Yes, this belongs in tech.
WE ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO LEARN TO PROGRAM AND JUST LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED (via JWZ)
I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not. So where does that put you?
Book ,'Objects In Space'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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tommyrot - Jun 02, 2012 7:13:56 am PDT #20203 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2012 7:35:26 am PDT #20204 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do like the comments.
sumi - Jun 03, 2012 12:17:47 pm PDT #20205 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
Get this: in April I "won" a Librarything Early Reviewers edition of an ebook. I couldn't figure out how to upload it to my Kindle Fire because you get everything wirelessly and it didn't come with it's own usb cord.
So I did what I do with other non-mobi docs: I emailed it to my kindle and with "convert" in the subject line and that worked.
Well, this month I got another ebook. Tried the same thing and guess what? No go.
Amazon has very frustratingly changed their policy and you cannot have email them mobi docs so that you can get them on your Kindle Fire.
I just spent a frustrating time on Amazon customer service where the CS person kept on typing a list of file types the the Kindle will accept rather than telling me anything.
And then I lost the internet and phoned in and they offered me a $10.00 coupon.
Still irritated.
Want to read my book!
sumi - Jun 03, 2012 12:45:22 pm PDT #20206 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
I found the usb cord for the old black and white kindle.
Now, if I can find that kindle, charge it up, I can dl the book to that and then sync my new kindle and I can read it on the new kindle.
le nubian - Jun 03, 2012 12:49:50 pm PDT #20207 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
you cannot email mobi docs to your kindle?
really?
sumi - Jun 03, 2012 1:28:56 pm PDT #20208 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
You can't!
It's stupid.
And when I was asked if customer service helped me wih my problem, I said no and told them it was stupid that you can't email mobi files to your kindle.
I've found my old kindle so I'm charging it up.
Gris - Jun 03, 2012 1:39:12 pm PDT #20209 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Does the Kindle Fire not use the same type of cord as the regular kindle? It should be the same, a micro-USB cord.
Consuela - Jun 03, 2012 1:40:12 pm PDT #20210 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I really really loathe the walled garden of the Kindle. Argh.
sumi - Jun 03, 2012 1:46:21 pm PDT #20211 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
No, I tried my old kindle's cord and it won't fit.
The usb cord the kindle fire comes with is just a power cord - not a usb with adapter for electric outlets.
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 2:03:20 pm PDT #20212 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I really really loathe the walled garden of the Kindle
Someone was telling me that Amazon didn't do that anymore, and that the Nook and the Kindle were about equal in terms of sideloading--he even gave the Kindle the edge in ease of use, because you could email all the popular formats as well as drag and drop using the cable.
Since I don't have a Kindle I didn't pursue it, but his experience didn't sound like your guyses (whoa, that looks really horrific written out. Bad ita ! Bad, bad ita !)