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Luna

#210
July 10, 2011, 01:59:55 AM
Quote from: DANGEROUS DOPE FIEND on July 09, 2011, 07:32:45 PM
I fucking love my Kindle! Weighs less than a paperback, fits in my purse, and already has 200 books on it.

200?   

I've had to clear books off to make space for new ones...   :oops:
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"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Cain

#211
July 10, 2011, 11:03:24 AM
I decided not to put my full library on, as it makes me too indecisive in regards of what to read.  I'm currently floating around the 60 book mark, but some of those were experiments in transforming different formats (ePub, PDF, badly formatted PDF etc) into .mobi.  I've discovered ePubs convert fantastically with Calibre, to the point of perfection.

But yeah, it is fantastic.  And being able to get new releases, on the day they're released, seems like a real selling point they should probably market more.

Luna

#212
July 10, 2011, 11:22:49 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 10, 2011, 11:03:24 AM
I decided not to put my full library on, as it makes me too indecisive in regards of what to read.  I'm currently floating around the 60 book mark, but some of those were experiments in transforming different formats (ePub, PDF, badly formatted PDF etc) into .mobi.  I've discovered ePubs convert fantastically with Calibre, to the point of perfection.

But yeah, it is fantastic.  And being able to get new releases, on the day they're released, seems like a real selling point they should probably market more.

Also, the fact that, if a new release happens to hit when I'm not home, I can get it darn near anywhere.

Calibre is wonderful, and if you have a kindle, you need it.  Complicated .pdf files do tend to baffle it (like, say, RPG books), but ePubs?  Perfect.
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Cain

#213
July 10, 2011, 01:21:22 PM Last Edit: July 10, 2011, 01:23:15 PM by Cain
Well, there is an easy test for it.

If, when you click the select bar when viewing your pdf on your computer, you can select the text (individual letters) it will convert.  If not, if they are scanned images, obviously it will not*.

So long as you have access to high quality pdfs, especially those transcribed by actual publishers for the ebook market, you are OK.  The problem is, like with RPGs, several of my books are very old, very hard to find or both, and so scanned PDFs are the best I can do.  In those cases, you end up with a .mobi file several hundred megabytes in size that cannot do a thing on your Kindle.


*though selectable maps will scan really well, as I found with my copy of The Storm of War. 

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#214
July 10, 2011, 02:38:27 PM
Quote from: Luna on July 10, 2011, 01:59:55 AM
Quote from: DANGEROUS DOPE FIEND on July 09, 2011, 07:32:45 PM
I fucking love my Kindle! Weighs less than a paperback, fits in my purse, and already has 200 books on it.

200?   

I've had to clear books off to make space for new ones...   :oops:

I just got mine.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Luna

#215
July 10, 2011, 03:02:49 PM
Quote from: Former Snowcap Queen on July 10, 2011, 02:38:27 PM
Quote from: Luna on July 10, 2011, 01:59:55 AM
Quote from: DANGEROUS DOPE FIEND on July 09, 2011, 07:32:45 PM
I fucking love my Kindle! Weighs less than a paperback, fits in my purse, and already has 200 books on it.

200?   

I've had to clear books off to make space for new ones...   :oops:

I just got mine.

You'll get there.  :)  You CAN hook up the kindle to your computer, haul stuff off, and save it so you don't have to redownload.
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#216
July 10, 2011, 04:52:58 PM
Quote from: Luna on July 10, 2011, 03:02:49 PM
Quote from: Former Snowcap Queen on July 10, 2011, 02:38:27 PM
Quote from: Luna on July 10, 2011, 01:59:55 AM
Quote from: DANGEROUS DOPE FIEND on July 09, 2011, 07:32:45 PM
I fucking love my Kindle! Weighs less than a paperback, fits in my purse, and already has 200 books on it.

200?   

I've had to clear books off to make space for new ones...   :oops:

I just got mine.

You'll get there.  :)  You CAN hook up the kindle to your computer, haul stuff off, and save it so you don't have to redownload.

Yup.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Jenne

#217
July 10, 2011, 04:59:14 PM
The only complaint I have about Kindle is the fact that not every book I want to buy has been put into that format (yet).  I went to get a book for my book club, and it wasn't Kindle-ized yet.  That sucked.

As for the new book coming out--I think I put it on preorder when I bought the whole damn kit and kaboodle (again, for the Kindle) last month...I need to recheck that, though.

ETA:  one feature I fucking love, though, is that my iPhone and Kindle keep up with each other so I don't have to carry the damned Kindle everywhere--I just whip out my phone and read where I last left off...

Luna

#218
July 10, 2011, 05:11:08 PM
Back to the topic, they've cast Brienne.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/07/08/game.of.thrones.brienne.ew/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5

This is her:



Not really what I pictured.
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

Quote
"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Jenne

#219
July 10, 2011, 05:23:01 PM
...maybe the makeup job will transform her like they did with the actress who plays Danerys.

Faust

#220
July 10, 2011, 08:23:17 PM
So, he's onto his last book. Is it time for me to do to him what I did to David Gemmel and Robert Jordan when they got to their last book?
Sleepless nights at the chateau

Luna

#221
July 10, 2011, 08:28:09 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 10, 2011, 08:23:17 PM
So, he's onto his last book. Is it time for me to do to him what I did to David Gemmel and Robert Jordan when they got to their last book?

What did you do?  (I'm actually almost afraid to ask, actually...)
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

Quote
"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Faust

#222
July 10, 2011, 09:25:10 PM
Quote from: Luna on July 10, 2011, 08:28:09 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 10, 2011, 08:23:17 PM
So, he's onto his last book. Is it time for me to do to him what I did to David Gemmel and Robert Jordan when they got to their last book?

What did you do?  (I'm actually almost afraid to ask, actually...)
What better way to troll fantasy fans then to eliminate the author just as they get to their final book in a series.
Sleepless nights at the chateau

Da6s

#223
July 11, 2011, 01:05:45 AM
Quote from: Faust on July 10, 2011, 08:23:17 PM
So, he's onto his last book. Is it time for me to do to him what I did to David Gemmel and Robert Jordan when they got to their last book?

Don't forget Frank Herbert. Like hell Chapterhouse was the last.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Luna

#224
July 11, 2011, 01:13:55 AM
Quote from: Faust on July 10, 2011, 09:25:10 PM
Quote from: Luna on July 10, 2011, 08:28:09 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 10, 2011, 08:23:17 PM
So, he's onto his last book. Is it time for me to do to him what I did to David Gemmel and Robert Jordan when they got to their last book?

What did you do?  (I'm actually almost afraid to ask, actually...)
What better way to troll fantasy fans then to eliminate the author just as they get to their final book in a series.

:argh!:
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

Quote
"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."
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