Publishing 2010: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
This post is my attempt to distill together many different threads into a common tapestry. There is a lot of turbidity in the publishing, podcasting, music, film, television worlds right now. I have these feeling that every bit of this is all part of a larger whole and I’m going to take a stab at [...]
Tags: akismet, amazon, ebooks, jakonrath, jchutchins, kindle, macmillan, publishing, sterlingediting, stmartinspressUsing Calibre to Fetch Instapaper Documents
Today I was listening to Episode #81 of the Kindle Chronicles. It was especially interesting to me for three reasons:
James McQuivey’s analysis of the Amazon/Macmillan dispute
Len gave tips about using the great Instapaper service with one’s Kindle and
Len mentioned me by name to reference this post on my thought experiment.
In the show, Len discussed the [...]
Tags: calibre, instapaper, kindle, kindlechronicles, lenedgerlyMy Take on Amazon Vs Macmillan
I really honestly didn’t want to write one more consecutive Kindle related post but current events conspired against me with the current dispute between Amazon and Macmillan. I am seeing a lot of analysis from my compatriots in the science fiction tribe, such as Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, this thread at Making Light. I completely [...]
Tags: amazon, kindle, macmillan, thiswillendintearsMore Kindle Stuff
I’m aware that most of what little I’ve blogged in calendar year 2010 is Kindle related. What can I say? It’s what I’ve been most interested in lately, which corresponds with me also not having a whole lot to say on much else. C’est la blog.
I got some nice traction on my Spanish to English [...]
Kindle Vs Nook: My Experience
I am blogging this from a Barnes and Noble cafe (specifically, the one at Market Commons in Myrtle Beach.) I meant to come in and do a final head to head comparison between my Kindle 2 and the new B&N Nook. I have previously done tests where I set the two of them [...]
Tags: amazon, barnesandnoble, kindle, nookMy Free and Open Kindle Formatted Spanish to English Dictionary
Over the holidays, I took upon myself a challenge. I’ve been fiddling around creating a Mobipocket format dictionary consisting of Spanish words and their English translations. I wanted to be able to set it as my primary dictionary on the Kindle and then use it for on-demand word translation as I gut through trying to [...]
Tags: kindle, mobipocketcreator, spanishKindle Tools I Am Using
I got my Kindle in March 2009 and shortly after that I installed Calibre, mostly to test out its ability to convert PDFs and other documents into Mobi format. It wasn’t until the holidays that I really worked with it a lot and realized what a sophisticated library management tool it is. I’m too lazy [...]
Tags: calibre, kindle, neotake, projectgutenberg, telereadSeth Harwood Bum Rushes the Kindle Charts
I stepped up and joined hands with many members of my podcasting community to support Seth Harwood’s Amazon shenanigans. Seth has set up Kindle Commando Sunday where he is encouraging people to buy the Kindle version of his book A Long Way From Disney, which to add to the occasion is only $0.99. I bought [...]
Tags: alongwayfromdisney, kindle, sethharwoodKindle Software Update 2.3
I’ve had my Kindle 2 for about eight months at this point. It has easily crossed the point of being able to justify the purchase. I’ve read a dozen books in their entirety and parts of many more. I use it as my Twitter/web interface when I’m out of the house, and I even in [...]
Tags: amazon, kindleBig Day in the eReader World
I missed it yesterday when Paul Biba at Teleread picked up on my ‘Kindle is not closed’ post from the weekend, which is gratifying and predictably brought out pushback in the form of comments including this one from Mitch Ratcliffe and a contrary response post from David Rothman. Some people agreed with me, some didn’t [...]
Tags: amazon, barnesandnoble, davidrothman, kindle, nook, paulbiba, telereadThe Kindle is NOT a Closed System
I want to address one of the biggest bits of spurious push back I see on the Amazon Kindle. I see people over and over saying they don’t want one because it is a “closed system.” This is not the truth and I’ll get to that after a little prelude.
I’ve had mine for [...]
Learning from Kindlegate and Amazonfail
I ran across this article at Podcasting News which reference this original article about trying to get multiple copies of purchased eBooks on multiple Kindle readers. This is being dubbed “Kindlegate” apparently. At first I was confused as to how this was a DRM issue because it sounded like an access to download issue, until [...]
Tags: amazonfail, kindle, kindlegateThe Kindle Criticism I Reject Out Of Hand
Shortly I’m going to post my review of the Kindle. I had held off because I wanted to have actually read some books to completion on it. I’ve done all the major functions at this point. I’ve read books I’ve purchased from Amazon – both from the web page and directly from the device. I’ve [...]
Tags: kindleWhat Do I Do Next?
This morning I listened to episode #98 of Skepticality which was a follow-on discussion to the whole “Where Do We Go From Here?” talk of a few years ago. They referenced a PDF document with 100 points of action that people can take as a skeptic. I don’t really identify as a skeptic even though [...]
Tags: kindle, podcasting, skepticalitySavory on the Kindle
My friend Rob sent me a link to Jesse Vincent’s Massively Parallel Procrastination blog, where the author is doing a lot of cool Kindle hacking. He’s created software called Savory that will do on the fly conversion of PDFs to Kindle’s AZW format on the device itself. I think that’s really an interesting and useful [...]
Tags: kindle, savoKindle Edition of Fans, Friends and Followers
It’s “credit where credit is due” time. A few days I blogged about what seemed odd to me, that Scott Kirsner’s book Fans, Friends and Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age was not available in a Kindle edition. I emailed him and asked in so many words “What’s with [...]
Tags: davekellett, kindle, scottkirsnerEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 6, 2009 – “Starting is Easy, Finishing is Hard”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 6, 2009. I play a song from Glass Eye; I talk about CREATE South and Balticon and Dragon*Con, about organizing a conference and what we are trying to do with CREATE South in Myrtle Beach; I play a solo song by Kathy McCarty, [...]
Tags: balticon, createsouth, createsouth2009, dragoncon, glasseye, kathymccarty, kindleMy First Kindle Purchase
I’ve had my Kindle for a week now, and I am truly digging it. Because of my busy schedule I haven’t had time to sit down and just read a book but with what little time I’ve had to play with it I have been impressed with the quality of the device, the ease of [...]
Tags: fictionwise, gushansen, kindle, pokerMedium, Meet Message; Message, Medium
Yesterday I saw Dave Kellett post about a brand new book he was interviewed for: Fans, Friends and Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age by Scott Kirsner. “Interesting sounding”, I thought to myself. Bearing in mind the subject matter and given that I have a brand new Kindle burning [...]
Tags: davekellett, kindle, mobi, mobipocketcreator, scottkirsnerKindling
I have ordered a Kindle 2. The dude who has the Stallman-esque belief that buying books for the Kindle is in itself an immoral act, get your negative commenting finger ready.
Update: it is here. I started to post “My Kindle is on the UPS truck for delivery” but I got paranoid about the infinitesimal but [...]
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