Ok, so im very close to buying the Amazon Kindle but i need some info first. How can i buy an ebook from another site and add it to my kindle DX?

It should be easy. The Kindle DX supports PDF files natively. So you just need the following steps:

1. Buy the ebook through your computer.
2. Connect the Kindle DX with your computer through USB cable.
3. Copy the ebook to the Kindle DX. The Kindle DX will automatically put it into the correct folder, according to the file type
4. Open it with the Kindle DX

Be sure to read this about other benefits of the Kindle DX:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR3CFKPSFYSFEUG%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=ereader-2-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

How do you take off the case on the amazon kindle

Just pull the little black elastic band over and slide it out. It’s not glued in or anything.

Okay, I know that Christams is in a couple of months, but I want to make sure that I know what I want. I’ve been thinkging about those e-readers. I love to read. I’m pretty young, only 13, but I think I’m ready for one. I’m very responsible. So, I’ve been looking at some readers latley. First of, I hate those Amazon Kindles. Hate them. They look horrible, and cheap, even though they are not cheap. I’ve never liked them. Especially the new DX one. Way over priced. Well, at least I think so. It’s also way too big. I kind of like the Sony ones. But not the non touch screans one. The 505 or something, I do not like. I like the 700, it looks pretty good. 6 inch screan. Good. They are coming out with a new one in December, and it looks good.. but it’s pretty expensive. I would kind of feel bad if I did get it, because I went on a pretty expensive trip last year and stuff with my class… Anywhoo.. I’ve also been looking at the Cool-er. I do not like that it is not a touch screan. But the price is pretty good. I mean, I got my i that price.. The size looks good. I’m kind of woried that there is not a lot of book selection.. Like, I went on the website, and looked up some of my favorite books. They had not even half of them. Also, they are a UK company, and I am not sure that they would ship to the US.. Also, There’s this one called the Hanvan or something. Even though they only ship in China, I wouldn’t even get it because the screan is smaller than the Sony 700, yet the Hanvan is more expensive.. Sooo.. I’m not sure what I should get… This is going to have a lot of thinking even before I tell my Father. I’m sure he would spend about $300.. or something. And my birthday is in February, so I could maybe combine them into one present.. I love touch screans.. Also, I know that Plastic Logic is teaming up with Barnes and Nobles, so they will have a pretty big book selection, but I’m not a fan of the gadget itself.. Also, I’ve heard about Illiads. But really, 800 bucks for an e-reader.. wow. I will not get the new Sony, because I do not like the size, and way too exppensive. Or, sould I get the Cool-er, because it will be my first e-reader. This is way comfusing… Could you maybe help me out.. And maybe recomend some if you have ever had an e-reader. Sorry this is so long. Thanks.

this is something you’l find out about life; not everything is perfect for everybody out there. if price is such a big buying point than concentrate on the affordable ones. now choose your screen size, seems like you want a big one (big being relative to the sizes available). now touchscreen. you said you like touchscreens but not everything has to be touch. the manufacturers have made it possible to use without touchscreens so they will work just the same.

so look at price, then screen size, then touch possible. i bet you’d be left with only a couple to choose from and be perfectly able to read books on them. not every tech has to have ALL the bells and whistles.

in the back of your mind you are/will probably wonder if something new will come out from same company thats better or cheaper. yes it will. it always happens. the day after you buy something technology-wise there will always be something newer and cheaper on the market. then you’ll say to yourself "i should’ve waited and got that one" or something along those lines. i type of buyers remorse. but what you’ll have to remember is that you got an ebook reader to read books. that’s what it does and that’s what it will always do. if people sat back and waited for the best and cheapest then no one would ever buy anything.

And is it easy to look up words you don’t know as you come across them?

Ebook readers that have dictionaries include: the Barnes and Noble Nook, Kindle 2, Sony PRS-900, 600 and 700, and the Kindle DX. You can get dictionaries on a few other ebook readers but it requires some hacking and or technical workarounds.

Ebooks for the Kindle are not always cheaper than Sony’s. For people who live outside the US Kindle’s ebooks cost $2-4 more than other major ePub ebook retailers that sell bestsellers for $9.99.

