andrel wrote:
> So you can have books with sound effects, neat.

Well, the hardware is there, yes. I don't think you can embed audio in books 
yet. It's more like a really super primitive MP3 player built in. It's under 
the "experimental" menu, along with a web browser that's good enough to do 
mobile gmail, yahoo mail, and browse a few sites they have built-in 
bookmarks for like wikipedia and the weather channel and stuff like that.

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>> So you can have books with sound effects, neat.

Oh, and it does audio books, of course. No idea what the battery is like for 
that.

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:30:24 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> 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.

Yep, we use that software quite a bit here.  :-)

Jim

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:15:21 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> andrel wrote:
>> So you can have books with sound effects, neat.
> 
> Well, the hardware is there, yes. I don't think you can embed audio in
> books yet. It's more like a really super primitive MP3 player built in.
> It's under the "experimental" menu, along with a web browser that's good
> enough to do mobile gmail, yahoo mail, and browse a few sites they have
> built-in bookmarks for like wikipedia and the weather channel and stuff
> like that.

The "Readability" software that Kindle uses (also usable on the Nook) is 
quite good much of the time, too.

MP3 player standard on ours.  :-)

Jim

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On 24/08/2010 4:51 AM, Jim Henderson 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.
> Yep, we use that software quite a bit here.:-)
>

The developer seems to upgrade it a lot. The last upgrade is suposed to 
have better support for different libraries for different users. Which 
will be handy as my wife reads entirely different books from me.

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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:59:31 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 24/08/2010 4:51 AM, Jim Henderson 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.
>> Yep, we use that software quite a bit here.:-)
>>
>>
> The developer seems to upgrade it a lot. The last upgrade is suposed to
> have better support for different libraries for different users. Which
> will be handy as my wife reads entirely different books from me.

That's interesting - on Linux, that isn't generally a problem (esp. since 
my wife and I use different computers). :-)

Jim

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On 24/08/2010 5:10 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The developer seems to upgrade it a lot. The last upgrade is suposed to
>> >  have better support for different libraries for different users. Which
>> >  will be handy as my wife reads entirely different books from me.
> That's interesting - on Linux, that isn't generally a problem (esp. since
> my wife and I use different computers).:-)
>

Different computers would help. But I do all the work and rich get all 
the pleasure. ;-)

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Darren New wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks!  Both this and Jim's replies have been very useful.  I imagine 
I'll end up getting a e-reader at some point, although probably not for 
a little while yet as I've already spent a bit more than I wanted this 
summer.

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Stephen wrote:
> have better support for different libraries for different users. Which 

It boggles my mind that people don't find it easier to do it right than 
wrong. I guess it can get confusing if you only want *one* copy of the book 
even if it's in multiple libraries.

And, heck, it's free software, so who am I to complain? :-)

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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Thanks!  Both this and Jim's replies have been very useful. 

As I say, send me a complex PDF and I'll take a photo of the screen so you 
can see how it looks.

The other thing about the Kindle is if you don't like it, send it back and 
they give you your money back.  Really, it's the only way they could 
reasonably sell such a product.

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