im 15, and love reading. is it for more older epople, or can you get teenage books downloaded onto it.
how do you even get a book onto it to read, and do you have to pay if you want to get a book onto it?
please help mee x
http://www.mobileread.com has forums, a wiki, comparisons of ebook readers, and lots of free downloadable ebooks. They are happy to answer a lot of questions!
I have a Sony Reader (the PRS-505). You can get books from the Sony bookstore (which is hard to work with, and the books are often not well-formatted), from other pay-for-ebooks sites like fictionwise.com and manybooks.net.
In order to get them from the computer to your Reader, there's a couple of different ways. You plug the Reader into the computer with the cord (they give you one with the Reader, and it's a standard size connector so lots of people already have them), and the Reader shows up as a disc drive–you can just drop the books into the "books" folder in that drive, or you can use special software, like the Reader's eBook Library program, or Calibre (both are free downloads) to help manage & sort your ebooks into collections.
A lot of recent & popular books have to be paid for; many older books are available as free downloads. And some new authors are releasing their books as free ebooks, because they think free ebooks will encourage people to buy the paper book. (If you read it on the Reader, you probably won't buy it for yourself–but if you really like it, you might buy it for a friend, or tell someone about it, who might buy it.)
They’re currently sold out at Amazon, and I’m wanting to order a spare. Is anyone else making a Kindle battery?
You can try “Batteries plus” they may stock or can make one for you.
I'm an Electronics and communication student and our instructor assign to me this particular topic. I need your suggestion regarding this so please do help me with this.
What would be a good thesis statement for this topic? a thesis is a single declarative statement that states what you want your readers to know.
I need 3 guide question, what would that be?
Thanks a lot I would really appreciate your suggestions. ^_^
Cool choice of studies.
I guess you could talk about spam? Not only does it waste memory (and "waste" computers when it comes with a virus), but it is a misuse of communication. That is, spam claims to be something it's not. You could argue something about such electronic lies really being electronic waste.
As for guide questions, heck if I know, but:
1. What constitutes spam?
2. How does spam harm the common internet user?
3. How does spam abuse the communication guidelines (by lying)?
If you're actually talking about material waste, like old Walkmans and stereos, then you could just talk about pollution and waste of energy in manufacturing them.
Either way, good luck!
Im thinking of buying Sony's Reader Digital Book PRS-505, but only if I can use the books that I download from the Gutenburg Project. Does anyone know if they're compatible?
Yes! Project Gutenberg books are available in plain text, so you can use the material to create ebooks that may be read on almost any device or you can just read add the text file to the reader. Many of these files have already been converted into Sony's format (LRF) for easy readability.
Here are a couple sites with free ebooks available:
http://manybooks.net/
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/ebooks.php?order=desc&sort=dateline
I have written stories since I was five years old and I am mainly a novel writer. However, I took a creative writing class at my university so I have some short stories I would like to publish. Is this a good place to display and sell my work?
No.
If you're an aspiring novelist, sell your short stories to a short story-specific market in the genre you'd like to publish a novel in one day. For example, if you want to write lit-fic, sell some literary short stories to a magazine that specializes in literary short stories. If you want to write fantasy, sell some fantasy or sci-fi short stories to a F/SF magazine, such as Asimov's or Heliotrope. If you want to write children's or YA novels, sell some short stories to children's magazines, such as American Girl or Highlights.
Once you have sales to pro and semi-pro short story markets under your belt, you will have the power of previous publications in serious markets on your side. Then when you query agents and editors about buying/representing your novels, you will be able to show that you are serious enough about your writing to go with the traditional publication routes. You will also be proving with those short story sales that you are a good enough writer that other editors see value in your work and are willing to spend money on it.
Short stories generally don't sell for a lot of money, but the power they give you later on, when you start selling novels, is invaluable.
