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eBook Formats and Readers ?'s

BrotherBenny said:
Hopefully I will be able to buy my Nook at the weekend.

I await my buyer receiving the Sony Reader and leaving feedback on eBay, which will hopefully be Thursday. Then I can transfer the funds into my account. I'm guessing though that it will be next weekend when I have the time to go and buy it, unless I order it online, but we'll see.
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I know you will greatly enjoy the nook. I think getting the wifi version is a good choice as I have only used the 3G a few times but use wifi a LOT. Be aware that if you want the wifi version you probably ought to order one online because as far as I know there are no stores that have them in stock yet. The manager of the local store said they were totally in the dark about the wifi version until it was announced this week and he does not expect to see any in stores for at least two weeks.

Kevin
 
I'm hearing most stores should have them in by the end of next week. This is assuming they don't run out again like last time when pre-orders were far higher than they expected.
 
Some of our newest members at Nookboards ordered the wifi version online and got their unit in two days. Shipping is free on nooks from what I understand.

Kevin
 
It also means my wife has to give up her dream and go back to doing something she didn't want to do, teaching.

I may still be able to buy the Nook, but probably not until Christmas.
 
anyone one know what ereader/ program thing will work on an ipod touch? I've got stanza at present and was wondering what else was out there preferably something I can create my own stories to use on the I-pod
 
BrotherBenny said:
Definitely not getting the Nook now, just lost my job so can't really afford to spend out on one.
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Sorry about the job loss. I do hope you get another job soon.

And the nook vs the Kindle 2, I think overall the nook wifi is overall the better deal.
 
Judge Alba said:
anyone one know what ereader/ program thing will work on an ipod touch? I've got stanza at present and was wondering what else was out there preferably something I can create my own stories to use on the I-pod
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You could use iBooks and load your own ePub on the iPod. I am not sure if you will need iOS 4 or not to use iBooks 1.1. But i have iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G and iBooks 1.1 and it works fine.

As for Stanza, it doesn't work well with iOS 4. So now is a good time to give up on it.

There is the B&N app which I do not like. There is the txtr app which I like and the Kindle app that's not bad. eReader is also out there, but I cannot stand eReader format. And finally there is the Kobo app which again, forget it.
 
Judge Alba said:
anyone one know what ereader/ program thing will work on an ipod touch? I've got stanza at present and was wondering what else was out there preferably something I can create my own stories to use on the I-pod
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Depends on which iPod you've got. The oldest model won't upgrade to iOS4, and therefore can't run iBooks. However, if you can use iOS4, iBooks is probably your best bet. It'll read non-DRM ePub files you can create yourself, uploaded to your iPod via iTunes.

And, Jon's comment aside, eReader is also a decent format for creating your own files to read on the iPod/iPhone. I've been doing that for years. eReader books are translated from a text format called Palm Markup Language (pml) via Drop Book (a program found on their site) to the pdb formatting read by eReader. I've managed to figure out, through tons of trial and error, how to store all my books on DropBox (no relation to Drop Book), and download them to my iPhone at will - the most important feature that iBooks is missing.

For creating books, I've found PML such a nice format for creating ebooks that I wrote a program to translate PML to ePub for reading in iBooks/Stanza - Calibre can do it for you, but will lose some of the formatting, and won't generate books that Stanza can format correctly. I found everything I needed to know about PML at http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EReader .
 
I've had the damndest time trying to find the 'A Time To...' series for purchase eBook. Does this exist and if so, does anyone have a link?
 
BrotherBenny said:
JWolf said:
BrotherBenny said:
Definitely not getting the Nook now, just lost my job so can't really afford to spend out on one.
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Sorry about the job loss. I do hope you get another job soon.

And the nook vs the Kindle 2, I think overall the nook wifi is overall the better deal.
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But there are some books I want only available on the Kindle, not on any other eBook site I can find.
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Some of those Kindle only eBooks are in Topaz which is not a nice reading experience. Looks kind of like you are reading from a mimeographed copy.
 
Destructor said:
I've had the damndest time trying to find the 'A Time To...' series for purchase eBook. Does this exist and if so, does anyone have a link?
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http://www.kobobooks.com/

Kobo has the entire A Time to... series and Articles of the Federation available in ePub. Most readers will be able to handle the DRM. If you are reading on an iPhone or iPod Touch, the txtr app will handle the DRM.
 
An Amazon search for "A Time To [author]" using each author of each pair in the series also turns up all of them. They're not listed as Star Trek though, so if you searched before that might've been why you missed them.
 
Thrawn said:
An Amazon search for "A Time To [author]" using each author of each pair in the series also turns up all of them. They're not listed as Star Trek though, so if you searched before that might've been why you missed them.
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At Kobo, all I did was search using the name of each book and I was able to find all of them.
 
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