I have a few .prc ebook files that I use on an Amazon Kindle reader. I want to edit some of the files, meaning I want to edit in and out some text. Are there any freeware programs that allow you to edit existing .prc files? I'm not looking to create .prc files. I'm looking to edit and alter existing .prc ebook files.
It depends a bit on what kind of .prc file it is–mobi & palmdoc use the same extension, and they're different filetypes.
At worst, there are .prc extractors, that will let you convert it to something else, edit the something else, and convert it back.
SiEd lets you edit things in the Palm OS – http://www.freewarepalm.com/docs/sied.shtml
Amber Palmdoc Converter lets you change it to an html or rtf file where you can make changes – http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html
If it's a mobipocket doc, http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MOBI has advice about it, and the forums at Mobileread have plenty of advice on doc conversion, editing, and ebook creation.
I am thinking of buying an e-book reader and I have narrowed it down to three, I am also planning on using the e-book reader as an mp3 player and all three of the devices have this functionality.
1. The Amazon Kindle – I am a bit hesitant to buy this one because of the high price and because everyone is saying a kindle 2 will come out soon
2. The Sony Digital Book Reader – I have always been a fan of sony and they always deliver pretty high quality products plus it comes with 100 free books so I earn my investment back instantly
3. Foxit eSlick Reader – This is by far the cheapest of the ereaders at a $220 but it lacks an ebook store but I think it has it going for the music department…
Any reccomendations?
Mobileread's "Which one should I buy" forum discusses the pros & cons of various ebook readers: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=123
A warning note: none of the ebook readers have *good* MP3 players; it's an additional feature they threw in, maybe for audiobooks. Read reviews carefully to check how they work; I know that on the Sony device, there's no turning off the mp3 without turning off the whole thing–it has a "pause" function, which still eats battery very quickly.
I have a Sony Reader PRS-505, and I like it very much. (I don't use it for mp3s.) I didn't want a Kindle because I like converting ebooks myself; I don't want to email them to Amazon & have them do the conversion for me. Also, I wanted to use the free ebook sites like http://www.manybooks.net and http://www.feedbooks.com and those are much less useful with a Kindle.
The Foxit eSlick is so new, nobody knows how well it works yet. The discussion thread about it at Mobileread is at http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34276
Which reader is best, depends on what kind of ebooks you want to read. The Kindle store has a lot more than the Sony store–but the Sony allows more types of ebooks without the hassle of sending them in to be changed. (Also, I hate DRM and I don't want the manufacturer of my Reader to know every book I read on it. But those may not matter to you.)
The 100 free ebooks from Sony are pretty much worthless–they're all classics in the public domain, available in other places on the web, and the versions for free at Mobileread are better formatted. Don't let that convince you to buy it.
If I were buying today, I'd probably go with the eSlick–but that's partially because I have a full software suite to convert *anything* to PDF, and I can reformat docs so they look nice on the small screen first, if I care to.
can you only get it on the website? i hate having to wait for it to be shipped to my house.
Go to Oprah .com , they have a discount count code, to save money on it. & how to get it. This is just to weird, because I am watching Oprah right now & they are just telling this info. with the guy from Amazon Kindel Right now., as I saw your ? If Oprah is on where you live right now , turn it on!
A textbook case of piracy
By Alex Beam
Globe Columnist / September 9, 2008
I was heartened to learn that college kids are wielding the same Internet piracy tools they used to bring down the recording industry to download textbooks. Although the textbook oligopolists are fighting back mightily – the Association of American Publishers uses Covington & Burling, a take-no-prisoners law firm in Washington, D.C., to hunt down malefactors – there are at least two sites still around offering books: Textbook Torrents tends to be shut down, and moves around the Web, but the last time I checked, thepiratebay.org was offering such books as – well, you’ll see.
As a writer, how can I support this? I should be an absolutist on copyright protection for all books, magazines, and newspapers. But I’m not. The publishers have disgraced themselves, and they are paying the price. Three-hundred-dollar textbooks in the hard sciences are not unusual, and the companies are selling to a captive audience. Hundred-dollar add-ons, masquerading as digital workbooks, or problem-solving sets, are not uncommon.
Publishers love to put out bogus “new” editions to drive a stake though the heart of the used textbook market, which was gaining its second wind at online auction sites. It’s not as if calculus changed since Newton invented it, is the rallying cry you hear from student activists.
How do I know textbook publishers are nothing but pirates in pin-striped suits? Because when the fast-buck artists take over a company like Houghton Mifflin, they never talk about how proud they are to be publishing Philip Roth and J.R.R. Tolkien. They know they are going to make a killing in the profit-choked textbook division, which gorges on the goodwill of parents who want their children to be properly equipped for college courses.
