Comments on: Three e-reading tools I wish existed http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 12:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Orwell Huxley http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201700 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:14:44 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201700 “Once upon a time in the tiny little hamlet of Hollywood, there was a movie producer who wanted to give his daughter the ultimate college graduation present; “The Gift of STARDOM”……………Johnny Dirtbag “Movie Star”

]]> By: slateone http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201251 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:39:42 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201251 Surprised Laura that you are encouraging people to break DRM.

Don’t think your employers would be happy if I cut and pasted all the articles from
Paid Content and set up my own web site offering your content.

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]]> By: rx7ward http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201213 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:58:12 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201213 That’s a setting within the Kindle app for iOS, not a setting for the entire iPhone/iPad …

]]> By: Kindled http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201155 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:59:24 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201155 this is one of the shallowest posts i have ever seen on a techblog. how is it possible to become a writer on a techblog if one does not even figure out the sepia setting in the ipad kindle app?! :-!

]]> By: thinqa http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201152 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:02:35 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201152 Book clubs thoughts.

I haven’t gone into the legal issues of the following.

When I first got my brand new Kindle 3 (about 2 years ago), it was preregistered as “Sue’s Kindle 8″. At first I thought I had got a return, until I realized “Sue” was an employee at a local company that I had bought it from. It wasn’t available for shipping to SA yet and the company had them shipped to a USA address and it was reshipped from there. I then had a light bulb moment and wondered why I hadn’t heard of book clublets setting up single Amazon accounts with no credit card details and gift books into it from member accounts. Either having dedicated kindles linked to the joint account or deregister/registering (a quick process) between member and joint accounts.When you re-register, you lose nothing from the device, until you delete a book and have no access to the book-owning account. (Lose a member, change the password type of thing)

Anyway, as I said I haven’t scrutinized Amazon’s T&Cs regarding number of devices linked to one account and relationship of owners, but who knows? Some large publishers do impose 5 device limits for some of their products.

At $15.28 for the book you mentioned, it wouldn’t take many books to justify a dedicated device per member. (Did you notice Branson owns Virgin, the publisher and also wrote a piece in the description. Less of a man and he might have been conflict-of-interest-bashed)

A big downside would be the shared last-page-read which cannot be separated from annotation syncing, which gets me to the point – Shared account -> Shared Notes.

Assuming this didn’t pan out for legal reasons, you could still have a shared account with each member purchasing the book on their own account and account-switching to sync the notes – Not 100% sure this would work but I seem to remember user-loaded books can be synced on Kindle 3.1 software and up.

I was at one stage considering a *.MBP merge facility but the biggest problem is getting the .MBPs off a kindle device – you can’t email file attachments with the “Experimental Web Browser” on a Kindle 3 so unless you have a PC/MAC/(iPAD?) as well you’re stuck. (per book MBP file is where LPR and annotations are kept).

Hamba Kahle (Zulu for Go Well)

Tony Wilson

]]> By: thinqa http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201149 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:39:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201149 Missed the fact that it wasn’t Linda that couldn’t find Sepia – hope Philip finds it useful

]]> By: Tony Wilson http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201141 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:36:31 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201141 It’s 4:37am Sun here in Durban, South Africa thanks to F.lux on PC I’ve been working in bed all night. Sepia text is in the Kindle Fire and Kindle for PC that I know of. If Kindle for iPad has it it will be under font sizer Aa button. It’s not in the Kindle Previewer which can emulate iPad so don’t expect on Kindle for iPad itself. Have a few ideas on bookclub stuff that I’ll add later after a few ZZZs. Sleeeeep

]]> By: realjjj http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201139 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:45:48 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201139 If i didn’t knew any better i would think this is a sponsored post. The focus is on ipad, ipad ,ipad.

]]> By: philipstanleyturner http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201133 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:23:32 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201133 Mark, regarding that sepia idea, I don’t see sepia in settings under “Brightness, Wallpaper,” and no place seems likely for it. Do you know where it’s located? Thanks, Philip

Laura–something new for F.lux to do then! I have it on all three of our MACs at home.

]]> By: Laura Hazard Owen http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/02/three-e-reading-tools-i-wish-existed/#comment-201132 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:08:54 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=225307#comment-201132 Awesome – I hadn’t done that, but I’m going to test it out. Thanks for the suggestion.

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