I've had a Kindle Keyboard with lighted case that I've been pretty happy with for a couple of years. However, I'm thinking of upgrading to the Paperwhite for the improved display. Is it worth the price, and is there any trade-off in battery life?
[more inside]
posted by iamisaid
on May 10, 2013 -
17 answers
I'm a freelance reporter who just finished a multi-part series for a nonprofit news organization. Now I'd like to turn it into an ebook. I am not savvy about rights, commissions, etc., and neither is my editor/publisher. What do we need to know to negotiate a fair revenue split?
[more inside]
posted by croutonsupafreak
on May 9, 2013 -
4 answers
I have a lot of (50GB) pdfs and some epub documents. I would like to find a way to search through them quickly and accurately, in a way that is web accessible. I would like highlights of matches from inside the document to display.
[more inside]
posted by digividal
on Apr 25, 2013 -
5 answers
I know pretty much nothing about the e-reader market right now, but I'm thinking about taking the plunge. Given my particular requirements, what is likely to be the best e-reader for me?
[more inside]
posted by Scientist
on Mar 7, 2013 -
35 answers
Looking for solutions to make a 25,000 title eBook collection of different file types searchable. I use Calibre to manage this monstrosity but I want to be able to run searcheswwithin these books. Wishful thinking? I don't code and I have no time to plod through learning it.
posted by dave78981
on Feb 9, 2013 -
6 answers
I want to read public domain books (especially Shakespeare) on my Galaxy S3. But all of the apps I can find are giving me trouble. What's the best-designed and most convenient solution?
[more inside]
posted by vogon_poet
on Jan 10, 2013 -
6 answers
I'm looking for an e-book reader. I've been pretty wow-ed by the Kindle Paperwhite, but I have some reservations as to whether I should get that (or even get an e-book reader at all)
[more inside]
posted by titantoppler
on Nov 4, 2012 -
18 answers
I want a version of Joyce's
Ulysses with footnotes at the bottom of the page. Paper or e-book.
[more inside]
posted by zardoz
on Sep 13, 2012 -
3 answers
Is there any consensus as to whether serif on sans-serif fonts are easier on the eyes when using e-ink based readers?
posted by Yakuman
on Sep 6, 2012 -
7 answers
I need advice choosing electronic device/s to perform 2 different tasks (e-books and streaming music from an external HD to Surround sound receiver)
[more inside]
posted by plumberonkarst
on Aug 1, 2012 -
7 answers
Looking for interesting writers (especially in the speculative/science fiction genre) who are self-publishing/self-distributing their own ebooks
[more inside]
posted by nanojath
on Jul 3, 2012 -
11 answers
Looking for the best way to publish a frequently-updated document to multiple electronic formats (PDF, ePub, mobi, etc.).
[more inside]
posted by GJSchaller
on May 29, 2012 -
8 answers
Three of the four books in Joyce Carol Oates' Wonderland Quartet are available as eBooks. Why isn't the fourth?
[more inside]
posted by Lucinda
on May 1, 2012 -
1 answer
Is there a way to cut white space out of the margins of purchased epubs?
[more inside]
posted by Paquda
on Apr 18, 2012 -
6 answers
Can any print-on-demand book companies offer a non-standard, horizontal/landscape orientation for a full-color book with artwork on every page? Is there an ebook option for a book in this format?
[more inside]
posted by Scram
on Mar 29, 2012 -
6 answers
I need to take an already-printed book and scan it into a format appropriate for e-book publishing on say the Amazon Kindle store and similar. I do not have the original book proofs in digital format. If I simply took the book to Kinko's and had it scanned as images or a PDF, would that be likely to work well or is there a better option? What resolution and format would be best?
posted by shivohum
on Mar 20, 2012 -
11 answers
Years ago, I wrote a novel. I am not interested in seeking out a publisher for it - rather, I'm hoping to sell it on Amazon as an e-book for a few bucks. From someone who has done it, how can I transform my Word file into an Amazon e-book listing which I can direct my friends to?
