[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Nick Gibbins]

Re: ebook software, try calibre.


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Dr Nicholas Gibbins

On 29 Jan 2010, at 10:32, Steve Harris <swh at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 29 Jan 2010, at 09:54, Leslie Carr wrote:
>>
>> On 28 Jan 2010, at 15:25, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>>
>>> Neither fish nor fowl nor good red meat.
>> but something in a strong apple sauce :-)
>>
>>> It isn't a laptop replacement, it isn't an iPhone/iPod Touch  
>>> replacement, it isn't a netbook replacement, and it isn't a  
>>> replacement for ebook readers (like the Sony PRS505/700 or Kindle)  
>>> at the size it is.
>>
>> I call you out on the whole Kindle replacement thing. On a trip to  
>> washington the other day I saw two people using Kindles in public  
>> and I had to stop myself staring. And laughing. And not in a good  
>> way. Kindles are fugly (have they been constructed from lego?) and  
>> seem to have really appalling contrast ratio (dark grey text on  
>> light grey backgrounds) that make them look like literary Etch-a- 
>> Sketches. I want to do what people do with Kindles (read! download  
>> books instantly!) but I would like a better-designed one. Oh yes,  
>> and one that worked in the UK.
>
> Right, except that were not getting iBooks in the UK at launch.
>
> The Sony ebooks are much better designed, but the PC-side software  
> is really unacceptably awful. I use a combination of cp, shell  
> scripts, and a lot of swearing as a replacement - that's preferable  
> to fighting with adobe's or sony's ebook software.