I just bought a Kindle and successfully loaded my first book onto it in Canada, using only Ubuntu. The process I used should work anywhere outside the United States. Here’s a quick summary for overseas, would-be Kindle owners.
1] Buy the Kindle. You need a shipping address in the United States where a friend or forwarding [...]
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An Ubuntu Kindle outside the US
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Considering a Kindle
I’m considering the purchase of an Amazon Kindle 2. I like reading books but books a’re big and bulky which doesn’t fit very well with my current nomadic lifestyle. I’ve spoken to a few people who recommend the Kindle.
However, I just read this. Amazon has allowed publishers to restrict whether a book can be read [...]
Simple Writing
I read a fascinating post about Amazon’s new text stats today (thanks Seth). Amazon provide some cool statistics comparing the sentence length, word complexity and even words per dollar of books.
It’s interesting to note that in Steven’s (admittedly unscientific) comparison, the more popular books have fewer words per sentence and less complex words. I’m reassured [...]
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Amazon EC2 Adds New Instances
Amazon EC2 has added two new instance types. Their standard instance has 1 virtual CPU and 1.7Gb of RAM for 10c (USD) per hour. The newly launched Large Instance has 4 virtual CPU cores (2 cores x 2 CPUs) and 7.5Gb of RAM for 40c per hour. The massive Extra Large Instance has a whopping [...]
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is a static file hosting service from Amazon. Storage costs $0.15 USD per Gb and data transfer (outgoing) costs $0.18 USD per GB up to 10TB. As an online backup solution, it would cost less than $20 / month to store 100Gb, assuming you’re not uploading / downloading more than 20% every month.
That’s [...]
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