On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jon Cox j...@experiments.com wrote:
Given that the highest costs are in the absorption of the content
itself (reading/listening/watching), it probably makes sense to
put a heavy emphasis on how to get stuff into your brain faster.
The key to enjoying an
How does one borrow books on a Kindle?
One of the best things about growing up with friends was that our personal
collections were effectively pooled.
--
J. Alfred Prufrock
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- But who is that on the other side of you?
On Thursday 28 Oct 2010 2:06:36 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Thoughts?
Udhay
http://in.news.yahoo.com/columnist/amit_varma/28/kindle-your-children
I am tempted to buy a Kindle for myself. Not for my kids though. My kids are
already readers.
Kids learn to read by watching their parents (or
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:41 PM, J. Alfred Prufrock
another.prufr...@gmail.com wrote:
How does one borrow books on a Kindle?
One of the best things about growing up with friends was that our personal
collections were effectively pooled.
The Kindle and the Nook allow 'lending' for a limited
The Kindle and the Nook allow 'lending' for a limited period during
which the book disappears off the bookshelf/collection of the person
lending.
Wunderbar. Thank you.
(A reasonable part of our personal collections were built on the Mark
Twain model)
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:55 PM, J. Alfred Prufrock
another.prufr...@gmail.com wrote:
The Kindle and the Nook allow 'lending' for a limited period during
which the book disappears off the bookshelf/collection of the person
lending.
Wunderbar. Thank you.
Slight correction required here -
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 05:41:54PM +0530, J. Alfred Prufrock wrote:
How does one borrow books on a Kindle?
Don't know about the Kindle, but anything with a browser
and a pdf/djvu reader can just go to http://free-books.dontexist.com/
One of the best things about growing up with friends was
I believe the details for the kindle are that it will allow lending for up to
two weeks (during which the lender can't read it) once only per book IF the
publisher allows it. And you need a kindle (or kindle app on another platform)
to receive it. A step forward but nothing amazing.
Having
form of technological device that will give me instant OCR and translations
of
Sanskrit and Kannada texts - of which I seem to have hundreds - some of them
writen by near ancestors. I wish I had a lens-like device that I can place on
a page of a Sanskrit text and have it read out
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
my requirement right now is for some
form of technological device that will give me instant OCR and translations of
Sanskrit and Kannada texts
Technically, this is two problems: OCR and translation. The latter is
easier to solve
I strongly think a kindle is not something a kid would warm up to. As
a kid (3-9), I really loved books with illustrations a lot more than
text heavy books. I think a kindle will not be as interesting as a
graphic book at that age. But, for someone who is 14 and above a
Kindle would be a good
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:01 AM, divya manian divya.man...@gmail.com wrote:
I strongly think a kindle is not something a kid would warm up to. As
a kid (3-9), I really loved books with illustrations a lot more than
text heavy books. I think a kindle will not be as interesting as a
graphic
I grew up with an uneven and highly catholic taste in books largely because
I read what my mom read and had around in the penthouse suite (sole room
on the terrace). Sidney Sheldon battled with Alex Haley and Alexander
Solzhenitsyn for supremacy and my Lit professors were convinced that I had
not
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:.
How about well-written applications on the iPad? I saw this awesome
version of Alice in Wonderland including illustrations on the iPad
that looked visually beautiful and had excellent UI (sort-of like
pop-up books).
It does
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:01 AM, divya manian divya.man...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:.
How about well-written applications on the iPad? I saw this awesome
version of Alice in Wonderland including illustrations on the iPad
that looked
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't have an iPad or Kindle or Nook...you mean, they don't have many
books with illustrations?
It is hard to read an illustration heavy book like Tintin or Asterix.
It needs a touchscreen for comics to be readable.
On Thursday 28 Oct 2010 11:31:53 pm divya manian wrote:
I strongly think a kindle is not something a kid would warm up to.
On the other hand I think every Indian school child should get a Kindle so
that his textboks can be uploaded on to the machine and he does not need to
cary a ton of
On Friday 29 Oct 2010 7:32:27 am divya manian wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't have an iPad or Kindle or Nook...you mean, they don't have many
books with illustrations?
It is hard to read an illustration heavy book like Tintin or
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
My uncle Google tells me that Kindle currently displays only 16 shades of
grey.
I am a serious reader of heavy books and get caled to do book reviews now
and then. For that I make *copious* notes and annotations. It that possible
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