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Exciting headline; miserable experience. We're sorry, an error has occurred in our application. So now I've finally given up after the tenth attempt. I guess O'Reilly won't be selling me that copy of Building Scalable Websites after all.
Exciting headline; miserable experience. We're sorry, an error has occurred in our application. So now I've finally given up after the tenth attempt. I guess O'Reilly won't be selling me that copy of Building Scalable Websites after all.
My order went through, but I can't access my book :(
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Especially for technical books where I end up flipping around pages back and forth something that the computer probably will never be able to model intuitively. Though I must say I like my kindle enough that it is readable for normal books. But there is just something about paper :)
Yes, if only such technology existed where you could swap between two bookmarks with a keypress. Or where you could jump to a particular page by just typing in a number.
[Disclosure: The below is an old HN post I made.]
The Social Life of Paper (2002) (newyorker.com)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=434516
P.S. I also subscribe to Safari. It's nice not to lug a bunch of books around, but the reading experience I do find different between the two media.
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My order went through, but I can't access my book :(
Same here, when I go to the "emedia" page, it sits there loading for a good 3 minutes, then says I don't have anything to download.
If I had an iPad I might consider it to see if I can read on that, but I've found that I only ever read books when printed on the pulped, mangled, processed bodies of brutally murdered trees.
Why would an iPad help? It still has the eyeball-melting backlight, and it has a glossy screen, so you have to read through a reflection. There's a reason why people like e-ink-based ebook readers so much. They may not have games, but they are really good for reading ebooks. (Though I admit that the normal Kindle is not so great for books that have diagrams.)
If I had an iPad I might consider it to see if I can read on that, but I've found that I only ever read books when printed on the pulped, mangled, processed bodies of brutally murdered trees.
Why would an iPad help? It still has the eyeball-melting backlight, and it has a glossy screen, so you have to read through a reflection. There's a reason why people like e-ink-based ebook readers so much. They may not have games, but they are really good for reading ebooks. (Though I admit that the normal Kindle is not so great for books that have diagrams.)
I find it a lot easier on my eyes than my Macbook Air, for reading, not sure why. But there it is.
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Same here, when I go to the "emedia" page, it sits there loading for a good 3 minutes, then says I don't have anything to download.
Appears to be a common trend, same situation here for iPhone 3D I just got and was excited to 'download immediately' but I get 'no data' or no books to download.
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Appears to be a common trend, same situation here for iPhone 3D I just got and was excited to 'download immediately' but I get 'no data' or no books to download.
I called them and the rep said it's b/c of the load. She assured me that it will show up eventually.
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Why would an iPad help? It still has the eyeball-melting backlight, and it has a glossy screen, so you have to read through a reflection. There's a reason why people like e-ink-based ebook readers so much. They may not have games, but they are really good for reading ebooks. (Though I admit that the normal Kindle is not so great for books that have diagrams.)
I have read more than 3000 screens (pages?) on my iPad so far and my eyeballs have not melted yet. I think it is quite a personal thing whether you like using an iPad for reading a lot of material or not. I find it a lot easier on my eyes than my Macbook Air, for reading, not sure why. But there it is.
Could it be because you spent $500 on it for the purpose of reading books, and your mind won't let you think negative thoughts about the experience?
I had a pair of pants like this. They were the wrong size, uncomfortable, and ugly. But I wore them anyway because it was too late to return them, and I spent $75 on them that I could never get back. So I just learned to like them, even though they were fundamentally flawed.