Ebooks and E-Readers

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38774

I have a Sony E-reader. Technically, the missus has it as I dropped it like a hot turd when the Kindle arrived.

I enjoyed it until I knew better.

Wish the Kindle was brushed aluminium though. Mmmmm.... cold

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:23

*Bonds*

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38774

Eww... sticky.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Kibdle Paperwhite reviews are appearing: http://mashable.com/2012/09/30/amazon-k ... uy-review/

I want one.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:50

I'll stick to my Sony.

And Dimrill'sLibrary.com

myp · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:58

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Kibdle Paperwhite reviews are appearing: http://mashable.com/2012/09/30/amazon-k ... uy-review/

I want one.

I will wait for a full-colour 9" paperwhite.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 13:33

Is it out in the UK yet?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

KovacsC wrote:

Is it out in the UK yet?

That took 24 characters to type. amazon.co.uk/kindle is only 19. I'm just sayin'

Also, no.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 13:44

I was looking on the amazon web site and could not see it.

Ok correct question then, when is it going to be out in the uk?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16712

They haven't given a date as yet but if it's anything like the Fire then it'll be ages.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

The Fire was a full year, but it was a special case. The lag on the last lot of e-ink Kindles was six months, which I think will be more typical.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 13:56

Bugger, I want a kindle.

Best guess Christmas?

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 13:58

markg wrote:

They haven't given a date as yet but if it's anything like the Fire then it'll be never.

FEEX. The Fire that they released in the US (which I have) is now obsolete, and will never be released in any other countries. And I'll never get onto the Amazon app store with it.

PAH.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 14:02

KovacsC wrote:

Bugger, I want a kindle.

Buy a Kindle then. :shrug:

Or a Sony PRS-T1.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 14:03

Yes but that one looks great, so I was wondering how long I need to wait....

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 14:03

KovacsC wrote:

Best guess Christmas?

Pretty sure it's going to be on the 25th Dec again.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 14:04

Are you sure.. I always get Easter and Christmas confused.

Christmas is the holiday with the eggs, right?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Christmas is the one with the TV special about the guy who rises from the dead. Doctor Who.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 14:15

Which has the Bond films?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22418

None of them any more. The Bond films are on the new Sky Bond Channel. On repeat. Forever.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 14:26

Woot!!!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Trooper wrote:

None of them any more. The Bond films are on the new Sky Bond Channel. On repeat. For a month..

Feex.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22418

Fuck me, I just made that up as an example of Sky commerciality, I didn't know it was real

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 14:39

Trooper wrote:

Fuck me, I just made that up as an example of Sky commerciality, I didn't know it was real

Fuck off, really?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22418

Grim... wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Fuck me, I just made that up as an example of Sky commerciality, I didn't know it was real

Fuck off, really?

Yup

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Amazing scenes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/au ... movies-007

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22418

I expect I have a probably half-seen an advert or something at some point and not consciously taken it in. Either that or I have the worst superpower ever.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 14:48

Just seen a trailer for Sky's Bond channel. Could be good.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26442

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It's here

Yay!!

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2012 20:58

There's an e-book humble bundle out.

Quote:

Humble eBook Bundle features eight masterful works from a prodigious league of award-winning authors. Name your price and receive Pirate Cinema, Pump Six and Other Stories, Zoo City, Invasion: The Secret World Chronicle, Stranger Things Happen, and Magic for Beginners. Customers who beat the average will also receive Old Man's War and the graphic novel Signal to Noise!

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Worth a punt for $1.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Hmm. Books are too much of a time and brain investment to punt on, for me. All the time I spend taking a chance reading whatever bollocks some guy has written could be spent reading a certified classic. And there are a lot of classics I haven't read!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2012 22:12

Black Library are missing a trick by not doing something similar. A selection of first volumes of their many serieses's' ies at a discount price would bring the pennies in something rotten.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Paper white is released in the uk for £109.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 18:45

Grim... wrote:

There's an e-book humble bundle out.

Quote:

Humble eBook Bundle features eight masterful works from a prodigious league of award-winning authors. Name your price and receive Pirate Cinema, Pump Six and Other Stories, Zoo City, Invasion: The Secret World Chronicle, Stranger Things Happen, and Magic for Beginners. Customers who beat the average will also receive Old Man's War and the graphic novel Signal to Noise!

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Worth a punt for $1.

Worth five times that for 'Pump Six' on its own (probably... not read it yet but it is on my list as he's one of my absolute favourite authors).

Plus 'Zoo City' won the Arthur C Clarke and is good.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Paper white is released in the uk for £109.

Pre-ordered two. Plus two cases.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14536

Grim... wrote:

There's an e-book humble bundle out.

Quote:

Humble eBook Bundle features eight masterful works from a prodigious league of award-winning authors. Name your price and receive Pirate Cinema, Pump Six and Other Stories, Zoo City, Invasion: The Secret World Chronicle, Stranger Things Happen, and Magic for Beginners. Customers who beat the average will also receive Old Man's War and the graphic novel Signal to Noise!

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Worth a punt for $1.

Updated now with "pay more than average to get" the original 8 plus

XKCD Volume 0
Save yourself Mammal
The Most Dangerous Game
Attack of the Bacon Robots
Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings

Thats currently $13.71 (about £8.50) for 13 DRM free ebooks

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22418

Just ordered, paid $15 to get the lot

I also ordered the Macheist bundle yesterday for $29, to get Scrivener and Evernote Premium. (plus a fair few other things which may come in handy)

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22418

http://uk.nook.com/

The Nook is in the UK, is there any reason to buy one over a Kindle?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:54

Kindle backwards isn't racist.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:08

El Dink disagrees.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

Grim... wrote:

El Dink disagrees.

Is that what you call your penis?

The Kindle is so much the best piece of technology that's ever existed that I can't think of a single reason why you'd buy anything else if you were after a reader.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

Doc - how do you find the Kindle Paperwhite screens? Amazon seems to have a fair number of reviews complaining about colouration, shadows and sparkles.

Which I only read this morning. After ordering one. And the charger and case arriving at work. But not the Kindle, because due to demand (and hopefully not returns) it's not shipping til the middle of December.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

The only downside that bothered me is the slight shadowing/splotching across the bottom quarter-inch or so of the screen. It's a little distracting. It's nowhere near as uneven as the light cast by the Lighted Case's arm-mounted LED though.

Other than that, I love it to bits. Compared to my third-gen Kindle, it's faster, sharper, much smaller, lighter, has a nicer UI for selecting books (it shows covers now), and I love the touchscreen interface (particularly the rough, paper-like texture).

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

Cheers; both Hel and I think the text was too low-resolution and the grey was wrong in previous models; Paperwhite sounds like it fixes it for me so we'll see how it goes down with her (she's travelling loads in her new job). The estimated ship date is anus-clenchingly close to Christmas though.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Still fucking fuckity full-justified non-hyphenated text though.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

There's never any excuse for fully-justified text.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38774

Craster wrote:

There's never any excuse for fully-justified text.

They just can't justify that decision.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

I was surprised with a Kindle Paperwhite today! Came home and Mrs WTB had bought me one!

It's pretty awesome so far. X-Ray is such a bloody cool feature. Love the touch interface - makes a lot of things easier. Haven't tested the lit screen in the dark just yet, but it seems fine with the light on.

Oh, and "Time left in chapter/book" is a genius idea.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

My favourite gadget is even betterer! Totally awesome.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:00

2 days till I get one.

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