Kindle Converter: convert physical books into eBooks worth? – Eeevolution (Registration) (Blog)

When six or seven years ago I discovered for the first time the comfortable world of eBook one of the major problems that afflicted him was the lack of titles, mostly in Italian. There were already several online store with a good catalog of texts in English, but electronic books in our language were not many, and if you wanted a text a little ‘less famous you ended up not finding it. Then I had an idea, which at first seemed brilliant: I’d created by me the digital version of my favorite stocks , I already had on paper, in order to read comfortably on the device I used to ‘period for this purpose, which incidentally were not true eReader but only the firs t models of MP4 players that included functionality for reading texts.

Well, after I armed with special programs for recognition and digitization of characters , of my trust and unfortunately now defunct scanner and a good paper book I began the experiment. The result? After about a hundred pages totally passed me the desire and revalue the initial idea downgraded from bright to “ is smart but does not .”

Now you’re probably wondering why this bizarre premise, simple: a few days ago Amazon is selling a new software for the digitization of printed text, Kindel Converter for PC . This application, like several other of different developers already available for some time, makes it possible to transform scans the pages of their books into real books. One of its most interesting software branded Kindle, according to the statement from Amazon itself, is also able to recognize and save handwritten notes , autographs, dedications and images: in short, all those elements that embellish hard copies of their favorite books. On some forums and on some site I read the news date with a pretty outsized enthusiasm and little contextualized, in my way of seeing things.

As mentioned before Kindle Converter for PC is not in fact the first software conversion with OCR circulating on the market. I do not know if it is the best, because I have not had a way to test it first-hand, but there is one thing I know: the time and effort that costs digitize an entire volume, even a tome not very big for a couple of hundred pages, is according to my personal experience much greater than the monetary cost which generally has the eBook version of the same volume. This application therefore should not be seen as a way to carry your library in digital, or at least not as a convenient way nor free, since the software retails for $ 49 . It is much more likely to be an application designed to create an electronic copy – and then in a certain way to save wear of time – of all those still not very common or rare volumes which do not yet exist a version book, which can be between the shelve s of avid readers.

I say this because, as the software of Amazon can be well studied, and I repeat that I do not know if this is so because I have not yet tested by hand, what committed the most time is the scanning process itself , especially if performed with a common household scanner. To get good results with the automatic character recognition must in fact run scans with a value high enough to DPI, which in itself takes time. Then we should not underestimate the whole operation to open the scanner cover, turn the page and put the book, that may seem trivial but when it should be done two or three hundred times is long and also quite boring, to unless you automate this with a special machine homebuilt for scanning texts, such as those made by fans of the site DIY Book Scanner.

Some of you have already tried the new application from Amazon or other similar? I end up at the time I was able to create my digital copy of a manual only, about two hundred pages long, which I could not find a digital version and I wanted to keep an electronic copy because to me very useful and expensive. For all other books are always appeal to the English version or simply I settled the always excellent reading in print, you?

The ancestor of the Kindle was born in 1922 – Gizmodo Italy

With only 15 inches long and four wide, the proto-Kindle could hold cards with over 100,000 words, enough to complete The War of the Worlds Wells.

In June 1922 an article in the magazine Science and Invention included photos of the device, including one in front of the futuristic Fiske player. Of course, keep this device over your eyes to the time required to complete the reading of a story was not to be the most comfortable thing in the world, but remember that we are talking of 1922.
A true pioneer, Admiral, there is no doubt. Want to know what is the only thing really old-fashioned in that? The idea that someone could really read 100,000 words, whatever topic you speak. This post, for example, is just and we are sure that most of you have already stopped reading.
Ok, we’re kidding: we know that you are good readers! (No?)

Mode unlimited subscription would not respect the law on one price – Wired.it

The mode of unlimited subscription would not respect the law on one price

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The love never broke out between the France and Amazon lives a new episode, following an interview with the Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin that, in an interview with Le Figaro, says that the giant of the ebook “ must respect the law” , as according to a report commissioned by the mediator of the book Laurence Engel, his offer Kindle Unlimited is not compatible with the French law on the single price. The offer of the American group makes it possible for only 9,99 € unlimited access to a wide selection of digital books and landed in France in December.

