-color, oversized content for the next version of the Kindle DX? I cleaned out my bookshelves of novels when I got my Kindle 3 and I would love to do the same with the majority of my magazines and oversized trade paperbacks.
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Jul 28, 2011 16:20
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Amazon is making a color tablet iPad competitor, I don't think they are using color e-ink any time soon.
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just_a_guy posted:Hu guys. The screen on my kindle 3 is shot. Does anyone know where to get replacement parts (It's one i kept after they sent me a new one) i would like to fix and give it to my girlfriend if i can find reasonably priced parts. The screen is the single most expensive part of the Kindle. I don't think you're going to be able to find a cheap replacement, and last I heard it's a real bitch to replace the screen.
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commish posted:I can't believe so many Kindles get damaged. People treat them like books instead of really fragile tablets. Thus, lots of people break 'em.
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commish posted:I can't believe so many Kindles get damaged. The screens are drat fragile on all readers. It also doesn't help that most readers are now sold with no cover included and people don't buy a cover. From what I heard Sony's readers are bit more resilient because of aluminum hull instead of plastic everyone else has - cant crack the screen by deforming hull.
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Jul 29, 2011 09:07
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commish posted:I can't believe so many Kindles get damaged. I said mine broke but it wasn't actually damaged. It just died overnight while lying on a table, inside the official cover. I literally read until I went to sleep, picked it up in the morning, turned the page once, and it died forever, stuck on that page with some weird artifacts on the screen. And no it didn't need a reboot, I'm not retarded.
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Jul 29, 2011 12:16
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Interesting article on MacRumors this morning about Apple (rumored to) acquire Barnes & Noble. No credible source, but would be interesting if it happened. Wonder what would happen to the nook.
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Jul 29, 2011 13:11
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FidgetyRat posted:Interesting article on MacRumors this morning about Apple (rumored to) acquire Barnes & Noble. No credible source, but would be interesting if it happened. Wonder what would happen to the nook. I guess its store would merge with the terrible Apple store and Apple would finally be able to sell some ebooks, but they've already ruined the pricing model for consumers so I can't imagine they could damage it any more than they have already.
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Jul 29, 2011 13:51
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Never... ever.. ever underestimate the chances of loving up something worse.
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Jul 29, 2011 13:54
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Ara posted:I guess its store would merge with the terrible Apple store and Apple would finally be able to sell some ebooks, but they've already ruined the pricing model for consumers so I can't imagine they could damage it any more than they have already. Except that they would pretty much eliminate the ability to buy physical books. Barnes and Noble is the last B&M book store. Not that I take much stock in the rumor anyways. There's not much reason for Apple to do this. The real estate isn't a good match and they already have major deals with publishers. The ONLY reason would be to squash competition, but I don't see them spending that kind of money on B&N to do so.
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bull3964 posted:Except that they would pretty much eliminate the ability to buy physical books. Barnes and Noble is the last B&M book store. I don't really believe it, but it's still believable. That said I'd probably switch over to the Kindle if Apple acquired the Nook just because I don't need a "premium" eReader and Apple only sells premium products.
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I don't think apple would ever put out a dedicated eInk ereader. That's really not their bag.
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bull3964 posted:I don't think apple would ever put out a dedicated eInk ereader. That's really not their bag.
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Jul 29, 2011 18:00
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I don't see Apple releasing new products that don't utilize everything from the iTunes store. They want you to rent/buy tv shows, movies, apps, songs, and games. A dedicated e-reader can't use all that.
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 My Kindle 3's screen has a tiny, tiny scratch on it. I left it open and on the couch yesterday for a bit, and I think the cat might've walked across it and caught a claw on it or something. I'm normally super careful with it (it has a lighted case that's on it all the time), I just wasn't thinking. It's about an inch long, very thin, and towards the bottom, but it's bugging the crap out of me. Anyone know of a way to fix it? I know people would say "ignore it", but I'm somewhat OCD about such things. 
