Trek Books for Kindle

[JWolf]

I'm glad they have an updated non-touch kindle. I'm not yet sold on the use of a touch screen for reading books. I like having the buttons on the side.

The problem with the non-touch Kindle is that they killed the keyboard; searching is going to suck on it.

The $79 Kindle is going to be awful to use. The keyboard has to be used with the 5-way controller. That's just not nice at all.

 

[rafterman1701]

Yeah, but $79 is still cheap. I have a Kindle with a keyboard and I barely use it for typing. If I search for a book, I tend to do it on my PC. The cheap one doesn't have the 3G, so the thing is limited anyway. For me the $150 touch is a great value. Touch and e-ink. Perfect. I don't need the Fire as I have an iPad.

 

[beamMe]

Also, the only real improvement I see over B&Ns Nook is the dual quad processor. Otherwise the Nook has better support of various file types and more options to buy.

You apparently misunderstand something about the Fire.....it's a full fledged tablet out of the box, not just a fancy reader like the Nook Color. It's got built in access to download apps(re: games), surf the net and everything else an Android tablet can do with full access to all content available from Amazon on top of that. People wanting an inexpensive tablet that may never use it to read with now have a viable, name brand option to get into the Tablet market.

The Nook does not have better support out of the box, it has less support out of the box for functionality as the Nook Color is only a reader unless you root-kit it, which most people are not willing/are able to do.

My wife and I own a Nook Color (and Nook touch) and this Fire is waaaaaaay cooler than the Nook Color. Not only is Amazon now competing with B & N, at this price point and with the full fledged tablet functionality, it's beating the crap out of them until the Nook Color 2 comes out down the road. Right now, Fire wins no contest.

I'm not following you here in either post. The Nook Color right out of the box is a tablet also. It has availability to apps. It can play music, surf the web, read ebooks, play games etc. without softrooting. Softrooting opens up the device to thousands more apps on the Android Marketplace but I honestly do not see the big difference between buying from B&N or buying from Amazon. The one difference I do see is that the Fire does NOT, and will not, support epub and to me that is a huge downside in my opinion. The nook can already do everything that the Fire can do except stream content from Amazon if you are a prime member but I'd be willing to bet there is an app I could install on my softrooted nook that would do that. I honestly think you have misrepresented the ability and usefulness of the Nook Color. It is way more than an ereader and always has been. To imply otherwise is disingenuous.

The Fire is priced well and looks nice but the dual core processor is it's biggest difference in comparison to the Nook Color and I'm sure that next version of the Color will have the same processor or better.

Kevin

One other big advantage of the Nook Color is the SD card slot; the internal memory is rather limited but you can pop in a 20 $ SD-card and have as much space as you need.
The Kindle Fire's internal memory is just as limited and it doesn't have an SD-card slot (none of the new Kindles have one).
So, unless you are constantly online and use the Amazon cloud (and drain the battery that much faster) there is no real advantage to the Fire over the Color (except perhaps price).

 

[ATimson]

Yeah, but $79 is still cheap. I have a Kindle with a keyboard and I barely use it for typing. If I search for a book, I tend to do it on my PC.

I was thinking more for searching within a book... I do it quite often, anyways!

 

[Zorkel567]

I wanted to let you guys know that certain Star Trek Kindle books are down to $3.99, most are the first in a series. How long this'll stay I don't know. These are some I could find:

*Destiny #1: Gods of Night
*Typhon Pact #1: Zero Sum Game
*Typhon Pact #2: Sieze the Fire
*Vanguard #1: Harbinger
*DTI: Watching the Clock
*Starfleet Academy #1:The Delta Anomaly
*Starfleet Academy #2: The Edge
*Titan #1: Taking Wing
*Voyager: Full Circle
*Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
*DS9: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
*The Next Generation: Death in Winter
*New Frontier: After the Fall

 

[Defcon]

Those are discounted until November 14th:

http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=149160

 

[Fer]

Thanks for sharing this. I didn't know about the Starfleet Academy books. How are they? Can anyone recommend one over the other?

 

[JD]

Damn, they're still all one I own.

 

[TJames03]

You'll probably never see "Probe" in ebook format. Long story, but the author will prob never agree to it.

 

[Defcon]

First: Holy thread necromancy, Batman!

Second: Star Trek novels are work for hire. So besides the agreed upon payment they don't have much say about the novels once they are published. I assume you are alluding to the fact that Margaret Wander Bonanno's @garamet original manuscript Music of the Spheres was heavily rewritten by Gene DeWeese. But I doubt that even if that episode is the reason for there being no eBook Margaret had any say in it.

 

[Jinn]

Plus, there is a German eBook version available, so it's probably a question of formatting as with some of the Shatnerverse books.

 

[JD]

So it's a formatting issue that is keeping the first Shatnerverse trilogy from being converted to e-books? I've been wondering about that for a while.

 

[Jinn]

Well, I don't know, but I presume

 

[BillJ]

The Kindle Fire's internal memory is just as limited and it doesn't have an SD-card slot...

I bought the newest Fire this time last year, and it has an SD-card slot.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Th

I bought the newest Fire this time last year, and it has an SD-card slot.

That refers to whatever Amazon was calling “Kindle Fire” back in 2011. Not the current tablet...

 

[BillJ]

Th

That refers to whatever Amazon was calling “Kindle Fire” back in 2011. Not the current tablet...

I bought it in 2017.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I bought it in 2017.

The post you were replying to was from 2011. I'm not disputing that the current Kindle Fire has an SD slot (l got one in 2015 with a slot). But in 2011 it was a different thing.

 

[garamet]

First: Holy thread necromancy, Batman!

Second: Star Trek novels are work for hire. So besides the agreed upon payment they don't have much say about the novels once they are published. I assume you are alluding to the fact that Margaret Wander Bonanno's @garamet original manuscript Music of the Spheres was heavily rewritten by Gene DeWeese. But I doubt that even if that episode is the reason for there being no eBook Margaret had any say in it.

I'm just frankly appalled at the prices of the Kindle editions.