The best ebook reader cheap holiday in August 2015: offers, prices Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Cybook – UrbanPost

Posted 28 July 2015 by Elisa Genua
                         
                         

The best readers ebook reader to spend the holidays of August 2015 under the umbrella? Here offers Amazon Kindle, Kobo and Cybook

                         

The classic good old Book of paper has been replaced by a more practical and thin ebook ? The editors of Urbanpost Tech has selected for you among the best digital book readers for a month of August of good reading, maybe under ‘ umbrella. Here they are!

1 – Kindle Paperwhite : more than 700,000 books to choose from and well over 15,000 titles in Italian for the service Kindle Unlimited available only € 9.99 per month combined with this ebook reader . It looks like a sheet of paper but compared to his younger brother has better resolution of 221 ppi. Price 129.99 euro Amazon.it .

2 – Kobo Touch : colorful design and display the e-ink technology Touch Pearl 6 “to 16 shades of gray . Simple and easy to use, allows a fluent reading and is available in blue, silver, white, black and lilac. Price € 81.36 Amazon.it .

3 – Tolino Shine : display the HD resolution 6 “ with front lighting for reading at night make this ebook a device suitable for long trips on the subway. Price 118.94 euro Amazon.it .

3 – Tolino Shine: display by HD resolution from 6 “ with front lighting for reading in Night make this ebook a device suitable for long trips on the subway. Price 99 € on IBS.it (until August 3 in promotion to 100 euro with rucksack Tucano Tech-Yo)

4 – Tolino Vision 2 : brother Shine has a screen Ink Paper 6 “1024 x 768 pixels with Touch Technology and Tap2Flip that improves the reading on the device. Price: 129 of euro IBS.it (until August 3 on offer to 130 € with rucksack Tucano Tech-Yo).

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Delos Science Fiction now in version epub and kindle – Fantascienza.com

Good news for all those who love to read Delos Science Fiction with convenient on your tablet or on your ebook reader. From today our depth magazine on science fiction leaves the uncomfortable pdf format to embrace the epub format (and Kindle, for those who use the reader Amazon).

They are already available for download numbers from 170 to 173, for all those who signed the inscription “Plus” (ten euro per year) association Delos Books.

And now the same numbers of Delos also available individually, as those interested in a single issue, our online library Delos Store and on all major online stores, including Amazon, Apple iBooks, Google Play, Kobo.

The ePub format (or its equivalent Edition) is the format used normally for the ebook. Compared to PDF format it has the advantage of not presenting the books in a fixed format, but adaptable depending on the device. Therefore, the same book can be read easily on the screen of a PC (using applications such as Adobe Digital Editions or Kindle, available for free download), on an Apple or Android tablet or even on a smartphone.

Delos Science Fiction is the longest running Italian online magazine. Established in 1994, the number 98 is directed by Carmine Treanni. On its pages they write and have written all the leading experts of Italian fiction.

Delos Science Fiction now in version epub and kindle – Fantascienza.com – Fantascienza.com

Good news for all those who love to read Delos Science Fiction with convenient on your tablet or on your ebook reader. From today our depth magazine on science fiction leaves the uncomfortable pdf format to embrace the epub format (and Kindle, for those who use the reader Amazon).

They are already available for download numbers from 170 to 173, for all those who signed the inscription “Plus” (ten euro per year) association Delos Books.

And now the same numbers of Delos also available individually, as those interested in a single issue, our online library Delos Store and on all major online stores, including Amazon, Apple iBooks, Google Play, Kobo.

The ePub format (or its equivalent Edition) is the format used normally for the ebook. Compared to PDF format it has the advantage of not presenting the books in a fixed format, but adaptable depending on the device. Therefore, the same book can be read easily on the screen of a PC (using applications such as Adobe Digital Editions or Kindle, available for free download), on an Apple or Android tablet or even on a smartphone.

Delos Science Fiction is the longest running Italian online magazine. Established in 1994, the number 98 is directed by Carmine Treanni. On its pages they write and have written all the leading experts of Italian fiction.

Kindle: Paperwhite vs. Voyage – Vanity Fair.it

K-way, Rimmel, Kleenex, Borotalco. There are brands so popular that they become synonymous with the product itself and become part of common dictionaries. Edition , the best selling and most popular products Amazon , means now for all “digital book reader.”

Even those who feared him at the beginning or the addittura flaunted, now puts him high on the list of essential things to pack. Needless to mention again the benefits of a ebook reader , which no longer confused with a tablet: designed as a device dedicated solely to reading (banned email and push notifications), reproduces the print media, it reads even in the sun, contains hundreds of books and has a battery that lasts for weeks.

The new Kindle Paperwhite ( version integrated Wi-Fi or 3G + free Wi-Fi ) comes as a natural evolution of the gem of Jeff Bezos which already allowed to share with friends via Facebook or Twitter, the opinions on the books and the most popular quotes, to move between pages without losing the sign, to integrate with Wikipedia, to access definitions and information without leaving the page read.

All (and more) is confirmed in the new version , but the effect in print is improved thanks to a screen high-definition 300 ppi (for instance , double the previous year) and adjustable brightness . A new font, the exclusive Bookerly, makes it more elegant typography improving the layout. So as before, more than before.

However, if you want to exaggerate – and you can afford it – this is also Kindle Voyage that with a thickness of 7.6 mm, is the thinnest e-reader ever made by Amazon . And even the most chic through materials such as glass and magnesium .

Other extras : the automatic brightness of the screen based on the intensity of light in the environment and the function of the two side sensors Voltapagina to hold it with one hand and read for hours .

Prices and availability
The new Kindle Paperwhite (from € 129.99) and the Kindle Voyage (from € 189.99) are available on amazon.it or Media World, Giunti, Hoepli, Unieuro, Carrefour, Expert and Euronics.

