Infinite Winter 2016 discussion

I'm a first time reader. As I do all my reading on my Kindle, and people say looking up footnotes is easy digitally, I went with ebook.

Any repeat readers with patina paper copies here?

I'm also reading it on the Kindle for Android app, I had an old epub copy but it was a pain looking for the footnotes, so I just went and bought it on amazon.

Nice, what Kindle edition? I noticed there were a couple different editions:

http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-D...
http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-D...

Maybe more in other regions too?

hi! im also a first time ebook reader and ive got the first edition of the links you posted i think. i wasnt very happy about the prospect of carrying 1000+ pages with me, and i saved a great deal of money on the ebook :)

First timer here and I'm working with the big old paperback copy. I love the heft of it.

This is my second time reading it (first time was in early 2013) and i have both the paperback and the hardcover. I'm not sure which one I will read from. My first time reading was with the hardcover and it was a bit heavy and difficult to maneuver, so I may stick with the paperback for this time. I do have the book on my Kindle as well, for when i'm out and about.

First time reader here too. Reading the paperback, very excited!

Second-time reader. All of the above. I'm a dork for books, gadgets, books about gadgets and gadgets for books. Paperback for the old-school heft/feel while home, Kindle Paperwhite for footnote links/language translation/dog walking, Kindle app for iPhone for waiting rooms/grocery lines, etc., iPad Mini for footnote links/Goodreads/web sites, & PC for the IMAX-big-screen effect. Most helpful for me is the Audible Audio version for the commute. Sean Pratt did and outstanding job with all of the "voices" DFW put into print. Especially helpful was his rendering of the slang sections that made them not only understandable but very enjoyable.

I'm a first time reader too, using my Kindle Fire. I'm reading the first edition, published April 2009, which would be the 2nd link posted.

Tobias wrote: "Nice, what Kindle edition? I noticed there were a couple different editions:

http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-D...
http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-D......"

I think those are 2 different versions for the paper book, but I think there's only one kindle edition, I might be wrong though.

Another first timer here. I'm reading the Back Bay 10th anniversary paperback edition and I love it. I have the epub in my kindle too but I never use it.

Calibre ebook reader, full screen desktop with Sean Pratt audiobook together, for now, until I am brave to take the words in within my own internal voice. Second reading.

Steph: p.63

AS OF YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT

The Enfield Tennis Academy has been in accredited operation for three pre-Subsidized years and then eight Subsidized years...

First time reader. Ain't no edition but the paperback.

Does Kobo only have percentages? I read on the Kindle, for very much the same reasons you read on Kobo. Percentage is worthless since it doesn't line up with the one in the schedule, which doesn't include the endnotes. Let me know if Kobo uses some other kind of location marker and I can look into making a schedule for that too.

Also a first time reader here! I've got the huge paperback version - a book of this size and complexity wouldn't work well for me on Kindle, unfortunately. Though it would allow me to read places other than at home!

There is a visceral experience that comes from reading the physical book that really shouldn't be missed. The heft of the book, the physical act of flipping back and forth from endnotes - I can't recommend enough reading it IRL.

I'm reading it on ebook but I already order a copy, my kindle gets slow at times...

Stephen, there is a configuration option for that. I do not remember where, but I am reading other books with real page numbers right now.

Steph wrote: "Thanks, Leandro -- there is no page setting to change on kobo, but I've read online that if I load it from epub I'll get the page numbers. Is that what you did?"

There are two settings on my Kobo Aura H₂O: menu, Paramètres, Paramètres de lecture, on the first page thre is a setting ‘Apparence page: Afficher les numéros de page Adobe ePub’ and on the second page there is ‘Progression de la lecture, Afficher la progression du :' where I can change from ‘Chapitre actuel’ to ‘Livre entier’. Both work for me, but I preffer the latter because the former needs also to set quite wide margins which I abhor.

But yes, almost everything I read is from Project Gutenberg or authors' ePubs. I have only bought one ebook ever, from Google books (loaded with Adobe digital editions), and have loaded perhaps half a dozen free books from the Kobo store.

Using a hardcover from the library - limits reading in bed . . . heading to NOLA in a month - if I am not finished I may explore some version for the iPad. Any suggestions?

Hardback.

Apologies if this is the wrong forum to ask. Are there plans to form an Infinite Summer 2016?