Already all ‘ era of the launch had already raised controversy and confusion among the largest publishing groups, which had greatly reduced the number of ebook available : the titles in English there were certain, with 700 thousand units , but only 20 thousand were those in the language of Molière, because of the lack of agreement with houses like Gallimard, Hachette, Le Seuil.

It is not the ability to subscribe itself to be wrong but, according to Pellerin, “The basic principle is that is the publisher himself having to fix the Price of the offer. A fixed fee unlimited involving more publishers from this point of view does not respect the law “.

The report of the mediator of the book Laurence Engel, former counselor of the Court of Auditors and appointed mediator of the book last September 5, in the past with numerous roles as Director for Cultural Affairs of the city of Paris and in the office of the Minister of Culture, confirms what the law of 2011 already allowed the publishers, or fix the price of the sale price for digital publications, neither more nor less than the law Lang, dating back to the eighties, provided for paper books.

stream publishing used by Kindle Unlimited also affects other national platforms to asking you to put hand to the possible fixes in terms of supply or make available in optical mediation : same goes for Amazon, of course.

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France against Kindle Unlimited – Gamobu

The French government announced that subscription services for ebook violate state laws on the policy of fixed price . Among these services as bigger is definitely Kindle Unlimited , and we imagine that Amazon is far from happy about this news.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES FOR EBOOK

Médiatrice du livre (Figure created especially for these situations) Laurence Engel was commissioned to analyze the presence of this type of service, and it was she who declare that Unlimited Kindle and similar products (including Izneo , Youboox and Youscribe ) are not legally accepted by French law. Engel would thus invited their companies to reevaluate their offerings, otherwise there will be no room for them on French soil.

READ ALSO: Kindle and Kindle Unlimited for $ 99: it’s worth it ?

Kindle Unlimited arrived in France about two months ago, a December 2014 , with a total catalog of 700 thousand titles, of which 20 thousand written in French . In a few weeks the headlines have become 830 thousand, reflecting a great demand from the market.

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And ‘interesting to note that this kind of service was already active in France for a bit ‘of time . However it was the arrival of Kindle Unlimited to ensure that the government to ask itself about it. Why?

Basically Kindle Unlimited violates French laws that are the publishers to set the price of books . There is absolutely nothing against the subscription service itself then, the important thing is that the autonomy of the editors is respected.

The above services now have a month to discuss the legal aspects of the matter , and three months to make offers in line with the French laws.

Kindle Unlimited, back in France. But publishers are divided – The Bookseller

After the initial yes, France returns back to discuss the e-book subscription Amazon – Details

In recent months, we had told the debut of Kindle Unlimited in Italy and the choice of the leading publishing groups, who have not joined the service; after the controversy in England, the case erupted in France. The back is straight from Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin that instructed the Médiatrice du livre Laurence Engel to check if the subscription offers unlimited e-books should observe the current French legislation.

Amazon and other providers of similar services (Izneo, YouScribe, YouBoox) will have to revise its offer for all French works, but not for self-published books nor for those of foreign publishers.

Laurence Engel does not condemn the type of subscription service Unlimited , but stresses that the law provides for the price that publishers establish (or at least agree with Amazon) the cover price of the securities by subscription.

The opinion of the editors is discordant: the big publishing houses, in their great majority, refused to entrust their catalog of Amazon to use the unlimited service, while the position is different publishers of comics that are favorable and have partners in the platform Izneo, and that of Hachette, Editis and Madrigall who have reached the agreement.

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite with € 20 discount, only until tomorrow February 14 – iSpazio

Amazon has discounted its Kindle Paperwhite 20 € bringing the cost to € 109 (instead of € 129) for the WiFi version and € 169 (instead of € 189) for the 3G version.

The Kindle is the best device to read books in digital format. Unlike screen smartphone and tablet, the Kindle Paperwhite allows you to read as on paper, with no glare even in sunlight. Unlike a backlit screen, Paperwhite guides the light along the surface of the screen thanks to the built-in light, thus preventing it reaches you directly in the eye, so you can read comfortably, without straining the view . The screen brightness can be adjusted to fit any lighting condition. Kindle Paperwhite makes you independent from the electrical outlet. A single charge can last up to 8 weeks (calculation made by considering use of half an hour a day for reading, with wireless off and light intensity adjusted to 10), in contrast to a tablet that has to be charged every day. Thinner than a pencil and 30% lighter than the iPad mini. Keep Kindle Paperwhite comfortably with one hand, even for long reading sessions.