In the gallery above the best hi-tech summer

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2015) – Everyeye.it

Even in 2015 Amazon has updated one of its most representative and most successful, the Kindle Paperwhite. We face the seventh generation of e-reader par excellence and the giant e-commerce Seattle believes, in no uncertain terms, that it is one of the largest update ever, much to call it “All-New” compared to the previous model. The Kindle Paperwhite 2015 presents, in general, three new features: display with 300 PPI Paper e-paper technology and built-in light, new font “Bookerly” and graphics engine, dedicated to the layout of the user interface and to the printing, revisited in order to ensure a reading experience much more rewarding and relaxing. The Kindle Paperwhite is available in two versions, a Wi-Fi (€ 129) and one with, in addition, 3G connection (189 euro), offered for free from Amazon. Both provide non-invasive advertising, only appearing in the screen saver mode or bottom of the screen and not in any way disturb the reading. These “specials” can be eliminated by paying a premium at the time of purchase, 10 euro. The version we tested and reviewed is the Wi-Fi + 3G with advertisements.

Specifications

The seventh-generation Kindle Paperwhite comes in a compact package graphically minimalist and well crafted and with a compartment in stiff cardboard that protects the reader from bumps and drops. Inside we find, in addition to the device, the quick multilingual, the two-year warranty offered by Amazon and the USB / microUSB (without power supply) for charging the computer. The overall size, 169 mm x 117 mm x 9.1 mm, unchanged edition 2014, make the Kindle Paperwhite smaller than a paperback book, while 217 grams (the WiFi only model weighs 205 grams) make it a not exactly light. However it is quite small and compact to hold with one hand only and without fatigue, for hours. It did not look excited. The shell is basic, black plastic and rubber (engraved with “Amazon”) on the back, the frames are high, interrupted only by the logo translucent “Kindle”, while the only physical button, used as switching on or off the screen , it is positioned at the side of the micro USB connector on the bottom edge. Despite such simplicity, the construction is solid and the assembly of the individual components impeccable. Chapter display. The screen of the Paperwhite is, unlike top version Voyage, slightly recessed into the chassis, but keeps the same technical characteristics and size (6 inches) and resolution (1448×1072 pixels, equivalent to 300 PPI , double that of the previous generation). Since the first approach was possible to admire the incredible brilliance and sharpness of text . The display of the e-reader Amazon does not suffer from the sunlight. Read outdoors, in these hot summer days, it was not a problem and reflections that normally undermine the experience of readers on common tablet, including the iPad, are virtually absent. In the dark, thanks to the built-in light of the new generation that is projected to the screen and not to the eyes of the reader, the view does not get tired and reading remains comfortable and relaxing. Missing sensor automatic lighting, on the Kindle Voyage, but the manual option is still present in the main menu and the lack does not justify the substantial difference in price between these two models. Complete technical specifications processor from 1 GHz , 512MB of RAM (double the Paperwhite 2014), connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11n 2.4GHz and 4GB internal memory (requires “a thousand ebook “to fill). It lacks support for external memory cards, but the service offered by Amazon Free Cloud Storage to store an infinite number of ebook consulted on their devices, iOS, Android or Windows Phone that is, through the Kindle app.

Interface and reading experience

If you’re familiar with any Kindle Paperwhite in previous years, you will not have difficulties interacting with the model 2015. On the device, are icons appear at the top of the screen: Home, Back, Brightness, Shopping (from which you can access the store Amazon), Search and Settings. The rest of the screen is made up of the cover of ebook purchased and stored in memory on the Kindle or on the Cloud. Selecting a book any and clicking in the upper area, in addition to the series of icons described above, you’ll see a toolbar, you need to customize the text (change the font size or appearance, change line spacing and margins), browse contents and notes, share their impressions and readings via social (Facebook or Twitter) and set bookmarks. At the bottom instead, they appear information about the time required to finish the book, according to the reading speed up to that moment. A tap on the right or left allows, finally, to turn pages.
Amazon has this year introduced a new font, known as “ Bookerly “. This is an exclusive character, created from scratch for reading on digital screens: “ Warm and contemporary Bookerly is inspired by the art of the best character traits of the modern printed books, but is created by hand for maximum readability text in any dimension “. After reading a few pages with Bookerly, we can call it a good font, easy to read and pleasing to the eye and not out of place. However the text options include seven more fonts to choose, at any time. Other tools for reading, not selected from a set menu but activated by a long tap on individual words or portions of text, are the highlight, the search tool definitions, the translator of foreign words, the sharing option on social, to add notes and refer to Wikipedia. As for the overall layout of the pages, Amazon has made some improvements in this edition, not of little importance. Primarily engineers Jeff Bezos solved the problem layout of the text when the player selects a large font. The new graphics engine has text in harmony , going to justify the space between the words without creating some real gaps between them. The problems of spacing between letters have been fixed. The basic element is no longer represented by a single letter, but by the couple. The distance between the pairs of letters has been adjusted in such a way that the entire set to appear better adapted. Even the layout of the page got a workaround. They have been added to the drop cap, while text and pictures conform as closely to the respective parts of the print edition. All of this makes reading the Kindle Paperwhite (2015) faster, easier and more enjoyable than ever. However those who own an older Kindle should not despair, as the new engine of the text and character Bookerly will be integrated via software update also on older models.

