Tag Archives: ebook

#bcto09: Kindle, Shmindle notes

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Speaker is Evan Leibovitch. He works at York and was given the mandate to make research more accessable. From the crowd: What is DRM? Answer from the crowd: It was used in the music business and it’s collapsing. Gave the intro to the Kindle. Brings down books to $9.95. [...]

Buy once, use however

Image by Phil Gyford via Flickr When I buy a piece of media, whether it’s a book or movie or piece of music, I’d like to be able to enjoy it wherever I want on whatever device I want, without having to rebuy it. It’s already accepted that once you buy a CD you can [...]

Eager to get my eSlick

I’m gearing up for my FoxIt eSlick.  My eSlick won’t arrive for quite some time but I’m still gathering information on converting ebooks to PDF. So far my biggest sources of ebooks are text files from Project Gutenberg, CHM files from O’Reilly books (apparently PDFCHM.com keeps a database of books that come with free PDFs [...]

Using inept to strip DRM for better viewing

Image via Wikipedia (Update: This post wasn’t intended as a how-to but people are getting some use out of it. To fill in the gaps, here is an article on how to install the required tools like pycrypto.) I remove DRM whenever possible because I lost a few iTunes tracks. Also, since the FoxIt eSlick [...]

So, I just bought the FoxIt eSlick reader

Image by PiPiWa via Flickr It was through giving the Ohpan beta a try that I discovered the FoxIt eSlick. I rated up a number of tech stories and through that jkOnTheRun‘s post about the eSlick potentially working with eReader caught my eye. I didn’t know FoxIt was working on hardware. I’ve always loved ebooks [...]