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Meni fino konvertuje pdf u mobi.

Jesi, rekao si mi, i to odavno... ali, eto, skoro 30% fonda mi je u pdfu, i to sad već samo one stvari koje ne mogu nikako drugačije da nabavim... toga naprosto više nema da se kupi, u pitanju je uglavnom non-fiction. A ne mogu da stavim te pdf fajlove na čitač, tojest, mogu, ali postaju neupotrebljivi, pošto čitač ne može da podešava veličinu fonta na tim pdf fajlovima, pa se naprosto ništa ne razaznaje.


I, uzgred budi rečeno, nije mi samo pdf problem, svi text fajlov mii prave slične probleme a i poneki lit, mada sam te knjige nabavila u originalu. Ali ovo ne mogu, jednostavno ih nema. 

Konvertovanje u mobi mi ostavlja suludo velike margine, bukvalno bude tri reči u redu i dve rečenice po strani...

i da, moj čitač je iRiver.

Ili menjaj citac (kindle i sony imaju dobru pdf podrsku) ili kupuj tablet gde ima ljudski software za citanje pdf-a. Sve ostalo je jad i patnja.

Quote from: LiBeat on 27-09-2011, 21:01:15
Konvertovanje u mobi mi ostavlja suludo velike margine, bukvalno bude tri reči u redu i dve rečenice po strani...

zar to ne može da se podesi pri konverziji? ili iRiver ignoriše?

Pa, taj problem sa marginama bi i mogao biti do čitača, pošto sam za sada naišla samo na dve tako falične knjige, a obe izgledaju sasvim normalno kad ih otvorim u kalibru. Ali ono sa pasusom koji "iskoči" iz normalnog formata stranice, to definitivno nije do čitača. Moguće da nije ni do same konverzije, pošto sam sinoć iskopala desetak tako faličnih knjiga koje najverovatnije nisu ni bile originalno u pdfu, nego sam ih skinula sa neta već u epub formatu. A ovaj čitač zaista volim, baterija mi po pravilu daje dobrano više od 15 sati čitanja, plus je toliko priprost za rukovanje da je juzerfrendli baš po mom ukusu, jer nemam ja nerava za hiperhipster igračke. Flešdrajv sa ekranom, eto to vam je moj iRiver... 

http://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Amazon_Tablet_event_live_blog

Live blog sa predstavljanja novih verzija Kindle uređaja. Nova generacije kreće sa cenom već od $79.

EDIT: evo predstavljaju i Fire, 7" tablet sa Androidom. treba da košta $199.

Meni je u ovom trenutku najzanimljiviji taj najobičniji kindl bez tastature i bez tač skrina...

E pa ovo je novo:

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To je od pre neki dan. Recimo, prošlog meseca nisam mogao da kupim Martinov Fort Freak, dok ovog meseca mogu - premda, po sumanutoj ceni od 15,5 dolara.

Famed US author Ray Bradbury on Monday told the Los Angeles Times that this country needs a "revolution" and that he gets burned up by the idea of his works going digital. Bradbury, author of "The Martian Chronicles" in which colonists from a devastated Earth encounter natives on Mars, lashed out at President Barack Obama for not backing development a moon base to be used to "fire off a rocket to Mars".

"Then when we do that, we will live forever," he told The Times, before going on to complain about the growth of government in the United States. "I think our government needs a revolution. There is too much government today," he said.

Bradbury also bridled at the spread of modern technology, saying: "We have too many cellphones. We've got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now."

The author of "Fahrenheit 451", which depicted a US future in which critical thought was banned and books burned, told the Times he had rebuffed proposals to convert his written works into digital formats to be read on devices like Amazon.com's Kindle or the Apple iPad.
"I was approached three times during the last year by Internet companies wanting to put my books on an electronic reading device", he said.

"I said to Yahoo, 'Prick up your ears and go to hell.' "

Bradbury is being celebrated in Los Angeles with a week dedicated to him to mark his 90th birthday on August 22.

 
(Ne znam da li se igde ovde pominjao Kindle Fire... )

Asian technology companies came under pressure to slash prices of their tablet computers after Amazon.com launched its Kindle Fire at a mass market-friendly $199. From Samsung Electronics to Sony Corp , major Asian tablet makers have ambitious plans to take on Apple, whose iPad is the gold standard in the booming market.   
 
With their me-too type of products priced almost at the same level as the iPad's starting price of $499, none of them have however been able to gain any significant market share from Apple.   
 
So far, Samsung has been seen as the most credible challenger to the iPad and some analysts suggest it could lose its No. 2 position to the eagerly anticipated Fire.     

