Unamerican Kindle User youtube.com with the first jvlogger Kindle review: youtube.com Overall, love the thing, addicted to it, fits my needs perfectly, but the whole business of restricting books by region, not selling certain books in certain regions, especially when you put them in front of my face as related to books I’ve already bought, is downright insulting. Tried filming a vlog with my camera set to its highest resolution as well. Uploading the camera’s file as is since both Power Director and Video Studio were taking much too long to try and render something from this file. How the hell do sxephil and vlogbrothers edit all the breathing out of their videos?
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@newharmony85 No idea what the deal is now, what with the iPad out. I heard somewhere that in the US, Amazon is giving away Kindles to Prime users.
I had no idea there was surcharge for roaming. I’ll see if I have to pay for one when I visit taiwan.
hokusbloke,
True, but then the formatting can get wacky.
Covert the PDFs to mobi for kindle and you can zoom…uses calibre to do this
spoddie,
Oh I don’t doubt you. But if Hulu really don’t want Unamericans watching their material, who am I to argue?
I can watch Hulu in Japan. I’m not telling how but you can probably guess.
HebinoMetaru,
Stray down feather from a jacket.
@platonicmojo Wouldn’t quite work for the Kindle, if that’s what you meant. It runs over 3G cellular networks. No configurable web proxy settings.
There’s a ghost in top left corner 1:45~1:57
think proxy servers…
well it is made by irex and it has a stylus so you can use it as a note book which is the feature my friend loved about it the most. As for downloads apparently you can get them from anywhere because you download the books to your computer and then load them onto the iLiad like you would load a song onto an iPod rather than having to get device specific downloads.
pmf026,
Wikipedia goes into detail about formats. Unamerican Kindle supports Amazon’s proprietary format, it supports reading (but no zooming) of PDFs, and it supports mobipocket format.
@maximum1 About 羅生門 on the Kindle… I’m guessing that any Japanese characters you’re seeing are stored as image files, or each page is stored as an image file. Last week I read a few comic books on the Kindle — Star Trek Countdown I think it was — and each page was stored and displayed as a single image file.
@maximum1 In retrospect I should have looked for a cover or zippable case that’d be better for keeping dust out. Ah well. And yeah, the Kindle DX would be better for PDFs. This Kindle can view PDFs but cannot zoom. Painful on your average manual or release notes.
@maximum1 Aye. Load up before you get here. I believe there’s also supposed to be a way to download to a PC and copy books over via USB but I haven’t tested it yet.
@maximum1 I think part of the reason Amazon ostensibly restricts books by region is that certain distributors have purchased the rights to certain books in certain countries. Same reason Hulu isn’t available in Japan. Japanese companies have purchased the rights to their shows in Japan.
BUT I’m still not happy with Amazon for making it my problem.
@denitson777 Barnes & Noble doesn’t ship the Nook outside Japan, but I’m working on workarounds for that.
Amazon Kindle can read PDFs, and it can read mobipocket books as long as there’s no DRM. Even if it’s internal battery gives out in a couple years I’ll still have gotten my money’s worth.
@DerReisendeGaijin Aha. That solves one riddle.
@LordBalto Aye, maximum1 has it right. No strain at all. There’s no backlighting, and you can read it underneath bright sunlight. Type is just as sharp as your average paperback.
@waigugi Aye. The Kindle bookstore doesn’t have everything, but it has enough to keep me busy. I can see myself owning multiple eBook readers and still saving money and space.
@aussielung iLiad? Never heard of it. Are there places you can buy books for it?
saiyouken,
Yeah, in the beginning it could support only iso-8859-1 a.k.a. Latin-1. Now it can also support iso-8859-10, but it still can’t handle Unicode.
gencbiba,
Oooo, not available for Kindle. BUT I have been meaning to read Art of War. Bought that just now.
On the rare occasion books are available, buying them is easier than farting.
denitson777,
For the “International” Kindle, true, very true.
CDs took a while but I can just about think in Katakana clearly enough so I can find things. DVDs though… When there was a Tsutaya in the neighborhood they organized movies by leading actor sometimes. WTF.
betamaxdc,
Coming from y’all, that means a lot.