Sat August 23 2014
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07:22 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Been away? Fear not! Here is your chance to check out what appeared on our frontpage this week: E-Book General - News
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Thu August 21 2014
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07:24 AM by alanHd in E-Book General | News
The US book chain is marketing the device as the "first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading", based on its inclusion of pre-installed Nook apps and homescreen shortcuts. However, its screen is lower resolution than Kobo's Android-powered Arc 7HD." |
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07:03 AM by Dazrin in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs 2015 MobileRead Book Club Category Selection Options Vote We need to decide on the categories for 2015. WT Sharpe has asked for someone else to lead this charge, so I thought I would at least get us started. First up, do we want to keep the same categories as 2013/2014 for 2015? We had several suggestions in the MR 2015 Categories Discussion thread which I have summarized for the poll, more details are in the spoilers and there are links to the most descriptive post for each as well. This poll is ![]() Everyone who wants to participate in the book club should feel free to vote. Tie-breaker will the tied category with the most moderator votes. If there is still a tie WT Sharpe, in his role as benevolent (and neutral) dictator will choose and we will move on from there. Do we want to keep the same categories as 2013/2014 for 2015?
What's next you ask? We won't know for sure until the poll is over since several of the options require additional voting; but here is what should happen: I will take the lead if item B, E, or G is chosen; items A, D and F are pretty much decided so don't require additional follow-up; and someone else will be asked to take the lead if C, H or I is chosen.For item I specifically... the reason this poll is visible is so that if the last item wins we can out whoever votes for it and one of them can take the lead.
Note for option D, the version with "historical fiction" in place of "not modern fiction (year 1999 and earlier)" had much more support and was intended to be the poll, I missed that when posting the poll originally. The spoiler shows the as-intended version now. |
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Wed August 20 2014
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04:44 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for September, 2014. The nominations will run through midnight EST August 31 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. Book selection category for September is: Banned or Challenged Books In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? How Does a Book Get Selected? How Many Nominations Can I Make? How Do I Nominate a Book? How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? When is the Poll? The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.
(1) The Giver by Lois Lowry Spoiler:
(2) The Call of the Wild by Jack London Spoiler:
(3) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Spoiler:
(4) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Spoiler:
(5) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Spoiler:
(6) Rabbit Run by John Updike Spoiler:
(7) The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien Spoiler:
(8) Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Spoiler:
(9) Fanny Hill: Memoirs for a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland Spoiler:
(10) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Spoiler:
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04:43 AM by tubemonkey in E-Book General | News
To promote the launch, Amazon is giving away 10 titles for a limited time. Kindle Books with Audio Companions -- 32,000+ titles
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Tue August 19 2014
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11:18 PM by KenIsaacson in E-Book General | News
My first contact with Jerry was in 2006, when I was preparing for the launch of my debut novel, SILENT COUNSEL, and I was looking for established writers willing to blurb the book. I’d never met Jerry, but was a fan of his work. I knew that he was a member of Mystery Writers of America, and I e-mailed him cold—“One MWA member to another”—asking if he’d be willing to help out. Within a day or two, and not knowing me from Adam, he responded with a yes. A few weeks later I had my first blurb. A wonderful one, at that. I finally met Jerry at the Edgars Banquet in 2007, and though our contact through the years was casual, I would continue to run into him at conferences like Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime. The last time I saw him was at LCC in Monterey, last March, where I had the honor of moderating a panel in which he (along with Joel Goldman, Charles Rosenberg, and Sheldon Siegel) participated: “Legal Thrillers: NOT Your Father’s Perry Mason.” Jerry shared with us his encyclopedic knowledge of legal thrillers throughout the years. One recurring theme I’ve seen in the online remembrances of Jerry is how helpful he was to so many beginning writers—something that his willingness to blurb my book demonstrated to me years ago. Going through my old e-mails this morning, I found this, from him, in response to my thanks for his confidence in me: “Ken, Happy to help, as folks like Robert B. Parker and Tony Hillerman did the same for me back in the mid-80’s when I was breaking into the field. My only hope: You’ll also ‘pay it forward’ to rookies once YOU”RE established as well.” My thoughts are with his wife, Sandy Balzo, and with the rest of Jerry’s family. Jerry, I hope you are at peace. |
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Mon August 18 2014
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10:03 AM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News
Most of the details are obscured by an embargo, but we do know that it has Wifi, a microSD card slot, and a 6.8" screen. We also know that the new device is explicitly labeled as the Kobo Aura H2O on the FCC ID label. At this point it's not clear whether we are looking at a replacement for the Kobo Aura HD or an upgraded model, so we'll just have to wait for the official launch. Product listings for a sleep cover have already been discovered, so the launch will likely happen soon.
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