ebooks

TRX
March 21, 2013
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You could also have a continuously updating ebook
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With a fresh ISBN for every update?

More than once I've been tripped up when discussing a movie with someone. I'd seen the movie... but they'd only seen a remake of it, and I wasn't aware there were now two considerably different movies of the same name. And that was before some started editing their re-releases. "As I remember it, Han shot first..."

I really wouldn't care to see that sort of thing happening in books, too.

TRX
March 21, 2013
150:
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Always set your reader app to turn pages with a single tap,
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The software for my 7" tablet was so bad it was basically useless for epubs or pdfs. But I found I could convert the books to plain HMTL and use its file browser applet instead. It took a while to get the hang of scrolling instead of paging, but overall, I think scrolling is the better way with such a small screen.

TRX
March 24, 2013
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some authors have been known to accept filthy lucre from beastly corporations to put product placements in their novels
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There's one "thriller" writer who has some product featured in each of his books - a knife, gun, light airplane, whatever - with lengthy and irrelevant descriptions and praises of the product's usefulness and virtues, plus pricing and contact information for the manufacturer or a vendor.

Since I haven't seen this in any of the other books from the same publisher, I've been assuming the author made his own deals for product placements.