The South Korean company's tablet marketing campaign has also stumbled in recent months due to Apple's legal attempts to ban Samsung's tablet sales in Australia, the United States and Germany, over patent infringement, among other claims.     

The Kindle Fire, while lacking many of the high-tech bells and whistles common on tablets from cameras to 3G wireless connection, may sound the death knell for a raft of devices based on Google Inc's Android operating system.     

"The pricing is critical to gain traction in the tablet market... Rival manufacturers have failed to attract consumers as they have matched the iPad's price point without matching its content offering," said Adam Leach, an analyst at research firm Ovum.     

"Amazon's retail-based business model allows the company to subsidize the device on the premise that consumers will buy more from Amazon, be that physical goods or its digital content."     

Samsung's Galaxy Tab, Sony's S tablet, Motorola's  Zoom and many others from Acer Inc and Asustek Computer Inc all run on Android, which Amazon's Fire also uses and combines with its online store.     

By pricing the Fire at less than half the iPad — yet stripping out costlier components and features — the Internet retailer hopes to get the device into millions of consumers' hands and then into Amazon books, movies, music and other content.       

Tough for Samsung

Samsung's new tablet Galaxy 10,1 is priced roughly the same as the iPad. Even at that price, a slim profit margin of around 5% makes it difficult for Samsung to cut prices sharply, analysts say.   
 
Worldwide tablet shipments will more than triple to 60 million units this year and surge to 275,3 million units by 2015, research firm IHS iSuppli forecasts.
     
Apple dominates the North American tablet market, with 80% of the 7,5 million units shipped during the second quarter of 2011, Strategy Analytics says. 
   
Analysts had expected Amazon's tablet to be priced around $250, roughly half the price of Apple's iPad, which starts at $499.     

Sony vowed in January to become the world's No. 2 tablet maker — behind Apple — by 2012 and Sony executives have since stuck to that ambitious claim.     

"We expect the Amazon tablet to... put pressure on the other non-iPad competitors as they are unlikely to be able to compete on price and value," UBS analysts said in a note.     
"At the $199, we believe Amazon's tablet has the potential to be disruptive to the market and, in particular, the non-iPad market...Other tablet vendors will find it difficult to match Amazon's price point."     

HP's firesale of its TouchPad tablet at $99 just six weeks after its launch created strong demand for its soon-to-be-killed product, a sign of just how critical prices are in the sector.

Fajer je upravo tablet kakav je meni bio potreban. IPS ekran, dakle - po kvalitetu isti kao ajPedov - po veličini zgodan za svakodnevno nošenje, bez kamere i gluposti koje ne koristim, a samo povećavaju cenu.

Doduše, nije na Hanikombu, tako da gubi veliku prednost neograničenog skladištenja pomoću eksternih drajvova, ali ako uopšte ima USB, trebalo bi da očitava fleševe do 64 gb.

S druge strane, Amazon insistira na skladištenju sveg materijala na svojim serverima, što se meni baš i ne dopada.

Vrlo verovatno da ću tokom naredne godine da ga naručim. Za sada ću verovatno da se zadržim na dva kindla 4.

Ja ne kontam te pisce koji se bune protiv e-izdanja, izlaze im knjige kojih u štampi nema možda već pola veka, oni dobijaju svoje procente, škk?

Sa jedne strane, reč je pre svega o starijim sf piscima. Mislim da su tu najistaknutiji Legvinova i Martin, a sada i Bredberi.

To je prekiberpank generacija autora. Ne znam da li je po sredi samo to što su omatoreli - ali popriličan broj njih su svojevrsni tehnofobi. Na primer, Martin svoje knjige i dan-danas kuca u nekom DOS editoru. Pričali mi ljudi da su imali ogromnih problema da taj format prebace u nekakav pdf. (Pod "ljudi" mislim na neke od ljudi koji rade za njegove izdavače.)

Sad, teško je ulaziti u razloge svega toga.

Da li se boje da ih je napredak tehnologije obezvredio? Ne verujem da je to po sredi.

Da li smatraju da će napredak tehnologije i digitalno izdavaštvo naneti udarac njihovoj zaradi? Mislim da je ipak o tome reč. Naime, bez obzira na to što je Martin prodao preko milion "Plesa sa zmajevima" u verziji za kindl, sasvim sigurno se pita - koliko je tih njegovih knjiga otišlo piratski preko interneta. I sasvim sigurno na to gleda kao na izgubljenu zaradu.

