01-21-2015, 09:34 AM | #31 |
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Fire Phone is selling for $199 again on Amazon.
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01-22-2015, 10:45 AM | #32 | |
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Amazon is discounting Amazon Prime memberships this Saturday, 2015/1/24 only, in honor of their winning two awards at the 72nd Golden Globes. Prime will be $72 instead of $99 that day. Looks like it's only for new members, sadly, but if you've been thinking about getting a sub, this is a good time since it's $27 off. The signup link isn't showing info on the deal yet, so don't try to buy it ahead of Saturday!
Additionally you can watch all ten episodes of their award-winning show Transparent on Saturday even without an Amazon Prime membership. Quote:
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01-23-2015, 07:47 PM | #33 |
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Google's free album this week is Mötley Crüe - The Greatest Hits.
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01-29-2015, 12:27 AM | #34 | ||
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Since many here may be using Straight Talk, Net10, Simple Mobile, or Telcel America (all run by Tracfone), I figure this is a good place to post this. Tracfone has settled with the FTC over their throttling and/or cutting off unlimited data plans. Tracfone advertised the plans as unlimited, but then actually throttled or cut off customers who hit 2.5GB in a month. Even when they did start notifying customers, they hid the info in hard to find places, effectively still not notifying them.
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01-31-2015, 12:03 PM | #35 | |
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01-31-2015, 03:13 PM | #36 |
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B&N no longer supports digital mag subscriptions
Just found out that Nook no longer supports Nook for PC for magazine subscriptions. I found out when I tried to get my March Analog copy. Got my Feb Asimov's fine on Jan 1, but changed sometime during this month. Since can't get PC mag downloads from Amazon, any suggestions? Looks like Kobo has the same restrictions...
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01-31-2015, 03:15 PM | #37 | |
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01-31-2015, 03:51 PM | #38 |
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Books from Google are easy, but can't seem to find a way to do magazines....
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01-31-2015, 03:53 PM | #39 |
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01-31-2015, 04:42 PM | #40 |
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The Greasemonkey script for Firefox still works -- I just tested it -- but only for the most recent issues, since B&N no longer allows you to scroll through back issues.
Also, if you have an Android device with the Nook app it's very easy to copy the files off to a PC. My own choice is to navigate to to the file and use Dropbox, but a wired connection to a PC works fine, too. Unless someone has more experience with Google Play Newstand for magazines, I'd avoid them like the plague. I recently bought issues of Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazines, and they appeared to be crippled so they can only be read with Google's App (which I don't like) or online but only with the Chrome (or Chromium) browser. I (eventually) found where the files are located, but they appear to be jpegs of the individual pages with cryptic names. I may be able to assemble PDF's of them, eventually. If anyone else has more experience and success with these files, I'd love to hear about it! (NOTE: They're DRM-free, at the publisher's request, so I don't think it would run afoul of any forum rules.) Last edited by cromag; 01-31-2015 at 04:49 PM. Reason: Apparently I cannot spell DRM in one try. |
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Actually, I want to avoid B&N for everything now. THey have changed the way they handle DRM, and the new method of removing it (getting info from a named file) doesn't work for me since named file has only error info.
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01-31-2015, 05:09 PM | #42 |
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Yes, aware of that. But it doesn't get me to the end result -- DRM free mags on my PC that can be read on any device. I won't allow DRM on any of my devices, including the PC, and would rather do without than allow the DRM propagators to win... I have stopped using/updating a number of programs on the PC over the years when the DRM couldn't be removed in any reasonable way. Talking with money seems to be the only thing that even has a chance of working.
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01-31-2015, 05:52 PM | #43 | |
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01-31-2015, 06:20 PM | #44 | |
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I've no experience w/Zinio (Windows 8 supported), but if it's anything like the Amazon Windows 8 version it is pretty useless. I still use the pre-version 8 of Amazon kindle on Windows 8.1 machine to get simple files in standard formats. I already get a lot of SFF short stories free (including ones from Rusch each Monday), so I don't lack for reading materials. But I would like some of the stories on those particular mags. If I can't get them that way, I'll have to wait till they show up in anthologies/collections (for SFF), and just sit the OP out. I was a dead-tree subscriber for 8 years, but moving soon to a very small, moving space, and all mags and all but a couple of physical books have to go. |
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01-31-2015, 07:20 PM | #45 | |
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I'm not saying to stop doing what you're doing, but my experience has been they just chalk every lost sale up to piracy and never even consider it might be DRM protestors. Even if you tell them you did it over DRM, they just assume you're a pirate and lying. Most companies have a serious blindspot on this issue. |
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