Trek Books for Kindle
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Unfortunately none of the Stargate or Warhammer books are available even at Amazon but Amazon does have several of the newer Dr. Who books in the Kindle edition.
I softrooted my Nook Color and installed the Kindle app on my Nook and it works great. Seems kind of wrong to be able to read Amazon books on a Barnes and Noble product but hey I like to have options.
Kevin
I stand corrected, it seems they are out there and ready for purchase for my kindle, Yippie! I think I looked once for a TOS book, "Assignment: Eternity" and discovered it was not available and for some reason thought the old ones (TOS or TNG) were not available.
I am happy, because having finished Destiny recently I and looking for something now that has Data in it.
Immortal Coil is one of the better Data novels.
As someone on this board has mentioned numerous times, 95+% of all Trek books are available in epub and for the Kindle. It seems like most of the ones I've had difficulty locating in the past were usually the novelizations, though some were/are available.
- Byron
IC is an amazing book. Definitely one of, if not the, best Data novels ever.
I'm sorry if I'm knocking the thread off topic, but I just have to register my shock at the eBook prices. I've just downloaded Kindle for PC so that I could download Star Trek books instead of getting that paperbacks, which means I don't have to move out of the house so I have room for the books. 
After downloaded I browsed the Amazon UK store for some of the volumes I wanted such as the A Time to... series which I never finished the first time around. Needless to say, I wished I hadn't: £8.99 for A Time to Love / Hate, when I can pick up the paperback for £2.99 on Marketplace. And then there's the £5.99 price tag for the SCE novellas. Good God.
I long for the days before DRM when I could go to an eBook store and download a release a month before its out in the UK and spend $3.99 (£2.00ish). Happy days.
Rant over, you may return to your scheduled programming
After downloaded I browsed the Amazon UK store for some of the volumes I wanted such as the A Time to... series which I never finished the first time around. Needless to say, I wished I hadn't: £8.99 for A Time to Love / Hate, when I can pick up the paperback for £2.99 on Marketplace. And then there's the £5.99 price tag for the SCE novellas. Good God.
I long for the days before DRM when I could go to an eBook store and download a release a month before its out in the UK and spend $3.99 (£2.00ish). Happy days.
Rant over, you may return to your scheduled programming
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ongoing-publisher-inattention-to-e-book-quality-is-highly-annoying/
have a read and you'll see it's not just S&S that's a mess at times.
have a read and you'll see it's not just S&S that's a mess at times.
Unfortunately none of the Stargate or Warhammer books are available even at Amazon but Amazon does have several of the newer Dr. Who books in the Kindle edition.
I softrooted my Nook Color and installed the Kindle app on my Nook and it works great. Seems kind of wrong to be able to read Amazon books on a Barnes and Noble product but hey I like to have options.
Kevin
AMazon does have Kindle editions of Stargate Atlantis books. Haven't really looked at the SG-1 books - got turned off those after the first 3 and haven't gotten around to trying again yet.
Unfortunately none of the Stargate or Warhammer books are available even at Amazon but Amazon does have several of the newer Dr. Who books in the Kindle edition.
I softrooted my Nook Color and installed the Kindle app on my Nook and it works great. Seems kind of wrong to be able to read Amazon books on a Barnes and Noble product but hey I like to have options.
Kevin
AMazon does have Kindle editions of Stargate Atlantis books. Haven't really looked at the SG-1 books - got turned off those after the first 3 and haven't gotten around to trying again yet.
Here are the Stargate books which have been released as eBooks so far.
Sorry for the resurrection of this thread, but I'm contemplating to buy a Kindle at the moment (I know there are other readers, but the Kindle would be my choice at the moment) and I have a question:
Could you please point me to Star Trek Kindle book with serious formatting issues within the first chapter (as that is what is covered by the excerpt I can send to my Kindle for PC app I think)?
I've often read about the bad formating of the ST eBooks, but can't really imagine what it's all about, so it would be nice to see examples for the formating issues.
Could you please point me to Star Trek Kindle book with serious formatting issues within the first chapter (as that is what is covered by the excerpt I can send to my Kindle for PC app I think)?
I've often read about the bad formating of the ST eBooks, but can't really imagine what it's all about, so it would be nice to see examples for the formating issues.
I've owned a Kindle (2) for years now and haven't noticed a single formatting issue with any Trek book I've purchased in the last year so I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Yeah, I'm under the impression most of the formatting issues are with older books, not new ones. I too own a Kindle (though I'm still a relatively new owner of one) and I have yet to see any issues either, but have never purchased old books for it, only new releases.
Well, if some posts over the last few years in this forum are to be believed every single Trek eBook seems to have severe formatting issues, so I figured I take a look at some of those "atrocities" before purchasing a reader.
ETA:
While I certainly plan to get some older titles I never had the chance to get before they were out of print, I would mostly purchase newer titles, so it's good to hear that those seem to be in good shape.
FWIW I skimmed through this thread and one of the out of print books I would purchase was mentioned here as having formatting issues (Rihannsu: The Empty Chair). I checked the excerpt and while the lack of spaces between paragraphs is a tad annoying it would be tolerable and not necessarily an argument against purchasing a Kindle.
