My husband wrote a novel a few years back. It has pretty much sat in our house in digital and a print-out form. I will not comment on how the major publishing houses tend to not come searching in your house for The Next Great American Novel... *ahem* But what SHOULD he do?
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posted by anonymous
on Oct 12, 2011 -
7 answers
Why are pirated/cracked ebooks commonly of such low quality? This is for an academic paper.
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posted by hiteleven
on Oct 11, 2011 -
15 answers
I need to start following international news for my job. I also just bought a Nook. I'm betting the latter can help with the former...
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posted by showbiz_liz
on Oct 11, 2011 -
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Instapaper + Kindle is reading bliss. How do I extend this bliss to PDF documents with annoying formatting?
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posted by tmcw
on Oct 4, 2011 -
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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.
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posted by sideofwry
on Oct 3, 2011 -
3 answers
Is it actually possible or enjoyable to read
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell as an ebook?
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posted by cabingirl
on Oct 1, 2011 -
13 answers
Please recommend books you enjoyed that are 99 cents or less for the Kindle. Bonus: blogs that cover the same.
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posted by DarlingBri
on Sep 9, 2011 -
37 answers
I'm in Canada and planning on buying a kindle, and am currently deciding whether I should buy a Kindle 3G, or stick with the Wi-fi only model. I'd like to use it at the cottage, where there is no Internet Access, but (not-so-great) 3G coverage. It seems like there are some restrictions on international kindles that don't exist in the U.S.
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posted by backwards guitar
on Aug 17, 2011 -
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Where's the best place online to gather simple reference lists and charts to transfer to my Kindle 2, likely as PDFs or monospaced text? Stuff like US presidents and World Series winners, with enough basic info on each line to fit the screen's width. Is there a site that specifically has stuff like this for the Kindle? Google searches for "Kindle reference "and "Kindle lists" don't really help. Thanks.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing
on Aug 3, 2011 -
7 answers
Where in the Los Angeles area can I go to see a wide selection of Kindle covers and cases in person? (And hopefully try them out.)
posted by kidbritish
on Jul 22, 2011 -
7 answers
Is it possible to use chess.com on the Kindle 3G using the built-in web browser and 3G connection?
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posted by Spamfactor
on Jul 2, 2011 -
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I am sending back my 5th defective Kindle 3 because of screen faults--lines, not fully loading, not displaying properly. Amazon never says anything about why, but apologize for my trouble and agree to ship a replacement. But the damn things only last a month sometimes before the same problem happens. It's a nuisance not to have it work, especially when I'm off the grid on a trip or a vacation, and tedious to have to set up and transfer books and periodicals from old to new.
Is there an alternative? Do others have similar problems? The last CR I talked to suggested I buy a thick leather cover (which the sell for $40) but declined to say the lack of a cover was the cause of the problem.
Has anyone used a cover? Is it necessary? Is so why doesn't Amazon provide a cover. It would be cheaper than sending so many replacements.
posted by NorthCoastCafe
on Jun 28, 2011 -
25 answers
Uh, what goes where? Multiple media, multiple devices, singularly and spectacularly overloaded.
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posted by thinkpiece
on Jun 12, 2011 -
10 answers
I found errors on my self-published book on Kindle. Now that I have fixed them, how can I (and my customers) re-load the corrected version?
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posted by scaryblackdeath
on Jun 10, 2011 -
2 answers
Anyone with epub publishing experience willing to share the rookie-mistakes to avoid ?
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posted by Baud
on Jun 2, 2011 -
3 answers
How would one go about exporting a whole MediaWiki installation as an ebook?
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posted by dmit
on May 28, 2011 -
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Buying a Kindle as a gift for a new high school grad going on to college (Yale). To 3G or not to 3G? I would imagine that on campus WiFi is ubiquitous, and so 3G isn't required? Personally, I love my WiFi-only Kindle, but I'm a techy who swims in WiFi waves 24/7. This grad is a non-techy classics major.
posted by schrodycat
on May 22, 2011 -
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I want to self-publish my urban fantasy novel, but I'm worried about shooting myself in the foot with a number of decisions.
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posted by scaryblackdeath
on Apr 25, 2011 -
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What books are particularly well-suited to the audio book medium? Perhaps even better as audio books than in print?
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posted by mingodingo
on Mar 14, 2011 -
45 answers
What's the best bet to protect my Kindle DX from my accidentally dropping it? A hard-shell case? Some kind of case with wrist straps? Any particular recommendations?
posted by shivohum
on Feb 18, 2011 -
4 answers
I have recently discovered the joys of reading my Kindle while running on the treadmill. I'm looking for well-written, super-engrossing books to put on my Kindle to make the miles fly by…
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posted by Bella Sebastian
on Feb 13, 2011 -
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I have a tangle of USB chargers at my nightstand for the devices there: a Kindle, an iPad, an iPhone and a Nintendo DS. All of them charge over USB. I want some thing that is nicer looking that uses just one power plug and comes out into 4 or more USB jacks. These exist, and I've tried a few, and none of them have worked with the Kindle or with the iPad (but are fine with the DS and iPhone.) Is there a multi-USB power charger that for sure works with Kindles and iPads?
posted by neustile
on Feb 6, 2011 -
3 answers
I am the proud owner of a new Kindle 3, and am already loving the many things it does, including the early AM delivery of the NYT to it every day. So now I'm eying the blogs that can be e-delivered to te device too. Which, if any, does the hive mind recommend?
posted by bearwife
on Feb 3, 2011 -
11 answers
Kindle3 or Color Nook or Samsung Tab or just sticking with dead trees? I've been reading so many reviews, forums, tech support, askme posts, that my head is spinning and I don't know what to think. The new Kindle and Nook are supposedly vastly better than their predecessors, so I'm hoping mefites with new holiday toys might be able to shed some light.
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posted by sio42
on Jan 16, 2011 -
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I have a Kindle 3 (WiFi and 3G model) that's been replaced. The replacement Kindle has all of my Amazon books shown in the "Archived Items" section. How can I get all of these transferred to my new device without downloading them one at a time? The kicker: I have over a hundred free Kindle books that are apparently encrypted, so just copying from the old Kindle to the new Kindle returns an error when I try to read them.
posted by fireoyster
on Jan 13, 2011 -
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I got a kindle 3 for Christmas and since I'm trying to limit my spending, I'm trying to take advantage of the free books available on Amazon and sites like
Manybooks.net that offers free books in the kindle (awz) format. I also downloaded kindle for pc onto my home laptop. So I downloaded 3 or 4 awz format books from manybook.net onto my kindle for pc no problem. I then connected my kindle 3 to my computer via usb and tried to sync them to no avail. The books that I've downloaded directly to the kindle 3 from Amazon show up as "archived items" on my kindle for pc interface (and did before the attempted sync), but I can not get the books that were loaded directly to the pc onto the kindle 3.
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posted by kaybdc
on Jan 9, 2011 -
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