Iz nekih njegovih komentara u intervjuima, rekla bih da je Bredberi "papir-fetišista"... šta ja znam, meni je to nekako simpatično. Doduše, slutim da nije svestan kako se većinu njegove proze može nabaviti u piratskim verzijama, inače bi možda promenio mišljenje po nekim e-book pitanjima... 

ne znam je l' pominjano, ali Amazon izbacuje novu liniju čitača/tableta po još povoljnijim cenama

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eReader-eBook-Reader-e-Reader-Special-Offers/dp/B0051QVESA/ref=amb_link_357575542_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1FHRY7MV0GR7JXHJK647&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1321696362&pf_rd_i=507846

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Touch-e-Reader-Touch-Screen-Wi-Fi-Special-Offers/dp/B005890G8Y/ref=amb_link_357575542_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1FHRY7MV0GR7JXHJK647&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1321696362&pf_rd_i=507846

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-Color/dp/B0051VVOB2/ref=amb_link_357575542_4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1FHRY7MV0GR7JXHJK647&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1321696362&pf_rd_i=507846

E, jebote. Uopšte mi nije logično zašto su dođavola i izbacivali običan ekran, kada su odmah potom izbacili touch?? Mislim, čekala sam ovaj kindle, a kada sam pomislila da tehnologija elektronskog mastila ne podržava touch screen i da neće izaći, pazarila sam običan. Razočarah se sad...

pa ja za sada ne vidim zbog čega bi mi više pogodovao tač skrin od ovog postojećeg. no, vreme će pokazati...

Pa, ja sam neko vreme imao e-rider sa tač skrinom. Reč je bila o Sonijevom PRS-650, koji je imao isti ekran kao kindl 3, samo sa tačom.

U izvesnoj meri, tač je komforniji za upotrebu, ali i elegantniji, pošto broj dugmadi svodi na najmanju moguću meru - ali opet, to nije ništa što ne bi moglo da se reši najobičnijim višesmernim tasterom, a čini mi se da je novi kindl upravo tako dizajniran.

Elem, pošto već imam uređaj sa tač skrinom, odnosno tablet, ne treba mi i dedikejted čitač sa tačom. Radije ću kupiti dva najobičnija kindla, pošto će me to koštati taman onoliko para koliko sam spremio za jednu vaj-faj kindl trojku.

jeste li išli na net sa običnim kindlom?

Quote from: D. on 03-10-2011, 02:55:36
jeste li išli na net sa običnim kindlom?

probao samo kako to radi, posetio par sajtova, nemam neku istoriju brauzovanja na kindlu.

Vec nekoliko dana uzivam u druzenju sa tabletom I tablet i android na njemu su genijalni... prosto nemam reci da opisem odusevljenje. Ok, imao sam par zastoja, ali samo dok se nisam navikao na andriod koji je toliko intuitivan da za to navikavanje stvarno treba malo vremena. E sad, meni je stigao sa malo preloadovanih aplikacija, pa sam se dosta zezao oko toga, pogotovo sto, posto imam samo Wi-Fi, nemam mogucnost da placam na android marketu. Ali, snadje se covek... . Takodje, poprilicno su me nervirala regionalna zakljucavanja, jebote, koje smo mi slepo crevo u Srbiji, ni kindle regularno nisam mogao da skinem. Ali, Aldiko i FBreader su stvarno sjani, Perfect Viewer je zmaj za stripove a imao sam i odlican pristup Google knjigama sa svim besplatnim stvarima na dohvat ruke. Ali, registrujem se sinoc i u update-u dobijam Samsungov firmware koji ne moze da se skine i koji mi upropasti sleek, sexy, minimalisticki izgled tableta. Ali zato mi sredi Kindle i ubaci dosta aplikacija medju kojima je i neki njihov (ili adobeov, nisam jos stigao da ga poptuno testiram), odlican, reader za epub i pdf (tako da mi sad nisu potrebni ni aldiko ni fb). Doduse zakljucao mi je pristup google books, ali imam gutenberg za to i download sa njega jako lepo radi, jedino sto moram da pristupam iz browsera. O ostalim aplikacija i igrama... mislim da nam je potreban novi topik

Naravno, zelim da se zahvalim lilit, bez koje se nista od ovoga ne bi dogodilo (da tog sudbonosnog dana nisam video IPad2 u njenim rukama) i smrklji koji mi je skrenuo paznju da necu valjda da kupujem apple 

sto jes jes.
jeste da mi sagita injekciju upravo daje u metrou, ali dzaba to kad mi je sloboda uskracena!
popicemo ipak jednu u ime tvog tableta, soon, very soon.