The autonomy is one of the strengths of historical Kindle Paperwhite. According to Amazon on a single charge provides several weeks of use, and we can only confirm that. We used the player for a week, at least for a couple of hours a day, with brightness set to a medium-high level, mainly in Wi-Fi. The charge present at the time dell’unboxing was 75% and, to date, has reached 45%. Impeccable.
A final study we dedicate to Virtual Store Amazon. The ecosystem put on by Jeff Bezos and his team is unrivaled in the market and represents an added value compared to the competition. The Kindle Store is full of content, with about 3 million books available (more than 100 thousand in Italian and more than 10 thousand exclusively for Kindle devices). Navigate this ocean of culture from Kindle Paperwhite and select what you want is not simple, nor intuitive, as on PC. The screen in black and white, and its slowness in the process of input / output via touchscreen interaction with menus and categories of the Store do not favor the user direct purchase through Kindle. Fortunately Amazon, as mentioned earlier, can buy content on the smartphone, tablet or PC and send them directly to your Kindle Paperwhite. The prices are very competitive and often giant of Seattle offers flash offers or promotions that last several weeks. What’s more, Amazon offers Kindle Unlimited service, a kind of ebook that Netflix offers a choice of over 800 thousand titles by paying only 9.99 euro per month. In addition to the Kindle’s native format, AZW (or AZW3), the Paperwhite supports files in TXT, PDF, MOBI, PRC, HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP. It lacks compatibility with the free format EPUB, widespread online.

Kindle for unlimited sfornapagine authors: you pay for the number of pages read – FIRSTonline

Start the era of the “Pay-Per-Page” (PPP)

Since July 1, 2015 Amazon has changed the payment system for writers participating in the program Kindle Unlimited , the streaming service of the ebook managed by the giant of Seattle. Warning! This new metric does not apply to all ebook stream (for example those of the editors), but only to those of the authors self-published participating in the program that KDP Select require the exclusive transfer of rights to Amazon.

The new units for the royalty payments writers will be the number of pages read . The Previous metric and not was bound in a transparent way to cover price and left Amazon to some arbitrary in deciding the amounts to be distributed to members of the program, had been highly criticism from all community of authors Independent they had seen their revenues fall in the new service. The need to move to a more transparent and objective was a necessity deeply felt.

The consequences of $ 0.006 on page

Amazon in presenting the new payment system announced a statistics about June 2015 : subscribers read 1900000000 pages Unlimited on Kindle. Whereas the background available Kindle Unlimited is amontato to $ 11 million for the month of June, the British newspaper “ Guardian “has calculated a page read is $ 0.006 . Since there are no pages in an ebook format because it is a liquid, Amazon has developed a counting system that explained in his blog.

Taking a rather rough calculation, based on the data in June 2015, is shows that for the ‘ equivalent of the royalty of a ebook downloaded at a price of 4.99 dollars (author royalty = $ 3.493) must you read 580 pages . In the case of a price to $ 2.99 need 350 pages read to equal the revenue of a download. If it costs $ 1.99 to download the ebook pages read necessary to obtain a similar royalty would be 230.

Hard to understand the consequences of these numbers on the lives of writers who populate this service. One thing stood out instantly. Are favorite works with more pages . The writers must writing not only more , but best because it will have to convince the reader to follow the plot, the characters, the dialogues from cover or far forward as possible. In short, will conquer ‘s attention of player . not you will then water down the content , but increase it quality . And this is not bad as rightly stresses Giuseppe Granieri. If until now the ‘ goal a Writer , a little’ cynically , could be to get buy , now is really to be read in full . It is not just a distinction, and this can be a really factor spontaneous cleaning offer that moves the check from quantity to quality. Will surely change the way you write as pointed Granieri at the conclusion of his analysis.

The return of the mammoth?

winning authors on Kindle Unlimited will be those that publish long text to be read in their entirety. If we were to comment on this state of things we could say that could back models of mammoth great nineteenth-twentieth century European fiction , the great novels-masterpieces Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and our Bacchelli . It is a back you fitting with some trouble to modern mood which tends to restrict the arc time where the system is viewing experience, reading, listening or otherwise.

are However the data show that strong readers not are afraid from ‘ extension a’ work and suffice it to mention the success of authors verbose as Stieg Larsson, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon or Karl Ove Knausgård to name a few. Besides the first consumers service stream of books it is the strong readers .

There is also another aspect that Amazon will send a solution in the future. For the authors of KDP Select is still valid clause of ‘ exclusive that looks something anachronistic and in sharp contrast with the openness and democratization of new services which tend to be inclusive. There are still many things to fix on Kindle Unlimited.

* * *

A Fucecchio, a village in Tuscany halfway between Pisa and Florence, was erected a singular monument to Giuseppe Montanelli, patriot, scholar, political renaissance and great-uncle of the great journalist Indro, anche’egli native of Fucecchio. In the central square of the village, the Montanelli stands standing on a tall pillar with a bandaged right arm across your chest (to testify the wound at the Battle of Curtatone and Montanara) and title of the Constitution liberal Tuscany in the other hand. The figure leans slightly on a stack of books from the base of the figure goes up to sit. The inhabitants of Fucecchio, which by good Tuscan no lack of cynicism and taste of desecration, have dubbed this monument “cacapagine”. That this state is just what the modern writer? A state that Amazon, with its endless antennas, has been able to capture and implement.

Kindle for unlimited sfornapagine authors: you pay for the number of pages read – FIRSTonline

Start the era of the “Pay-Per-Page” (PPP)

Since July 1, 2015 Amazon has changed the payment system for writers participating in the program Kindle Unlimited , the streaming service of the ebook managed by the giant of Seattle. Warning! This new metric does not apply to all ebook stream (for example those of the editors), but only to those of the authors self-published participating in the program that KDP Select require the exclusive transfer of rights to Amazon.

The new units for the royalty payments writers will be the number of pages read . The Previous metric and not was bound in a transparent way to cover price and left Amazon to some arbitrary in deciding the amounts to be distributed to members of the program, had been highly criticism from all community of authors Independent they had seen their revenues fall in the new service. The need to move to a more transparent and objective was a necessity deeply felt.

