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By: Open Books: Sony & Google Take On Kindle | Mormon Bloggers

Open Books: Sony & Google Take On Kindle | Mormon Bloggers — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:48:53 +0000

[...] electronic book reader is up against the Amazon Kindle. The key to the Kindle’s success is that it is paired with the largest book store in the world, [...]

By: Bruce T. Forbes

Bruce T. Forbes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:35:35 +0000

I use the Sony Reader and love it. Everyone I meet on the train everyday who uses a Kindle tells me they wish they’d bought a Sony once I show them my machine.

The Sony will do .doc, .txt, .rtf, and .PDF files I create on my own home computer – I have at my website several files of interest to the LDS E-Reading public – I am working on formatting the scriptures, and I have several historical hymnals and other items I enjoy having handy. Additionally, libraries around the country offer electronic check-out for the Sony system; something I find very, very convienent!

I have even redone my address book in .rtf so that I always have it handy in my Sony e-Reader.

By: Open Books: Sony & Google Take On Kindle | LDS Media Talk

Open Books: Sony & Google Take On Kindle | LDS Media Talk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:08:02 +0000

[...] electronic book reader is up against the Amazon Kindle. The key to the Kindle’s success is that it is paired with the largest book store in the world, [...]

By: ldsWebguy

ldsWebguy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:41:01 +0000

Eli, LDS.org does not provide any materials in Kindle format. Amazon provides a PDF file converter for the Kindle. The new Kindle DX model has a native PDF reader in the product. So you could try downloading the PDF from LDS.org, then using Amazon’s converter. For instructions on finding the PDFs on LDS.org, see http://ldsmediatalk.com/2008/10/03/what-is-a-pdf/

The Church has not tested the devices or converters to see how well they work or what problems they might create. I am not aware of any plans the Church has to produce content for the Kindle, nor am I aware of any individuals or sites that are currently converting LDS content for the Kindle and then making it available for others.

By: Eli Jones

Eli Jones — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:17:51 +0000

Hey guys. I’m newer to the Kindle but I am already impressed. I just found the Autobiography of Parley P Pratt for $1 on Amazon and several other inexpensive books. You can’t find these titles anywhere for $1. However the LDS selection is limited.

How can I load books from lds.org to my Kindle?

Also is there other places to find LDS books?

By: Ebook Search Engine

Ebook Search Engine — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:12:45 +0000

Search for ebooks by category

By: Clay Jones

Clay Jones — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 +0000

I probably won’t buy one till the price comes down, but allot has been figured out about the Kindle already.

Kindle files are actually MobiPocket files with a unique PID and and extra bit turned on. People already know how to buy content from any other Mobipocket store and put them on the Kindle.

Kindle can natively load any MobiPocket file that doesn’t have DRM (Digital Rights Management) tagged on, so all of the stuff from LDS.ORG will load.

MobiPocket has a free converter that you can use to convert PDFs, DOCs, HTML, etc etc into MobiPocket format and load it onto a Kindle.

Amazon provide free document conversion via email. You add the content as an attachment to a special email address and they respond with web link to the converted doc. You can then upload the doc to your Kindle via USB.

Amazon provides a pay for conversion that converts the doc and automatically uploads it to your Kindle for at 10 cents per.

I’m not too worried about content anymore, just that upfront price.

By: Jacob Brunson

Jacob Brunson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:31:29 +0000

$400 is kind of a lot of money. For $400, you can get a OLPC (and donate another at the same time), which has a display mode which is very good for reading text, even in direct light.

The price is such that you would have to do an incredible amount of reading before it pays for itself, which means the device is more about convenience than savings.

But without support for external file formats, I can’t say the device is extremely convenient either.

By: Jake Munson

Jake Munson — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:56:02 +0000

I’m pretty excited about this, even though I won’t buy it yet…I’ll wait until something better and cheaper comes, but I think this one will finally pave the way for a healthy e-reader industry. I hope we can get the Scriptures onto these.