Now most textbook publishers are going digital, and Amazon is promising a larger-format Kindle reader for the student market. The publishers say that iTexts, which often cost less than $100, save students money. But their opponents, led by a coalition of Student Public Interest Research Groups, point out that the password-protected digi-texts put the sword to the used-book market so despised by the publishers.
Congress has gotten into the act, legislating more “transparency” in textbook pricing in the just-passed Higher Education Opportunity Act. It looks like a jumble of half-measures to me. If it had any teeth, the publishers would be squawking madly.
A young Northeastern University student named Shawn Fanning wrung billions of dollars of excess profits from the record companies when he invented Napster. Yes, it’s true that recording “artists” now gouge young people 10 times more aggressively at the concert turnstiles than they ever did at Tower Records stores, which no longer exist around here. But Steve Jobs found the right price point for music at iTunes. Between the pirates and the publishers, we’ll find our way to the right price point for textbooks, too.
Now it’s time to arbitrage . . . tuition.
Don’t steal this book
Inevitably, a reviewer will call John Hanson Mitchell, author of “The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston,” a latter-day Henry David Thoreau, not necessarily a compliment. Call him what you will – in real life, he edits the Massachusetts Audubon Society magazine Sanctuary – he is a smart guy, walking around, paying attention. I’d name his genre nostalgic realism; Mitchell certainly knows where this city and its many peculiar institutions come from, and he understands modernity as well.
I love that his brother owns a boat named after Richard Henry Dana, and that it doesn’t have an engine – there’s Boston in a nutshell. I think this book will take its place next to Walter Muir Whitehill’s “Boston,” with engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka, as one of the treasured Hub tomes of our time.
Able was I . . .
Ere I saw Alaska? Send in your Sarah Palin-dromes! A palindrome is a phrase that makes sense read forward and backward – e.g., “Madam, I’m Adam.” I think there’s a lot to work with here: Is Levi vile? Close, but no cigar. I’ll buy the winner a used copy of the kind of book that Governor Palin wanted to keep out of her local library – “Huckleberry Finn,” perhaps.
Alex Beam is a Globe columnist. His e-dress is beam@globe.com.
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/09/09/a_textbook_case_of_piracy/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Living+%2F+Arts+News
Don’t you hate people that spell loses as “looses”
By Narendra Pal
The new wave of portable ebook readers allows people on the move to take their favorite books and magazines along with them. Digital format certainly weighs less than an equivalent stack of books. In addition, the convenience of being able to gain access to the latest best seller or desired reading while on the move is undisputed. Amazon’s Kindle design and Sony make the most popular portable Ebook readers at present.
Advantages of Ebook Readers
The typical portable ebook reader will hold as many as 200 books, so you can carry almost all of your home library along with you in convenient form. The portable ebook reader often ways only a few ounces, so it is easy to tuck into a purse or suitcase. The titles that are available on the New York Times Best Sellers’s list can be purchased as an ebook so that you always know the latest best read. Because you don’t have to be connected to a computer in order to take advantage of the reader, you can read whenever you have a few minutes to spare. When you find a book you want to read, you simply download the book in digital format. It only requires a minute or so and you can be reading your favorite classic.
Using the Portable Ebook Reader
The convenience of the lightweight portable ebook reader has already been described. There are other features of the typical reader that make it a ‘must buy’ for anyone who loves to read. For example, the size of the font can be adjusted so that persons with vision limitations can still take advantage of the convenience of the ebook reader. Once the optimum size has been determined, the font can be selected as the default size. Ease of use is another reason to make use of a portable ebook reader.
Get more information about using [http://www.stylzworld.com/portable_ebook_readers.php]Portable Ebook Readers
I installed Mobipocket reader in py blackberry, and when I tried to upload a book, it froze, U then tried to reboot, but now it has that loading sign all the time, and it won't let me format it from the pc, or remove Mobipocket from the Desktop Manager, any advice?
It's a blackberry bold
I am unable to edit its software in any way.
Remove the battery and reinstall it, that should restart it.
I want one so bad because I love to read, and I'm always traveling with my family. But wow, what's with the price? I mean it'd be very helpful on studying and reading assignments and such, but the price makes me wince..haha. But I'd really like one. Does anyone know where I may find a lower cost on the kindle than amazon?
I agree, the price point is WAY too high. If they really want to cause a revolution in the book market they should price it at $99.99, shipping and tax included.
As it is, you can get an entire Netbook for that and it can do a lot more… not as convenient for reading books, though.