The consequences of $ 0.006 on page

Amazon in presenting the new payment system announced a statistics about June 2015 : subscribers read 1900000000 pages Unlimited on Kindle. Whereas the background available Kindle Unlimited is amontato to $ 11 million for the month of June, the British newspaper “ Guardian “has calculated a page read is $ 0.006 . Since there are no pages in an ebook format because it is a liquid, Amazon has developed a counting system that explained in his blog.

Taking a rather rough calculation, based on the data in June 2015, is shows that for the ‘ equivalent of the royalty of a ebook downloaded at a price of 4.99 dollars (author royalty = $ 3.493) must you read 580 pages . In the case of a price to $ 2.99 need 350 pages read to equal the revenue of a download. If it costs $ 1.99 to download the ebook pages read necessary to obtain a similar royalty would be 230.

Hard to understand the consequences of these numbers on the lives of writers who populate this service. One thing stood out instantly. Are favorite works with more pages . The writers must writing not only more , but best because it will have to convince the reader to follow the plot, the characters, the dialogues from cover or far forward as possible. In short, will conquer ‘s attention of player . not you will then water down the content , but increase it quality . And this is not bad as rightly stresses Giuseppe Granieri. If until now the ‘ goal a Writer , a little’ cynically , could be to get buy , now is really to be read in full . It is not just a distinction, and this can be a really factor spontaneous cleaning offer that moves the check from quantity to quality. Will surely change the way you write as pointed Granieri at the conclusion of his analysis.

The return of the mammoth?

winning authors on Kindle Unlimited will be those that publish long text to be read in their entirety. If we were to comment on this state of things we could say that could back models of mammoth great nineteenth-twentieth century European fiction , the great novels-masterpieces Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and our Bacchelli . It is a back you fitting with some trouble to modern mood which tends to restrict the arc time where the system is viewing experience, reading, listening or otherwise.

are However the data show that strong readers not are afraid from ‘ extension a’ work and suffice it to mention the success of authors verbose as Stieg Larsson, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon or Karl Ove Knausgård to name a few. Besides the first consumers service stream of books it is the strong readers .

There is also another aspect that Amazon will send a solution in the future. For the authors of KDP Select is still valid clause of ‘ exclusive that looks something anachronistic and in sharp contrast with the openness and democratization of new services which tend to be inclusive. There are still many things to fix on Kindle Unlimited.

* * *

A Fucecchio, a village in Tuscany halfway between Pisa and Florence, was erected a singular monument to Giuseppe Montanelli, patriot, scholar, political renaissance and great-uncle of the great journalist Indro, anche’egli native of Fucecchio. In the central square of the village, the Montanelli stands standing on a tall pillar with a bandaged right arm across your chest (to testify the wound at the Battle of Curtatone and Montanara) and title of the Constitution liberal Tuscany in the other hand. The figure leans slightly on a stack of books from the base of the figure goes up to sit. The inhabitants of Fucecchio, which by good Tuscan no lack of cynicism and taste of desecration, have dubbed this monument “cacapagine”. That this state is just what the modern writer? A state that Amazon, with its endless antennas, has been able to capture and implement.

Kindle: Paperwhite vs. Voyage – VanityFair.it – ​​Vanity Fair.it

K-way, Rimmel, Kleenex, Borotalco. There are brands so popular that they become synonymous with the product itself and become part of common dictionaries. Edition , the best selling and most popular products Amazon , means now for all “digital book reader.”

Even those who feared him at the beginning or the addittura flaunted, now puts him high on the list of essential things to pack. Needless to mention again the benefits of a ebook reader , which no longer confused with a tablet: designed as a device dedicated solely to reading (banned email and push notifications), reproduces the print media, it reads even in the sun, contains hundreds of books and has a battery that lasts for weeks.

The new Kindle Paperwhite ( version integrated Wi-Fi or 3G + free Wi-Fi ) comes as a natural evolution of the gem of Jeff Bezos which already allowed to share with friends via Facebook or Twitter, the opinions on the books and the most popular quotes, to move between pages without losing the sign, to integrate with Wikipedia, to access definitions and information without leaving the page read.

All (and more) is confirmed in the new version , but the effect in print is improved thanks to a screen high-definition 300 ppi (for instance , double the previous year) and adjustable brightness . A new font, the exclusive Bookerly, makes it more elegant typography improving the layout. So as before, more than before.

However, if you want to exaggerate – and you can afford it – this is also Kindle Voyage that with a thickness of 7.6 mm, is the thinnest e-reader ever made by Amazon . And even the most chic through materials such as glass and magnesium .

Other extras : the automatic brightness of the screen based on the intensity of light in the environment and the function of the two side sensors Voltapagina to hold it with one hand and read for hours .

Prices and availability
The new Kindle Paperwhite (from € 129.99) and the Kindle Voyage (from € 189.99) are available on amazon.it or Media World, Giunti, Hoepli, Unieuro, Carrefour, Expert and Euronics.

In the gallery above the best hi-tech summer

Kindle Unlimited sfornapagine for authors: you pay for the number of pages read – FIRSTonline

Start the era of the “Pay-Per-Page” (PPP)

Since July 1, 2015 Amazon has changed the payment system for writers participating in the program Kindle Unlimited , the streaming service of the ebook managed by the giant of Seattle. Warning! This new metric does not apply to all ebook stream (for example those of the editors), but only to those of the authors self-published participating in the program that KDP Select require the exclusive transfer of rights to Amazon.

The new units for the royalty payments writers will be the number of pages read . The Previous metric and not was bound in a transparent way to cover price and left Amazon to some arbitrary in deciding the amounts to be distributed to members of the program, had been highly criticism from all community of authors Independent they had seen their revenues fall in the new service. The need to move to a more transparent and objective was a necessity deeply felt.

