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Kindle - Daily Mail - I don't *believe* it!

KJ44KJ44 Posts: 38,093
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It takes 8 times as long to download the DM for my e-book reader as it does the Grauniad. Today, DM has 23 Mbytes versus Grauniad's 2.5 Mbytes.

First page I look at after the cover page:

House prices fall sharply in eight out of ten regions in England and Wales

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    Alt-F4Alt-F4 Posts: 10,960
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    If I can find some torrents that aren't crappy PDFs I might actually be arsed to use it.

    I downloaded that 80,000 author one - 28 bastard gigabytes of it - and they're all lit and PDF. I'd complain if they weren't free.
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    KJ44KJ44 Posts: 38,093
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    Hmm. It's so big because it uses colour images and has *lots* of pictures (cue jokes about the DM average reading age)

    I actually found one article in it that I found quite enlightening!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1342643/Hugh-Hefners-Playboy-mansion-like-squalid-prison-say-Playmates.html

    Bleugh!
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    FlyinBrickFlyinBrick Posts: 1,571
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    Alt-F4 wrote: »
    If I can find some torrents that aren't crappy PDFs I might actually be arsed to use it.

    I downloaded that 80,000 author one - 28 bastard gigabytes of it - and they're all lit and PDF. I'd complain if they weren't free.

    Do a bulk convert using calibre.
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    JosquiusJosquius Posts: 1,514
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    Alt-F4 wrote: »
    If I can find some torrents that aren't crappy PDFs I might actually be arsed to use it.

    I downloaded that 80,000 author one - 28 bastard gigabytes of it - and they're all lit and PDF. I'd complain if they weren't free.
    A lot of PDFs are perfectly managable, just read it landscape.
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    PeteAPeteA Posts: 759
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    Daily Mail wrote:
    House prices fall sharply in eight out of ten regions in England and Wales

    Presumably only the regions that expressed a price?
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    KJ44KJ44 Posts: 38,093
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    FlyinBrick wrote: »
    Do a bulk convert using calibre.
    Josquius wrote: »
    A lot of PDFs are perfectly managable, just read it landscape.

    calibre is ace (note that I didn't spell it Calibre) ... and many PDFs are legible in landscape. :)
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    Ethel_FredEthel_Fred Posts: 34,127
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    I thought this was the story about the number of Kindles sold in the UK in the past year

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342830/Kindle-Amazons-best-selling-product-2010.html

    I'm not surprised. I'm just back from a trip to South America - of 12 people, 2 had an ipad & 2 a Kindle. I felt somewhat neolithic with just a ipod Touch
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    JosquiusJosquius Posts: 1,514
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    I feel rather chuffed, I've been saying for a year or two now that e-readers were going to becoime the next mp3 player
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    CyanidePillCyanidePill Posts: 365
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    Your Kindle was probably choking on it.
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    MrQuikeMrQuike Posts: 18,175
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    KJ44 wrote: »
    calibre is ace (note that I didn't spell it Calibre)

    You live and learn. Won't make that mistake again.:D
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    KJ44KJ44 Posts: 38,093
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    CyanidePill wrote: »
    Your Kindle was probably choking on it.

    Too right. It got all overheated and started to emit smoke.

    You're an expert, can you explain this problem I have with my Kindle please? It puts up this error message:

    Error 404: Outraged

    :confused:
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