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12-08-2009, 04:02 PM | #47 | |
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12-08-2009, 04:07 PM | #48 |
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Very good moves by Sony. With the nook and Sony devices, Amazon is starting to look a little old and haggard. Kindle 3 better have some good features!
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12-08-2009, 04:19 PM | #49 | |
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12-08-2009, 04:27 PM | #50 |
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I got the impression from the e-mail that we'd all have to install the new software to work with the new bookstore.
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12-08-2009, 05:13 PM | #51 | |
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Remove DRM (ahem) The reader obeys the full justification style. OK there is something else too: Get right of the pesky page numbers in the right hand column already! Who ever thought that was a good idea? They interfere with the main text, especially if you like narrow margins like I do. |
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12-08-2009, 05:15 PM | #52 | |
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12-08-2009, 05:35 PM | #53 |
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Damn it I have to send it to the USA (from Europe) to flash it for epub support.
Any chance somebody provides a flashable new firmware so I can skip this costly and inconvienent procedure. What happens with the earlier bought (lpr/lpx) ebooks on the device? Can I reload them as epub-files? |
12-08-2009, 05:36 PM | #54 |
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It probably started being used for newspapers; the columns are easier to read if they have crisp edges, and having those edges lets the columns be placed very close together. Even if the space between columns is less than sometimes happens between individual words, the meanings don't get jumbled because the eye stops at the edge of the column.
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12-08-2009, 09:50 PM | #58 | |
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12-08-2009, 10:02 PM | #59 |
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I'm going to be really sad to see full justification (and basically the whole way the LRX is formatted) simply because that is what I'm used to. Glad I bought my books now.
Also, put me in the group of those questioning whether or not I need to download the new software. The email I got makes it sound like you do, but you never know if that's the case or not. |
12-09-2009, 05:33 AM | #60 |
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Justification has been used long before Newspapers, e.g.
King James Bible (1611 AD) http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti...TextID=kjbible And before printing (1230 AD) http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages...cfm?so_id=3280 In Arabic (1108 AD): http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages...fm?so_id=10504 And even Cuniform! (ca. 2000 BC) http://cdli.ucla.edu/search/result.p...xt=eq&size=100 |
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