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I bought an Amazon Kindle. It's very nice. Feel free to ask me about it if
you care. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:51:04 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> I bought an Amazon Kindle. It's very nice. Feel free to ask me about it
> if you care. :-)
My wife and I both bought the B&N Nook (so we each have one). Really
like it, prefer it to the little time I've spent looking at a Kindle.
The thing that would be *really* nice, though is to be able to run the
Kindle Android app on the Nook (as the Nook runs on Android). Best of
both worlds, then. Unfortunately, the version of the Android SDK used in
the Nook isn't up to what the Kindle app requires.
Jim
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Darren New wrote:
> I bought an Amazon Kindle. It's very nice. Feel free to ask me about it
> if you care. :-)
>
How well does it handle PDFs? Particularly PDFs with pictures, graphs,
equations and such? Also how easy/hard is it to download a PDF from the
web and transfer it to the Kindle?
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> I bought an Amazon Kindle. It's very nice. Feel free to ask me about it if
> you care. :-)
does it run Crysis while you listen to the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven?
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:38:14 -0700, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> I bought an Amazon Kindle. It's very nice. Feel free to ask me about it
>> if you care. :-)
>>
>>
> How well does it handle PDFs? Particularly PDFs with pictures, graphs,
> equations and such? Also how easy/hard is it to download a PDF from the
> web and transfer it to the Kindle?
For the Nook, it handles them fairly well - I have loaded a couple PDFs
of Linux Format on it and it renders fairly well for full-page views, and
then reflows the text if you enlarge the font in order to actually be
able to read it.
I have run into a problem with some content-protected PDFs, but I'm not
yet sure why - I think the one I tried was just print restricted (Nook
doesn't have text-to-speech capabilities, which print restrictions can
interfere with I've heard) but it wouldn't open it properly.
Jim
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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> How well does it handle PDFs? Particularly PDFs with pictures, graphs,
> equations and such?
It seems to do just fine. The native format is apparently something like
HTML inside (the same as "mobi" format). However, there's also a PDF
interpreter that will draw PDFs exactly as presented (as far as I can tell).
Of course, modulo color. It's grayscale.
Now, the PDF is going to either fit the screen, or be some multiple
(including 100%) of the PDF with you having to awkwardly cursor around. But
it'll display OK. I scanned some travel book pages as a PDF and got maps
and stuff for when I was in Cologne last week.
If you want to send me a sample PDF to look at, I'm happy to do that.
I haven't tried any really complex PDFs, but I did do a couple of brochures
from the people I was meeting with, so it handles powerpoint-level
complexity just fine.
> Also how easy/hard is it to download a PDF from the
> web and transfer it to the Kindle?
Trivial. If you want the actual PDF, then plug in the Kindle as a USB drive
and copy it to K:\Documents.
If you want to convert a PDF into text (because, say, the PDF is mostly
text), then you email it to your Kindle's email address with "convert" in
the subject line, and amazon either charges you $0.15 to wirelessly zoop it
to your kindle, or amazon emails you a link to a .AMZ file which you can
click on and then copy into K:\Documents for free. There's a limit of 25
files at once (which you can zip up or attach separately) *per request*, but
you can bop off several requests and then download all the results.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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nemesis wrote:
> does it run Crysis while you listen to the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven?
It actually seems to be an amazingly slow CPU. But then, the battery goes
for a week or two.
But it'll play background music while you read, if you like.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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On 23-8-2010 22:57, Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> does it run Crysis while you listen to the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven?
>
> It actually seems to be an amazingly slow CPU. But then, the battery
> goes for a week or two.
>
> But it'll play background music while you read, if you like.
So you can have books with sound effects, neat.
<very quit, with a little noise of a trolley outside the room. Some
birdsong outside the window>
It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.
I attempted to wriggle my toes, succeeded. I was sprawled there in a
hospital bed and my legs were done up in plaster casts, but they were
still mine.
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On 23/08/2010 9:56 PM, Darren New wrote:
> If you want to convert a PDF into text (because, say, the PDF is mostly
> text), then you email it to your Kindle's email address with "convert"
> in the subject line, and amazon either charges you $0.15 to wirelessly
> zoop it to your kindle, or amazon emails you a link to a .AMZ file which
> you can click on and then copy into K:\Documents for free. There's a
> limit of 25 files at once (which you can zip up or attach separately)
> *per request*, but you can bop off several requests and then download
> all the results.
Just a quick post in case you don't know about calibre
http://calibre-ebook.com/
It is free and converts all sorts of document types to lots of ebook
formats. I've got a Sony PRS-600 and my wife (the Luddite) has one too.
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> Just a quick post in case you don't know about calibre
> http://calibre-ebook.com/
> It is free and converts all sorts of document types to lots of ebook
> formats. I've got a Sony PRS-600 and my wife (the Luddite) has one too.
Thanks! I knew about this, but I'm not sure I realized it's free. This
will be helpful if it can convert PDFs to AMZ.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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