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• How to boldface ALL of a book so it’s easier to read on your E Ink gizmo: Easy Calibre tweak

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  E Ink’s low contrast—between the text and  background on the screen—annoys many an e-book-lover. I’m one of them. My wife has an even worse problem with the low contrast and refuses to mess with E Ink gizmos. And here E Ink is supposed to be nicer for human eyes than LCDs are. But what if you could use ...
  9 hours ago

• My perfect FrankenReader: What would yours be like?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  How about this as a holiday present a year from now—a Kindle - Gen3 - Sony - Nook hybrid, as perfect as the landscape to the left, including the sky above? A nice Frankenstein with just the right parts. Yes, tech will get better, one way or another , but I’m talking about the next 12 months. My dream ...
  1 day ago

• Would you want an XO-3 as your e-book reader? And what do you think of OLPC’s current direction?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  Enjoying your new Kindle, Nook or Sony Reader? Good for you. But, whether it’s the need for improved e-book standards or an end to DRM abuse of consumers, we need to look ahead. And the XO-3, from One Laptop Per Child , would be good to include in your view or at least consider as a possibility . Check out ...
  1 day ago

• Official format and DRM info from Google Editions, an Amazon competitor

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  “If you are submitting files to Google for use in Google Editions, Google accepts PDFs of both text and images, PDF with text layer is preferred. Google also prefers that you provide digital files with structure information where possible, such digital files may include but are not limited to (in order of ...
  2 days ago

• Amazon Kindle gets its DRM stripped (for the time being)

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  3 days ago

• Yep, ePub is among Google Editions’ formats for commercial publishers

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  As I expected, ePub will be among the formats Google Editions will support for commercial publishers—who can do direct uploads. Thanks to Wiebe de Jager . He has further details on Google’s use of ePub and PDF. Related: Earlier TeleRead  item on Google Editions , an Amazon competitor. Housekeeping: ...
  3 days ago

• Foxit eSlick reader bungles eReader support, lacks standard amenities like your own bookmarks

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  Robert J. Sawyer — one of Canada’s leading SF writers —has published 18 novels, won the Nebula and Hugo, and appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact , Amazing Stories and other leading publications. His latest book is Wake . I’m reproducing with permission a post to Fictionwise’s e-mail list . ...
  3 days ago

• Why can’t I send an ePub file to Amazon for conversion for my Kindle?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  SF writer Robert J. Sawyer ’s review of the Foxit eSlick reader will appear in the TeleBlog later today. Same for Ficbot’s thinking on E/P synergies and other ways p-bookstores can survive. But meanwhile here’s a question. Why the devil can’t Amazon’s conversion service for Kindle owners handle even ...
  3 days ago

• Sony Reader Daily Edition Beats Nook, Ships in Time for Christmas

  
  Gadget Lab — Authority: 763
  Those people waiting at home, jumping up every time they hear a vehicle stop outside and desperately hoping that their Barnes & Noble Nook will turn up in time for Christmas Day, may now add another nagging doubt to their list: Maybe they should have bought a Sony. Sony’s e-readers are shaping up to be the pick ...
  4 days ago

• Does the Nook use its own incompatible DRM scheme?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  B&N has implemented its own DRM scheme for the Nook and ePub books, says the blog I Love Cabbages . B&N has partnered with Adobe to use encrypted credit card numbers as the DRM key. We’ve made the pint before, but it bears repeating for new Nook owners and others. What does that mean if you own an e-book ...
  5 days ago

• Dont give a blank e-book reader!

  
  Boychik Lit — Authority: 91
  A friend asked me today whether the Rollo Hemphill comic novels are available in ebook versions. Decidedly yes, for both titles. Just make sure you get the right digital format: Amazon Kindle My Inflatable Friend Rubber Babes Adobe PDF (read it on your laptop, even) both titles available from Diesel ...
  5 days ago

• Hands-on: B&N nook updated to version 1.1.0

  
  The Mobile Gadgeteer — Authority: 508
  We heard that there may have been a B&N nook update coming last weekend, but that never happened. We then heard from Engadget this weekend that an update would be coming this Tuesday, 22 December. I turned on my nook this morning and after selecting Check for new B&N content the update automatically started ...
  5 days ago

• Doctorow’s Makers available as e-book, web appbook

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  Cory Doctorow’s latest book, Makers , is available for free download in a number of e-book formats under Doctorow’s usual Creative Commons license terms. (I gather it has been for a while.) One of the available versions is a Webkit web appbook that Peter Wayner created for the iPhone (or other small-screen ...
  6 days ago

• Downloading fanfic to e-book formats

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  E-book stores aren’t the only place to find reading material for your gadget of choice. Wesley Fryer blogs about another source : fanfic. I covered fanfic to a certain extent in my Paleo E-books columns, but mostly with an emphasis on the past. Fryer points out that the fanfic community has not stood still ...
  6 days ago

• My Sony Reader one year later

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  I’m a teacher and get a gift card every year from the parents at school. Empowered to splurge, I bought a Sony PRS-505 last year. My eBookwise had its positives—earlier I’d owned several Palm PDA-based readers, with smaller screens—but it was too clunky to take out of the house very often. Also, it had a ...
  6 days ago

• The Battle of the eBook Readers

  
  Auxiliary Memory — Authority: 415
  For a couple years now the Amazon Kindle has been the standard for ebook reading, even though the Sony Reader has been around longer and many people find it just as good. Now, the Barnes & Noble Nook has come out – so we have the Big Three of ebook readers, even though there are other ebook readers ...
  1 week ago

• Apple and ebooks with PastryKit

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  The following is from Bill McCoy’s Books 2.0 blog. You can read the full post here . There was a lot of discussion earlier this week about the discovery (via Daring Fireball ) of a new Apple JavaScript framework, used to implement the iPhone User Guide (link for iPhone users). The PastryKit framework ...
  1 week ago

• ePub format beating Mobipocket in O’Reilly download stats

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  The ePub standard is beating out the Mobipocket format in O’Reilly Media’s download stats even though nonDRMed Mobi is Kindle-usable. The chart shows “data in terms of relative volume, rather than percentages.” Why the above trend? One reason could be that ePub is better for displaying technical books, ...
  1 week ago

• PDF vs. EPUB vs. Mobi Format Download Comparison for oreilly.com

  
  TOC Combined Feed : Tools of Change for Publishing — Authority: 106
  UPDATE: Additional view showing relative volume, rather than percentage. Im honored to have been elected to the IDPF Board of Directors , and will use the occasion to share some interesting data about download formats from oreilly.com . For most of our titles, we offer three different (DRM-free) formats: ...
  1 week ago

• George Kerscher wins IDPF election

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 650
  George Kerscher , secretary general of the Daisy Consortium , will be the new president of the International Digital Publishing Forum . Blind, George has been a vigorous advocate of the ePub standard and measures to make e-books more usable by people with disabilities. Under him, standards efforts should accelerate ...
  1 week ago

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