Large library of already purchased books (I have a room in our house for them) and buying digital copies means costing more than a new physical copy?

Large library of already purchased books (I have a room in our house for them) and buying digital copies means costing more than a new physical copy?

I've done it - mainly because I want to reread a series and struggle with the very idea of actually picking up a paper book to do so.

I've done it - mainly because I want to reread a series and struggle with the very idea of actually picking up a paper book to do so.

A Kindle isn't designed to replace nice hardback first editions. It's meant to replace paperbacks.

Stock Myp response #3. I think you'll find that the Kindle was designed to replace books. Pretty sure that was their intention when making it. Would be quite odd if they were just aiming to replace paperbacks during the design phase. That's why you can buy new books for a pound more than the nice hardback when they're released.

3D books next?

It just stinks to high heaven of the film industry changing the format on which you can buy films every 10 years or so to try and get you to buy them again. 3D books next?

Books on art with reproductions of paintings, books where design and layout is key.

Amazon have released a "send to Kindle" PC application.

Oh, the clever fuckers.

Interesting to think, though, that only a couple of years ago everyone was thrilled when Amazon released the desktop version of the Kindle software so they could read books on their PCs. Now it seems we're heading the other way.

This is, and always was, a facile argument. If you don't find the quality and convenience upgrade of re-buying music you own on LP on CD, or re-buying a DVD as a Bluray, or re-buying a book as an ebook, then the answer is simple: don't do it. There's no sinister conspiracy to make your old stuff stop working or somehow worthless, so there's no reason to upgrade unless you want to upgrade -- and if the company can convince you the upgrade is worth it, then there's nothing to complain about.

If Amazon and/or the book publishers started sneaking into your house and tearing pages from your old books, then you'd have a point. Until then, the books you have are just the same as they always were.

The interesting question for coffee table books is whether things like the iPad can replace them. Apple's announcement last week was focussed on text books, but the interactivity features it is touting -- colour, animation, illustrations, video, flexible layouts -- could also make the iPad a player in the coffee table book market. The question comes down to whether consumers will prefer a heavy, glossy, luxurious book (with, I'd argue, a superior feel) to the superior features a tablet could bring. It'll be interesting to watch this over the coming years.

Amazon have released a "send to Kindle" PC application.
You basically "print" stuff to your Kindle, so it works with anything that can be printed out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/? ... gmgamzn-20

Also, I think Kindles are affordable to many people in a way that iPads aren't.

I don't think that you could enjoy the aesthetics of such visual content on a screen the size of an iPad as you could a 16" square book of beautiful things.

Optimistic I know, but is it possible to just send it to your Amazon Kindle account without actually having a physical Kindle registered? I just use the Android app.

Amazon have released a "send to Kindle" PC application.
You basically "print" stuff to your Kindle, so it works with anything that can be printed out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/? ... gmgamzn-20

File/Print (or even 'click the print toolbar button') is easier than Save, <switch to gmail>, Compose, Attach, Send, <switch back>?

Is that really any different to the fact that you can just email anything to your kindle right now?

That and 'save as HTML/PDF/whatever Kindle supports' is historically shit in just about everything, unlike printing.

Stock Myp response #3. I think you'll find that the Kindle was designed to replace books. Pretty sure that was their intention when making it. Would be quite odd if they were just aiming to replace paperbacks during the design phase. That's why you can buy new books for a pound more than the nice hardback when they're released.

which is why 'print to pdf' drivers are desirable enough that Microsoft wrote one).

If you send it to [email protected] it'll charge you, and deliver it to you over 3G or wifi

If you send it to [email protected] it's free, but will only deliver over wifi.

It'll deliver it to you over wifi, and charge you for it. So don't do that.

no, you've got that the wrong way around. Over wifi is free. It's via 3G that it charges.

So, GY, if you don't have 3G, only wifey, then [email protected] will be free. But you night's as well use the free address if you have a 3G enabled version.

Printing to PDF is good because it instantly converts stuff to a single file that anyone can read using freely available software; as opposed to either (a) proprietary file formats like .doc or (b) files that can only be saved accurately as a jumble of other filetypes like when you save a web page. I'm not convinced that the ability to print to PDF was ever driven by the actual formatting of the output because I'm pretty sure this is still done by the application in question e.g. if you select to print a webpage from Firefox I'm pretty sure it's still Firefox that's formatting the content before the converstion to PDF, it's not the driver itself that's doing this. Unless I'm totally wrong about that; anyone who knows for sure care to weigh in?

A Corgi somehow found its way into my house while I was asleep and chewed up all my David Eddings books. I'd like to think it was coincidence, but....