On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Narendra Sisodiya
naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote:
I want to start a Library for FOSS books, But the basic math says this is a
difficult task..
A decent 3 room sized place will cost around 15,000 - 20,000 per month. a
care taker with 5000 per month .
On 11/17/2010 08:02 AM, satyaakam goswami wrote:
I want to start a Library for FOSS books, But the basic math says this is a
difficult task..
one such initiative is already on
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=131953620168994 do try to collaborate
I am intrigued why there is an interest
Earlier I had reported that everything works fine in HP Mini notebook
but sound in firefox while visiting sites like youtube etc.
It turned out that since I had migrated my home directory from earlier
version of Ubuntu I had to delete .asoundrc file and .marcomedia
.adobe directories. Thereafter
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:
I am intrigued why there is an interest in physical books these days.
Pretty much everywhere I look ( from the Pasteur Institute in Paris
to the UCL and Kings College here in London ) the libraries are all
scaling back, dropping periodicals in
snip
I'm old-fashioned (or maybe just old) but I still find it much easier to
read on paper than on a display. It'll be a sad day when all you can
get is digitised books, unless digital paper technology has advanced at
least a few order of magnitude by then.
/snip
Try kindle.
Regards,
On 11/17/2010 12:20 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
I'm old-fashioned (or maybe just old) but I still find it much easier to
read on paper than on a display. It'll be a sad day when all you can
get is digitised books, unless digital paper technology has advanced at
least a few order of
[snip all kindle love]
I don't know but eReaders are just not for everyone yet. I don't like
holding that device in my hand as much as I like holding a book. The
buttons are all clumsy to press in my opinion compared to flipping
through book pages. The page transitions are annoying too. I am not
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 11/17/2010 12:20 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
I'm old-fashioned (or maybe just old) but I still find it much
easier to read on paper than on a display. It'll be a sad day
when all you can get is digitised books, unless digital paper
Hi,
On 11/17/2010 01:20 PM, Nandeep Mali wrote:
I don't know but eReaders are just not for everyone yet. I don't like
I dont think the ebook readers are really a 1:1 match with the reason
for decline in library size's and content. Its more of a case of what
content, and how its consumed.
Earlier I had reported that everything works fine in HP Mini notebook
but sound in firefox while visiting sites like youtube etc.
It turned out that since I had migrated my home directory from earlier
version of Ubuntu I had to delete .asoundrc file and .marcomedia
.adobe directories.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:45:13PM +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
Well, the Kindle and its brethren are out anyway for me due to DRM.
You mean the *Amazon Kindle Store* content is out because of DRM. If you think
of Kindle as just a personal electronic device, just like your mobile or
can I read html, text, PDF files of my own?
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2010/11/18 Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org:
can I read html, text, PDF files of my own?
The Kindle or, any other ebook reader for that matter supports a set
of file formats. Is your question specific to whether you can transfer
self-published content to the device and read ? If that is the
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.netwrote:
On 11/17/2010 10:57 AM, Rakesh Kumar wrote:
[snip]
Great to know this because i have never seen this ever. But i want to know
one thing that when i studied this, found that we keep this size bigger
because of
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM, sankarshan
foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/11/18 Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org:
can I read html, text, PDF files of my own?
The Kindle or, any other ebook reader for that matter supports a set
of file formats. Is your question specific to whether
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