Not all Sony’s have a dictionary. The touchscreen models do, and it’s really easy to use; you just tap on the word with either your finger or the stylus.

With the Kindle it’s a bit more tedious because you have to move the cursor across the screen to the word you want to look up.

I’m thinking about getting one. Also, does it cheapen the whole reading experience to be reading off of a little computer screen?
(people who love to read…you guys know what i’m talking about) thanks!

I d/led microsoft reader online for free to read some of my books. I used to think it cheapened reading but I find I read faster and avoid hand cramps by reading on the comp rather than holding a heavy hardback book.

I’m trying to decide which device would work the best as a portable PDF reader, since there don’t ssem to be any good e-readers avalable. I’m wondering if a PSP would work or maybe the Nokia Internet reader. Has anyone tried this and found a lightweight device good enough for using as a portable ebook reader (that supports PDF)?

All of the Palm OS PDAs on the market can support PDF with the right software installed. The small screen issue can be resolved by using a mofel that supports landscape images- such as the Palm Tx.

I like my Tx because it is small, easy to use, and incredibly versatile. I can do several formats of e-texts- Word, .txt. .html, .pdf, etc. as well as photos, movies, MP3, etc. and be a planner and game platform as well.

I need to make my own Remote control device using IR sensors and write my own software for that using Visual Studio .Net 2005.
I know .Net and C# languages very well but do not know how to start building my own hardware for the remote control and program it using Visual Studio .Net 2005, though I know it can be done using VS.Net 2005 Compact Framework. Is there ary e-books or books that I can buy, which will guide me through the process of building my own hardware for the Remote Control Device and e-books / books to buy which wil guide me through writing the software for the remote control device using Visual Studio .Net tools?? Please suggest

Please provide additional detail: Do you wish to control the PC remotely, or do you wish to use your PC to perform remote control of other systems? Similarly, with respect to you infra-red sensors, are these sensors providing input to the PC, responding to IR signals from the PC, or both.

You can get RS-232C equipped universal smart IR remote controls, or check the June 1993 issue of "Electronics Now" (since merged with Popular Electronics) for my circuit to interface a PC’s parallel port to the existing matrix keyboard of an off-the-shelf IR smart remote. Programming details will depend on what you are trying to implement.

If you want to build your own receiver section from scratch, you’ll need an IR diode tuned to 880Nm, a pulse-stretcher, and then a demodulator (typicall 40KHz carrier for consumer-stlye IR signals). I would suggest managing this with an on-board processor, such as a PIC. Use the sourcecode from the PIC programmer itself as the basis for a terminal program, or check out the source code libraries available publicly for code you can incorporate, then interface through the serial port (I used to use the classic Maxim Max-232 chip to simplify the multi-voltage power supply demands of RS-232c interfacing; you might find an easier way via USB — I’m a bit out of date on this end of hardware hacking.

The Parallel port is still around, is typically a Bitronics EPP-style port these days (so you’ll have at least 8 i/o lines instead of 8 out and 5 returns) but isn’t as easy to program as it was in the days of DOS — at least if you want real performance. Under current Windows, you’ll get best performance by coding a device driver, since the O/S owns and abstracts all the hardware ports anymore — peeks and pokes were the easy way to fiddle bits at the hardware level in my day; now a lot of it still works, but its abstracted or emulated, unless you create a device driver. There used to be a pretty good parallel port bare-bones device driver code example that came with the Windows DDK — device driver kit, but that was many versions ago; check the Microsoft site to find out what’s current.

Good luck to you!

-jb

I am an avid reader and only keep books I want to read agian. And still have collected hundreds, so storage is a huge problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on Sony’s new reader? Or other electronic book storage device. Thank you for you input.

I have thousands of ebooks and storage became a problem for me, too. I ended up getting some external hard drives. About 100.00 for 500GB at wal-mart. They’re plug & play, easy to use.

I LOVE my Sony Reader! I use a memory card in it also, in addition to the built in memory.

There’s tons of info on the Sony Reader at the Mobile Read forums.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/

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