And this is why Science Wins.
Also, I’m experimenting with Wired Science as a convenient Kindle blog subscription. I miss getting my science hits, although these days I like them to be biteable (and yet not condescending).
Dear New York Times,
Yes, we notice when your Latest News Blog has poorer image resolution than the full newspaper edition.
Let’s hope that your photo editors don’t do any more JPG bastardization than necessary in the future.
Love,
S∂
Yes, another screenshot from the New York Times Kindle newspaper. I thought this was a particularly nice picture.
I was surprised to find this in my daily New York Times Kindle subscription. Truly a far-reaching show.
Although the actual article was trifle, in my opinion. I racked the Television Without Pity review onto my Instapaper account instead (and then used Instapaper’s new feature to email the articles directly to my Kindle).
“Science Not Fiction” also has an interesting finale interview with Kevin Grazier, BSG’s science advisor.
For those who want to share their reactions to the finale, Tor.com has an entire thread devoted to it, although it’s pretty hard to navigate via the Kindle. This is what real computers are for.
Many blogs I simply read through Google Reader’s mobile interface through the Kindle’s basic web browser1.
I find that Wil Wheaton is a good place to start, especially if you’re a geek.
Because work is starting to slam me into the ground, here is a Kindle 2 screenshot for you to look at.
You can find A Water Matter for free at Tor.com, downloadable for your Kindle in Mobipocket form.
And yes, Tor.com is getting really good at formatting.
Yes. It is here.
Update! Ask and ye shall sometimes receive, if it is within my power. A PDF version is now available, with clicky links and everything. Please see Locations below.
Update #2! No one asked, but I created an LRF file for older Sony Readers that can’t read ePub files. I don’t have a Sony Reader, though, so I’m not sure how it turns out; I think the formatting might actually look different than the corresponding ePub, even though they’re all from the same source files….
Note: Remember: these are an unofficial—if legal—conversion. Both the original and these conversions are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license.
Schedule: I plan on doing the episodes as individual files, with “up to now” season compilations as a separate, updated ebook file. Eventually the individual episodes will expire (but that won’t be until season end) and there’ll just be the Season 2 Ebook.
Exciting Features:
Locations:
If you own a Kindle or other device/program that can read Mobipocket files (.MOBI):
Shadow Unit - 2x01 - Lucky Day (Kindle/Mobipocket) (153.9 KiB, 440 hits)
If you own a Sony PRS-505 or later, Adobe Digital Editions, or some other device/program that can read EPub files (.EPUB):
Shadow Unit - 2x01 - Lucky Day (Epub) (344.3 KiB, 288 hits)
If you own anything that can read a PDF file (bonus if it can deal with links in a PDF file):
Shadow Unit - 2x01 - Lucky Day (PDF) (135.5 KiB, 316 hits)
If you own an older Sony that cannot read EPub files and don’t want to use the PDF above1:
Shadow Unit - 2x01 - Lucky Day (Sony) (157.6 KiB, 278 hits)
Enjoy!
Need Season 1?
It’s currently only available for the Kindle, but can be converted via calibre for Sony. (It’s a huge file, relatively speaking, for an ebook).
Shadow Unit: Season 1: Kindle/Mobipocket (1.5 MiB, 1,513 hits)
Screenshots!
Below the cut.
For people who want a smaller version of the Kindle text-to-speech demo and comparison against an amateur reader and a professional reader (Stephen Colbert, natch) of I Am America (And So Can You!), here’s a short, merged recording of all three.
No text is repeated.
Download [Merged Readings of I Am America]
And now I’m going to concentrate on New on Kindle and some other writing, because there’s a lot to catch up on.
So Amazon is backing off text-to-speech.
I recorded this podcast before I saw the news, finishing up the first round of editing literally seconds before. But hopefully this podcast—which is fortunately now legal, because had I recorded it in the future, it would have been illegal—will still be informative for those who wonder what Kindle’s text-to-speech is like, and why you should buy audiobooks anyways.
(Note: audiobooks are not available for every book. Because it takes so much effort to make a good one. So the loss of Kindle’s text-to-speech has really screwed the pooch for those of us who can see well enough to use a Kindle’s menus and suchlike, but not well enough to read for long periods of time.)
And now, coming in at around 10 minutes, the podcast.
ETA: The book being read is Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (And So Can You!).
Kindle: Text to Speech Demo [Download]
On the current controversy about the Kindle’s text-to-speech; I twittered my thoughts about it, because stuff like this I normally twitter. Why? Because the chance for interactivity is greater, with all the fresh URLs, talking points, and so on. It’s like blogging, but people can interrupt while I’m blogging, and inspire other thoughts based from that.
On the other hand, Twitter’s archive is about as dependable as GMail running every single time you need it, so here are the tweets once more—with relevant extra links and side conversation included.
But before the tweets, this all started with:
Beneath the cut, my thoughts, in Twitter form, and also mostly ordered from oldest to newest (rather than the other way around on Twitter); tweets may be re-ordered for clarity.
Amazon’s Kindle Blog