The consequences of $ 0.006 on page

Amazon in presenting the new payment system announced a statistics about June 2015 : subscribers read 1900000000 pages Unlimited on Kindle. Whereas the background available Kindle Unlimited is amontato to $ 11 million for the month of June, the British newspaper “ Guardian “has calculated a page read is $ 0.006 . Since there are no pages in an ebook format because it is a liquid, Amazon has developed a counting system that explained in his blog.

Taking a rather rough calculation, based on the data in June 2015, is shows that for the ‘ equivalent of the royalty of a ebook downloaded at a price of 4.99 dollars (author royalty = $ 3.493) must you read 580 pages . In the case of a price to $ 2.99 need 350 pages read to equal the revenue of a download. If it costs $ 1.99 to download the ebook pages read necessary to obtain a similar royalty would be 230.

Hard to understand the consequences of these numbers on the lives of writers who populate this service. One thing stood out instantly. Are favorite works with more pages . The writers must writing not only more , but best because it will have to convince the reader to follow the plot, the characters, the dialogues from cover or far forward as possible. In short, will conquer ‘s attention of player . not you will then water down the content , but increase it quality . And this is not bad as rightly stresses Giuseppe Granieri. If until now the ‘ goal a Writer , a little’ cynically , could be to get buy , now is really to be read in full . It is not just a distinction, and this can be a really factor spontaneous cleaning offer that moves the check from quantity to quality. Will surely change the way you write as pointed Granieri at the conclusion of his analysis.

The return of the mammoth?

winning authors on Kindle Unlimited will be those that publish long text to be read in their entirety. If we were to comment on this state of things we could say that could back models of mammoth great nineteenth-twentieth century European fiction , the great novels-masterpieces Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and our Bacchelli . It is a back you fitting with some trouble to modern mood which tends to restrict the arc time where the system is viewing experience, reading, listening or otherwise.

are However the data show that strong readers not are afraid from ‘ extension a’ work and suffice it to mention the success of authors verbose as Stieg Larsson, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon or Karl Ove Knausgård to name a few. Besides the first consumers service stream of books it is the strong readers .

There is also another aspect that Amazon will send a solution in the future. For the authors of KDP Select is still valid clause of ‘ exclusive that looks something anachronistic and in sharp contrast with the openness and democratization of new services which tend to be inclusive. There are still many things to fix on Kindle Unlimited.

* * *

A Fucecchio, a village in Tuscany halfway between Pisa and Florence, was erected a singular monument to Giuseppe Montanelli, patriot, scholar, political renaissance and great-uncle of the great journalist Indro, anche’egli native of Fucecchio. In the central square of the village, the Montanelli stands standing on a tall pillar with a bandaged right arm across your chest (to testify the wound at the Battle of Curtatone and Montanara) and title of the Constitution liberal Tuscany in the other hand. The figure leans slightly on a stack of books from the base of the figure goes up to sit. The inhabitants of Fucecchio, which by good Tuscan no lack of cynicism and taste of desecration, have dubbed this monument “cacapagine”. That this state is just what the modern writer? A state that Amazon, with its endless antennas, has been able to capture and implement.

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review (2015) – Everyeye.it – ​​Everyeye.it

Even in 2015 Amazon has updated one of its most representative and most successful, the Kindle Paperwhite. We face the seventh generation of e-reader par excellence and the giant e-commerce Seattle believes, in no uncertain terms, that it is one of the largest update ever, much to call it “All-New” compared to the previous model. The Kindle Paperwhite 2015 presents, in general, three new features: display with 300 PPI Paper e-paper technology and built-in light, new font “Bookerly” and graphics engine, dedicated to the layout of the user interface and to the printing, revisited in order to ensure a reading experience much more rewarding and relaxing. The Kindle Paperwhite is available in two versions, a Wi-Fi (€ 129) and one with, in addition, 3G connection (189 euro), offered for free from Amazon. Both provide non-invasive advertising, only appearing in the screen saver mode or bottom of the screen and not in any way disturb the reading. These “specials” can be eliminated by paying a premium at the time of purchase, 10 euro. The version we tested and reviewed is the Wi-Fi + 3G with advertisements.

Specifications

The seventh-generation Kindle Paperwhite comes in a compact package graphically minimalist and well crafted and with a compartment in stiff cardboard that protects the reader from bumps and drops. Inside we find, in addition to the device, the quick multilingual, the two-year warranty offered by Amazon and the USB / microUSB (without power supply) for charging the computer. The overall size, 169 mm x 117 mm x 9.1 mm, unchanged edition 2014, make the Kindle Paperwhite smaller than a paperback book, while 217 grams (the WiFi only model weighs 205 grams) make it a not exactly light. However it is quite small and compact to hold with one hand only and without fatigue, for hours. It did not look excited. The shell is basic, black plastic and rubber (engraved with “Amazon”) on the back, the frames are high, interrupted only by the logo translucent “Kindle”, while the only physical button, used as switching on or off the screen , it is positioned at the side of the micro USB connector on the bottom edge. Despite such simplicity, the construction is solid and the assembly of the individual components impeccable. Chapter display. The screen of the Paperwhite is, unlike top version Voyage, slightly recessed into the chassis, but keeps the same technical characteristics and size (6 inches) and resolution (1448×1072 pixels, equivalent to 300 PPI , double that of the previous generation). Since the first approach was possible to admire the incredible brilliance and sharpness of text . The display of the e-reader Amazon does not suffer from the sunlight. Read outdoors, in these hot summer days, it was not a problem and reflections that normally undermine the experience of readers on common tablet, including the iPad, are virtually absent. In the dark, thanks to the built-in light of the new generation that is projected to the screen and not to the eyes of the reader, the view does not get tired and reading remains comfortable and relaxing. Missing sensor automatic lighting, on the Kindle Voyage, but the manual option is still present in the main menu and the lack does not justify the substantial difference in price between these two models. Complete technical specifications processor from 1 GHz , 512MB of RAM (double the Paperwhite 2014), connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11n 2.4GHz and 4GB internal memory (requires “a thousand ebook “to fill). It lacks support for external memory cards, but the service offered by Amazon Free Cloud Storage to store an infinite number of ebook consulted on their devices, iOS, Android or Windows Phone that is, through the Kindle app.

