/lit/ - Literature

Yes. Mobi.

>>2296947
I've also been checking around for a e-reader, but Kindle doesn't support .pdf afaik. neither epub. If you're in America, try Nooks e-reader. If you're not, blargh.

It's super easy. I use calibre. Put all your ebooks in that then plug your kindle in and transfer them. I think it takes .mobi but calibre will convert the ebooks for you.

>>2296954
It's really easy to convert epub and pdf to mobi.

>>2296954
i've got one of the new kindle 4's or whatever, the little silver ones and it reads /pdfs just fine.
im in the uk, does the us one not load pdfs? i know the uk one doesnt integrate twitter or whatever like the us one does.
or that might be nooks, still, wierd.

>>2296954

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wi-Fi-Ink-Display-Screensavers/dp/B0051QVESA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid
=1325636741&sr=8-1

It reads pdf's natively according tot he tech details.

im reading pdf porn comics on it right now.

dont you judge me.

Calibre is a godsend for converting in bulk. It's easy as shit, OP. Calibre can even email the books to you if you don't want to connect the Kindle.

>>2296947
Op here. Thanks for replies; looks like I'll be getting a kindle.

I take it everyone here enjoys theirs?

>>2297111
I love mine. I didn't read anything since high school until I got this. They are very convenient. Long ass battery life too.

>>2297111
got it christmas day, read 9 novels since, hell yeah i am.

the screeen is tooooooo fucking small, you will never use this shit.

>>2297138
Its the size of a paperback page

how the fuck is it too small?

>>2297138
My wife got me the touch for christmas. Was very anti ereader until i got it. Very easy on my eyes, and ive downloaded like 20 mb of books from project guttenberg and mediafire and torrent already, havent paid a cent.

Dont judge me, I would have bought the used ones or gone to the library anyways.

Paying for books that don't exist?

>>2297138
I got the touch, its def the size of a dime store paperback.

>>2297155
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://thepiratebay.org/search/.epub/0/99/0
google.com filetype:mobi "Book Title"
google.com "book title" mediafire

Cant wait

>>2297138

The screen is about the size of the page of a paperback, and the device's overall size allows me to use it with one hand, which I has revolutionized my reading experience.

Now I can't decide which Kindle to order.

Basic, touch, fire?

I'd think basic, but then again the touch is only $20 more and perhaps easier to navigate?

Opinions?

Kindle does support .pdf.

Sometimes the pages can be mega slow to update, but I don't know why. mostly it's OK.

Mine's full of ripped-off RPG rule books. Fuck if I'm paying for 4e.

Don't you dare judge me.

>>2297259

>reading experience

That's not how you spell fapping.

>>2297282
I read Cthulhutech rulebooks for the fiction in them.

It is you who shouldn't be judging me.

>>2297281
I'd go for basic. The touch has more features, but you can't read it with one hand. Kindle Fire just isn't that great. It's not a true ebook reader.

>>2297288
Alright thanks

>>2297288
What features? These features could be game changing, after all.

>>2297305
Touch screen. I guess it comes in handy when you're looking in the Kindle store, but I'm never on there. It has a 3.5mm jack for audio books. It has text to speech. It has a 2 month battery life, compared to the 1 month of the basic. Those features just didn't do it for me. The 1 month life is more than plenty.

Debating between a nook and a kindle. Might have to just go to a Staples or something to compare them directly. They carry both lines, yes? Does Staples have the kindle basic? Didn't see it on their webpage.

I like the interface and side page-flip buttons for the Nook Touch, but I like Amazon's service in general and I think the Kindle just looks better than the Nook aesthetically. Not a fan of the Kindle ads though.

>>2297310
The ads aren't bothering at all. I didn't even know they sold Kindles in stores.

>>2297309

The "1-2 month" battery life is pretty sketchy marketing in general. They have an asterisks saying that's for .5 hours a day of use. In other words, 15-30 hours of use. The bar graphs they always use on webpage show it as being like 500x as long as a 12 hour battery life smartphone, which is just silly. Unless I'm missing something.

