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liam.mccaffrey - 14/3/11 at 09:24 AM

I love the amazon kindle app on my phone, its got me back into reading in a big way.

The only thing which pisses me off is not being able to print them out. Buying a book and not having a copy on my shelf just isn't right.

Does anyone know how I can print out my legitinately prucheased kindle books, either by fair or foul means?

BenB - 14/3/11 at 09:36 AM

You can convert from the kindle format to PDF so I can't see why you can't do vice versa! Then again so far on my kindle I've only been reading the free books from places like Project Guttenberg so not sure if they start introducing DRM once you're on the pay for stuff.

Humbug - 14/3/11 at 09:46 AM

You could take a picture of each page on the Kindle with a camera, upload them to a PC then print them off

balidey - 14/3/11 at 09:48 AM

quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
Buying a book and not having a copy on my shelf just isn't right.

There is an answer for you right there..... buy a book.
I much prefer the physical book. I just hope we don't see the demise of the book, which could happen if too many people use Kindle and PDF's.

liam.mccaffrey - 14/3/11 at 09:54 AM

I can't physically carry books to some of the places where I would want to read. Ideally I want both a kindle book and the realy thing but I'm not prepared to pay twice the price. An ebook is not worth the same as a real book.

Don't get me wrong I love books, mostly technical/reference books, I have a huge collection. But sometimes you can't carry a book and I don't want to pay twice to be able to


quote:
Originally posted by balidey
quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
Buying a book and not having a copy on my shelf just isn't right.

There is an answer for you right there..... buy a book.
I much prefer the physical book. I just hope we don't see the demise of the book, which could happen if too many people use Kindle and PDF's.

hughpinder - 14/3/11 at 10:46 AM

I had some of the guttenberg books a few years ago as pdfs, initiall I thought I'd print them, but never have. Just make sure you have a decent backup system. Also you will end up with a load of A4 pages stapled together, which you are most unlikely to ever read, look untidy, and the cost of printing onto A4 sheets is probably more than actually buying a used paperback (ok I'm quite lucky as there are a couple of fairly decent used book shops nearby, but there's always ebay)

Regards
Hugh