Interface and reading experience

If you’re familiar with any Kindle Paperwhite in previous years, you will not have difficulties interacting with the model 2015. On the device, are icons appear at the top of the screen: Home, Back, Brightness, Shopping (from which you can access the store Amazon), Search and Settings. The rest of the screen is made up of the cover of ebook purchased and stored in memory on the Kindle or on the Cloud. Selecting a book any and clicking in the upper area, in addition to the series of icons described above, you’ll see a toolbar, you need to customize the text (change the font size or appearance, change line spacing and margins), browse contents and notes, share their impressions and readings via social (Facebook or Twitter) and set bookmarks. At the bottom instead, they appear information about the time required to finish the book, according to the reading speed up to that moment. A tap on the right or left allows, finally, to turn pages.
Amazon has this year introduced a new font, known as “ Bookerly “. This is an exclusive character, created from scratch for reading on digital screens: “ Warm and contemporary Bookerly is inspired by the art of the best character traits of the modern printed books, but is created by hand for maximum readability text in any dimension “. After reading a few pages with Bookerly, we can call it a good font, easy to read and pleasing to the eye and not out of place. However the text options include seven more fonts to choose, at any time. Other tools for reading, not selected from a set menu but activated by a long tap on individual words or portions of text, are the highlight, the search tool definitions, the translator of foreign words, the sharing option on social, to add notes and refer to Wikipedia. As for the overall layout of the pages, Amazon has made some improvements in this edition, not of little importance. Primarily engineers Jeff Bezos solved the problem layout of the text when the player selects a large font. The new graphics engine has text in harmony , going to justify the space between the words without creating some real gaps between them. The problems of spacing between letters have been fixed. The basic element is no longer represented by a single letter, but by the couple. The distance between the pairs of letters has been adjusted in such a way that the entire set to appear better adapted. Even the layout of the page got a workaround. They have been added to the drop cap, while text and pictures conform as closely to the respective parts of the print edition. All of this makes reading the Kindle Paperwhite (2015) faster, easier and more enjoyable than ever. However those who own an older Kindle should not despair, as the new engine of the text and character Bookerly will be integrated via software update also on older models.

The autonomy is one of the strengths of historical Kindle Paperwhite. According to Amazon on a single charge provides several weeks of use, and we can only confirm that. We used the player for a week, at least for a couple of hours a day, with brightness set to a medium-high level, mainly in Wi-Fi. The charge present at the time dell’unboxing was 75% and, to date, has reached 45%. Impeccable.
A final study we dedicate to Virtual Store Amazon. The ecosystem put on by Jeff Bezos and his team is unrivaled in the market and represents an added value compared to the competition. The Kindle Store is full of content, with about 3 million books available (more than 100 thousand in Italian and more than 10 thousand exclusively for Kindle devices). Navigate this ocean of culture from Kindle Paperwhite and select what you want is not simple, nor intuitive, as on PC. The screen in black and white, and its slowness in the process of input / output via touchscreen interaction with menus and categories of the Store do not favor the user direct purchase through Kindle. Fortunately Amazon, as mentioned earlier, can buy content on the smartphone, tablet or PC and send them directly to your Kindle Paperwhite. The prices are very competitive and often giant of Seattle offers flash offers or promotions that last several weeks. What’s more, Amazon offers Kindle Unlimited service, a kind of ebook that Netflix offers a choice of over 800 thousand titles by paying only 9.99 euro per month. In addition to the Kindle’s native format, AZW (or AZW3), the Paperwhite supports files in TXT, PDF, MOBI, PRC, HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP. It lacks compatibility with the free format EPUB, widespread online.

Kindle Unlimited sfornapagine for authors: you pay for the number of pages read … – FIRSTonline

Start the era of the “Pay-Per-Page” (PPP)

Since July 1, 2015 Amazon has changed the payment system for writers participating in the program Kindle Unlimited , the streaming service of the ebook managed by the giant of Seattle. Warning! This new metric does not apply to all ebook stream (for example those of the editors), but only to those of the authors self-published participating in the program that KDP Select require the exclusive transfer of rights to Amazon.

The new units for the royalty payments writers will be the number of pages read . The Previous metric and not was bound in a transparent way to cover price and left Amazon to some arbitrary in deciding the amounts to be distributed to members of the program, had been highly criticism from all community of authors Independent they had seen their revenues fall in the new service. The need to move to a more transparent and objective was a necessity deeply felt.

The consequences of $ 0.006 on page

Amazon in presenting the new payment system announced a statistics about June 2015 : subscribers read 1900000000 pages Unlimited on Kindle. Whereas the background available Kindle Unlimited is amontato to $ 11 million for the month of June, the British newspaper “ Guardian “has calculated a page read is $ 0.006 . Since there are no pages in an ebook format because it is a liquid, Amazon has developed a counting system that explained in his blog.

Taking a rather rough calculation, based on the data in June 2015, is shows that for the ‘ equivalent of the royalty of a ebook downloaded at a price of 4.99 dollars (author royalty = $ 3.493) must you read 580 pages . In the case of a price to $ 2.99 need 350 pages read to equal the revenue of a download. If it costs $ 1.99 to download the ebook pages read necessary to obtain a similar royalty would be 230.