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bull3964 posted:I don't think apple would ever put out a dedicated eInk ereader. That's really not their bag. Phones weren't really their bag, either.
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't see Apple releasing new products that don't utilize everything from the iTunes store. They want you to rent/buy tv shows, movies, apps, songs, and games. A dedicated e-reader can't use all that.
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Quantify! posted:Who the hell knows what an Apple eReader could do. If anyone's going to find a way to sell you extra poo poo on a device it's Apple. He said eink reader. There isn't much more they can sell on one besides books. -edit I guess they could try to tie the iTunes store to it but audio is a big battery drain compared to books and who would want to listen to music through an ereader. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Jul 29, 2011 |
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Jul 29, 2011 19:01
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Sporadic posted:He said eink reader. There isn't much more they can sell on one besides books.
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Apple has an ereader in the iPad. Why would they fragment that device line with a dedicated reading device? Why the gently caress would they buy B&N? This conversation is dumb.
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Monkeyseesaw posted:Apple has an ereader in the iPad. Why would they fragment that device line with a dedicated reading device? Why the gently caress would they buy B&N? This conversation is dumb. Also, the argument you are using (that Apple would compete with itself by selling two devices used to read books) can also be used against B&N. They want to sell physical books in physical stores, but are really pushing a product that eliminates forever the possibility of a consumer buying those physical books in physical stores. Nook + iPad makes a lot more sense than Nook + physical books. I still don't think it's likely but it would be interesting to see what Apple would do with an eReader. edit to add a point: Apple already sells many devices that overlap in function. The iPad is just a bigger iPod, and the phone is just an iPod that can make calls. And yet people buy all three of them and continue to buy hardware updates on a regular basis. Why wouldn't there be room in that family for an eInk reader?
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Monkeyseesaw posted:Apple has an ereader in the iPad. Why would they fragment that device line with a dedicated reading device? Why the gently caress would they buy B&N? This conversation is dumb. Only reason I can think of why Apple would buy B&N is so they can grab Nook's 25% of the ebooks market. Fold B&N's ebook market into theirs (making Apple the only real competitor to Amazon), keep the Nook after Apple'ing the design/name, kill the Nook Color, leveraging the college bookstores (that's a big key I think alot of people are overlooking), slowly shut down the majority of the normal B&N retail stores. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jul 30, 2011 |
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I love my Kindle but the thought of all the brick and mortar stores shutting down is depressing as gently caress. I can't imagine not being able to go browse through real, physical books. Yeah, there's libraries I suppose (for now, anyway). But still.
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I don't see Steve Jobs really interested in getting heavily into any book market, e or otherwise. Remember this fun quote from him about the Kindle (pre-iPad release and iBookstore):quote:It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.
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There's also that whole thing where Apple won't even let you use iBooks on OS X. When they only allow you to read them on an iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad (or, hilariously, printed out from on of those devices) it seems a bit silly to expect them to continue one of the nook store's strengths. Namely, that you can use them on a nook but also on most kinds of computers, tablets, and phones.
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fordan posted:I don't see Steve Jobs really interested in getting heavily into any book market, e or otherwise. Remember this fun quote from him about the Kindle (pre-iPad release and iBookstore): I'm struggling to figure out exactly how that kind of logic holds up to any kind of reasoning. It's such a bizarre kind of tunnel vision from a company that can make some really inspired design decisions. The way I see iBooks is the way I saw Blockbuster trying to break into the streaming video market - if you're rushing to copy good businesses instead of innovating, you've already lost.
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Does anyone have experience hacking their Kindle 2 to use the Kindle 3 firmware? My girlfriend has the 3rd edition Kindle and I'm jealous of the little things her kindle's OS has, like page numbers instead of just locations and the ability to not constantly have the book's title at the top while you read.
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Jul 31, 2011 19:42
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I tried it; it didn't work but it didn't hurt the kindle either. Worth a shot since I probably just screwed something up.
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When the hell is Kindle For The Web coming out? I need to be able to read at work. 
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