12-14-2018, 05:09 AM | #46 |
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I must have drawn the short straw. It was only available in epub, and converting it to read on my then Paperwhite left it literally unreadable. When I got my first Kobo, I bought it there, and after sideloading a few devanagari fonts, I saw words I could read, instead of empty squares
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12-14-2018, 06:55 AM | #47 | |
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I have zero interest in subscriptions OR NYT best sellers. The fact that someone doesn't care to curate a personal (not to mention local) digital library doesn't mean they're casual readers looking to be spoon fed whatever's popular this week. I have many dear, and obscure, favorite books that I'll probably never own ecopies of. |
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12-15-2018, 07:08 AM | #48 | |
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The issue that book subscription services have is that currently have a much more limited selection of books. For book subscription services to be more than a niche market, that will have to change. A large percentage of readers are readers who stick mostly to either a specific genre (i.e. romance) or best seller type books, read them once then move on. Those of us with extensive digital libraries are the exception rather than the rule. If you don't want to have a digital library, then more power to you. I also have a collection of old, obscure paper books. What's interesting is that quite a few of those somewhat obscure books are actually available as ebooks since they are in public domain. It's a big enough world and scanning devices are cheap enough that someone is going to scan most books given the chance. It's the old obscure books that aren't in PD that you want see as ebooks. |
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12-15-2018, 10:44 AM | #49 |
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Understood. We're just talking about different things, I guess. I wouldn't call what i do (and what issybird described) as "on demand reading." A more accurate moniker for what we were discussing would be JIT Buying/Reading: only purchasing a book when you're ready to begin reading it (from any and all sources), and not worrying about maintaining personal, digital libraries of read books. We weren't discussing paying a subscription fee for unlimited access to limited choices. That's something I certainly wouldn't have any interest in.
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My two biggest reasons for scarfing up ebooks when I see them rather than waiting until I'm ready to read them are 1) I've seen quite a few ebooks disappear from the stores over the years. Most of the time, I'm not even aware of it until someone mentions a book not being available and I think "what do you mean, I bought it". 2) I have a terrible memory for such things and unless I go ahead and buy it, odds are that I'll forget about the book. I do know that many people use wishlist to manage such things. I do that on audible.com, but once again, I have had a number of audio books go unavailable after I put the on the wishlist. That's why I go ahead and buy something that I know that I'm going to listen to, rather than just "that looks like it might be interesting". |
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If one's reading is in niche fields, then titles come and go all of the time. There are several ebooks (and dead tree editions) that used to be available from Amazon, but are no longer listed there. Not listed, as in there is no page for either the title, or the author. I've got ebooks from half a dozen defunct publishers. Nobody is selling those titles. |
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This thread was about Icarus so I was interested as we have 2 but it got off track almost immediately and became the usual stuff... Sighs
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The subject has been exhausted: what more is there to say other than "they've gone out of business"? What that happens it's normal for threads to wander.
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Would have liked some gossip about the Kaaskoppe (cheese head or Dutchmen) owners, what they are doing now and so on. Seems they had a good go at running an efficient business for a while, suppose there just is not a lot of money in the books and reading industry. In this country the only thing you can send by post without being stolen is paper books as no one actually reads |
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I too have occasionally noticed books I've bought at Amazon that seem to no longer be in their store, but they show in my digital content when I search the them. Does Amazon keep a copy on their servers somewhere of all the books that they sold, so people can download the books they purchased even if they've been pulled from the store? I never tried downloading a book that I purchased that was pulled from the store, and I can't think of a specific title to test right now. |
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At one point I was at least sorting them into Kindle4PC book shelves, but then that got all messed up - I'm not even sure how, maybe an update - and I ended up having a mix of book shelves from my Kindle4PC and my Kindle Keyboard. It is such a huge mess with same and similarly named shelves with different books in them. I just gave up years ago, and it's only gotten much worse since then. There used to be a way to hide certain books but not completely delete them from your account - I think it was a 'trash' feature - that is no longer available. Something like that would be helpful in sorting out books that I don't think I'll read, but I don't want to permanently delete in case I change my mind and want to read them in the future. I wish the online Amazon's My Kindle Content was easier to use, sort and organize. Of course this is all my own fault for buying way too many free books. There are so many that are absolutely terrible, but I've also found some gems that way that I never would have tried otherwise... so that kept me accumulating them. |
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You should be able to download all of your books and import them into Calibre. Calibre will generally warn you if it thinks you are importing duplicates. |
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I had the idea that, if Amazon ever sells a high quality 8" or larger Kindle with all the features I require, maybe I can buy one and set it up like it's for a family member and have better sorting options that way. Doesn't Amazon have some type of parental controls that allow the primary account holder to only allow certain books from the parent account to a sub/child account? I feel like I read about something like that. Then I can separate out the best books but still have all of them on my account. |
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