Crab Shack discussion

Kindle for Kids is on sale. https://smile.amazon.com/Introducing-... If you're thinking about a new reader this one is great. It has all the features of the regular new Kindle Paperwhite but includes a great cover and no ads. Even cover pictures are easier to see. Love mine. You can read anything you want to on it.

and for those of you pining for a DX, there's now

Introducing Kindle Scribe (16 GB), the first Kindle for reading and writing, with a 10.2” 300 ppi Paperwhite display, includes Basic Pen

also in 32GB & 64GB or with a Premium pen


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BS26B8B?...

CBRetriever wrote: "and for those of you pining for a DX, there's now

Introducing Kindle Scribe (16 GB), the first Kindle for reading and writing, with a 10.2” 300 ppi Paperwhite display, includes Basic Pen

also i..."

Totally cool.

CBRetriever wrote: "and for those of you pining for a DX, there's now "

I resisted for more than a day... :-D

Ah, in the good old days we would already have those in our grubby hands...

BTW, have you noticed that titles e-mailed to the library/device have "unknown" for the author? It started, AFAIK, with the switch to EPUB (late and still incomplete...)

Bnz wrote: "CBRetriever wrote: "and for those of you pining for a DX, there's now "

I resisted for more than a day... :-D"

And one can do things like annotating PDFs on it, add handwritten notes to books etc.

Bnz wrote: "BTW, have you noticed that titles e-mailed to the library/device have "unknown" for the author? It started, AFAIK, with the switch to EPUB (late and still incomplete...)"

yes - it's a reported problem. I'm seeing the epubs don't even have the correct title either, just the file name

CBRetriever wrote: "yes - it's a reported problem. I'm seeing the epubs don't even have the correct title either, just the file name."

Unknown author bug has been fixed for e-mailed files. Title is still taken from the filename - fortunately, that is easy to fix while sending. (I have to find where is that configuration in Calibre, but everything is configurable in Calibre...)

Cover images are still hit or miss, mostly miss...

When something works don't fix it. All these changes to Kindles, Amazon, and Goodreads are driving me crazy.

Carol wrote: "When something works don't fix it. All these changes to Kindles, Amazon, and Goodreads are driving me crazy."

Me, too. Remember when Amazon bought, "improved" and then killed Shelfari? And all those fleeting Amazon's own content list, notes etc pages that kept popping up and vanishing?

They have been more stable for few years now, until this switch to EPUB (which they use internally, anyway), extremely ineptly done (and not finished yet).

Bnz wrote: "Carol wrote: "When something works don't fix it. All these changes to Kindles, Amazon, and Goodreads are driving me crazy."

Me, too. Remember when Amazon bought, "improved" and then killed Shelfar..."
I have no idea what EPUB is except that my library uses it for some of thier books and I can download it using Libbyapp or Overdrive or hoopladigital.com to my Fire. Some books from my library are in regular Kindle form and I can load them onto my Kindle. I am using my library's ebooks more because ebooks are too expensive considering it's really only a loan until you die or Amazon goes out of business. Can't sell them or lend most of them to a friend.

One needs a librarian's degree to keep track or what I have read, want to read, what app, or do I "own" it. Maybe it's a conspiracy to get one to go to their library and just get the DTB.

:-D

EPUB is an ISO standard eBook format, based on XHTML markup, just like Web, and a couple of small metadata files. Most of Amazon file formats (except for short lived Topaz) are derived from EPUB.

I have devised a way (very simple, actually) for my friends to inherit my library. As the account authentication is done via e-mail and password, and credit card does not have to belong to the account owner, Amazon will be no wiser when I die and somebody else continues to use my library.

Another way, of course, it to simply strip DRM from those bought books that have it, but I prefer having the features of Amazon's "cloud" library.

I simply cannot go back to DTBs - I tried for some good local Croatian authors (why they don't also publish eBooks is beyond me), but it simply feels uncomfortable, almost unnatural.

Got the credit card trick. ISO, EPUB not so much.

I spoke to someone at my library and asked her why they were so stingy about ebooks. She told me it was because most people liked holding a real book in their hands. Duh. Maybe it's really because the buy 22 DTB's and 2 ebooks that one has to wait three months for!? Double duh.

Yes - it's like Toyota repeating "nobody wants electric cars" while the waiting time for most models of any manufacturer is at least months.

Bnz wrote: "Yes - it's like Toyota repeating "nobody wants electric cars" while the waiting time for most models of any manufacturer is at least months."

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General... It was well received in CA, but oil companies and parts maker for traditional parts sure didn't.

Oh, yes. That was legendary.