Thread: how to get free ebooks...as requested by boonmee

Originally Posted by alwarner

Why were you bringing up CMN's online practices again

some of my online practices are quite unmentionable

always best to use a good military level 8 shredder

Originally Posted by bsnub

Have you tried using dropbox to move the files? Using Dropbox with your Kindle device

I haven't but I will give it a go. Cheers snub

have you tried just copying and pasting yet cass

works perfectly well too

I download them from where ever using utorrent 2.2 in epub format and then send them by email to my self. I open the email on my gay pad and open the attachment in my books folder. Done.

^ Why dont you just synch it with itunes?

Originally Posted by Necron99

^ Why dont you just synch it with itunes?

Because I am useless with computers. This method works for me.

Originally Posted by toslti

on my gay pad

doesn't have that real book feel like a kindle or does it?
i don't have a gaypad so would not know..just assumed they were all bright

i like the dull grey pages

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

Originally Posted by toslti

on my gay pad

doesn't have that real book feel like a kindle or does it?
i like the dull grey pages

Books have grey pages?

Ipad has brightness controls and several themes, perhaps you'd like sepia, paperback left out in the sun sort of look.
And you can read at night or use it as a torch....and a million other things.

don't think you can beat a kindle....certainly not for value for money

my daughter has an android pad but i don't get much use out of it apart from online pool games

not quite grey but they do have a booksy feel to them

oh yeah

and the battery lasts for weeks and weeks
massive advantage

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

oh yeah

and the battery lasts for weeks and weeks
massive advantage

^ That is a massive game changing advantage.
It being a well known fact that the vast majority of people are at all times,, several weeks away from a powerpoint.





It clearly beats being able to use the device for a million different applications...

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

oh yeah

and the battery lasts for weeks and weeks
massive advantage

With the Paperwhite I'm getting maybe two days between charges but that's no hassle. Got it for Christmas and it's like a new toy - pretty neat toy!

^
you sure you are charging it?

The new Kindle Paperwhite is only $119 and has a built-in light, up to 8-week battery life

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

^
you sure you are charging it?

The new Kindle Paperwhite is only $119 and has a built-in light, up to 8-week battery life

How fucking delusional or disingenuous are you? I'm not sure which.....but would bank on the former.


Uncompromised Battery Life
A single charge lasts up to eight weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 10. Our breakthrough power management technology allows you to leave the light on at all times for the best possible contrast without sacrificing battery life.

Kindle Paperwhite [Previous Generation]



My Ipad is mostly on at 8 am and off at 10 pm with 10% charge left, backlit and intermittent wifi use. Probably lasts quite a while if don;t actually use it....will have to test....

But if you are 8 weeks away from a power point and only read 30 minutes a day, then yes, I'm sure the kindle is Uncompromising.....

I've got a Samsung tablet I use for reading, using the Kindle software. It works pretty good and the battery life just reading is about 22-24 hours. Using wifi or doing a lot of surfing using the 3G brings that down quickly.

The best thing to extend battery life is dim your tablets. The lighting takes the vast majority of your battery power.

My tablet has become my computer on the go. I use it for 90% of what I would normally use a computer for, plus use it as my library.

Things I use my tablet for:

Downloading torrents

Watching videos/Listening to music

Keeping my schedule

Surfing the web

E-mail

Entering in student's grades(my school keeps the grades online). It's really nice in class to have the students call out their scores as I enter them via my tablet.

Keeping the books I'm reading available...my library.

At the language center I work at, I use my tablet for google searches (sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words), listening exercises and the like, playing online esl games and flash cards.

I bought the thing to read books on but the tablet's uses has been frankly surprising to me.

One thing I don't like about the Kindle is the size. I'd have to have the font size such that not much would fit on one screen. On my tablet I can get two pages.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

the entertainment industry is paying the price for its inability to forecast the technical age

As far as I'm concerned it's paying the price for charging 18 quid for a cd 20 years ago.

Now there are ways of getting this stuff for free a cd costs, what, somewhere between 8 and 10 quid?

Originally Posted by Necron99

How fucking delusional or disingenuous are you? I'm not sure which.....but would bank on the former.

this thread wasn't for you, it was for boon mee who wanted kindle books...

he is now downloading a 10,000 book mobi library
that's my service done for the day

so fukk off and do a nancypad thread of your own and leave mine alone

you obnoxious fukkin wanka

Originally Posted by CSFFan

One thing I don't like about the Kindle is the size. I'd have to have the font size such that not much would fit on one screen.

That's true.

But i find that with 'turning' the page on a kindle being so easy it doesn't really matter. And obviously the extra portability, even when compared to a tablet, is handy.

Where's the best place for (free/stolen) audio books? I want some Jeremy Paxman stuff to start with.

re-i posted this link earlier

got a huge collection of audio books

Mobilism • View forum - eBook Releases by Category

^

no jeremy paxman audio books there as far as i can tell

none on piratebay either

Originally Posted by Necron99

Ipad has brightness controls and several themes, perhaps you'd like sepia, paperback left out in the sun sort of look. And you can read at night or use it as a torch....and a million other things.

Can't really read it on the beach though. That is the main feature of the Kindles e-ink format for me.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

^

no jeremy paxman audio books there as far as i can tell

none on piratebay either

I downloaded an eBook of 'The English' last night as I read half of it last week when I was up your way. I like his style; like a fully literate Bill Bryson.