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Bella Fortuna
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Ayaan
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Re: Kindle.
That's why you should always have some old-school paper books around.
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Re: Kindle.
I love my Kindle.
I bought a Biggles book on it...
I bought a Biggles book on it...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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rasetsu
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What settings do you use? I can't get anything but crap. epub --> pdfXamonas Chegwé wrote:Yeah, it can really fuck up PDFs - mainly cos they tend to come in a lot of different layouts - but it does a pretty good job with EPUB files.Animavore wrote:I downloaded that yesterday as it happens. It messes up the formatting from .pdf though. I heard you can tinker with settings to fix it but... Could you be arsed?Xamonas Chegwé wrote:The best thing I found about the Kindle is that, if they go wrong, the after-sale help service is simply OSSUM! They just sent me a new one and asked me to post the old one back - no fuss, no excuses, no bullshit.
Oh, and download Calibre. It's a program that converts any other ebook file formats to the kindle standard .mobi. Essential if you intend acquiring books through... less obvious routes...
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rasetsu
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One of the nice things about my new netbook. My old Acer Aspire would last 2-3 hours on a charge, which would get me through one lecture or book club. But if I forgot to plug it in before I went to bed, it wouldn't last more than 30 minutes into the next session before dying. This Asus boasts 50% more batteries and 3-4 times the battery life.Bella Fortuna wrote:
This applies to the nook color so your mileage may vary. If you're not using wifi, turn it off; wifi is the biggest drain on the battery. On the nook, if it isn't hooked to the charger, it's still on, even though it's not on-on, so it uses battery charge while it sits; there's a separate switch for turning the hardware completely off to preserve battery.
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Bought a cheap no-name ebook reader from kmart. 
Proceeded to download shitloads of ebooks.
I've found that soulseek is an excellent source of ebooks of which you need to not have to convert them.
Bittorrent is *okay* but you tend to get twats that have it in PDF which is slow as all fuckery on the ebook reader. 
Proceeded to download shitloads of ebooks.
I've found that soulseek is an excellent source of ebooks of which you need to not have to convert them.
Bittorrent is *okay* but you tend to get twats that have it in PDF which is slow as all fuckery on the ebook reader. The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
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Re: Kindle.
My Kindle is broke. Screen frozen 
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Clinton Huxley
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Switch it off. Switch it back on again.
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If that doesn't work phone Anazon. They'll send you a new one.Clinton Huxley wrote:Switch it off. Switch it back on again.
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Clinton Huxley
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On mine, if it froze, you held the off switch in the off position for 15 seconds and that would do a re-set. Don't know if that works on all Kindles.Pappa wrote:If that doesn't work phone Anazon. They'll send you a new one.Clinton Huxley wrote:Switch it off. Switch it back on again.
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Re: Kindle.
Yeah I tried all that. I spoke to by them chatroom and they'll send me a new one.
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Clinton Huxley
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You can't argue with that for customer service, really. Of course, they don't want any interruption to your book buying...
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
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Re: Kindle.
Only bastard is they wanted to verify my account which involved taking £1 out of my account. I've only got €.85 at the mo' 
Have to wait 'til tomorrow to try again.
Have to wait 'til tomorrow to try again.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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