Dear Yong Peng,
I originally did not have a Kindle reader and so signed on to Amazon's Kindle
for the PC. This allowed me to dowload books for Kindle from Amazon. Later I
aquired a kindle reader which I use to do most of my reading of books. Some I
have on my Kindle, some on my PC but they are all archived on their cloud so
that I can pull up the book to read on my PC or if I want I can pull up the
same book to read on my Kindle. I believe it works the same way for someone
residing outside the USA.

May you be well and happy and always smiling,
 
Sarah Jane




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From: frank <fcckuan@...>
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, May 8, 2012 9:37:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Pali] Re: B.Bodhi's Anguttara Nikāya coming in Sept., ebooks in
Nov/Dec

 
Dear Yong Peng,
I don't know the answer to that. Your best bet would be to contact
Amazon and inquire. All of my kindle media are free dhamma books
currently, so I haven't had an occasion to test it out. In theory, you
should be able to view all the kindle books you've purchased even if you
don't have the kindle. Amazon keeps a copy of all your purchased kindle
books on the cloud, and syncs all the bookmarks for the different kindle
apps you happen to view it on.

One important thing about AN for those of you who are considering
the ebook version, I would wait to see the preview version of the ebook
release (will be given to those customers who preorder the hard bound
edition in sept. I think) to see how they set up the table of contents
(TOC). MN (on a kindle touch) is pretty navigable. Swiping up and down
screen motions advances through chapters one at a time, which in this
case happens to a sutta. So to read any particular sutta, I believe
worst case scenario, say you want to read mn 152, you have to page
through about 5 pages of table of contents hyperlinks to get to the link
for mn 152. So for MN, the kindle book is quite usable. For SN, the
kindle version is pretty un-navigable. SN contains something like 3000+
suttas right? That's a lot of table of contents hyperlinks for each
sutta. The designers of the ebook and wisdom did not design a table of
contents to be nested or hierarchical for easy navigation. For example
if you want to jump to samyutta 56, you'll be flipping through page by
single page for what feels like hundreds of pages of TOC before you get
there.

My hope is AN they do something different for the TOC (table of
contents). If it's like SN, it will be essentially unusable. Basically
only good for reading the book serially, one page at a time. Useless as
a reference where you need to look up a particular sutta in mind. For
example, if you want to jump to one of the suttas in Anguttara nines,
you'll be flipping interminably through lots of pages of TOC before you
get a hyperlink to it.

-Frank

On 5/7/2012 1:49 AM, Ong Yong Peng wrote:
>
> Dear Frank and friends,
>
> can someone kindly explain how Kindle versions work for a person
> outside the United States and without a Kindle? I understand I can
> have Kindle reader app on iPad or even a normal computer/laptop. Thank
> you.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Pali%40yahoogroups.com>, frank wrote:
>
> I emailed them to ask about the ebook versions, and those are targeted
> for Nov./Dec. release (compared with the cloth book's Sept. release).
>
>

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