>>2297287

I read (and steal) the rulebooks, even though I haven't played the game for years. Reading the Serenity RPG at the moment. Now I can do it on the bus and the chickies will never know that I'm some kind of metageek.

I defy you to adjudicate in this matter.

The batteries are rechargeable, correct?

>>2297314

This. I use mine pretty heavily, and it needs recharging once a week, minimum. More if you use 3g, which rapes the battery. In general - a long-haul flight runs the power bar down to a pretty worrying level.

Also, I've had mine for about 6 months, and the buttons are getting very sketchy, particularly the page turn button. I don't expect it will last me more than a year.

On the other hand, it cast fuck all, and I'll almost certainly replace it.

>>2297320
Yes, non removable. Micro USB

Thinking about getting one of these myself in the nest few weeks. Leaning towards the Fire because maybe I wanna read comics on it too. Also, Staples associates discount woo.

>>2297310
The "ads" are just screensavers when it's idle, and they also send you deals. Like free music, movies, and $1 book offers. Then various other kindle exclusive deals. I see no downside to this.

>>2297327
I thought it had ads while you read, like they show 'em at the bottom of the page.

>>2297332
They only show up at the bottom of the page on your homescreen.

>>2297324
The Kindle fire is a LCD tablet though, it isn't an e-ink e-reader.
Just so you are aware, in case you aren't.

>>2297312
>>2297327

Thanks. Leaning towards the Kindle but I'll probably stop by Staples tomorrow just to check how they fit my hand- probably come down to that at this point. Nook is so wide/short and ugly.

Did you guys compare in store or just go on faith? It seems most here went with the Kindle.

>>2297332

no lol...there's never ads inserted into your texts. that would be ridiculous.

>>2297338
It's Amazon. You can't go wrong with Amazon.

>>2297337
Oh no, I know. They made us watch a whole video about the differences between the various Kindles/Nooks. Plus, I stare at a computer screen all day anyway, so I don't mind not having e-ink that badly.

I have a fire and I love it. The Lcd screen is very easy to read on and the browser is very fast. Colors are very vibrant as well.

So... between Kindle Touch and Nook Touch, which one is better?

>>2297448
Kindle.

>>2297282

I've been considering doing that with mine, but I can't imagine that that would be much a pleasant experience.

How is it?

>>2296954

Kindle supports pdf and works quite well in landscape but long (>300pg) pdfs take a while to load and can stutter, unfortunately. You can break up the pdfs. Calibre does a pretty bad job on converting them, anyhow.

>>2297448

The Kindle touch handles page turning better.

The Nook Touch requires a sliding gesture to turn pages. The kindle does that as well, but also lets you turn pages just by taping the screen (Taping anywhere but the leftmost half-inch will go forward, and taping the extreme leftmost edge of the screen goes backwards.)

With text-only PDFs on the Kindle, can you make the font larger so that you don't have to zoom in on different parts of the page?

>>2297504

No… are you familiar with how pdfs work? Can you resize text in any of them independently of zooming in on the page?

Right.

whats the best way to read Cbr and Cbz files on a Kindle Fire? I like reading funny books once in a while.

>>2297519
Does the Fire read .mobi? On my regular Kindle, I just convert cbr to mobi and it works fine. But, it might be black and white for you, idk.

>>2297514
I was wanting to check because the Sony ereader can do font size changes for text PDFs, but it looks like the zoom-in option is the most common PDF approach. I'm looking at buying an ereader as a gift, and although I like the Sony one myself, I think the Kindle would have more appeal generally.

>>2297527
Using Calibre? ill give it a try, thx.

>>2297544
Yeah, Calibre.

>>2297542

I think the Sony does this through a software back–end. PDFs are just image–collections, they normally don't have naturally alterable data behind them. This is the reason they're used for things like book proofs with publishers.

A couple other people mentioned this, but seriously, Calibre is the shit.

Why hasn't anyone mentioned the Kobo? That's what I am planning to get.

>>2297637
Hipssssterrrrrr.....