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Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

danieljohnsonjr — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:02:44 -0000

I'll have to try that out, John.

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

danieljohnsonjr — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:02:18 -0000

Stanza no longer works since Amazon bought it. Can you recommend an alternative app that would still work on the iPod?

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

David — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:50:54 -0000

I can read books on my Kindle for 2 WEEKS without having to charge it. Every time I plug my Kindle in to charge it, I 'literally' can't remember the last time I charged it. I can tell you the last time I had to charge my laptop or phone. This morning.

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

TerryGauchat — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:03:37 -0000

I recently bought a used Sony PRS-505. "epaper" really is easier to read than back-lit LCD, though some folks may not mind either way. Battery life is incredible, and the unit is very light and portable.

Tablet PC's may soon completely converge with these eReaders (though the current trend is hybrids... perhaps?). Right now there is a place for both. I wish that there were inexpensive 8" to 11" e-ink devices though, with fast PDF support. Nope.

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

Eric — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:08:23 -0000

I'm doing this, and it's really great. I've got several blogs and news sources I'm reading. What I can't quite figure out is a practical way to erase the old posts from the Kindle. I know that when I'm setting them up in Calibre, I set it to delete posts older than 5 days, but I still have the old posts on my device. Is there any way to have Calibre automatically delete the old ones?

Great post. Thanks.

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

danieljohnsonjr — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:41:44 -0000

Calbre now works with the Stanza app on the iPhone/iPod touch. Just set it up today.

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

James Smith — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:17:44 -0000

Why would anyone buy a Kindle when it is over priced, under-powered and mainly intended to tie the users into Amazon's expensive services of outrageously priced ebooks and magazines?

You can by a netbook or tablet laptop, especially used, for a fraction of the price and still download all the ebooks you want. I have over 800 ebooks including just-released novels and I have never had to pay for any of them.

In addition, my tablet PC will show videos, has a wi-fi connection, and a GPS mapping function. All in color, of course.

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

positive thinking — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:48:03 -0000

That's a great tutorial, thank you.

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

craigbaerwaldt — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:16:49 -0000

Another great post. I really like the posts you have done on how to slice and dice data. Data is the future of marketing and your posts on listening, filtering, and re-purposing data streams are highly relevant. Keep up the good work and keep bringing us tips on slicing and dicing data. Still waiting on the Yahoo Pipes episode of Marketing Over Coffee.

Re: Turning your Kindle/iPad into the best newsstand ever for free

John Wall — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:54:28 -0000

One other thing that you have to do: When you start Calibre the Output format is set to "EPUB" (right next to the big heart on the main screen). This format is not recognized on the kindle, you have to set it to "MOBI".

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