Petition to convert all books into kindle books
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Petition to convert all books into kindle books
As i mentioned I commute to work, 2 hours daily and that's my favorite reading time. So when i want to read a book and its not on a kindle format, its just so unpractical for me. My bag is already heavy with my laptop and other things i need to carry, i can't also carry books .
I know in amazon there is an option to request kindle books, but i did that for few books and so far no kindle book yet
I mean don't get me wrong, I am not asking for all paper books to be burned and for only electronic books to exist. I would like to have both options. Actually I do like paper books a lot and mostly leave them at home to read at my leisure:)
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Why not read the books you can only get in hard copy at the weekend or on holidays and uses your Kindle for commuting?
I read both regular books and Kindle books but if a book is heavy (say like The Goldfinch!) I will keep it at home and read it in the evening or at the weekend and read something else on the Kindle commuting to work or when I'm out and about ... best of both worlds.
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Thanks for reply, Thats what I was planning to do, but as soon as i start reading a book on my kindle, I can't stop myself from finishing it. So eventually, I end up reading one page of my 1000 words paper book everydayFran wrote: I read both regular books and Kindle books but if a book is heavy (say like The Goldfinch!) I will keep it at home and read it in the evening or at the weekend and read something else on the Kindle commuting to work or when I'm out and about ... best of both worlds.
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Maud Fitch wrote: I download all I can read from my public library. They are available across all devices except Kindle, hmm, wonder why.....
Hmmm, my library has ebooks available in kindle format for some books. for some, i have to get the pdf though. i've asked the librarian, and she doesn't know what determines which format they carry.
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After suffering a mild brain injury, however, I very much prefer using Kindle because I've got the text size and spacing, as well as colors and lighting customized for easy reading. It'd be nice to pick up a paperback and just roll with it but I am able to continuously read only about 1 in 10 books without some issue.
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I suggest it is better that we be open to all options to be accommodative of others.
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Then there's the formatting. Oh, Kindle lets you pick your font! Whoopie! (yawn) Well, as an author in several different types of books, I can tell you there are times when you need to use multiple fonts (i.e. there's a reason THESE words are in THIS font and THOSE words are in THAT font). The only way you can get Kindle to respect that not everything should all be in one font is to use complex formatting--even if your book is pure text.
And then we come to widows and orphans--those poor few words that end up on a separate page than the rest of their paragraph. I'm particularly annoyed when ONE WORD ends up on the next page. A printer that know their stuff will correct for that, but whoever wrote the Kindle reader (whatever version you're looking at) didn't know and/or care. Again speaking as an author, I like tabs: they're easy to use, you can use them even with "primitive" word processors, and somehow--no matter how I set them--I can never get first-line-indents to look as "right" as tab-indents. But conversion to Kindle format completely ignores tabs, requiring the author to either use first-line-indents, before/after paragraph spacing, or empty lines (which you're discouraged from doing). This throws a monkey wrench in my method of making books, because I like to work on parts of the books in Jarte (which is incapable of first-line-indents and before/after paragraph spacing) and then bring them into OpenOffice (where I create the book) when I've decided where they fit in the book.
But the most egregious bone I have to pick about Kindle is Amazon's ability to change and take away "your" ebooks anytime they please. Make no mistake; you are not "buying" a Kindle ebook, you are LEASING it for a period of time that Amazon can change whenever it pleases. If an author makes a change to the book, they automatically change your copy to match--never mind you might have a reason to want the earlier version. They apply the same logic to their readers, forcing you to keep upgrading/replacing your reader to whatever they think you should be using. I used to read ebooks using Kindle for PC, until one day, I tried to read a new book that I'd just bought, and Kindle for PC wouldn't open. Well, Amazon periodically "expires" their software (they hawk about "improvements" every time they make a so-called "upgrade"--always looks the same to me), and the current version won't even attempt to install on a WinXP machine. So, as far as I'm concerned, my entire Kindle library is gone.