Its name is Enabler.

[mrissa]

I now own a Kindle. It arrived today (late Christmas present from timprov).

(Note to porphyrin: it is blue.)

My philosophy of this thing is that I do not want to use it to replace physical books I would actually buy. So what I'm reading on it right now is...my own book. (One of my old manuscripts, I mean.) If I'm critiquing a manuscript for those of you for whom I do that, it'll probably be on my Kindle rather than in a 3-ring binder. Ideally this will mean faster crits.

I'm also interested in the sorts of free things that are open source, so if any of you have recommendations for specific works or sites for getting free old books in Kindle format, please do say. Again, I will continue to do my book buying in physical form for stuff that's available in physical form. What I want on my Kindle is Project Gutenberg type stuff, although Baen's Free Library stuff is also a good category of thing to have. Oh, and the last category is stuff that's only available in e-book format. All good recs to have.

Comments

[shana.livejournal.com]

I got my Kindle last week. Most of what I have on it is from Project Gutenberg and Baen. Baen will email stuff to your Kindle, and many PG books are available in Kindle format; just download them while the Kindle is in USB drive mode.

Munseys is also a good source of ebooks in multiple formats. There's a large overlap with PG, though.

Archive.org has lots of books, but most are PDFs.

I find that PDFs come out in teeny type, though, so only those that were either in small page size or large type are readable.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I've found that some PDFs work much better if I switch to landscape mode.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

That is a good tip, and one that has me smacking my forehead in "SO OBVIOUS" mode. Thanks.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

I'll ask the "dumb" question: how do you switch to landscape mode on the kindle? I've done so for the pdf itself (to no avail and teeny-tiny font).

[timprov.livejournal.com]

The Aa button next to the spacebar changes the screen rotation as well as the font.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

Thanks!