this has not been brought to you by the letter K.

[erastes]

BUT you've got to love the Kindle for a pretty decent text to speech programme that doesn't sound like Stephen Hawking

and

No conversion of PDFs necessary. It doesn't read PDFs very well and nearly all of the books I have for review are in PDF format. So I'd been grubbing around the net finding conversion programmes but they were either not free, or were only free for a certain time or DIDN'T DO WHAT THEY SAID ON THE TIN or were written by Sheldon Cooper with no thought for Cheesecake Waitresses.

Then I found if you email a pdf to your Kindle it converts it!  wah hey! Did a woman design this? *runs*

Comments

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

LOLOL. That's a neat feature! Email and Kindle converts! Woot.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i know - i'm ashamed of myself for being so enthusiastic--but I am a gadget whore, I would have had a kindle and an ipad if I was still working, but not being able to afford these things makes me sad. but yes, a good gadget is a good gadget.

[ali-wilde.livejournal.com]

I use Calibre E-book manager to convert. Free down load.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

not needed! Just email your kindle account with "convert" in the subject line and it arrives in kindle form. all free!

[tinnean.livejournal.com]

If you flip from portrait to landscape, it works pretty well too.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

depends on the layout and the text of the pdf, some are ok some aren't. the conversion makes it perfect and with adjustable text.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Ooh that's a great tip! I use mine mainly to read historic texts off google books and archive.org and I've resorted to reading in landscape view which isn't ideal. I must give this a go.

I tried Calibre but it took forever and I gave up on it.

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

not sure if you want this

but here

http://librivox.org/

free audio books
they're all public domain and they like itunes better than any other player, but free!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ooooooooooooooo

thank you!