Hard to understand the consequences of these numbers on the lives of writers who populate this service. One thing stood out instantly. Are favorite works with more pages . The writers must writing not only more , but best because it will have to convince the reader to follow the plot, the characters, the dialogues from cover or far forward as possible. In short, will conquer ‘s attention of player . not you will then water down the content , but increase it quality . And this is not bad as rightly stresses Giuseppe Granieri. If until now the ‘ goal a Writer , a little’ cynically , could be to get buy , now is really to be read in full . It is not just a distinction, and this can be a really factor spontaneous cleaning offer that moves the check from quantity to quality. Will surely change the way you write as pointed Granieri at the conclusion of his analysis.

The return of the mammoth?

winning authors on Kindle Unlimited will be those that publish long text to be read in their entirety. If we were to comment on this state of things we could say that could back models of mammoth great nineteenth-twentieth century European fiction , the great novels-masterpieces Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and our Bacchelli . It is a back you fitting with some trouble to modern mood which tends to restrict the arc time where the system is viewing experience, reading, listening or otherwise.

are However the data show that strong readers not are afraid from ‘ extension a’ work and suffice it to mention the success of authors verbose as Stieg Larsson, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon or Karl Ove Knausgård to name a few. Besides the first consumers service stream of books it is the strong readers .

There is also another aspect that Amazon will send a solution in the future. For the authors of KDP Select is still valid clause of ‘ exclusive that looks something anachronistic and in sharp contrast with the openness and democratization of new services which tend to be inclusive. There are still many things to fix on Kindle Unlimited.

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A Fucecchio, a village in Tuscany halfway between Pisa and Florence, was erected a singular monument to Giuseppe Montanelli, patriot, scholar, political renaissance and great-uncle of the great journalist Indro, anche’egli native of Fucecchio. In the central square of the village, the Montanelli stands standing on a tall pillar with a bandaged right arm across your chest (to testify the wound at the Battle of Curtatone and Montanara) and title of the Constitution liberal Tuscany in the other hand. The figure leans slightly on a stack of books from the base of the figure goes up to sit. The inhabitants of Fucecchio, which by good Tuscan no lack of cynicism and taste of desecration, have dubbed this monument “cacapagine”. That this state is just what the modern writer? A state that Amazon, with its endless antennas, has been able to capture and implement.

Kindle for unlimited sfornapagine authors: you pay for the number of pages read … – FIRSTonline

Start the era of the “Pay-Per-Page” (PPP)

Since July 1, 2015 Amazon has changed the payment system for writers participating in the program Kindle Unlimited , the streaming service of the ebook managed by the giant of Seattle. Warning! This new metric does not apply to all ebook stream (for example those of the editors), but only to those of the authors self-published participating in the program that KDP Select require the exclusive transfer of rights to Amazon.

The new units for the royalty payments writers will be the number of pages read . The Previous metric and not was bound in a transparent way to cover price and left Amazon to some arbitrary in deciding the amounts to be distributed to members of the program, had been highly criticism from all community of authors Independent they had seen their revenues fall in the new service. The need to move to a more transparent and objective was a necessity deeply felt.

The consequences of $ 0.006 on page

Amazon in presenting the new payment system announced a statistics about June 2015 : subscribers read 1900000000 pages Unlimited on Kindle. Whereas the background available Kindle Unlimited is amontato to $ 11 million for the month of June, the British newspaper “ Guardian “has calculated a page read is $ 0.006 . Since there are no pages in an ebook format because it is a liquid, Amazon has developed a counting system that explained in his blog.

Taking a rather rough calculation, based on the data in June 2015, is shows that for the ‘ equivalent of the royalty of a ebook downloaded at a price of 4.99 dollars (author royalty = $ 3.493) must you read 580 pages . In the case of a price to $ 2.99 need 350 pages read to equal the revenue of a download. If it costs $ 1.99 to download the ebook pages read necessary to obtain a similar royalty would be 230.

Hard to understand the consequences of these numbers on the lives of writers who populate this service. One thing stood out instantly. Are favorite works with more pages . The writers must writing not only more , but best because it will have to convince the reader to follow the plot, the characters, the dialogues from cover or far forward as possible. In short, will conquer ‘s attention of player . not you will then water down the content , but increase it quality . And this is not bad as rightly stresses Giuseppe Granieri. If until now the ‘ goal a Writer , a little’ cynically , could be to get buy , now is really to be read in full . It is not just a distinction, and this can be a really factor spontaneous cleaning offer that moves the check from quantity to quality. Will surely change the way you write as pointed Granieri at the conclusion of his analysis.

The return of the mammoth?

winning authors on Kindle Unlimited will be those that publish long text to be read in their entirety. If we were to comment on this state of things we could say that could back models of mammoth great nineteenth-twentieth century European fiction , the great novels-masterpieces Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and our Bacchelli . It is a back you fitting with some trouble to modern mood which tends to restrict the arc time where the system is viewing experience, reading, listening or otherwise.

are However the data show that strong readers not are afraid from ‘ extension a’ work and suffice it to mention the success of authors verbose as Stieg Larsson, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon or Karl Ove Knausgård to name a few. Besides the first consumers service stream of books it is the strong readers .

There is also another aspect that Amazon will send a solution in the future. For the authors of KDP Select is still valid clause of ‘ exclusive that looks something anachronistic and in sharp contrast with the openness and democratization of new services which tend to be inclusive. There are still many things to fix on Kindle Unlimited.

