look at that mother fucking screen

[Phox]

Oh hey I got one of those.

You gives it to us, my precious?

[Don Coyote]

Oh hey I got one of those.

You gives it to us, my precious?

single word answers for $500.

[Phox]

Oh hey I got one of those.

You gives it to us, my precious?

single word answers for $500.

What is "yes", my precious?

[Cain]

Oh hey I got one of those.

Same.  Gotten a ton of use out of it already.

[the last yatto]

Why does Gutenberg have to name files by numbers,
annoying to have to rename them one by one

[Don Coyote]

Oh hey I got one of those.

Same.  Gotten a ton of use out of it already.

Me too. Also managed to almost kill mine.

[Cain]

How'd you manage that?

I'm impressed with the battery time.  Been using mine exactly a week, and only today I've noticed the bar dip down today.

[Don Coyote]

It jumped from my bed to my carpeted floor and part of the back cover popped up.

[Epimetheus]

It jumped from my bed to my carpeted floor and part of the back cover popped up.

Coyote, sounds to me like you got one o' them sapient pearwood Kindles.

[Don Coyote]

It jumped from my bed to my carpeted floor and part of the back cover popped up.

Coyote, sounds to me like you got one o' them sapient pearwood Kindles.

I performed an emergency lobotomy with a screwdriver and all is well with it now.

[Cain]

Did you get a cover?  I haven't dropped mine anywhere near that far, but it does seem to add the durability of it somewhat.

[Cain]

Also, if like me, you have a ton of PDF files, Calibre e-book management's file conversion system (from PDF to .mobi) is awesome.  It's very readable, and while I've noticed a couple of minor flaws in breaks for paragraphing, they may be to do with the source file more than the conversion process.

[Requia ☣]

Also, if like me, you have a ton of PDF files, Calibre e-book management's file conversion system (from PDF to .mobi) is awesome.  It's very readable, and while I've noticed a couple of minor flaws in breaks for paragraphing, they may be to do with the source file more than the conversion process.

I thought Amazon finally added PDF support?  Was this wrong, or does it just not work very well?

[Cain]

No, there is PDF support it just....well, it varies on the quality of the PDF.  The main problem is that, unlike with .mobi files where you increase the size of the letters, and the formatting stays the same, the only way to increase the size of the PDF is with a zoom function.  You can either do fit to page, which is usually too small for easy reading (though still possible with most standard ebooks) or you can zoom 150%, 200% or 300%, all of which involve having to scroll sideways across the screen constantly to read to the end of the sentence and is utterly terrible and jarring as a consequence.

[Requia ☣]

Ah.  Yeah, that is kinda crappy, haven't they ever heard of word wrap?