The problem with using a brand-new service like Kindle is that YOU have to do a LOT of promotion of your own work. That is very hard, and sometimes very expensive. And self-publishing really doesn't impress the editors who may consider your novels later on – unless you have the time and money to turn your self-published stuff into a MAJOR success. The vast majority of self-publishers are not able to pull this off, though some do. When you self-publish, you have to be even more business-savvy and motivated to market yourself than when you publish conventionally (and as a newly published writer, even from a major publishing house, you have to do a LOT of "footwork" on your own to promote your books).
The easiest and most successful route is the longest route, in the case of getting your work published. There is no shortcut – it takes lots of writing, lots and lots of submitting to the right markets, and tons and tons of patience…and never giving up. You will collect many rejections before you finally get a sale – that's all part of the game. 
Good luck! If you want to talk more about how to go about the short-story thing, email me through my profile. I'm always happy to help out fellow writers!
This question is for those of you who carry cash or coins** but either: You do not have an electronic tag on your car**. Or the lane is closed (broken machine or no worker).
**What if it had been vice-versa? You have the tag but not the money on a no-tag or broken-reader lane.
No I have never driven into the wrong lane at a toll booth. My sister did though. She drove into an easy pass lane but didn't have an easy pass, so she got sent a picture of her going through the lane and of her license plate along with a hefty fine.
My situation
I really need your suggestions, info, links, et cetera to get me break away from this computer addiction please. I have been living with computer since its advent, and I have been too long in this bit and byte world. I have almost no problem with my family and/or social matters (maybe), but certainly, I have problems with myself. I realize that my addiction to computer and internet has seized big values of my life. Please do not assume that I am addicted to the gaming, gambling, chatting, or sexual leisure online. I think I have really got the most of the computing and internet, I got answers for my quests in life: history, languages, hobbies, health, skill improvement, and other eye-openers, but I realized that at the end I just barely do not recognize myself. I knew that before the PC arrival, I was a simple human with a romantic and artistic mind inside, and then later I evolved to such a robot, to be precise: a slave of the technology. The internet had made me more tied to the PC, at first it delivered me the news of the world, marvelous things found there within the clicks and so on, but then made me deep drown into the pond of information.
The cost and the lost
Having knowledge to computer hardware made me always upgrade my gears. It made me spend big cost just to fulfill my lust over those times. My room is full with the old gears, gadgets, and things from online stores. My PCs and notebooks are full with MP3s, PDFs, and many things downloaded both free and paid. I also spent for many external/ portable harddisks for backing up and traveling. I do not mean to showoff, I just tell you how worse it was from time to time during about 20 years. I sometimes think about the lost time for repairing my gears, updating my softwares, browsing; and how many books that I have not read completely.
There was a break
One time, in two straight months last year, I spent my times with my son playing Tamiya, small racing cars in small tracks. It was wonderful that it made me totally forgot my computers. We have had most of the time together for racing, modifying, winding the wires for the tiny motors, etc. My wife was so amazed that the toys have made me away from the PC. It ended because of the coming rainy season that made us packed and boxed back the tracks and cars, and I simply switched back to the old routine.
In search of healing
I remember a precious phrase: Two kinds of those who lost; they are who looks for wealth and for knowledge. This phrase sometimes wakes me up but bad habit is addicting and I found myself always returned into that path. I think it is just similar to drug addiction. As the internet is an endless resource, I search through it for the cure, and I have found some articles about it and tried to implement them, but it always hard for me to liberate myself from my habit. I really hope that finally I find it in this forum, especially from you.
Your helps, Please
I know that some of you are familiar to manage some types of dependence, or maybe you have healed from the same situation. Whether you have some psychological, spiritual expertise, certain medication, or exercises, please share your advice, I need it badly. I do not want to clog the rest of my life in that digital world. There must be somebody else also in pain from the same thing, your kind suggestion will be very valuable and it will save some life. Thank you very much for sparing your time reading this lengthy note. God bless you.
PS:
I post this in Computing & Internet, Health, and Social Science with time interval, hoping to net more inputs.
