/lit/ - Literature

We buy ereaders. No, the iPad is not an ereader.

What are kindles now? like 100 bucks?

Just buy one broski. Or at least turn your contrast and brightness down so your eyes dont bleed

Kindle bro

Can you put pdf's on a kindle?

if so I would buy one in a hearbeat

>>1982808
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=can+you+put+pdfs+on+a+kindle

where do you get your loot, op? torrents or a more dedicated site?

>>1982809
>mfw

>>1982812
torrents ... are there dedicated sites other than those in the sticky?

One of these.

>>1982814
oh i was just wondering - cant use torrents so i go to rapidshare-type sites. my girlfriend just bought a kindle actually and i was trying to get her books she wanted. also you can put .pdfs on a kindle but you cant edit the text size so its pretty tiny (you can zoom, but that doesn't help) so what i wound up doing was saving the .pdf as a .txt and putting it into the documents file on her kindle...worked pretty swell

>>1982820
How do you save a pdf as a txt file?

>>1982808
Both Kindles and Nooks support PDF, so long as they're just plain text PDFs, I believe.

You get better formatting if you convert them to ePub files, though.

Well OP, I read books, personally.

>>1982822
file->save as txt

>>1982822

Probably, but not without losing the formatting. There may be ways of converting from text-only PDF to EPUB or the like, but you'd be better off getting EPUBs directly if you can.

>>1982829
Calibre makes converting between ebook formats easy as fuck. I converted all my ebooks from PDF to EPUB using it recently when I bought an ebook reader.

>mfw 3 years ago my eyes were perfect.
>start reading pirated books on the computer screen constantly for a year or two
> vision gets ridiculously bad and I end up getting glasses after not needing them my entire life.

EEEEEEEBOOOOOOOOOKS

> change background color to black or something like that
> change text color to grey
> adjust monitor setting for smaller contrast and brightness

>>1982801
I use flux

>>1982851
What is that? A google search has not revealed but a 3D graphics editor/player: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(software)

>>1982840
>mfw I bought an ebook reader to read my pirated books on and saved the money prescription glasses would cost me, should my vision deteriorate staring at an LCD screen all day.

>>1982855
http://stereopsis.com/flux/

>>1982840

>yfw that is scientifically impossible

What actually happened is your eyes were already shit, but you didn't realize it because you never had to read ebooks for hours on end. After too much eye strain from reading without glasses, you decided you needed glasses, which you actually needed all along.

I'm sure if you stopped reading ebooks you wouldnt need the glasses anymore.

Unless you are younger than like 15, I guarantee your eyes didn't get worse.

I use a program called Nocturne, it inverts the colors on the screen, so I read white text on black, and is a lot less strain on my eyes.
It is a Mac program, I have not looked into whether there is a pc version

>>1982875
...you can just hit control+option+command+8 dude, I hope you didn't spend money on that program

Don't. Get an ereader. And if you don't want to get an ereader get some kind of inexpensive second-hand, handheld game console to use as an ereader.

Picture related. The gamepark GP32 was an awesome ereader before there was such a thing as proper ereaders.

>>1982801

Quit your whining. In my day we had to read our e-books on an old TV converted to a CRT, in six inches of snow uphill both ways. And we liked it. (Well apart from the regular migraine headaches, but let's not get hung up on that.)

>>1982864

They are not reading glasses, I'm near-sighted. and all of a sudden I started being unable to read shit across my apartment.