Kindle / E-books

hello everyone,

I was just doing a little research into maybe buying a Kindle. But I was wondering if you can download e-books as easily as you can download music. I know my library lends e-books so that's a start. But I dont really like the idea of spending $15 on an e-book. What are my options? Are there e-book blogs like there are music blogs? mediafire, megaupload, rapidshare, do they have e-books?

yeah kindle is expensive, I bought a bunch of books because I was tired of the bad formatting on a lot of epubs, unreliable formatting etc.. but damn you'd think they could drop the price considering they don't have to do anything, it's all automated.

demonoid is a good source for ebooks, also audiobooks.

yes, tons including public domain older stuff too.

this is where i started: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_355831402_8?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=1HQVJJ81Y79W6SQFZ4T4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1322176822&pf_rd_i=1286228011

can kindles or whatever display pdfs? because maaaan. i can find a lot of textbooks in pdf format and having a kindle to display them on would be niiiice. and cheaper than a single fucking textbook, yipes.

also can you root/hack/crack them

  On 10/15/2011 at 6:24 PM, disparaissant said:

can kindles or whatever display pdfs? because maaaan. i can find a lot of textbooks in pdf format and having a kindle to display them on would be niiiice. and cheaper than a single fucking textbook, yipes.

 

also can you root/hack/crack them

You can root them, run a custom ROM, and install any normal android apps (if you couldn't already, I know very little about kindles other than they run a modified version of android) So you could install a PDF reader and go from there.

E-readers are great for novels, but they aren't really suited for textbooks. Searching for text is a generally slow process, and flipping back and forth between parts is a pain. The screen is also too small for diagrams, which are shown in grayscale of course.

just using kindle for my htc desire, it's alright like that. quite like reading in bed with it, though i've been listening to audiobooks more with it lately.

  On 10/15/2011 at 6:26 PM, hautlle said:

  On 10/15/2011 at 6:24 PM, disparaissant said:

can kindles or whatever display pdfs? because maaaan. i can find a lot of textbooks in pdf format and having a kindle to display them on would be niiiice. and cheaper than a single fucking textbook, yipes.

 

also can you root/hack/crack them

 

 

You can root them, run a custom ROM, and install any normal android apps (if you couldn't already, I know very little about kindles other than they run a modified version of android) So you could install a PDF reader and go from there.

My girlfriend just bought one, it does display pdfs without the need to install anything...

He's talking about a kindle tablet the silly man.

Can you get the Kindle Touch in Europe? I've looked around but it seems only the classic and the one with the keyboard are available on amazon uk, what versions or other e-readers people use?

  On 10/15/2011 at 5:45 PM, luke viia said:

this is where i started: http://www.amazon.co...rd_i=1286228011

thank you! i think i will be getting a kindle soon!

  On 10/15/2011 at 7:08 PM, NoResults said:

E-readers are great for novels, but they aren't really suited for textbooks. Searching for text is a generally slow process, and flipping back and forth between parts is a pain. The screen is also too small for diagrams, which are shown in grayscale of course.

this. get a netbook.

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them." - John Waters

  On 10/16/2011 at 1:07 AM, tec said:

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them." - John Waters

that doesnt really apply in the internet age though. plenty of people are plenty knowledgeable and plenty cultured without having a ton of books cluttering up their house.

  On 10/16/2011 at 1:05 AM, iep said:

  On 10/15/2011 at 7:08 PM, NoResults said:

E-readers are great for novels, but they aren't really suited for textbooks. Searching for text is a generally slow process, and flipping back and forth between parts is a pain. The screen is also too small for diagrams, which are shown in grayscale of course.

 

this. get a netbook.

i have some asshole profs who dont allow computers in their classes but would prolly give a kindle a pass though.

hello,

i wanna reply to this, i've heard that this site http://www.bilbary.com is gonna start doing really cheap ebooks soon, and rentals too

  On 10/16/2011 at 2:05 AM, disparaissant said:

  On 10/16/2011 at 1:07 AM, tec said:

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them." - John Waters

that doesnt really apply in the internet age though. plenty of people are plenty knowledgeable and plenty cultured without having a ton of books cluttering up their house.

wrong.

not only do bitches in my life need to have books, they gotta be the right books. i require originality and RUSSIAN LIT in my fuck buddies.

jk im not that big of a douchebag. a couple penguin classics is all i need to get in that pussy

yeah, i'll put my dick in almost anything. i just like john waters.

i'd put my dick in john waters

  On 10/16/2011 at 8:27 PM, essines said:

  On 10/16/2011 at 2:05 AM, disparaissant said:

  On 10/16/2011 at 1:07 AM, tec said:

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them." - John Waters

that doesnt really apply in the internet age though. plenty of people are plenty knowledgeable and plenty cultured without having a ton of books cluttering up their house.

 

wrong.

wrong indeed!

so i guess reading something on a kindle or computer or whatever means you... didn't actually read it? fuuuuck.

i type all my books into word, print it out, then i read it. best of both worlds imo

sorry but i prefer to not reading a book cuz its less bang for the buck

  On 10/16/2011 at 11:22 PM, sup said:

sorry but i prefer to not reading a book cuz its less bang for the buck

Lately it feels like watmm is nothing but character actors. Lion got banned, but this place is now a lion's den.

well i TRYED to read a book but it just take forever just to do 1 page. i can watch whole tv episodes in that time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

books are just to arctic when it takes so long and todays stuff is quick to say the same stuff