The Kindle Paperwhite is a great gift idea. Offer ends tomorrow, February 14, hurry up!

Kindle Paperwhite

€ 109

Kindle Paperwhite 3G

€ 169

New Kindle

€ 59

Kindle Paperwhite and Paperwhite 3G discount of € 20 until February 14 – HDblog (Blog)

Amazon decides to discount (again) his Kindle Paperwhite and Paperwhite 3G , a cut of 20 euro which lowers the cost of basic version to 109 € and the modem to 169 € . The promotion is as usual temporary, limited and available until February 14 through the web platform, an interesting gift suggestion in view of the feast of love, even if the house of Seattle proposes such a scenario what each Once he gets the chance (a December 2014 a discou nt was 30 €).

Every single customer may purchase a maximum of two, the discount is not possible for those who decide to go beyond the couple of units. The Paperwhite , remember, have a perimeter light which allows reading in the dark in comfort, without tiring over the view, not a plus necessary for many who can also aspire to the basic version from just 59 € | Amazon Kindle 2014: review of HDblog.it (Video) | .

 

If the customer buys an article being promoted within the validity period of the offer, will receive a discount of EUR 20 is calculated on the last price Article PROMOTED as published on Amazon.it (“Offer”). For the purposes of this Offer, “Article PROMOTED” refers exclusively to Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Paperwhite 3G sold and shipped by Amazon EU SARL website www.amazon.it. The Offer is not valid on the purchase of items used or reconditioned. Articles produced by companies other than Amazon and items sold by third parties are not subject to this offer.

 

Amazon discounts of 20 € the Kindle Paperwhite for Valentine’s Day – Videogiochi.com | All games for PC, consoles, smartphones and tablets

 

If your sweetie loves to read, you might consider the idea to give him / the Kindle Paperwhite at Valentine . Amazon in fact, for the feast of love, Discounts device 20 € : so, if you purchase by 14 February you will have the chance to shell out € 109 instead of 129.

The same offer applies to Kindle Paperwhite 3G , which can be yours for € 169 instead of 189.

Kindle Paperwhite is an e-reader with anti-glare screen (you will not have difficulty reading below the sun) and lightweight, perfect for those who want to read comfortably and at any place. Besides, the battery can last for weeks and, thanks to the screen with built-in light, the eyes of the reader not faint when reading.

To Buy Kindle Paperwhite and take advantage of the offer, go here.

Offers weekend: Bloodborne, Microsoft Lumia, Kindle Paperwhite, GTX 960 and … – Tom’s Hardware

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For the appointment of this week we start with a ‘ tempting offer for gamers and especially for owners of PlayStation 4 and lovers of games to Dark Souls. Unieuro offers until March 23 the opportunity to pre-order Bloodborne Collector’s Edition + 3 month subscription to PlayStation Plus at the price of EUR 59.99 instead of € 100.98.

We continue segnalandovi an interesting promotion of Microsoft that, until February 15, gives a Lumia 435 to anyone who purchases a Lumia 535 , two smartphones for the price of one.

Valentine’s Day is approaching, and Amazon has decided for this period of discount of 20 euro is the Kindle Paperwhite, for sale at 109 € , the Kindle Paperwhite 3G, for sale at 169 euro .

Always on Amazon we announce a good price on the video card Asus GeForce GTX 960 , version STRIX OC Edition, retail for around 237 EUR .

If you are interested in other offers we suggest you keep an eye on our website scontitech.it where we will publish regularly all that we will find the best offers and we will notify you.

Finally we point out some offers on eBay and that will last all weekend long as stocks last.

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Kindle Paperwhite: review of the e-reader with display card – TecnoAndroid

Kindle Paperwhite is the e-reader with E-Ink display Map exclusive to Amazon for a price of 109 € (up to Valentine’s Day then € 129) including postage with withdrawal within 30 days, a way to test it before the decision to buy it.

Kindle Paperwhite is certainly the best e-reader of Amazon , but not the absolute best in the now vast market of e-readers. Compared to the previous model have been eliminated the physical buttons, someone did not like this choice, in favor of the use of the touch.

