How is the modability of the Kindle firmware these days? I know earlier versions are relatively tamed at this point; but any time I see 'with offers' my loathing gland swells.
I know there are methods to remove the ads - but I have to say that when they planned this out they did it right. I've never felt a need to remove it from mine. They only show up on the home screen (where they are crazy small) and on my screen saver thing. When I'm reading there is no difference. I really don't spend any significant amount of time not actually "in" books on the thing so I forget about it. Every so often it will remind me to connect to wi-fi if I haven't done so in a long time but if it real
How is the modability of the Kindle firmware these days? I know earlier versions are relatively tamed at this point; but any time I see 'with offers' my loathing gland swells.
I bought the B&N Nook for $99 and rooted it. Works great, I use it to study with Ankidroid.
If you have to buy a device locked to a particular prepaid carrier, you could always carry it alongside your existing dumb phone, just as people who couldn't afford an iPhone used to carry a dumb phone and an iPod touch. Use the phone to make calls and the $20 PDA to read books.
You can pick up a CDMA smartphone with a bad ESN for next to nothing on ebay, and with wifi it's a pocket-size game and internet platform for kids. No need to activate a call plan.
http://www.mobileread.com/ [mobileread.com] --- forum for books where the members create nicely formatted books, and are willing to fix errors when reported http://www.gutenberg.org/ [gutenberg.org] --- mass-produced books by the masses --- getting errors fixed is a bit more difficult, but can be made to happen
http://onlinebooks.library.upe... [upenn.edu] --- The Online Books Page, John Mark Ockerbloom's attempt to list all freely available electronic versions of printed texts.
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sponsered phones. (Score:5, Informative)
These phones are sim-locked and sponsered by the provider. So the 20$ mark means not much, the real price is 10-40 dollars higher.
Using a phone for reading zaps through your battery life (1-3 hours) to light the screen.
But the discusssion stays, since for $99 you can get a reasonable e-paper reader. How to get content for this.... i leave to your imagination.
Re:sponsered phones. (Score:5, Informative)
For $70 you can get a fantastic e-ink reader. The 6 inch kindle with offers is $69.
Team that up with Calibre on a PC and you are all set. That is how I do all my reading now.
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I know there are methods to remove the ads - but I have to say that when they planned this out they did it right. I've never felt a need to remove it from mine. They only show up on the home screen (where they are crazy small) and on my screen saver thing. When I'm reading there is no difference. I really don't spend any significant amount of time not actually "in" books on the thing so I forget about it. Every so often it will remind me to connect to wi-fi if I haven't done so in a long time but if it real
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How is the modability of the Kindle firmware these days? I know earlier versions are relatively tamed at this point; but any time I see 'with offers' my loathing gland swells.
I bought the B&N Nook for $99 and rooted it. Works great, I use it to study with Ankidroid.
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You can always pay $20 or $30 (whichever it is) to turn off "with offers".
Then carry two devices (Score:2)
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Sources for books (Score:1)
http://www.mobileread.com/ [mobileread.com] --- forum for books where the members create nicely formatted books, and are willing to fix errors when reported
http://www.gutenberg.org/ [gutenberg.org] --- mass-produced books by the masses --- getting errors fixed is a bit more difficult, but can be made to happen
http://onlinebooks.library.upe... [upenn.edu] --- The Online Books Page, John Mark Ockerbloom's attempt to list all freely available electronic versions of printed texts.