Kindle

[bjorb]

Bit late but I had a though.

This kind of technology really is gaining a lot of popularity.

It’s especially attractive since E-readers are really on the rise.

I understand that Hard-copy is preferable since your privacy is not certain when having online-books. Apparently they can just take it away.

Having everything digital makes control easier.

But I guess it’s also an opportunity.

Maybe it’s worth a try.

I believe that with each e-book you sell you get like 75% of the money. Not sure about it.


As for me, most of the time I prefer to read on a screen. Since you can zoom in and such.

 

[flashgordonv]

I understand that Hard-copy is preferable since your privacy is not certain when having online-books. Apparently they can just take it away.

As for me, most of the time I prefer to read on a screen. Since you can zoom in and such.

There are many forms of eReaders, Kindle being just one of them. The reason Kindle were able to remove the books is that the way books are loaded to the Kindle is "over the air" or wirelessly. That means that Amazon have potential access to every Kindle ever sold. Many of the other eReaders do not have this facility and allow for books to be downloaded through the PC via USB. The Sony reader I have is like that, as are most of the readers on the market currently.

Originally when I started buying eReaders it was my hope that I could have all my book electronically, but that is currently impossible and frankly like many others here I find it somewhat tedious to read on a screen rather than having the hard-copy. As far as I can see, eReaders are not going to take over the world any time soon.

 

[rylek]

Apart from the already mentioned issues such as privacy-rights management issues, durability another thing occurred to me. Saturation and noise in that electronic format is much simpler to purchase, no need to search for a hard copy, result of which one ends up downloading all these books but doesn't get around to reading them.

Personally I'm old fashioned and love hard copies, also my eyes get enough strain from reading online news and articles. Nothing beats sitting down with a book, which if I might say has a sort of 'soul' as opposed to an electronic book reader.

 

[bjorb]

We will know soon enough when the Ipad will make it’s introduction.
It’s a growing market but I guess that Apple can rapidly accelerate this process.

Having a huge or small market value compared to hard-copy I don’t think is all that relevant.

If it’s a way of extending awareness and with that also making a profit I think it’s worth a try. Although I don’t know how much energy it costs to bring those e-books available.


As for being tired on reading off a screen I guess is because of the flickering of the screen.

 

[Aliana]

Apart from the already mentioned issues such as privacy-rights management issues, durability another thing occurred to me. Saturation and noise in that electronic format is much simpler to purchase, no need to search for a hard copy, result of which one ends up downloading all these books but doesn't get around to reading them.

Yes - I immediately downloaded more classics than I will read in several lifetimes :P But - if i ever get an urge to read a Sonnet - it will be there HA!

Personally I'm old fashioned and love hard copies, also my eyes get enough strain from reading online news and articles. Nothing beats sitting down with a book, which if I might say has a sort of 'soul' as opposed to an electronic book reader.

i must agree - I really do love hard copies - but am growing somewhat fonder of the Kindle. I can carry it everywhere and can read a few paragraphs even while waiting in line somewhere. One good thing i may have discovered is that I can transfer PDF files to the kindle via the USB port on my computer. I tried moving the Clube book - Cosmic Winter - the only problem is that the book was copied two pages/to a pdf page and once it's on the kindle the typeface is so teensy (even in rotated mode) you need a large magnifying glass to read it. So - that wasn't so great.

However - I think that if I needed to catch up on a looong forum thread, or a long SOTT article, that I could use the print function, but print to a pdf file instead of paper and then transfer that to the Kindle. i am going to try it soon and see how that works. It could really help keep more current on the threads and news. Will post results..

I just had one last thought though - since i would do this direct from my computer and not wireless through amazon - I am assuming there is no problem with privacy (especially regarding private forum threads). If anybody thinks this might potentially violate privacy or cause other problems, please let me know. I won't try this until I get the OK from the Mods.
aleana

 

[JGeropoulas]

... One good thing i may have discovered is that I can transfer PDF files to the kindle via the USB port on my computer...

However - I think that if I needed to catch up on a looong forum thread, or a long SOTT article, that I could use the print function, but print to a pdf file instead of paper and then transfer that to the Kindle. i am going to try it soon and see how that works. It could really help keep more current on the threads and news. Will post results...

I just had one last thought though - since i would do this direct from my computer and not wireless through amazon - I am assuming there is no problem with privacy (especially regarding private forum threads). If anybody thinks this might potentially violate privacy or cause other problems, please let me know. I won't try this until I get the OK from the Mods.
aleana

I too, prefer to read printed pages, so I usually print out SOTT articles and other online material (or buy books). But I am interested in an electronic reader for reading the forum because I have yet to find an efficient way to print out the forum that doesn't waste a lot of paper and ink.