The Kindle Fire is the iPad

OCTOBER 8, 2011 BY JOE : ANDGEEKS - ANDROID NEWS AND REVIEWS

Even a week after its announcement, it sounds as thought the Kindle Fire buzz is still running strong. They have more than 250,000 pre-orders right now, and with a November 15th release date they'll surely add to that number. The Fire will undoubtedly top any Android tablet launch to date by a significant margin — despite it not being your typical Android tablet. Which brings me to a question for those in the tablet market: Are you more apt to pick up the Fire or a more traditional Android tablet?

The general population, it appears, has chosen the Fire. This is based not only on pre-sales, but also on survey data. People say they're more willing to buy a tablet from Amazon than from any other non-Apple manufacturer. Not only that, an overwhelming number of people said they'd buy an Android tablet rather than the iPad if the price were below $250. It seems that Amazon hit all the right notes when announcing the Fire. Without a true low-cost competitor, they could take the lion's share of the Android tablet market share.

At the same time, the Fire is not your typical Android tablet. Yes, the operating system, at its core, is Android. But the Fire represents Amazon far more than it represents Android. The divide between the two sets up a tough choice for consumers. Get the more restricted tablet with the integrated Amazon services, or get the general purpose Android tablet?

Before making a decision — or even after making a decision, since you haven't yet purchased the Fire — there is one overarching point to keep in mind.

The Kindle Fire is the iPad

On the surface they couldn't be more different. It starts with screen size and goes right through software and price. If you examined only the superficial aspects of each device you'd probably place the Fire and the iPad on opposite ends of the spectrum. It's only after you examine the essence of the product that you'll see that they're similar in nature.

The iPad thrives on the Apple ecosystem. Apps come from the App Store, and most of them cost money. They're also heavily screened, so you'll never find certain app types — e.g., GPS spoofers — in the App Store. Apple keeps close watch. Video and music come from the iTunes Store. You can load your own music and video, but it has to be in a certain format, and it has to sideload through iTunes. You can charge it only with Apple's unique adapter. There are some outside entities that Apple lets in (you can read your Kindle books through the Kindle app), but it is for the most part Apple's device through and through.

The Fire will operate in a nearly identical manner. You don'y buy apps from the Android Market; you buy apps from the Amazon App Store. You buy media from the Amazon MP3 store, and you upload that media to the cloud via Amazon's storage locker. Want to watch Netflix? Not happening. Instead you'll stream Amazon Instant video — which, of course, requires you pay Amazon $80 per year for Prime. Ordering products? It goes through Amazon, of course. Reading a book? That's Amazon, too. You didn't expect a device called the Kindle to handle your Nook titles, did you? The entire concept of the Fire is based on the Android ecosystem.

There are ups and downs to this model. Obviously Android geeks will not appreciate the Fire's restrictiveness. Again, it's like Apple using Android, which will not sit well with those who choose Android as an alternative to Apple. At the same time, this restrictiveness allows Amazon to offer the Fire at an attractive price. Yes, it might function in a manner similar to the iPad, but it costs $300 less. Surely that's one mitigating aspect of the Fire. Amazon can offer it at this price point precisely because of its integrated services. Yes, Amazon will lose about $10 on every Fire unit, and that number jumps a bit when you factor in marketing and other expenses. They can justify this because they control the flow of content on the device.

The restrictive nature of the Fire will likely turn the more nuanced Android user towards a true Android tablet. We've seen a few of these launched in the last year, though none has made much of a dent in the tablet market. This might be more of a marketing thing than a usefulness thing. Sure, there are dozens of Android tablets on the market that provide no real value for the user; either they're running inadequate software or they lack durability. That's what happens when any manufacturer can spit out a tablet running a royalty free operating system. But with the focus of the mobile world slowly shifting towards tablets, some Android player has to step up.

Later this month we'll see the Samsung Galaxy Tab try its hand again. This was the original Android tablet, though it flopped about as badly as anyone could have imagined. The new version, which will up the stakes with a 10.1-inch screen, will launch with T-Mobile on October 26th. There have been many instances where we've heard pundits exclaim that some tablet or other is the real deal, but few had adequate backing. Samsung has some momentum, though, from its impressive Galaxy S II series — and especially the upcoming Galaxy Nexus announcement. Perhaps that momentum will go a long way in pushing Galaxy Tabs out the door.

Yet I have to wonder if there is an adequate market for these tabs. The general population, it appears, prefers the restrictiveness that Apple and Amazon impose on their devices. Is there any room left for a more open tablet? We'll find out in a few months, when sales spike during the holiday season. The Galaxy Tab will certainly be front and center for the traditional Android crew. But can it overcome a marketplace that has to this point shunned its type? That could be tough, especially with the Fire posing as an Android tablet.