* * *

A Fucecchio, a village in Tuscany halfway between Pisa and Florence, was erected a singular monument to Giuseppe Montanelli, patriot, scholar, political renaissance and great-uncle of the great journalist Indro, anche’egli native of Fucecchio. In the central square of the village, the Montanelli stands standing on a tall pillar with a bandaged right arm across your chest (to testify the wound at the Battle of Curtatone and Montanara) and title of the Constitution liberal Tuscany in the other hand. The figure leans slightly on a stack of books from the base of the figure goes up to sit. The inhabitants of Fucecchio, which by good Tuscan no lack of cynicism and taste of desecration, have dubbed this monument “cacapagine”. That this state is just what the modern writer? A state that Amazon, with its endless antennas, has been able to capture and implement.

How does the Kindle – FASTWEB – Fastweb.it (Blog)

The ebook reader is user friendly, but thanks to some tricks configuration becomes a breeze

With a wide and varied product line, consisting of devices for everyone and especially for all budgets, the Amazon Kindle is the ebook reader for excellence . Since 2007 the ‘ ereader wanted strongly by Jeff Bezos, father-master of the ecommerce giant, it has evolved both in hardware and in software: the screen E Ink has been refined and it offers a reading experience more similar to that of printed paper, while related services (unlimited books from the library in the cloud, through the ability to download free books from the Internet) have grown exponentially.

No wonder, then, if millions of readers around the world are switching from books in print to digital: beyond personal preferences, the ebook have certain advantages both from a logistic point of view (less space occupied and weight reduced to a minimum) and economic. In addition, the e-book reader such as Kindle Voyage (newest home Amazon) are also quite simple to use, understand how the Kindle is anything but complex.

Connection and configuration

The first steps to take when you buy a Kindle are two: connect to the Wi-Fi home and creating a account. Even if you had purchased a Kindle with 3G, you should use the Wi-Fi home or public place where you are because the more stable and usually faster. During the initial setup you will be asked to select your network and enter the password: if you decide to do so at a later time, simply go to Menu , select the Settings and Finally, Networks Wi-Fi . Once the configuration with the introduction of the network password, you can navigate from your Kindle.

Before you can download books, however, you will need to create a user account. Without a personal profile, it will be impossible to buy books from Amazon and store space in the cloud that the giant e-commerce offers its users. If you had already registered on Amazon, however, you can use the same credentials, so you save time. During configuration, the user will be asked to register your Kindle , to link accounts Twitter and Facebook (this step can be bypassed ) and will be presented with some explanatory pages, that will help you understand how the Kindle. You can figure out how to turn the page, to configure the backlight and access other eReader functionality.

Download books

After the initial configuration, the user He will finally be able to download the first books on its reader ebook . Amazon, of course, it will be a special showcase where to find texts of every kind: from novels to essays on geopolitics. Again, understanding how it works is very simple.

The user, in fact, can follow two paths: to buy books from the web portal with your computer or proceed to download from the Kindle. In the first case it will be necessary that the profile used for purchases is the same used in the initial configuration of Amazon eReader: Once purchased, you can download books on the Kindle by synchronizing the device. Within a few minutes the volumes should be available in your digital library. Alternatively, the user can purchase and download books directly from Kindle, saving a few seconds since there will need to synchronize your device.

From the Amazon store will also be possible to download free ebooks directly on their digital book reader. It will be sufficient to connect to the portal and choose what you want to read classic literature.

Place the font

An undoubted advantage of ebook readers than books printed is the freedom that allow the reader in the configuration of the books. You, in fact, can zoom in and out the character to your liking and, perhaps, choose a font rather than another so improve the readability of the books downloaded to your Kindle (with the Kindle Voyage, to example, was added Bookerly font, designed by Amazon for its ebook reader).

To change fonts and increase the font size you will have to press the top of the screen e-ink the Kindle icon and select Aa in the toolbar that appears. Will open a new window through which to change the configuration of the reading device and choose the one that best suits your needs.

Get the app

One of the most positive aspects of owning a Kindle is probably the ability to download books and read them on any computer device that you own. Amazon, in fact, has made an application or a program to the various existing operating platforms (Windows, OS X, iOS, Android) that will allow to continue reading even if you are not with them your ebook reader.

Just install the app or software on smartphone, tablet and computer, and log in with the credentials used during the configuration: for direct access to your library and you can resume reading from where you left it.

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If you are a user Amazon Prime and you are looking for an eBook Reader opportunity, take a look below: only you and only for the next 12 hours it will be possible to buy a Kindle Paperwhite sixth-generation (the penultimate) priced at only 89 € , with a discount of as much as 31% and a saving of € 40 on the original cost 129 euro.

Adding to that shipping is free and you can return the device for up to 30 days after they have been delivered , to test it out with comfortable then we understand that it is an offer indispensable. Here is the offer link :

With a paltry expense of less than 100 Euros, therefore you can win one of the best eBook Reader in circulation, lighter 30% compared to an iPad Mini, with a screen nti reflection , even easy to read in direct sunlight with a system of perimeter lighting that will allow you to read in the dark without straining your eyes.

Small and compact, with a screen E Ink 6 inches and 212 PPI , the Kindle Paperwhite sixth generation can ontenere up to 1000 books , but it’s the software that comes with making a difference: Paperwhite with the fact you can instantly search for the meaning of any word on Dictionary and discover its references by Wikipedia, while Cloud Collections organizes titles in custom categories , allowing then to view their collections in the whole ecosystem Kindle – on Kindle Paperwhite, tablets and smartphones.

but not over, Whispersync technology such as automatically saves and synchronizes your last page read, bookmarks and annotations on all their devices , to start again to see exactly where you last left off . Papewhite also allows you to customize the size and type of font and many other parameters of formatting text , to suit the preferences of each individual user, while thanks to the integration of Bing Translator, simply highlight a word or phrase to translate immediately in another language .

And do not forget you can access the store of Amazon, with millions of books to choose their preferred title, all without going through the computer, thanks to the presence of a Wi-Fi module.

Now all this can be yours for only 89 euro, but only if you rush!