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[AmPac Graphics] Device Kindle Order Today For Best Price Free Two-day Shipping: the Device Kindle versions of the classics are either free or very inexpensive, and I could have all of them in one place for easy reference. I also liked that I could annotate and add notes and place bookmarks.

[TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home] Five reasons to avoid ereaders - for now by Laurens Leurs ...: Unfortunately insisting on a built-in dictionary immediately rules out 70% of all the devices that are currently available. It is a pity that I haven’t had the opportunity yet to try the Sony PRS-600 Touch Edition (pictured below), which comes with a built-in English dictionary.

[Gizmodo: Ebooks] How To Fix Today's Ebook Readers - Digital Books - Gizmodo: Metaphor in design that adds real value - changing the background paper stacks to represent actual pages left in a book, for example - is arguably useful, but the mindless embrace of metaphor based on Apple's user interface guidelines is a mistake. Especially when these metaphors yell loudly and grow old quickly - precisely the opposite goal for which great interface design strives (be quiet and age gracefully).

[Web Design Cool] What the iPad Is Missing (No, It's Not a Camera) | Web Design Cool: embraced by Web designers (along with its Windows equivalent Lucida Sans Unicode) as their go-to family for small text. Yet, to this day, there is no Lucida Grande italic.

[Know-How Stories] How To Fix Today's Ebook Readers - Digital Books - Gizmodo: Add to the equation that many digital books are OCR scans with broken tables and sloppy page breaks, and you have to wonder just how anyone thinks they can charge a near equivalent price for an inferior reading experience. A reading experience made inferior not because of the device, but because of a lack of consideration in the presentation.

[Singularity Hub] Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With New E-Reader Platform Blio ...: while he (ray) is probably so smart he has a comma in his i.q., i am wondering what makes THIS application more compelling on the desktop (and ONLY windows 7 ?) than a multi-format (pdf,mobi,epub,txt,html,cbr,whoknowswhatother) reader/manager/converter and e-reader manager program like calibre (which also has a web front end and can communicate with most of the readers on the market).

[Kenpachi's posterous] Unicode Fonts Hack | Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2 And Kindle DX Blog ...: Use menus to initiate manual update installation: Press “Home” to fo to the home screen, press “Menu” and select “Settings”, press “Menu” again and select “Update Your Kindle”, press the 5-way controller once more to confirm the update. If “Update Your Kindle” is disabled make sure that update version corresponds to your version of Kindle.

[Hacker News] Hacker News | Ask HN: can I transfer a $6000 Kindle book onto PC ...: What happens when XP suits you just fine but Microsoft decides that it costs too much to keep the activation servers running and you want to activate your legit copy of xp on a new machine. You are then forced to either:

[InDesignSecrets] InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Roundup of InDesign CS5 Features ...: Animations can only appear in SWFs that you export from InDesign (not PDFs) but here’s our first InDesign CS5 Secret: To get an animation to appear in a PDF, export just the animated object to SWF (Export Selection is a new option in the SWF Export dialog box) and then place that SWF right back into the InDesign layout, replacing the object. When you export the layout to interactive PDF and view it in Reader or Acrobat 9, the animation plays!

[Walt at Random] Walt at Random » Blog Archive » EPub, First Attempt: At this point, I'd be a good deal more embarrassed to offer either variety of ePub than I already am by the semi-clunky HTML versions of Cites & Insights essays”¦which have odd margins but at least have clean typography and proper flow. Suggestions that I use some higher-end ePub conversion system will be cheerfully considered as long as they're accompanied by pointers to legal, free Windows downloads for the system.

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Apple, postmodern consumerism ...: Connectivity was the key to the Smartphone’s success, not the data storage, and the PDA never had that in a practical matter. Smartphone’s are not the child of the PDA as a practical matter aside from outward looks (and some software commonality, but note that both PDA-derived OS’s were serious commercial failures as SmartPhone OS’s).

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