[more inside]
posted by Sully
on Mar 11, 2012 -
8 answers
I'm considering purchasing a Kindle DX, but the current version is two years old and two hardware generations behind the regular Kindle. Is there functionality in the newer versions of the regular Kindle that I would miss when using the Kindle DX? Is it likely to be replaced or discontinued in the near future? Is there anything else that I should know about before buying a Kindle DX?
posted by theclaw
on Feb 28, 2012 -
14 answers
Online Book publishing: ebook, kindle, epub, ibook - can this be done without a million different programs and converters?
[more inside]
posted by artlung
on Feb 23, 2012 -
13 answers
What is the best Wordpress ecommerce plugin for digital downloads only? I am setting up a small store for digital goods (e-books, etc.) on a Wordpress site.
[more inside]
posted by matcha action
on Feb 22, 2012 -
5 answers
Can I make playlists for ebooks on my iPad? And if not on the device itself, is there software for my computer that wil at least let me manage my books in groups?
[more inside]
posted by wenestvedt
on Feb 3, 2012 -
5 answers
I have several large sets of high resolution PNG images that I would like to be able to easily view on a computer as an ebook. I would like to be able to flick through the pages with ease, zoom in/out and jump to a page number. It needs to work cross platform (OSX, Windows) and ideally just link to the png files rather than embedding them into a big file. It needs to be easy to use and hard to break! I am sure that there must be something out there that can help, but I have drawn a blank. Oh - and free/cheap is a bonus.
posted by Morsey
on Jan 23, 2012 -
8 answers
Do you switch back and forth between audiobook and ebook? If so - how do you keep your place?
[more inside]
posted by ManInSuit
on Dec 26, 2011 -
14 answers
When I had the first generation Kindle I had an e-book that was basically an index of free e-books that were in the public domain, and the title of each book was actually a hyper-link that would let you download a copy of said book right to the home screen of the Kindle. Does anyone know where I could get another copy of that book?
[more inside]
posted by Bango Skank
on Dec 21, 2011 -
11 answers
So.
I want to buy my dad a book for Christmas. And I know which one.
But.
He is reading all his books on his fancy new iPad these days
How do I buy him books now? I don't want to just send a gift card.
posted by SLC Mom
on Dec 17, 2011 -
9 answers
I have a health condition that may end my life prematurely. I am an "older" parent of an only child who is currently 8 years old. It's important to me that I leave a record of who I was. Can you help me with strategies to help me "index and annotate" myself for her, so that when she is older she could have an idea of her father as an adult beyond just the Daddy that I am to her now?
[more inside]
posted by nickjadlowe
on Dec 13, 2011 -
42 answers
How can I convert a web site, which is organized as a table of contents linking to 200 or so individual html "chapters", into one ebook?
[more inside]
posted by General Tonic
on Nov 18, 2011 -
10 answers
Does producing and publishing a free "Cliffnotes" type document sound legal?
[more inside]
posted by Buckt
on Nov 10, 2011 -
9 answers
cstross! jscalzi! Other fiction authors! What's the most efficient or author-preferred way to spend a given amount of money on his/her books?
[more inside]
posted by ROU_Xenophobe
on Nov 10, 2011 -
11 answers
So last night I upgraded my iPad2 to iOS5 and discovered that my favorite e-book reader app, Stanza,
doesn't work anymore. The ´net seems to think it will no longer be developed, so now I need to find a new reader. Dropbox connection is essential. I have (just now) settled on Bluefire, which is OK but laggy compared to Stanza. Any better suggestions for e-book reader apps for iPad2?
posted by chavenet
on Oct 13, 2011 -
33 answers
Kindle formatting gone wild. I've been working on converting a .PDF to a Kindle File (.mobi) and I'm almost there . . .except for one pesky problem.
[more inside]
posted by sideofwry
on Oct 3, 2011 -
3 answers
