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What Will Be Your First Book Read on the iPad?
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Another "Under the Dome" here.
Followed by some of the other King works that I haven't managed to read these past few years due to having crap eyes and crap braille skills. Hope the fonts go large enough, else it's the voiceover screen reader versions for me (assuming Apple don't do an Amazon and allow it to be turned off).
Followed by some of the other King works that I haven't managed to read these past few years due to having crap eyes and crap braille skills. Hope the fonts go large enough, else it's the voiceover screen reader versions for me (assuming Apple don't do an Amazon and allow it to be turned off).
1984 by George Orwell. Made that promise to myself a few months ago
yep. Sounds ideal.
I am going with the heavy books that I haven't been able to lift for long periods of time and the big, small print books.
Doris Kearns' Team of Rivals
Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote.
I've thought about it a bit, I think I'll start with Doris Kearns' Wait Till Next Year to go with my MLB at bat application. Might as well celebrate the fact that baseball is starting at the same time as the iPad.
Doris Kearns' Team of Rivals
Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote.
I've thought about it a bit, I think I'll start with Doris Kearns' Wait Till Next Year to go with my MLB at bat application. Might as well celebrate the fact that baseball is starting at the same time as the iPad.
Ooh, excellent idea. I wonder if the iBook comes with the wonderful illustrations done by Alan Lee (preferably at high resolution). It would be a shame if it didn't for they really help set the mood.
iBooks is a big reason I'm buying the iPad, so here are a few of the books I'll be downloading (assuming they're available, depending on the publisher...)
Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive (William Gibson)
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
A few key reference manuals for popular programs
The first book I'm gonna read is Neuromancer. I must've read it over 20 times so far, but it's been about 3 years since the last time, so it's time to revisit Chiba City
I would certainly go for Guttenberg project - most books you mention re free...
Anyone think public libraries who currently loan ebooks (all which are DRM'd epub and therefore not compatible with iPad) will switch over to some version that iPad can read?
Or will it be too expensive for them to do so?
I am not even sure that one COULD "loan" books purchased on iBooks due to some technical limitation placed by apple.
Maybe this is something that Apple will start up later on the iBookstore, similar to movie rentals on iTunes.
I wasn't even aware that some libraries did this. Interesting thought... Like you said, I don't think that this will be in the budget until quite some time.
What I would love is that similar to the Nook if you could "loan" books that you've purchased to users. The only draw back with the Nook, is that when you loan it out you can't read it, but I guess that would be a limitation in the physical world and a fair trade off.
Not sure what Philly burbs you are in, but if you have a library card in PA, you can go to your library and get access to Philadelphia libraries for free.
Philly libraries have a large online e-media service- ebooks, audiobooks, video that you can download online with a valid library card. They self-expire but you need Adobe Digital Editions to read the epub books. You can get this for the Mac, but there is no iPhone/iPad version of this reader just yet.
iPad will read epub books that aren't DRM'd but all library books are. So unless iPad gets Adobe Digital Editions, or libraries change to an iPad format of epub, you are out of luck.
I've never read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I downloaded it from Gutenberg to Stanza as a test, and within a few pages I discovered Holmes has a drug habit. So I did some googling and found out he's also the direct inspiration for the Dr. House character. (Apparently this is totally obvious to anyone familiar with both works.) Anyway, it got much more interesting when I found this out, so I think that'll be one of my first, just because I've read a lot of the other 'top' Guternberg titles already. The iPhone screen is too small and I read too fast--too much page-turning.
I read that one on my iPhone. And yes, there are huge similarities between Holmes and House (actually as I typed this I just noticed their names are almost synonyms).
I'll start by finishing up LOTR (currently reading it on my Kindle), and then re-read The Twilight Saga and Tuesdays with Morrie. All some of my favs. I'm one of those people who re-reads the same books over and over until I get sick of them.
There are lists people have done up of the parallels--Holmes/House, Wilson/Watson, same apartment number, etc. I stopped reading these lists quickly, though, as I didn't want to get 'spoiled' for Sherlock Holmes.
It's probably unlikely as many library systems use the Overdrive service for their ebook, music, video management. They're invested in that and probably won't want to change.
That being said, I just downloaded an Overdrive book from library lending a couple days ago and removed the encryption. It's now a regular non-DRM EPUB and is sitting waiting for the iPad to show up.
I have a lot of Kindle books that I've either bought or downloaded when they've showed up for free for a promotional period. I've removed all the DRM from those and I'll use Calibre to convert them from MOBI to EPUB when I want to read them.
I have to say that the removal of the EPUB DRM was far easier than the Kindle AZW/MOBI books. It only takes a couple of seconds and the EPUB is fully readable on anything. The Kindle decryption isn't really hard. It's just annoying.
In all I probably have 50 books waiting to be read but I'm currently working on Under the Dome. It's kind of a slow read and it hasn't captured me enough to want to read a ton of it at a time. I saw Joe Hill (Steven King's son) has a new book and and I'll probably read that too. I liked Heart Shaped Box.
