Erin, you rock! Thank you.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Nov 20, 2007 6:03:26 pm PST #4303 of 28260
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
beth b - Nov 20, 2007 8:39:44 pm PST #4304 of 28260
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I finally got to look at the Kindle. WANT and let me explain that I very rarely WANT new tech. Sometimes I Want - which is where TIVO was. but 400.00.... waiting
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2007 5:22:19 am PST #4305 of 28260
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kindle has DRM, and that makes me wary. Pretty much everything that goes on it has to go through Amazon.
Typo Boy - Nov 21, 2007 6:15:35 am PST #4306 of 28260
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Also, the fucker does not even accept PDF. Better to get the latest version of the Sony reader, which is a bit pricier, but has a better screen (e-ink, paper level resolution), and accepts pdf.
Strega - Nov 21, 2007 6:55:40 am PST #4307 of 28260
There's also Bookeen's Cybook. If I could afford to, I'd get that just to support the order NAEB is putting together: [link]
In addition to the the DRM issue, there are the terms of service:
The Device Software will provide Amazon with data about your Device and its interaction with the Service (such as available memory, up-time, log files and signal strength) and information related to the content on your Device and your use of it (such as automatic bookmarking of the last page read and content deletions from the Device). Annotations, bookmarks, notes, highlights, or similar markings you make in your Device are backed up through the Service.
There's a world of creepiness in there.
Sue - Nov 21, 2007 7:27:03 am PST #4308 of 28260
hip deep in pie
Neil Gaiman got a chance to play with one and claims you can add PDFs:
Interestingly, they're not yet really pushing some of the things that sold me on it (how easy it is to put your own content onto it, for example, whether Documents or PDFs or downloaded Dr Who novels).
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2007 8:38:07 am PST #4309 of 28260
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think you have to send the PDF to Amazon and they send it to your device.
I look at the Cybook and drool too.
beth b - Nov 21, 2007 8:50:18 am PST #4310 of 28260
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
actually - reading reviews looked like there was software from google that let you read PDF. Most of the readers use proprietary software - ( so none of them are really worth the money). and since Sony decided the reader was sexier than me, (ad: sexier than a librarian) I didn't really look at it. and it looks like it can do audio content too.
amych - Nov 21, 2007 8:51:10 am PST #4311 of 28260
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
(I've seen the Sony reader. You've got nothing to worry about.)
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2007 9:12:09 am PST #4312 of 28260
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From the Amazon about your amazonkindle docs (uh, a PDF):
Formats natively supported are: .AZW, .PRC, .MOBI, .MP3, .AA and .TXT.
From what I read around you have to have Amazon convert the PDF for you, but perhaps you could copy and paste it into a TXT yourself.