Please do not waste your time to put any unpleasant or unnecessary words, consider it will not only read by me but also by the other fellow readers. If you are not in the same situation with me, you perhaps still have the advantage of knowing the answers. Thank you, again.
hello, i feel really sorry for you that you are addicted to the Computer. and i can certaintly see how any1 could be addicted to such a wide range of knowledge. every mouse click is something new.
I am a 16 yr girl, and before you say she'll have no advice i speaking for your son.
just to fill you in we live in Ireland. My dad works 9-5 then he has another job, he is a physio for many hurling teams (a sport) and he doesnt come home till about half ten every night. by then i am in bed and i dont get to see my dad.
unforunetly two years of this is reaking havoc on our family life. i know that this doesnt relate to the computer, but if u can see where im coming from, he's not around for me…just like you arent for your son.
I'm unable to suggest anything that you wouldnt have thought of already but whatever you do…do it…i hate it that my dad isnt around. your son is sooo young…you cant retrace those years back.find something for ye to do toghther as a family, as you said ye were playing with the cars and bascially your wife and son were really happy. would that not spur u to doing more things together??
maybe fishing, young boys always loves fishing!!!
please do somthing…maybe there's a counsel group around your area also people can get hypnotised for addictions and depending on who you go to actually do work..
please do something especially for those people out their that dont have a dad and cant spend time with him…..
please. i hope i helped in some way.
I am really interested in the amazon kindle.
just curious though, most of the books i read have little pictures in the middle of the story. Does the amazon kindle show these pics?
or can i only see them in the actual book?
i like these pics, because after i read a while, the pictures give me a really good visual idea about my story, and i will not get the kindle unless it shows book pics.
Yes, the Kindle can show pictures. They are pretty good, too, considering they are pixelated and b/w.
However, the Kindle usually separates the pictures from the text, and shows it on a separate page.
Also, I've noticed that the magazine subscriptions I have do not include pictures at all. That is a distinct possibility for books too.
Perhaps you could read the reviews of the kindle version of some of the books you like and see if people mention the pictures.
In his concluding address the Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi specifically condemned the electronic and print media for not giving coverage to the prestigious 33rd National games solemnized in Assam on a world class infrastructure and as a grand show…
TV channels were devoting their maximum time on reality shows, cinema, crimes, fashion etc… print media were filling their pages with cricket, tennis, big deals by NRIs and had a small corner of a page for this mega event…
Radio, TV and print media should have highlighted the national games as they do for cricket… the front pages of Indian news papers had lesser worth without the coverage of National Games during the last 10 days…
As a devout reader of news papers and viewer of TV I express my heartfelt pain for this blunder committed by the media…
You can give various answers!
There was the Indian cricket team to occupy the sports section! If they play well, that is news. If they don't play well, that is also news. If they do not play at all, that is good news!
Then there was sister Sania!
Then there was Advani, Vajpayee, Shilpa Shetty, etc. etc. etc.
Amidst all this, one should be surprised only if our media barons and brethren had taken all the trouble to visit a North Eastern state fraught with terrorists and other dangers to cover an event devoid of any glamour!
Probably, they might have covered had somethin gone terribly wrong there. Unfortunately, for the National Games, everything went smooth and well!
Right, well I love the Kindle, I adore the Kindle, I want a Kindle. But, just recently a friend of mine offered to sell me her Nikon Coolpix 8800 for about the same price as a Kindle. I’m in to photograhpy, but have thus far stuck to b&w film and completely ignored the digital revolution. Now that I am working on getting into the photograhpy field as a profession, I’m going to need a digital (though obviously a much fancier one eventually). So, do I want to spend my money on an amazin Kindle, as I am a very avid book reader and am out of shelf space, or do I want to get the Nikon that will get me out and about doing what I love?
What would you do?
I would get the Nikon, and if you say you’re going professional then get either the Nikon D40x (a good backup for a pro) couple with either a D80 or D90.
Just so you know, I was in the same predicament, and I went for the camera, and have never regretted it. (My bookcase is still filled with three layers of books per shelf–probably 500 books, not counting the 200 or 300 in boxes on my floor.)
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