<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: It was a very good plug</title> <atom:link href="http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/</link> <description>International development, politics, economics, and policy</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:18:53 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>By: buyclomido</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-6438</link> <dc:creator>buyclomido</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:25:04 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-6438</guid> <description>Is not spam, it is only my commercial offer. 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Free Airmail shipping for Clomid 100mg 90 tabs and save $135 on order!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Matt</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-5632</link> <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:50:55 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-5632</guid> <description>I should say, you could always use the Amazon Kindle delivery service through whispernet to get .doc or .txt files properly converted and delivered to your Kindle -- however, that costs $0.15 per MB, rounding up.If you use it, you&#039;ll get a bunch of annoying charges (45 cents here, 15 cents there) on your credit card.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I should say, you could always use the Amazon Kindle delivery service through whispernet to get .doc or .txt files properly converted and delivered to your Kindle &#8212; however, that costs $0.15 per MB, rounding up.</p><p>If you use it, you&#8217;ll get a bunch of annoying charges (45 cents here, 15 cents there) on your credit card.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Matt</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-5631</link> <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:49:16 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-5631</guid> <description>Heh, well, apparently the comments section in your blog is better able to format text than the Amazon Kindle DX!Otherwise, you would have just seen a great deal of spacing that separates text at inappropriate places which makes it unreadable.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heh, well, apparently the comments section in your blog is better able to format text than the Amazon Kindle DX!</p><p>Otherwise, you would have just seen a great deal of spacing that separates text at inappropriate places which makes it unreadable.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Matt</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-5630</link> <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:47:40 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-5630</guid> <description>I just received mine (DX) a few days ago. Not sure what you&#039;re planning on using it for, but it has been OK for reading law review articles and case law downloaded from Westlaw; I&#039;m sure it will be fine for other academic reading too.The PDF reader is &quot;experimental,&quot; but what that really means is underdeveloped. It can only display the PDFs -- it can&#039;t highlight and links don&#039;t show up as links.It does read .doc files and .txt files, which is nice; however, the conversion is terrible. I&#039;ve tried downloading articles as these formats onto the device, and while it does allow you to highlight text and click on links, the margins are all screwed up, and it screws up the spacing, so you get stuff like this:&quot;In their character as law                                                                                      of the United States, rules of international law and provisions of international agreements of                                      the United States are subject to the Bill of Rights and                                                                  other prohibitions....&quot;which drives me insane. Also, the device is supposed to read HTML documents, however, I don&#039;t think it reads any CSS (which is what, unfortunately, law articles are coded with when in HTML format.)So far, it&#039;s looked the best when I&#039;ve downloaded the articles in HTML format, then used Mobipocket Creator to convert it to something Kindle-friendly. Since this is so time-consuming, I&#039;ve just been putting PDFs on it instead.Also, the keyboard is junky. I have no idea who would write notes on this thing instead of just with a pencil and paper.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just received mine (DX) a few days ago. Not sure what you&#8217;re planning on using it for, but it has been OK for reading law review articles and case law downloaded from Westlaw; I&#8217;m sure it will be fine for other academic reading too.</p><p>The PDF reader is &#8220;experimental,&#8221; but what that really means is underdeveloped. It can only display the PDFs &#8212; it can&#8217;t highlight and links don&#8217;t show up as links.</p><p>It does read .doc files and .txt files, which is nice; however, the conversion is terrible. I&#8217;ve tried downloading articles as these formats onto the device, and while it does allow you to highlight text and click on links, the margins are all screwed up, and it screws up the spacing, so you get stuff like this:</p><p>&#8220;In their character as law                                                                                      of the United States, rules of international law and provisions of international agreements of                                      the United States are subject to the Bill of Rights and                                                                  other prohibitions&#8230;.&#8221;</p><p>which drives me insane. Also, the device is supposed to read HTML documents, however, I don&#8217;t think it reads any CSS (which is what, unfortunately, law articles are coded with when in HTML format.)</p><p>So far, it&#8217;s looked the best when I&#8217;ve downloaded the articles in HTML format, then used Mobipocket Creator to convert it to something Kindle-friendly. Since this is so time-consuming, I&#8217;ve just been putting PDFs on it instead.</p><p>Also, the keyboard is junky. I have no idea who would write notes on this thing instead of just with a pencil and paper.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: sara</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-5527</link> <dc:creator>sara</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:45:55 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-5527</guid> <description>There are other eReaders you can buy if you decide the Kindle is not what you&#039;re looking for. On the others, you&#039;re not bound by DRM, and you can even download ebooks from libraries or for free from some ebook websites. Check out www.chamberfour.com - those bloggers review the Kindle, the BE Book, and the Sony eReader. I&#039;m using the BE Book and it&#039;s pretty swell.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are other eReaders you can buy if you decide the Kindle is not what you&#8217;re looking for. On the others, you&#8217;re not bound by DRM, and you can even download ebooks from libraries or for free from some ebook websites. Check out <a href="http://www.chamberfour.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.chamberfour.com</a> &#8211; those bloggers review the Kindle, the BE Book, and the Sony eReader. I&#8217;m using the BE Book and it&#8217;s pretty swell.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Reid</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-5486</link> <dc:creator>Reid</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-5486</guid> <description>I&#039;ll be curious to hear what you think. I use one at work (scientific publishing) and I hate the thing.  It does what it&#039;s supposed to do, but every single interaction with it screams &quot;this is the very first step of digital book publishing&quot;, not to mention the DRM that&#039;s a constant reminder of why we all hated DRM.I love my digital music, and I look forward to having a good way to read book digitally, but this isn&#039;t it.  I prefer the Kindle iPhone app to the Kindle itself.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be curious to hear what you think. I use one at work (scientific publishing) and I hate the thing.  It does what it&#8217;s supposed to do, but every single interaction with it screams &#8220;this is the very first step of digital book publishing&#8221;, not to mention the DRM that&#8217;s a constant reminder of why we all hated DRM.</p><p>I love my digital music, and I look forward to having a good way to read book digitally, but this isn&#8217;t it.  I prefer the Kindle iPhone app to the Kindle itself.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Scarlett Lion</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-5483</link> <dc:creator>Scarlett Lion</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:49:28 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-5483</guid> <description>And to think, you made fun of my kindle obsession. Hmm. Interesting. Very interesting.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And to think, you made fun of my kindle obsession. Hmm. Interesting. Very interesting.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Matt</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-5478</link> <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:29:32 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-5478</guid> <description>This is pretty geeky, but I&#039;ve always been interested in getting one to make reading academic papers easier - I hate reading on computer screens and feel guilty printing out several 30 page documents every day. So when you give your full review let us know how it performs in the PDF department!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is pretty geeky, but I&#8217;ve always been interested in getting one to make reading academic papers easier &#8211; I hate reading on computer screens and feel guilty printing out several 30 page documents every day. So when you give your full review let us know how it performs in the PDF department!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Paul Gowder</title><link>http://chrisblattman.com/2009/07/27/it-was-a-very-good-plug/#comment-5477</link> <dc:creator>Paul Gowder</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:50:51 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3038#comment-5477</guid> <description>Be very, very, very careful with it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2739&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;they are much more fragile than advertised.&lt;/a&gt;  I&#039;m thinking about suing Amazon...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Be very, very, very careful with it: <a href="http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2739" rel="nofollow">they are much more fragile than advertised.</a> I&#8217;m thinking about suing Amazon&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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