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Just got a Kindle.

It has a touch screen keyboard which pops up when required, it also has a list of suggested words which comes up as you type.
 
Good afternoon.
I have a first gen. Kindle Fire and a third gen. Kindle keyboard with free 3 G. The Kindle 3G is what I`m typing on now as I do not have broadband access at home and too cheap to get it. I might get a Kindle Fire HD 4G if I could find out how much the plans are. the only one I found is the $50 a year but has very limited data use. Sounds like you can check email a few times a month. Certainly no streaming of video.
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I was against the Kindle, and then I found out that there are yaoi novellas and even full manga on the Kindle store. Now I have about two dozen Kindle books >> . I also like getting free or 99 cent versions of classics. I still buy print version of things like LOTR.
 
I am a sucker for the Collected works of Great Authors available on Kindle.
Yes, almost all of the individual books are available for free since they are in the public domain, but the formating and quality of the free versions are often pretty crappy,and then there is all the time downloading.
Delphi Publishing does a very good ,high quality job of Famous authors. 3 bucks for a properly formatted Complete works of Dickens or Shakespeare is a bargain. And Delphi does try to include stuff that is that not commonly available for free download, like with Dickens his complete letters.
 
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Amazon is being sued (again). As are Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group and Macmillan over DRM and Kindle linking of ebook sales.
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I had to look up DRM:

Digital rights management (DRM) is a class of controversial access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders, and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale.
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Just got my fourth Kindle, I usually buy them use them and then gift it to close relatives...the first went to my mother and the second to my niece. The the third one i had i sold at a very reasonable price to a friend who wanted to gift his wife with something unique. The one i just bought from the official Kindle stockers in India. It is a non keyboard, non touch version and I must say I still have not got tired of the sheer simplicity and functionality of this remarkable piece of hardware.
 
My kindle is starting to show some problems. At first it started forgetting which page was last read in a book, now it forgets which book was last read.

Have tried removing and readding my library but still the same. Will give amazon a try, but its a couple of years old now so prob time to retire it and go back to books.
 
catsmate1 said:
Amazon is being sued (again). As are Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group and Macmillan over DRM and Kindle linking of ebook sales.
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I hate DRM, and sympathize with the plight of the Indie Book seller, but don't see much legal grounds for their suit. Provided that the buyer is made aware of the terms of the puchase,Amazon and the Publishers can pretty much do what they want as far as DRM goes. Lawsuits against games that have DRM have gone nowhere in court, and I suspect this will be the same.

And IMHO the Indie book sellers are engaged in a bit of Ludditism here.I suspect then really want to kill off E books altogether (if you get rid of DRM,you get rid of Copyright protection for E books,and that would kill off publishers being interested in E Books). Ain't gonna happen.
 
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DrDave said:
My kindle is starting to show some problems. At first it started forgetting which page was last read in a book, now it forgets which book was last read.
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Have tried removing and readding my library but still the same. Will give amazon a try, but its a couple of years old now so prob time to retire it and go back to books.
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I'm not sure I could do that. I had to read a dead tree book the other week when I broke my Kindle and was waiting for a replacement (I was glad I took out the 3 year warranty, not something I usually do), and it felt very cumbersome.
 
dudalb said:
I hate DRM, and sympathize with the plight of the Indie Book seller, but don't see much legal grounds for their suit. Provided that the buyer is made aware of the terms of the puchase,Amazon and the Publishers can pretty much do what they want as far as DRM goes. Lawsuits against games that have DRM have gone nowhere in court, and I suspect this will be the same.

And IMHO the Indie book sellers are engaged in a bit of Ludditism here.I suspect then really want to kill off E books altogether (if you get rid of DRM,you get rid of Copyright protection for E books,and that would kill off publishers being interested in E Books). Ain't gonna happen.
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TOR publishers' e-books are DRM free

Their blogpost about it

“It’s clear to us that this is what our customers want,” said senior editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden. “We see it in the success of SF publishers like Baen and Angry Robot that have preceded us in going DRM-free. To the best of our knowledge we’re the first division of a Big Six publishing conglomerate to go down this road, but we doubt very much that we’ll be the last.”
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dudalb said:
I hate DRM, and sympathize with the plight of the Indie Book seller, but don't see much legal grounds for their suit. Provided that the buyer is made aware of the terms of the puchase,Amazon and the Publishers can pretty much do what they want as far as DRM goes. Lawsuits against games that have DRM have gone nowhere in court, and I suspect this will be the same.

And IMHO the Indie book sellers are engaged in a bit of Ludditism here.I suspect then really want to kill off E books altogether (if you get rid of DRM,you get rid of Copyright protection for E books,and that would kill off publishers being interested in E Books). Ain't gonna happen.
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jimbob said:
TOR publishers' e-books are DRM free

Their blogpost about it
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Indeed. Baen also rejected DRM and freely distributes a lot of their titles, a system that has worked well for them. Eric Flint and Jim Baen both wrote on the subject.
 
catsmate1 said:
Amazon is being sued (again). As are Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group and Macmillan over DRM and Kindle linking of ebook sales.
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Wow, what a stupid complaint:


The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, contends that while Amazon and Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, and Macmillan signed contracts with Amazon for the sale of e-books with DRM that was “specifically designed to limit the use of digital content” to various Kindle devices, the publishers have not entered into any agreements with independent bricks-and-mortar or independent collectives to sell e-books. “Consequently,” the complaint states, “the vast majority of readers who wish to read an e-book published by the Big Six will purchase the e-book from Amazon.”
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Wouldn't any agreement they make with Amazon, and not with these independents, mean that "the vast majority of readers who wish to read an e-book published by the Big Six will purchase the e-book from Amazon"? The issue of DRM is completely besides the point!
 
zooterkin said:
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I'm not sure I could do that. I had to read a dead tree book the other week when I broke my Kindle and was waiting for a replacement (I was glad I took out the 3 year warranty, not something I usually do), and it felt very cumbersome.
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I'm not 100% but initially my decision to get a kindle was based on saving money buying real books and having a library to read with me (I work abroad and am the type to want to read the only book I didn't take). I've gone through the free classics I was interested in and the free books from Amazon are often part of a series or questionable quality! So the cost benefit argument isn't nearly as great as I initially predicted.

That said, was in PC world just now and can get a new kindle for about £45 (if I put it through my company) so I'll try paper books and then no doubt come back to a kindle!
 
DrDave said:
I'm not 100% but initially my decision to get a kindle was based on saving money buying real books and having a library to read with me (I work abroad and am the type to want to read the only book I didn't take). I've gone through the free classics I was interested in and the free books from Amazon are often part of a series or questionable quality! So the cost benefit argument isn't nearly as great as I initially predicted.
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I was a bit wary before I bought a Kindle, because most of the books I read were either from the library or were cheap paperbacks (3 for a fiver). However, there seem to be plenty of special offers on Amazon, and I'm spending less per book that I used to on real ones. Every day on the UK Amazon site there's a book for 99p, and one day they had 10 Kurt Vonnegut books for the same price each. These are not books of questionable quality (though I've seen a few of those, in the free category), just temporarily reduced from the regular price.
That said, was in PC world just now and can get a new kindle for about £45 (if I put it through my company) so I'll try paper books and then no doubt come back to a kindle!
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There are other options I might look at when my Kindle gives up the ghost, which don't tie you to DRM. The Bookeen Odyssey Frontlight, for example.
 
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