A few questions:

1) It doesn't appear that the Mods responded to give you an "OK" so did you go ahead with the PDF procedure?

2) How did it work out?

3) Does anyone have a suggestion for efficiently printing out the forum pages?

 

[HowToBe]

Could we be moving towards having books only available via electronic format. In other words, could we see a day coming where there are no more physical books available? If that were the case, if we did away with printing books in actual physical form, then the PTB could absolutely control information on every level.

I'm not sure how this would be any different than it is now. Even if there are no physical books people would still have copies of ebooks on their own computers- and the only way to destroy that information would be to physically destroy the hard drive- so I don't think it would be any less secure than physical books. I agree that given what we know about comet cycles, this isn't likely to be a strategy of the PTB, osit.

My bold.

This might not be true. I think the Cassiopaeans said that with the realm border change some technologies will stop working. If that's the case, 4th density STS may have an investment in getting these e-books out for the purpose of taking control in 4th. If both e-books and computers failed simultaneously, it would act as a rather convenient information wipe. A hard drive is no use if the technology for reading it no longer works. I don't know what will happen, but I suspect that patterned atoms are a more sure way of storing and keeping information than patterned electrons.

While on the topic of storing information; I had an idea for storing 2 or 3 pages worth of info on one page. One could print each page using a different color on the same sheet of paper; red, green, and blue. Using red, green, and blue plastic filters, a person could select which page they wanted to read (perhaps a legend at the bottom of the page would distinguish which page was which color). If both sides of the paper were printed, this could allow 6 pages of information to fit on one sheet of paper. I plan to test this once we have colored ink for our computer again and I can get the required colored plastics. Mostly the idea is geared toward long-term archiving, not reading material, I suppose. I tried to look it up online to see if this has been done, but I didn't find anything.

 

[Nathan]

This might not be true. I think the Cassiopaeans said that with the realm border change some technologies will stop working.

That's interesting. Do you think you could find the bit where they mention this?

The only bit that came to mind for me was the following excerpt, which suggests some media will be somewhat functional, somewhere. lol.

Q: (L) Now, what is going to happen after Christ comes back and everything is sort of straightening out and he is teaching... is everybody on the planet going to be gathered together in one place to receive these teachings?
A: No.
Q: (L) Is he going to travel around and teach?
A: Technology.
Q: (L) He will teach via the media?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And we are still going to have access to our media, television and radio and so forth?
A: Some.

 

[DavidHP]

I like the Kindle!, so much that I now have two!! I enjoy being able to take dozens of books with me wherever I go. However, I make a point to buy paper copies of the books I really like or that I consider important, even if I have an electronic copy in my pc, my laptop and in each one of my Kindles.
;)

 

[HowToBe]

This might not be true. I think the Cassiopaeans said that with the realm border change some technologies will stop working.

That's interesting. Do you think you could find the bit where they mention this?

The only bit that came to mind for me was the following excerpt, which suggests some media will be somewhat functional, somewhere. lol.

Q: (L) Now, what is going to happen after Christ comes back and everything is sort of straightening out and he is teaching... is everybody on the planet going to be gathered together in one place to receive these teachings?
A: No.
Q: (L) Is he going to travel around and teach?
A: Technology.
Q: (L) He will teach via the media?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And we are still going to have access to our media, television and radio and so forth?
A: Some.

Hmm... that quote may have been the one I was remembering, but I'm not sure. I thought that somewhere they said that some 3d technologies would not work in 4d. I just spent several minutes trying to search a quote out, but didn't find anything other than the quote you found. So either I misinterpreted or inserted something somewhere or someone else will have to provide the quote if it exists.

I seem to remember thinking that if only "some" media would be accessible at that time, maybe it was because of changes in electromagnetic phenomena due to being in a new realm... but that seems to be a rather big jump from the quote provided. It is also possible that I accidentally crossed over a bit of information from another source I was reading at the time I first discovered the transcripts.

 

[Nathan]

I seem to remember thinking that if only "some" media would be accessible at that time, maybe it was because of changes in electromagnetic phenomena due to being in a new realm...

That could be a very likely possibility. When you think about how a high-altitude nuclear detonation in the US would generate an electromagnetic pulse large enough to send the entire country into the stone age, and then you consider that electromagnetic pulses may be generated by cometary bodies punching into our atmosphere, it's a very real possibility that even outside the damage zone of the meteor itself, the damage will be vast. Street lights, electronic ignitions in cars, aircraft, anything that can carry an electrical charge will be fried. Large sectors of the US military for example are no longer protected against this. Television transmitter towers are not protected either, as the cost vs risk simply isn't worth it for those writing the cheques. So electromagnetic pulses alone could knock out large portions of media infrastructure, add to that natural disasters!