/lit/ - Literature

I have a Fire that's been hacked to run Android. I like it, although I honestly use it more for Anki and reading PDFs than I do for actual Kindle books, but that might just be me.

I'm worried about the DRM though. I heard from a friend about this woman from Europe who got her kindle wiped out by Amazon because her account was linked to something fishy. She never saw the light of the day of her massive book collection.

>>3085357
you can copy the book to Calibre and remove the DRM.

>>3085357

>Paying for ANY digital media that can be obtained for free.
>2012.

>>3085333
>Fire that's been hacked to run Android.

>>3085357
I just pirate every single fucking book. I did have a magazine subscription for some time. Was alright.
Be warned that the formatting can get horrendous in some books.

I bought a regular Kindle Touch a couple of months ago now, and my major gripe was the lack of a light (fixed by one of their ludicrously expensive cases) and that I would have preferred it if the screen was higher-resolution.

Naturally, after I buy one they release this at the same price point. Not like it matters, though, the Kindle I got was a gift from family, so I didn't pay for it anyway.

>>3085636
>pic of Richard Stallman
Yeah, you just invalidated every one of your posts
neckbeard faggot

I have a Kindle Keyboard. I love it. Fuck the Fire, Nexus 7 if you want a tablet.

Haven't seen the Paperwhite in person, but even the previous generation of e-ink Kindles beat absolutely any other media for reading written words. Seriously, even actual paper.

To be fair, paper has other advantages. Color and annotations, basically. But anything I'm reading with non-academic or work-related purposes I'd rather read on a Kindle.

Also Kindles are pretty good for greyscale comics (such as most manga), if that's your thing.

They will open non-DRM'd files, including PDFs and images, and Calibre is a fucking awesome tool for managing your non-DRM'd ebooks.

I had a chance to read Tristan & Iseult with a Nook, which (disregard this if I'm wrong) I assume is just like a Kindle- at least when it comes down to reading ebooks. I didn't like it. Just felt wrong. I guess I like how the pages of a nice, weathered book look, or smell, or feel.

I was a strident bookfag. I was one of those "But I like the way they smell!" people. Then someone bought me a Kindle for Christmas a year ago, against my wishes.

My Kindle now has almost a hundred books on it, and I haven't looked back.

>>3085687
Just trying to hint that the Fire is an Android device so "hacking" (lol) it to run Android is nonsense.

I like being able to see what other readers have highlighted.

>>3085357

You can crack the DRM on any Amazon book with a program called Calibre.

Amazon also backs up your every purchase into ~the cloud~. Which doesn't help if your Amazon account gets shut down obviously. But, like, if something happens to your Kindle, or you get a new one, or if you install the Kindle app on your phone or some shit, you can access all your books. It even syncs up where you're reading. I can be reading something on my iPhone (hypothetically, because that would be fucking retarded) and then pick up in the same place on my Kindle.

>>3085791

I always wonder whether it just so happens that everyone tends to highlight the same passages, or whether there's some internal algorithm that controls which highlights you see. It is neat, though. You read a line of good prose, and then see that 60 other people thought that line was good, too.

Hypothetically, if someone were to offer me a book to read in print or on my Kindle, I'd probably pick the print.

But it's by a very slim margin, and the Kindle ends up outweighing it totally and completely by offering me the same kind of versatility with my book library as I have with my music library. The ability to keep my book library all in the cloud and ephemeral, to move it between devices, do all kinds of metatext stuff, the ability to search by word, look up definitions as I read, etc -- it's just too fucking useful. It outweighs the slight advantage a print book gets in the tactility category.

I have kindle keyboard and I pirate like fucking crazy. Does amazon know this and can they even do anything about it?

I have a Kindle 3 Keyboard and I love.

>>3085973
Beats me. Been pirating on mine for a year and nothing has happened yet.

>>3085215
I bought this back in April 2011. Notice the button. It has an SD card, up to 32 gigs. I got a 4 gigs SD card. Have about 500 books on the e-reader. Alpha as fuck.

>people buying kindpe paper white, kobo glow
>stay casual

>>3085986
But it's simply too ugly.

>>3085986
are these still available to buy? which version is this?

>>3086014
gay man pls go home

>>3086022
Yeah, ebay. Second generation kobo. (first don't have the SD slot)

>>3086052
>aesthetics are for homosexuals

You are that peasant who "buys cheap clothes cuz he no fag" , aren't you?

E-readers are like macs.

>>3086059
They jest werk?

All depends if you what you want to do with it.

If you are just going to be using it for reading (or primary reading) an e-ink screen is probably the best way to go. You get months between charges.

The fire is basically a mini tablet. You get color and a LOT more apps and other features, but you pay the price with the LCD screen. Battery life is at best 8 hours with all the stuff turned off or low.

If you really want the fire for it's other features in addition to reading, get some sort of portable charger that you can use on the fly or a car charger. This will make life MUCH easier.

>>3086057
you are that peasant who thinks he isn't a peasant because he has enough introspection to realise a class system exists, aren't you?

>>3085215
>Paperwhite: I just want to read books with a screen suited to reading for long hours
>Fire: I want a tablet that can do a whole lot of things

Reading experience will be better on the paperwhite.

I got one of the first gen Fires as a gift a year ago.

It was my first e-reader of any kind and I've been generally happy with it.

The anon who says to carry a charger with you at all times is right on. Battery life can be an issue if you like to read for extended periods on the go without a wall outlet nearby.

