The joy of electronic books
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The joy of electronic books
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Re: The joy of electronic books
#2The only problem with digital copies like this is that I can't underline. Maybe it's just the habit of underlining, but I can't read as well (academic reading) when I can't underline key points, specific words, and particularly interesting passages.
Re: The joy of electronic books
#3The only problem with digital copies like this is that I can't underline. Maybe it's just the habit of underlining, but I can't read as well (academic reading) when I can't underline key points, specific words, and particularly interesting passages.
I've found Preview's (Mac; built in) annotate feature to be a great portable way to highlight inside PDFs.
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#4The only problem with digital copies like this is that I can't underline. Maybe it's just the habit of underlining, but I can't read as well (academic reading) when I can't underline key points, specific words, and particularly interesting passages.
I may be wrong, but I believe there's a feature in Kinde 2 DX that allows you to do that.
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#5The only problem with digital copies like this is that I can't underline. Maybe it's just the habit of underlining, but I can't read as well (academic reading) when I can't underline key points, specific words, and particularly interesting passages.
I may be wrong, but I believe there's a feature in Kinde 2 DX that allows you to do that.
the DX cannot highlight or annotate pdf files, at least not currently.
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#6The only problem with digital copies like this is that I can't underline. Maybe it's just the habit of underlining, but I can't read as well (academic reading) when I can't underline key points, specific words, and particularly interesting passages.
I may be wrong, but I believe there's a feature in Kinde 2 DX that allows you to do that.
Not sure about underlining, but highlighting and annotating has been there since Kindle 1.
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#7Having digital copies of my books sounds great, but as a college student I'd like to sell some of my books back at the end of the semester. I'm not sure how interested the book store would be in gorilla-glued spines.
I was recently reading a very detailed instructable [1] that describes a system to scan books without cutting the spines for ~$300. I'm planning on trying it out later this summer.
[1]http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-...
Re: The joy of electronic books
#8Having digital copies of my books sounds great, but as a college student I'd like to sell some of my books back at the end of the semester. I'm not sure how interested the book store would be in gorilla-glued spines. I was recently reading a very detailed instructable [1] that describes a system to scan books without cutting the spines for ~$300. I'm planning on trying it out later this summer. [1] http://www.instruc…
Google has a multi-camera method which corrects for page curvature, making it unnecessary to despine/flatten the books. Unfortunately, it's patented...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/15/1834246
Re: The joy of electronic books
#9He hates DRM but uses an iPhone?
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#10Is there a legal way to sell used digital books or used digital music?
Like some app where you identify the mp3's that you'd like to sell. The price is half of itunes. When a user buys it, the app "permanently destroys" (yeah, yeah, i know) your copy of the mp3 and transmits the mp3 to the buyer.
Re-selling goods is a long-standing fixture of the economy. Doesn't it apply to digital goods too?