A textbook case of piracy
By Alex Beam
Globe Columnist / September 9, 2008
I was heartened to learn that college kids are wielding the same Internet piracy tools they used to bring down the recording industry to download textbooks. Although the textbook oligopolists are fighting back mightily – the Association of American Publishers uses Covington & Burling, a take-no-prisoners law firm in Washington, D.C., to hunt down malefactors – there are at least two sites still around offering books: Textbook Torrents tends to be shut down, and moves around the Web, but the last time I checked, thepiratebay.org was offering such books as – well, you’ll see.
As a writer, how can I support this? I should be an absolutist on copyright protection for all books, magazines, and newspapers. But I’m not. The publishers have disgraced themselves, and they are paying the price. Three-hundred-dollar textbooks in the hard sciences are not unusual, and the companies are selling to a captive audience. Hundred-dollar add-ons, masquerading as digital workbooks, or problem-solving sets, are not uncommon.
Publishers love to put out bogus “new” editions to drive a stake though the heart of the used textbook market, which was gaining its second wind at online auction sites. It’s not as if calculus changed since Newton invented it, is the rallying cry you hear from student activists.
How do I know textbook publishers are nothing but pirates in pin-striped suits? Because when the fast-buck artists take over a company like Houghton Mifflin, they never talk about how proud they are to be publishing Philip Roth and J.R.R. Tolkien. They know they are going to make a killing in the profit-choked textbook division, which gorges on the goodwill of parents who want their children to be properly equipped for college courses.
Now most textbook publishers are going digital, and Amazon is promising a larger-format Kindle reader for the student market. The publishers say that iTexts, which often cost less than $100, save students money. But their opponents, led by a coalition of Student Public Interest Research Groups, point out that the password-protected digi-texts put the sword to the used-book market so despised by the publishers.
Congress has gotten into the act, legislating more “transparency” in textbook pricing in the just-passed Higher Education Opportunity Act. It looks like a jumble of half-measures to me. If it had any teeth, the publishers would be squawking madly.
A young Northeastern University student named Shawn Fanning wrung billions of dollars of excess profits from the record companies when he invented Napster. Yes, it’s true that recording “artists” now gouge young people 10 times more aggressively at the concert turnstiles than they ever did at Tower Records stores, which no longer exist around here. But Steve Jobs found the right price point for music at iTunes. Between the pirates and the publishers, we’ll find our way to the right price point for textbooks, too.
Now it’s time to arbitrage . . . tuition.
Don’t steal this book
Inevitably, a reviewer will call John Hanson Mitchell, author of “The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston,” a latter-day Henry David Thoreau, not necessarily a compliment. Call him what you will – in real life, he edits the Massachusetts Audubon Society magazine Sanctuary – he is a smart guy, walking around, paying attention. I’d name his genre nostalgic realism; Mitchell certainly knows where this city and its many peculiar institutions come from, and he understands modernity as well.
I love that his brother owns a boat named after Richard Henry Dana, and that it doesn’t have an engine – there’s Boston in a nutshell. I think this book will take its place next to Walter Muir Whitehill’s “Boston,” with engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka, as one of the treasured Hub tomes of our time.
Able was I . . .
Ere I saw Alaska? Send in your Sarah Palin-dromes! A palindrome is a phrase that makes sense read forward and backward – e.g., “Madam, I’m Adam.” I think there’s a lot to work with here: Is Levi vile? Close, but no cigar. I’ll buy the winner a used copy of the kind of book that Governor Palin wanted to keep out of her local library – “Huckleberry Finn,” perhaps.
Alex Beam is a Globe columnist. His e-dress is beam@globe.com.
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/09/09/a_textbook_case_of_piracy/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Living+%2F+Arts+News
Sure it makes sense. If the price of anything inflates unrealistically high some people will capitalize on it. There’s money to be made.
Until the writer get’s to, “Now it’s time to arbitrage . . . tuition” I didn’t read much after that.
Does that mean that you don't have to pay for any books you buy on it?
All details are on their home page
I am thinking about gettinga E-book can any one tell me any thing about them.plzAn e-book (for electronic book
An e-book (for electronic book: also eBook, ecoBook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents aebookre either read on personal computers, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book devices or e-book readers.
An e-book is a specialised type of e-text.
You sound like you are an author of an ebook. Not that bad, since I am one, too.
Most people on the internet already know what an ebook is. They also know the best place to buy them is http://www.fictionwise.com.
One of the best known independent publishers of ebooks is Hard Shell Word Factory http://www.hardshell.com. Their books go across the spectrum and one thing you'll notice is the quality. They are not locked into formula novels like NY publishers.
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