I'm actually planing on getting a paperwhite when I have the money. I just don't use the fires other features.

Am I the only one with still buys physical books to keep at home and then uses an e-reader for on the go/travel reading? (I just pirate the books I already own, and buy the ones I don't want to physically own.)

I don't have to worry about banging up my nicer/rare books and I get the portability and nondescript features of an e-reader.

aka Best of both worlds?

>>3086146
i've heard anecdotally that people with e-readers still buy books. i and all the ppl i know do.

>>3085215
Kindle books are now outselling paperbacks on Amazon.

Hipster faggot status: TOLD

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/kindle-books-now-outsell-paperbacks-125386

The cheap bastard in me still thinks e-readers are foolish.

You lose out on sales/price reductions and you have to worry about charging a battery (aka higher power bills)

>>3086161
>2012
>not pirating ebooks
>not living in an apartment

>>3086161
1. There are plenty of deals if you're willing to look, Amazon alone does a 99p book everyday and they're not the only retailer. Not to mention that e-books are almost universally cheaper to begin with. And if you're really that worried about penny pinching then you should be pirating anyway.

2. The power used is minimal. I charge my Kindle maybe 2-3 times a month. I don't know the exact figures but I'm willing to bet it's not much more than most devices on standby, and if you're REALLY worried about it just use the USB charger when you're working or just otherwise using your PC, sort of like now. It takes a couple of hours max for full charge.

>>3086161

It's no worse than charging your smart phone.

If your THAT paranoid, just take you reader with you to class/work and charge it while you are working. You'll have a full charge when your done working and then can do all the reading you want without having to worry about your home power bills.

>>3086161
I have a different reason. I feel at home and at peace when I'm surrounded by so many books, or when I see a neatly stacked shelf of books. I love the smell that comes out from them, and I love it when I flip the pages and it makes that rustled chafing sound against each page. I like it that when they age, the turn to a homely shade of brown with different tinctures as if they had freckles.

I may or may not be a luddite.

>>3086173
jesus christ

you can still buy books. gets books on an e-reader when you arent sure about them, buy it when you are.

>>3086161

Even the fire doesn't actually use a ton of power.

You have to charge it more often, but it doesn't require that much power to reach a full charge.

Running a TV or using a labtop for a few hours easily uses x1000 times more power than you will be using to charge an e-reader.

>>3086181
Didn't say I wouldn't though. I have the money, but I'm still contemplating the pros and cons.

>>3086173
>Not having a minimalist décor
>2012

Libraries are a dime a dozen, you can hang out there if you like it so much. For me, in the home they're just decorative clutter that take up time and effort to be sorted and managed, and if improperly cared for can pose serious health and fire risks over long periods of time. And most personal libraries tend to be rather dreary, I've been in plenty of academic offices over the years where they serve as little more than backdrop, I'd rather have a nice plant or the extra space. Either way I think it's much cooler to have a digital device that stores more books than anyone could ever hope to read in a lifetime, a veritable library of Alexandria in the palm of your hand, than it is to have a couple of battered charity shop paperbacks and dull academic texts stacked unread on a shelf.

>>3086146
I do the exact same thing.

>>3086195
>'dull' textbooks
What do you think they had in the library of Alexandria pal? It sure as shit wasn't The Game of Thrones and Neil Gaiman tier

>>3086066
All jest, no work.

>>3086195
low iq detected

>muh dull textbooks

fucking tard

>>3086195
> and if improperly cared for can pose serious health

what?

>>3087190
>Mold
>Mildew
>Strangers breaking into your house and wiping their ass

It's a dangerous world out there.

I remain skeptical

Will my eyes not hurt from reading this like they do from looking at screen?

Is it not much less comfortable to hold than an actual book?

>>3085789
I can't into computers. It formerly ran the Kindle OS. Now it runs Droid.

Sage for off-topic.

>>3087343
Oh, Arya. How I long for the tender kiss of your lips upon my stiffened member. How I gaze into the unfocused distance, tortured by my desires, my wants, my need to explode in your mouth and let my seed trickle down your throat. Oh Arya, my sweet young Arya. My soul yearns for your embrace, my fingers for your hairless hole, and my tongue for your backside. Arya, a thousand socks lay stiffened at the foot of my bed, testament to the unbearable agony of another minute in this life without your legs parted for my mouth.

>>3086195

I think I've stayed away from the kindle so long because I'm trying to build up a library for my children. My girlfriend and I are the first two in our family's history to go to college, so we are piece by piece building up books that would do good for our children to read. Then our children's children. We have all the books we did in high school, are gaining more academic ones now in college, plus sometimes I'll splurge and buy a collection of books to add to it. You can't really share with a kindle at all. This e stuff is alright, but I really do think that's my main gripe with it. mp3 players, handheld gaming systems, the e-book readers, only one person can be using them at any time, no matter how many items for each product you actually have.

I used to be 100% physical books, but with space running out on my bookshelf, I probably do 40% of my reading now on my Nexus 7.

>>3087370
I don't get why everyone's so obsessed about her, she's honestly just ugly.

>>3087370
10 star post.

>>3087343
No, your eyes will feel exactly like they do reading from a book. And it is more comfortable to hold than an actual book. It's lighter and you can hold it with one hand without it snapping shut. You can also lay it down without it folding shut and read handsfree.

I was a sceptic as well, but they are truly wonderful things.