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I sewed a *useful* thing!!
It only took three tries and a LOT of cursing, but I finished my kindle case in time for vacation. It stands up!! This is totally inspired by Steph's darling case (thanks, Steph!)
I used this tutorial:
www.chicaandjo.com/2009/09/03/make-a-custom-kindle-cover-...
It has dimensions for all generations of Kindle and a formula for other devices.
The elastic is one of those stretchy headbands you can find at any drugstore.
Not counting the failed attempts, I'd call this a 2-3 hour project (for me).
Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)
Product Details
* Color: Bisque
* Brand: Amazon
* Model: D00511
* Released on: 2009-02-24
* Dimensions: .36" h x 5.30" w x 8.00" l, .64 pounds
source : www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&tag=flic...
Sloppiness:
1. Cancel and OK in the wrong order.
2. The Cancel and OK buttons are the wrong size.
3. The “r” in “Registered User” is clipped.
4. Why is the “Automatically install updates…” checkbox label broken across two lines like that? And it's misaligned with the button. And you can't click the label to toggle the checkbox.
5. The window looks resizeable but in fact is not.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2011/06/macedon.html
June 2011: I read many texts on the internet, I buy most of my books off the internet, but I do like the heft of a book, the smell and touch of paper. I often read text on my laptop screen but I don't think I'll buy an e-book reader. I had a chat on Facebook about the future of books and book-selling with my niece after she'd written a piece in the Spectator www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/6968643/a-daunting-future-...
...Anna, I agree with you, but I strive to build evidence based arguments that demonstrate the market failure of turbo-charged capitalism where it pushes the 'logic' of terminator seeds, 8000 cow dairy parlours, and the rationale of intensified food production. Next time you write throw in a seed of hope that some trends aren't inevitable, and I don't mean wishing for a new ice age. Uncle S XXX
01 June at 08:04 · Like ·
Anna Baddeley haha yes it was a little pessimistic. Sadly though I do think this one is inevitable, in the longer term at least. Waterstone's may survive in some shape or form but not without closing a lot of shops — there just isn't a big enough market for full-price literary fiction & non-fiction.
01 June at 11:53 · Like
Simon Baddeley www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/ebooks-not-there-yet/2/ ..doesn't mean the way is clear for e-books tho' S X
Yesterday at 01:26 · Like
Anna Baddeley thanks Simon that's interesting. He makes some good points among the silly ones, eg would def make sense to get an e-book with your print edition. They are about to take off in a big way though, the new kindle is really good.
Simon Baddeley "About to take off " but we're still on the apron. Kindle's good for book business, critics and judges. I'm less sure about readers. A bound book, sentiment aside, is nothing if not ergonomic. See archivists too on anxieties about long term digital storage. Paper even parchment seems to last better than rejigged ways of story zeros and ones (e.g. binary) - or do you know something I don't...as someone who's enjoyed reading handwriting in archives I suspect we lose something with the loss of pen to paper, as we do with digital drawing and painting. I'm saying William Morris has a point.
Anna Baddeley Yes definitely, although whether a 608 page hardback is more ergonomic than an ebook is debatable! Don't think books are in danger of dying out anytime soon, but I am seeing more and more people with kindles & ebook sales have now outstripped hardbacks on amazon. Interesting times! x
Simon: I'm also impressed with a piece in the NYRB www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/mar/11/publishing-... Publishing: The Revolutionary Future by Jason Epstein who while confessing to inhabiting a study of loved wall-to-wall books writes: The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked to retailers to digital files stored in cyberspace and delivered almost anywhere on earth as quickly and cheaply as e-mail is now underway and irreversible. This historic shift will radically transform worldwide book publishing, the cultures it affects and on which it depends. Meanwhile, for quite different reasons, the genteel book business that I joined more than a half-century ago is already on edge, suffering from a gambler’s unbreakable addiction to risky, seasonal best sellers, many of which don’t recoup their costs, and the simultaneous deterioration of backlist, the vital annuity on which book publishers had in better days relied for year-to-year stability through bad times and good. The crisis of confidence reflects these intersecting shocks, an overspecialized marketplace dominated by high-risk ephemera and a technological shift orders of magnitude greater than the momentous evolution from monkish scriptoria to movable type launched in Gutenberg’s German city of Mainz six centuries ago.....