Display, materials, aesthetics .

They seem solved problems of yellow halos that some users complained on the previous model, building good although in appearance does not seem to have in my hands a premium model, not a smartphone and not a tablet, but it should not have too look nice?

The display has a 6-inch diagonal HD resolution of 1024 x 758 pixels with a density of 212 PPI, enough for a good character display. Great contrast between blacks and whites, probably due to the new display card or, perhaps, the new lighting system, the important thing is that it is improved.

The ebook reader has a display that looks more more paper and less and less to an LCD, although I must say that the roughness of the display of Kindle Paperwhite is not very pleasant after a while ‘you use it. Definitely improved lighting system which allows not to have shadows, particularly near the edges where it is inevitable that form. Who is approaching for the first time to an e-reader should not expect the fluidity and scrolling of pages as occurs on an LCD because it is a completely different technology. An LCD display is a source of light, in a few words the light is emitted in the direction perpendicular to the screen of the person using the display so it tends to stress your eyes. An ebook reader instead gives off light in horizontal not fatiguing the view of the reader.

Another advantage which can enjoy ebooks like Edition Paperwhite is the great battery life because the screen uses the energy stored in the battery only when it is used to generate the contrast between white and black which goes to form the words and images we see on the player.

Function and use .

Kindle Paperwhite is very simple to use , the interface is intuitive and few frills, but with everything you need to enjoy in a pleasant way of reading or the purchase of an e-book from the store, which is possible only via Internet connection required for read the description of the ebook. Its interface we can find the great success of the Paperwhite (over the display card). In the top bar are the navigation keys Home and Back with the key to enter the store, one for adjusting brightness, research and for various settings. We can store e-books on both the device and the Amazon cloud.

While reading you can highlight a word or phrase, to share it on our account social, facebook or twitter, or to look for the meaning of Wikipeida or, again, to translate it into Italian if it is in another language.

The management of the reading is all entrusted with gestures to swipe left and right you browse the pages, with one from the bottom you have access to chapters for passing from one chapter ‘other. Finally with a “twist” in the upper part of the display is accessed to the navigation keys, share and change font, size and format.

Kindle Paperwhite is equipped with 256MB of RAM and 2GB of internal memory driven by an ARM processor clocked at 800Mhz, the battery capacity is not indicated, Amazon states that can reach up to two months, actually with normal use you get to ten days while keeping it on.

The page change leverages new technology (presented at IFA 2013) E-Ink Regal making a page refresh now 100 or more pages instead of 10 as was the case in previous models. E-ink Regal reduces ghosting with better management of the reader and is also available for other types of display over the Amazon card.

Conclusion .

Kindle Paperwhite is a great e-reader, it is the best or not is up to you, as I said at the beginning Amazon allows you to try it for 30 days and more up to Valentine’s Day charged 20 € less, both WiFi and 3G version, bringing the cost to € 109 for the WiFi version and € 169 for the 3G.

It has everything you need to make reading enjoyable and management reader simple thanks to the best possible technologies implemented. If you are avid readers of e-books and you have not yet tried the Kindle Paperwhite is the time to do it.

Price:

Best Price on the Web: € 109.00 from Amazon

Kindle tablet collapse of 70%? Amazon: “From the account lacks Fire HD” – Macity (Blog)

Amazon denies IDC on the Calculation of venditi tablet in Q4 2014: “did not include the Fire HD 6″. But even with the Fire HD 6 data would always be negative

IDC hurts accounts data on the tablet sold in the last quarter of 2014. It is Amazon to support that one of the most important companies in the world market analysis (the second is Gartner) confuses the waters, when public data showing a fall of 70 percent of sales for the Amazon tablet compared to the same period previous year.

The reason that things would have been so bad, according to a spokesman for Amazon, is that IDC has not included in the counts the Fire HD 6m sold at $ 99, it would be the best selling product . The response of IDC was not long in coming: the company decided to count only as tablet devices with a screen size of 7 to 16 inches, a decision that excludes the Fire HD6, which has just one 6-inch screen. “With smaller, if the device is equipped with voice and call, we classify it as a phone – said Jitesh Ubrani to GeekWire – without voice function is more like a traditional portable media player, such as iPod touch. For this reason we have not included in our figures the tablet from Amazon »

In any case, according to IDC, Amazon sold 1.2 million Fire HD 6, which means that about half of its sales of Total tablet came from the tablet by $ 99. But also by adding this device to the calculation, the sales of the Amazon during the fourth quarter of 2014 would have fallen by 50 percent year on year, so there is certainly a positive result for the company and far from making a difference compared to the original data.

Sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet sono stati decimated – Business Insider

Michael Seto Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Apple and Samsung dominated the tablet market, but for the first time ever the number of tablets shipped Has decreased. That’s bad news for all tablet manufacturers, but Amazon’s Kindle line of tablets is getting hit blackberries than most.

 

A new report published by IDC shows That worldwide tablet shipments have shrunk for the first time since 2010.

 

That IDC says Q4 tablet shipments were at 76.1 million units, a drop of 3.2% on 2013.

 

This chart from IDC shows the breakdown of tablet manufacturers:

 

IDC

 

Amazon is not just the smallest tablet manufacturer On That chart, it’s anche Been hardest hit. It saw a drop of 69.9% in shipments from the previous year. That’s to make larger drop than ITS rivals. Apple’s shipments shrunk by 17.8%, and Samsung’s shipments were down 18.4%.

 

What this chart does not show is the standard book-reader sales of Kindles. Instead, it Measures tablet sales – know Amazon’s Kindle Fire range of Android tablets.

 

It’s difficult to say exactly why Amazon Took longer available a huge hit on tablets. It’s not like it did not launch any new products in 2014: Launched an updated Amazon Kindle Fire tablet in October in That was lighter, faster, and had a better room. Judging by the figures published by IDC, it does not look like the refreshed Kindle tablets sono stati to hit.

 

The IDC report omits the Kindle Fire HD tablet Because of Its six-inch screen size. Amazon says the device That was one of its best sellers over the holiday season, Although it’s unclear Whether That would have a sizeable impact on the statistics published by IDC.

 

Amazon has not Been having much luck with hardware. Phone Sales of the Fire, Amazon’s first foray into the smartphone market, sono stati weak. Third-party sales figures published in 2014 suggested That Had Amazon only sold 35,000 Fire phones. Since then, Amazon Has Repeatedly dropped the price of the phone, Eventually Bringing It to just 99 cents (down from $ 199.)

Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through His personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.

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Kindle Converter converts paper books in ebook for Kindle but it is hard – Macity (Blog)

With the new software of Amazon Kindle Converter you can convert any paper book in ebook format Kindle. For several reasons the idea is interesting but impractical: the user has to scan the entire book in fact

Kindle Convert is a good idea but it is impractical: this is the new software released by Amazon that lets you convert any paper book to turn it into ebook format Kindle, unfortunately all the operations of scanning the actual book are on the user.

First, we note that at least for the moment Kindle Convert is only available for Windows PC computers anyway always Amazon offers its software and apps for all major platforms, so it is very likely that in the future also Kindle Converter can be released in a version for Mac. ll software can be used in combination with any scanner capable of generating final images in jpeg, tiff and PDF course. The other requirements are modest: from 300 to 600 DPI resolution from 8-bit grayscale or black and white up to the 24bit color depth. In practice, then you can use any type of scanner on the market or even dated.

Of course the part almost impossible to offer users consists in having to scan each page of the paper book that you want to convert to ebook format Kindle, operation with traditional scanners requires the acquisition of one page or two pages simultaneously. There are scanners that turn the pages automatically but are not widespread and in some cases are offered at prices supported.

The fact that Kindle Converter is now only for PC and requires so much manual labor and time by User represent two major drawbacks but could be solved in the future. The ultimate goal remains still interesting: with the conversion in the ebook are obtained advantages and extra features that only digital can offer, such as for example the index selectable with a tap, the ability to search out all the text, the possibility of zoom in and out the characters, the availability in the Amazon cloud and from there to all devices and your computer.

Not only Kindle Convert serves not only to users who already have a number of books and papers do not want to shell out even more money to buy the digital version. The real use more consistent is when you are in possession of old books, rare or simply out of print, with color images or text to which the user is linked to emotional reasons, such as a special book with a dedication of a author or a loved one.

Convert Kindle for PC is available in discount, only $ 19 (about € 16) instead of the list price of $ 49.