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Old 02-03-2015, 09:57 PM   #16
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the item becomes a document and not a book and you would be charged to download it on the go on 3G and I'm not sure if it syncs to the last page read?
send-to-kindle books do sync, that is the main reason people have been using it all this time.

If you send a book, it will still be a book -- unless you mean these ones don't have the Personal banner? That would be interesting...

I would also like to know how you know these won't incur a charge when downloading over 3G. Have you tried downloading one over 3G?
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Old 02-03-2015, 11:30 PM   #17
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send-to-kindle books do sync, that is the main reason people have been using it all this time.

If you send a book, it will still be a book -- unless you mean these ones don't have the Personal banner? That would be interesting...

I would also like to know how you know these won't incur a charge when downloading over 3G. Have you tried downloading one over 3G?
that is a very good question I will let everyone know when I finish my first book. i will try it out then...
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Old 02-03-2015, 11:32 PM   #18
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that is a very good question I will let everyone know when I finish my first book. i will try it out then...
well it is fun to play with this and for $19.00 i can afford to shelf this if it does not fill the bill...
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Old 02-03-2015, 11:45 PM   #19
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Is there a good, stable freeware program for scanners that does the same job of scanning personal books? I have a scanner (though not connected at present) and the software that came with it but if there is a good freeware that can scan it into a textfile for me to convert in Calibre that would be very useful to me with all my paper books.
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Scan it into high-quality image files, then ask what is the best stable freeware OCR program.
Tesseract is supposed to be the best open-source OCR engine, and it powers various frontends. But according to the experts here, ABBYY Finereader is well worth the money in terms of timesaving reliability.
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Does this, by any chance, produce Topaz format ebooks?
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What I would be interested in knowing is why somebody with acess to Abbyy would waste want to buy a $19 OCR package...
I don't know... A program that you could start, scan page by page, and have it create an e-book without any more effort than pushing a button for each page would be worth about $19. Since I can't actually imagine this happening without a lot of editing, I can't see it being worth much more than zero...
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for me, the time (where time = money) it takes to scan in an entire book costs much more than the purchase price of the ebook version. if i wanted the ebook version bad enough, i would just buy the ebook and donate the paper book.
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And if there is no ebook version?

That is why people say ABBYY Finereader is worth the money.
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for me, the time (where time = money) it takes to scan in an entire book costs much more than the purchase price of the ebook version. if i wanted the ebook version bad enough, i would just buy the ebook and donate the paper book.
I really don't think anybody is going to be scanning paper books where an ebook already exists. But I have about 500 books I can't buy as ebooks (and my collection isn't that big...)
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And if there is no ebook version?
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Exactly.
I have a handful of battered old titles that simply aren't available in print, much less digital. (ACE DOUBLES, for example.) They mean enough to *me* to spend an hour scanning and sic'ing OmniScan on it to produce a private edition for me to reread.
Not something I'd do for just any book, though.
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Does this, by any chance, produce Topaz format ebooks?
JPEG's, PDF's and TIFF's only
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send-to-kindle books do sync, that is the main reason people have been using it all this time.

If you send a book, it will still be a book -- unless you mean these ones don't have the Personal banner? That would be interesting...

I would also like to know how you know these won't incur a charge when downloading over 3G. Have you tried downloading one over 3G?
well I have formatted 2 books and yes the books are treated as regular Kindle books (they are stored in the Book section of the cloud) and you can download them for free anywhere.



**UPDATED**

I was totally incorrect. This software DOES place the files in the DOCS section not ebooks.

this software is way less useful use calibre...
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Uh, aren't those the acceptable inputs?
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Uh, aren't those the acceptable inputs?
OOPS! I did not read the question properly. '


This software is for uploading to Amazon cloud/device only. The results are uploaded to the cloud.
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