So will I get my paper books via an Espresso machine? Will I come to reading books out of sentiment as I might refuse to use the engine on my sailing boat, or cycle rather than climb into a car, or dig ground for my vegetables rather than buying them over the counter, will I prefer wood joinery to cheaper synthetic construction? What are the questions here? My great grandmother, Lucy Halkett, who died at 99 in 1969 taught me to read when I was very young and taught me, too, to look after a book... “never turn down a page to keep your place; never turn back the spines on themselves; never write in a book.” I've disobeyed her, but even now as I jot in a margin, underline a phrase, fold the tip of a page, stain a book with jam or gravy or wine, leave it in the sand on a beach, push it doubled up into a baggy jacket pocket, I note her advice, prepare my excuses. I think she'd have been fascinated by an e-book, as she wondered at and used the phone and taught me about listening to her valve-powered radio in the 1940s that used to take a minute to warm up, as she flew - in her 80s - to see her family stationed in Hong Kong, and enjoyed watching the television...and got worried, in her 90s, her mind was going because it was taking her nearly an hour to do the Times Crossword.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2010/09/good-perch.html
Sept 2010: LCD screens abhor the sun. Can you read a netbook by the pool or on the beach? It’s a small itch of mine that books will soon go, but for people who collect them for their own sake or their value on the market. Even older library books will have been scanned for researchers to study them on screen – convenient and safer for the original. I’m seeing these devices around – capable of storing a home library in a slice of bread, searching, annotatable, download War and Peace in three languages via WiFi wherever. Someone who is no Luddite and loves reading books wrote a piece in the NYRB on the demise of the book, partly because publishers can’t afford the floorspace to store their current publications, let alone back-lists. I can see the use of these things - Amazon's Kindle, Sony's ebook. Could I have one and make it look dog eared with attention, risk slitting the spine, keep my place turning down corners, spill things on it, press flowers and notes to discover years later? There’s a £20 note slipped in to my 1911 Britannica at home in case one of our children needed it while we were away. With over a thousand wafer thin pages in each of twenty nine volumes that’d be a devil to find without the name of the entry. I’m not sure I can remember it either. But how much easier it will be to keep and circulate books in those places where books are burned, their readers arrested, if texts can be kept on a postage stamp, a canon in a flashdrive, a library on an ipod. All the same a paperbook book is a most ergonomically satisfying technology for reading, even as new dexterities help new readers to flick through and make notes and links on web books. No doubt there’ll be specialist second hand bookstores – though at the moment lack of customers and rising rents has them falling like nine pins, Hay-on-Wye notwithstanding. I believe the new way to get a book on paper with a spine and cover will involve pressing a virtual option button for a hard copy – simple or deluxe with choice of bindings - when ordering on the web, or over a counter at a privatized library or coffee shop with books – beside the Gaggia an impressive web linked combine printer binder – short, tall, grande, venti? At present a hard copy is the default purchase and the option a web copy to download to your gadget. This will be reversed. (see Espresso Book Machine www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q946sfGLxm4 )
What are the different types of Kindle? There is the Kindle, the Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyage and the 2016 launched Kindle Oasis. Then of course there is the Fire, this comes as a tablet in various shapes and sizes and then there is the Fire TV of which there are two versions. Confused? It’s not the easiest product line to follow, especially as Amazon took the decision to launch their tablets under the name Kindle Fire, realised the confusion, and then relaunched the tablets simply as Fire. I want to help to clear up the confusion.
What is an ereader?
An ereader is a handheld electronic device that let’s you read electronic books and magazines. Amazon Kindle electronic readers are aimed at trying to replace the physical book. Whether this is actually possible or not is a debate for another blog post.
A Kindle will allow you to download and read books, newspapers and magazines on a specialist
screen that is designed to allow you to read for hours and hours.
A tablet on the other hand uses similar technology to a laptop or desktop, there is nothing specialist about it.
If you are a fan of reading books and magazines, this device is particularly convenient for you. Amazon currently features four varieties of Kindle units, each with a unique appearance and differences.
Learning more about each of these devices and how they differ will assist you in choosing the right device that fits your lifestyle and budget. Let’s break each Kindle down and discuss each model individually.
What is a tablet?
A tablet is a handheld mini computer that lets you read emails, go online, watch video and install apps. It also lets you read electronic books and magazines.
What is the difference between an ereader and a tablet?
I have written an in depth blog post about this ereader vs tablet. To summarise, an ereader is for books and magazines and a tablet is a handheld computer. Although by installing an app on the tablet it’s possible to access the same content as your ereader. The app downloads all the ebooks you have purchased from the Amazon Store and using WhisperSync technology, it synchronises where you are up to magically, across all devices.