This post originated at AndGeeks.com - home to all things Android! Also a great source of info about Android Phones.

The Kindle Fire is the iPad

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tapa...tapa...talk

Sve to pada u vodu kada stignu prvi kuvani ROM-ovi za Fire. Posle ćemo imati izbor, hoćemo li Fire sa Amazon-Androidom ili full blown Android (verovatno gingerbread, jer Honeycomb traži 1GB ako se ne varam, a Fire ima 512MB Rama).

Ok, ali gingerbread ce za koji dan kasniti 2 generacije, a ako ice cream sendvic ispuni ono sto obecava izbor nece biti preterano tezak. U svakom slucaju ostace cena kao veoma bitan faktor.

tapa...tapa...talk

Art Spiegelman, o dead trees knjigama vs. ovim newfangled čudima:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/comics/article/49046-art-spiegelman-on-the-future-of-the-book.html

radujmo se sa hong kongom novom nexusu & ajs krim sendviču  nadajmo se da su se obsetili postojanja OMAPića i ukinuli svoje spore (melkore šic!) procesore.
a ovaj OMAP5 mi se popeo na wish list No.1 svetlosnom brzinom. uređaj kao da je napravljen za lenjivca, tj. mene.

OMAP™ 5 platform: Transforming mobile devices (HD)

Pozdrav,

Stize mi Kindle iz Engleske za par dana. Drugarica mi ga donosi za 89 funti. Ovaj novi model.
Gde da nadje Polarisov CD u mobi formatu.
Ima link u prethodnim postovima ka demonoid staranici , ali tamo traze da se ulogujem , a registracija nije moguca. Traze invitation code.
Da li ovaj link jos radi. Ili imajos negde.
Ako neko zna molim za savet.


Dragutin

To je ova stranica? http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2505666/0012784238604/
Samo klikni na link ispod spiska "Click here to download the torrent" i trebalo bi da se skine preko torenta 

Zna li ko za neki fin forum/blog sa rapidshare i sl. linkovima za android aplikacije? 

www.warez-bb.org

Tu imaš svega...serija, filmova, aplikacija...potrebna je registracija.

Hvala, trazim neke aplikacije, al' sam mahinalno otisao odmah na e-books

Samo srčneš i izbaciće ti linkove

Ma ni Gul nikad nije čuo za warez, ništa strašno.

warez-bb je paradajz in general, al za ono sto ti treba, ovo je mozda bolja varijanta:

http://www.ipmart-forum.com/forum.php

http://forum.mobilism.org/viewforum.php?f=398

Hvala 

http://smellofbooks.com/

Danas na vukaljili osvanulo:

  pdfil: osoba koja voli elektronske knjige

Novi Nook tablet za 250 dolarcica...    Barnes & Noble su nacisto odlepeli.

Amazon ih naterao. Sada nude malo jači uređaj za malo veće pare.

Ja čekam da vidim šta će biti od community ROM-ova za te uređaje. Onda možda i razmotrimo kupovinu nekog 7" uređaja. Mada, igrao sam se sa Galaxy Tab-om već, i osim "geek efekta" ne vidim čemu bi to meni služilo pored laptopa i smartphone-a.

B&N su čudna sorta, dadnu ti PCNook, dadnu ti da se učlaniš, ali kad hoćeš knjigu da kupiš, e onda shvatiš da nemaju licencu za prodaju van SAD, iako ti to sami nikada unapred ne kažu. Čak štaviše, ostavljaju ti mogućnost da kupiš e-knjige ako u formularu blatantno slažeš za SAD adresu. Vaćaroši.    Mada, dobro, verujem da fino posluju i na SAD tržištu, čim izbacuju novi tablet po ovoj ceni.   

Nisam primetio da je neko kačio, ovo je prvi put da vidim da se ebook na srpskom može kupiti kod nas

naseeknjige.com

Nadam se da je ovo samo početak.

Sedmoinčni tablet može da prođe samo kao zamena za e-čitač tipa kindla. Tih sedam inća ekrana pruža premalu funkcionalnost u odnosu na mobilne telefone sa ekranima preko 4 inča. Bar ja tako mislim.

Quote from: nickname on 11-12-2011, 11:05:33
Nisam primetio da je neko kačio, ovo je prvi put da vidim da se ebook na srpskom može kupiti kod nas

naseeknjige.com

Nadam se da je ovo samo početak.

Hvala za link. Jednostavan nacin da se nabavi Lauseviceva nova knjiga.