This was one I was going to mention to you.
I think it looks horrible and it will definitely need to be edited before I'll want to read it.
Keep in mind that different people tolerate different levels of these issues though. I'm a perfectionist so, admittedly, I'm harder to please. Some readers couldn't care less, don't need any text or paragraph formatting at all and would be fine reading a book in Notepad. There are many in between those two extremes.
Something else about The Empty Chair is the fact that it has no true cover image and no table of contents. Again, these issue are extremely important to some, like myself, while others couldn't care less. You just have to determine what is important to you.
I have to admit though, minor issue that it is, the ending page of Star Trek: Vanguard, Precipice was very annoying where the "to be continued" text says "The Saga of STAR TRACK OF VANGUARD Will Continue". It just seems like the editing, the quality control just isn't there. Being in management for a major automotive manufacturer for the past twenty years has instilled certain things in me and an attention to detail is one of them. I don't think everyone on here would be as forgiving if they bought a new Toyota Camry, got home and realized that the Toyota emblem and the Camry emblem were glued on upside down. The argument could be made that "what's the big deal? You can still drive it, right? It shouldn't impact your driving experience. What's your problem?" The cost of an item shouldn't impact whether or not you get a quality product or not and for many, the presentation is extremely important. As much attention should be paid to ebooks as is paid to the print versions. Still, this is a very subjective issue. I just happen to be at one of the two extremes.
None of these issues impacted my decision to purchase a Kindle though. These are issues with the publishers and their ebooks, not the reader. While I have seen similar issues under all formats, it just seems like I've run into them a little more with mobi files. Me being the anal retentive perfectionist that I am, I'd be editing my ebooks to suit myself regardless of which reader or format I used.
I love my Kindle and I've been reading non-stop since my wife gave it to me for Christmas (thank you Sweetheart!) I love my Kindle and ebooks in general.
- Byron
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The only one I've found that was actually problematic to understand was The Pandora Principle, by Carloyn Clewes, which had seriously messed up dialogue formatting. Punctuation disappeared next to quote marks, it was really weird. I still got through it fine.
Either way: I'm genuinely mystified every time I see a post about how Trek e-book formatting is a disaster. You have to be some kind of wild-ass perfectionist to not be satisfied, I think; certainly, all of the modern ones are just fine. Some have the occasional minor annoyance, like a missing Table of Contents, but I'd still much rather have the e-books all in one place on my extremely transportable and convenient Kindle than have them in print.
I recommend you go for it. You'll find yourself reading a lot more, I guarantee it. It's just so easy.
Either way: I'm genuinely mystified every time I see a post about how Trek e-book formatting is a disaster. You have to be some kind of wild-ass perfectionist to not be satisfied, I think; certainly, all of the modern ones are just fine. Some have the occasional minor annoyance, like a missing Table of Contents, but I'd still much rather have the e-books all in one place on my extremely transportable and convenient Kindle than have them in print.
I recommend you go for it. You'll find yourself reading a lot more, I guarantee it. It's just so easy.
Thanks for the input.
I think I fall somewhere in between the perfectionists and those who don't give a damn about formating issues. If it's just a missing cover/TOC or something like in The Empty Chair I guess I can live with it if it doesn't happen all to often.
The formating issues was one of the negatives I had listed for the Kindle/ereader in general, but if those aren't anyway near as bad as I was led to believe by some posts here I guess I can delete that.
FWIW these are my pros/cons I listed:
Positive:
- Kindlebooks are cheaper (not much, 0,50 - 1€ per book at amazon.de)
- no shelf space needed (that is a growing concern for me)
- easier handling (especially in contrast to TPB)
- availability of out of print books I would like to read
- when I'm close to finish a book I don't have to carry two books around at the same time to make sure I'm not running out of stuff to read
Negative:
- initial costs to buy the reader and equipment
- awful formating of the Star Trek eBooks
- you have to be more careful with the reader than with a book
- the possibility of Amazon to remote-delete books I've purchased (at least I've heard that this has happened in the past)
I think I fall somewhere in between the perfectionists and those who don't give a damn about formating issues. If it's just a missing cover/TOC or something like in The Empty Chair I guess I can live with it if it doesn't happen all to often.
The formating issues was one of the negatives I had listed for the Kindle/ereader in general, but if those aren't anyway near as bad as I was led to believe by some posts here I guess I can delete that.
FWIW these are my pros/cons I listed:
Positive:
- Kindlebooks are cheaper (not much, 0,50 - 1€ per book at amazon.de)
- no shelf space needed (that is a growing concern for me)
- easier handling (especially in contrast to TPB)
- availability of out of print books I would like to read
- when I'm close to finish a book I don't have to carry two books around at the same time to make sure I'm not running out of stuff to read
Negative:
- initial costs to buy the reader and equipment
- awful formating of the Star Trek eBooks
- you have to be more careful with the reader than with a book
- the possibility of Amazon to remote-delete books I've purchased (at least I've heard that this has happened in the past)
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