The biggest differentiator though is that the screen on a tablet is like a computer screen, but the screen on an ereader is designed to mimic a book.
Types of Kindle
I have listed below the difference types of Kindle that are available to buy and for reference some of the now obsolete models. If you want a full list and specification of the current Kindle line up then take a look at my comparison chart.
Kindle
The Kindle is the baseline model and like it’s bigger brothers and sisters it features the revolutionary e-reader or eink display. This display provides a sharp and high-resolution screen designed for those that want to read books electronically. The entry level model is simply know a The Kindle whereas the other Kindle ereaders have names like Paperwhite, Touch and Oasis.
It includes a six-inch display that utilities the Amazon E Ink technology to form a 16-level gray scale image, that does not have glare even in direct sunlight. It uses Wi-Fi as the only mean of connection, and you need to be in the range of an active Wi-Fi connection to browse and download content. It is simple to use and does not require computer cables or syncing to use.
None of the Kindles include any audio functionality, something that was available on the previous generations. It’ wireless functionality makes it easy to log into Amazon to find and buy an e-book. Shop anywhere in the world, whether you are in bed, taxi or airport. As soon as you buy a book, it will be delivered immediately electronically.
The Kindle comes with an internal storage of 2 GB, with 1.25 GB available for use. This will allow you to approximately store 1400 books. It includes a powerful battery, that can last for up to one month if the wireless is off, and about three weeks if the wireless is on throughout. The device offers five controls well placed in the bottom of the display area.
Kindle Touch
Like the entry level version of the Kindle the Kindle Touch features a 6-inch E Ink screen. The main different is that this version is a touch-screen and allows swipe or tap the display, which is an easier way of navigating menu system or turn the page on your book or document. The Kindle Touch comes with a larger battery than the Kindle, which can last up to two months when the wireless is turn off and about one month when the Wi-Fi is on most of the time.
It comes with a larger space of about 3 GB as compared to 1.25 GB in the Kindle version. The Kindle Touch is advanced in term of internet connectivity as it includes a 3G version, which is much faster wehnaccessing online contents as well as downloading books, because you don’t have to worry about logging on to WiFi networks.
Kindle Keyboard
This device is now obsolete, but can still be purchased second hand. Although it features almost the same internal storage as the Kindle Touch, the Kindle Keyboard E Ink display is not a touch-screen. The Kindle Keyboard offers a five-controller and a full QWERTY keyboard for input. It also includes a two side buttons that use to advance the page while reading. It features a powerful Wi-Fi and 3G models just like the Kindle Touch model.
It comes with a more powerful battery like that of Kindle Touch model and can last for up to two months on a single charge, when it is offline most of the days. If you keep the Wi-Fi on most of the time, the battery will last for about ten days. It is important to avoid the low-coverage mobile area connections (this is what the 3G card uses)
as it will drop down to 2G standards like EDGE and GPRS. Although they still work, they consume battery power faster.
The Wi-Fi network is compatible with 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n standards and supports WEP, WPA and WPA2 security that uses a password for authentication. If you don’t know what that means, then don’t worry as it’s just another way of saying open WiFi standards. It cannot to connect to WPA and WPA2 secured network using 802.1X authentication methods, which are only really used in the workplace and does not support to connecting to ad-hoc Wi-Fi networks.
Kindle DX
The Kindle DX version, also now obsolete, is totally different than the previous three versions that we have mentioned so far. It features a 9.7-inch E Ink display compared to the 6 inch on the other models.
It features a high-contrast display, that allows for up to 50 percent contrast as compared to other E Ink displays. It includes a full QWERTY keyboard, a 5-way controller, and standard turning buttons. It comes with an internal memory of about 4 GB internal storage with 3.3 GB available for storing content and is available in 3G version.
The main weakness as compared to other is that it does not feature a touch screen, its battery can last to up to 2 weeks when the wireless is off. If the wireless is on most of the time, a single charge can last for about one week.
The battery life depends mainly on the wireless usage such as when shopping the Kindle Store and when downloading content. It should also be noted that low-coverage area wireless technologies such as EDGE/GPRS which can be called as 2G, consumes more battery and should be avoided.
Kindle Fire
This is the most advanced version of the Kindle as it features a full-color, multi-touch display. The tablet comes with a modified version of Google’s Android operating system, that allows you to download and run a wide range of applications just like any other standard tablet. Some models start 8 GB internal storage and go up to 64GB and the storage can be used for books, games, videos and music.
