I just bought it using the button "Buy it with 1-Click" and I found it a bit scary. I mean, no confirmation and all. It's like just click and, BOOM, a confirmation email saying that you've already bought it. It's quite jarring as compared to buying stuff from other websites.
Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
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Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
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Don't know about download but you can read it online using Amazon Cloudreader.
Download is easy enough, just click the transfer via usb option, and it'll download a .azw file. You can't read it without stripping out the DRM first, but that's not very hard either.
Didn't saw that option. Maybe only available to those who have registered a Kindle device.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#53Once every six months something inspires me to put a book on the Kindle that I received as a Christmas present two years ago. Then the frustrations begin. In this case, after finding the table of contents I try to use the up-down-joystick-button to navigate the TOC. It's just painfully slow and it's displaying definitions for every word I happen to be on (it starts off showing me the definition for "Table" in Table o…
Have you ever made it past the table of contents on the Kindle?
I find the reading experience is quite smooth. Navigation and the UI is a bit slow, but that is a secondary feature to me.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#54Well, this just got me to download Amazon's Kindle apps.
The Kindle app on my phone has increased the amount I read so much. I find all these random times throughout the day where I can read another chapter in whatever book I'm reading.
Waiting for a meeting to start or standing in line? I'll read the next dozen pages in my Clojure book or the latest fiction novel I'm working on.
When I first started reading on my phone I thought the bright display and small screen would bother me. It hasn't. I've read huge novels on my phone flipping small page after small page. If anything, I feel like I read faster.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do I download the book so I can read it on my iDevice?
Officially, you need to use the Kindle app. Unofficially, it's easy to use Calibre to convert them to epub. (DRM add a few minutes of extra work.)
The official version of Calibre doesn't support stripping the DRM out of the file, does it?
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Officially, you need to use the Kindle app. Unofficially, it's easy to use Calibre to convert them to epub. (DRM add a few minutes of extra work.)
The official version of Calibre doesn't support stripping the DRM out of the file, does it?
That's right. I only use Calibre for converting. I use the Python scripts from here [1] to remove DRM. The newer versions have GUIs; they should be friendly enough for most readers here.
[1]: http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/hello-world/
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#57On a related note, is there an easy way to find other free or dirt-cheap (US $0.99) E-books on Amazon?
The Amazon site likes to group things into "As low as " sections, which means there's a least one item at that price, with most things costing more.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#58Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but my TL;DR assessment of the first few pages makes me think this book is pretty poorly edited. None the less I'm looking forward to reading it and honing my vim skillset.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#59Every once in awhile the state of DRM really hammers itself home, to me.
Case in point, when someone is literally giving a potentially interesting book away and I can't be arsed to take it because getting it onto my reader of choice is just too much hassle.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#60Every once in awhile the state of DRM really hammers itself home, to me. Case in point, when someone is literally giving a potentially interesting book away and I can't be arsed to take it because getting it onto my reader of choice is just too much hassle.
you can't convert it with calibre?