Its battery can last for about eight hours when the Wi-Fi connection is on most of the time and about two days when the Wi-Fi is off.
The Kindle Fire only includes a Wi-Fi receiver just like the Kindle ereaders. The operating system supports different files which includes Kindle AZW, PDF, TXT, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, DOC, Audible, JPEG GIF, PING, BMP, MIDI, WAV, OGG, and NON-DRM ACC AND PNG.
Although this model is a bit expensive as compare to the most other Kindles, it’s designed as an alternative to the iPad or Samsung tablets rather than competing against ereaders.
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Kindle cosy with hand quilted cover, voile lining, and double sided velveteen pocket. With toggle closure and voile binding. All fabrics by Anna Maria Horner. Designed and stitched by me.
Have I mentioned that I really like the Kindle? Not so much the Kindle itself, but the concept, being able to go from the Kindle itself, to a desktop app, to my iphone, allows me to read no matter where I am. And while I'm at it, I'm currently reading The Girl Who Played With Fire, a fantastic second in his series of... mystery novels? I highly recommend it.
Some of you may recognise this gorgeous girl from Mrs Mawi's photostream.
However, Mawi decided to let her go, and i happily (very happily) gave her a new home. ;D So here she is! Same name, same girl, new home. :D
(p.s. thank you to Mawi for letting me use her super pro, awesome camera for this photo, you the best!)
Applique uses AccuQuilt GO! dies.
Tutorial for making the sleeves on my blog:
terriesandelin.blogspot.com/2011/11/go-kindle-touch-sleev...
I uploaded a couple patterns onto my Kindle today- just to try it out.
I was very pleasantly surprised- Amy's Cosmopolitan Cowl pattern looked great! ($5 pattern from AOH Design's Ravelry store, made with lovely Bijou Basin Ranch Yak/ Cormo!)
You can see the photos very well for black and white and the text is all legible.
I will definitely be using this in the future!
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Hans Kindler
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.32379
Call Number: LC-B2- 5463-2
That´s all I really need: being in Freiburg (with my beloved husband), Malden Crimson, my Kindle, latte macchiato!!!
Got inspired by Jess & Carrie to whip one of these out last night, using this tutorial and some Echino canvas. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, and it adds a nice weight to the Kindle--I've had a hard time getting used to its thinness/lightness. I especially like that this case will prop it up for hands-free reading!
Lots of photos in the Amazon Kindle group pool are of Kindles with food and drink. This is partly, I think, because sitting down for a nice read also involves a cup of tea (or glass of wine or beer). However, I think the nature of the Kindle - which allows you to use it with one hand, propped up on your knee etc. makes it a really good reading technology for this sort of multi-tasking.
Kindle Paperwhite是亚马逊推出新一代的 E-Ink电子书阅读器，新一代的Kindle在屏幕方面提升明显，这款电子书阅读器拥有前光触摸屏，允许用户在日间和夜间都可用来阅读，且用户还可调整光线亮度。
Young woman reading from a Kindle Touch on a busy commuter train (Kingston upon Thames to Waterloo).
I was able to borrow a Kindle for this trip. I'm not ready to buy one because I'm too cheap to buy every book I read (I use libraries). But for travel, this has been super. I've read 3 books on it. I was loaded with 45 books, so I'm not worried about running out. That kind of worry is called "abibliophobia".
These photos came out quite orangey thanks to our bedroom light.
I love her little mouth!! She always looks so shy!
=First laser etched Kindle 2! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - "Don't Panic"=
Not too long ago there was an xkcd comic featuring the Kindle (http://www.xkcd.com/548/) we knew someone would eventually laser etch a new Kindle 2 but we didn't expect it to be us! Here's the first ever laser etched Kindle 2! Sean brought his over to the Adafruit shop today and we "experimented" - it looks great!
www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/03/12/first-laser-etched-kindl...
Macro Mondays - Relaxation
Found this very challenging! HMM - Reading is one of my forms of relaxation - when I find the time:)
The new Amazon Kindle 2 Wireless eBook Reader is the amazing new little device that puts thousands of books right into your hand. It ways only 10 ounces, 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback. It wirelessly delivers books to you in less then 30 seconds with no PC required.
It includes actual simulated ink that is much easier on the eyes then just a regular video screen. It has an extremely long battery life, allow you to read for many days without recharching. It beats out the Sony Reader in many features.