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  1. I was recently given a copy of, " The life of General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate 1861-1953" It awakened my interest in how people such as the General became a thread that ran through the concept, institutionalised racism. Can anyone suggest any other such figures? I am not suggesting for a moment that General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate was a racist in the modern understanding of the term.  

  2. Towards the end of last year my wife and I went on a coach holiday encouraged by the brochure saying that one of the visits would be to a stately home with a very large second hand book shop adjacent to it.  We weren't disappointed because the second hand book shop was fantastic and the cafe wasn't bad either.  I found the stately home rather dark because they had to keep many of the rooms curtained to protect the fabrics. Anyway, I found a number of books to help me with my studies into what I refer to as the, Israel Palestine question so was quite satisfied. 

    I decided then that I would like to visit the book shop again in our camper because it would give us more time to search it but fool that I was I did not take its address and neither my wife.  Neither of us, I hope are going ga ga but we are unable to remember where the stately home and very large second hand book shop are because.  Our excuse is that wedid get about a fair bit last year so were looking for some hints. 

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    Things got worse when this message came up, "You have used 1% of your entitlement."

    I just opened an E-book bought from Google Plays I think and copied a paragraph that I wanted to comment on and a message appeared that said something like, “"You have used 1% of your entitlement."  This raised a couple of questions such as,

    “What is ones entitlement?”

    “Who determines the level of the entitlement?”

    “Is it possible to negate this rule and neutralise DRM?”

    The reason why I ask those questions is that I am dyslexic which might explain why when I'm reading a book and want to copy a sentence from it to my computer by the time I have moved my eyes from the book to the computer I have forgotten what I wanted to type.

    As a result I cut and paste paragraphs from either an E-Book or scan pages of a book that I have and work from those scans deleting them afterwards.

    I just attempted to copy a few lines from the opening of a book from a different vender than Google Play, "Six minutes in May" and a message came up saying, "libro.eb20.net says, You have reached your copy quota, or the publisher of this text has not enabled copying for this title." I find this totally unacceptable.

    As you might have gathered I am new to E-Books

  4. I am writing an essay on Winston Churchill and when I am reading a book looking for information between the time that I read a sentence and then attempt to type that sentence out as part of my notes on that book I have forgotten what I had read.  This may be something to do with the dyslexia that I experience.  I discovered that if I scan a page from a book and copy it onto my notes I find it much easier to work with that detail.  Obviously it is much easier if I can find a PDF or an EBook.  I recently found a Kindle book titled, "Churchill, Winston. My Early Life: The Autobiography  Kindle Edition."  Copying a page at a time onto my notes then working on it and then deleting it worked well until I attempted to copy what was an important page to me a message came up saying that I had reached the total of the amount that I was allowed to copy and I was dead in the water.

    Personally, I consider this rule a bit of a nonsense, after all it is most unlikely that anyone will ever copy a Kindle book with a view to publishing a pirate copy of the book.  I would welcome any views before I decide whether to just forget Kindle books.

  5. Looking through the Internet I found a mention of a book that Churchill was given as a child to help with his slow reading ability.  "Reading without tears". Then going through the Internet I found "Google Play Books" which appeared to hold a large number of E-Books.  I attempted to upload it and am still at it several hours later.  Has anyone got experience with "Google Play Books"?

  6. When I’m writing anything that requires study I found that as soon as I took my eyes from the book and looked at the computer screen I had forgotten what I had just read.  This might be to do with the dyslexia I experience.  I then started to scan the page I required and paste it onto m y computer to use as an aide-memoire.  I hoped that being able to load an EBook onto my computer would relieve me of that task.
    Exposing my absolute lack of EBook technology suggests to me that I don’t even need an EBook reader such as a Kindle.  However,  that depends upon the application that the EBook is built with so the question is this:  Will I be able to open whatever EBook I buy on my computer or do I require a “reader”?
    Many thanks all.  By the way the reason why I took so long to reply is that although I ticked the "notify" box I received no notifications. 

     

  7. On ‎23‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 5:37 PM, vodkafan said:

    Welcome. Firstly, congratulations on reaching eighty years of age. Only twenty more to go!

    You didn't say whether you ever read for pleasure.

    I have only tried a kindle, so I don't know about any other type of E-book readers. I do believe the kindle has the quote search facility you want, and I know you can take notes and stuff , although I never did. A kindle is an extremely worthwhile and good value device, I can vouch for that. You don't have to go for the fancy versions, the basic one has those features you mentioned. 

     

    I was able to directly google Lord Melbourne's quote, (which was about his opposition to the abolition of slavery) and lots of articles came up.

     

    "You didn't say whether you ever read for pleasure."

    Study is my primary pleasure.  At the moment I'm looking at Attlee and Churchill from 1900 to 1960 both whom are treated as near saints but were far from it.

     

    On ‎24‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 8:01 PM, BML said:

    chesilbeach

    Many thanks for your welcome and the remarkable amount of information in "What is the best e-nook reader?" Having been dragged out shopping by my dear wife this afternoon I'm shattered so its tomorrow morning before I get down to reading it but many thanks.

     

    On ‎23‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 5:37 PM, vodkafan said:

    Welcome. Firstly, congratulations on reaching eighty years of age. Only twenty more to go!

    You didn't say whether you ever read for pleasure.

    I hope this doesn't seem pompous but study is my primary pleasure.  At the moment I'm looking at Attlee and Churchill from 1900 to 1960 both whom are treated as near saints but were far from it. 

    I have only tried a kindle, so I don't know about any other type of E-book readers. I do believe the kindle has the quote search facility you want, and I know you can take notes and stuff , although I never did. A kindle is an extremely worthwhile and good value device, I can vouch for that. You don't have to go for the fancy versions, the basic one has those features you mentioned. 

    Your answer showed that I did not explain myself sufficiently.  I'm dyslexic which might be why when I'm using a book by the time I've taken my eyes off it and moved them to my computer screen I've forgotten what I had just read.  As a result I scan a page and place it onto my computer screen and work from that as an aide-memoire.  My primary interest in EBooks is that I hope to be able to avoid scanning and just load the EBook onto my computer so my question have contained a mention that its not so much the READER but the software or whatever its called that holds the content of the EBook.  I do hope that is not to confusing.  

    I was able to directly google Lord Melbourne's quote, (which was about his opposition to the abolition of slavery) and lots of articles came up.

    A final point.  Although I ticked the Notify box I only found these answers by accident so is there a fault in the system or is it me?  Many thanks all.

     

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    I can see that I was not as clear as I should have been.

    Until I really get into this EBook concept I will only be using a desktop or Laptop computer to read EBooks because when I'm studying a subject I think that I will find it easier to copy text from an EBook to the computer in order to use it as an aide-memoire.  

    Exposing my total lack of knowledge I have to say that I'm not sure that I understand when you wrote, "not sure there's a better reading only EBook reader than some of the basic kindles"  I say that because I thought that different EBooks require different EBook readers although I may be wrong.

    Now for a question regarding how to participate in this Forum.  I only found your comment by opening up the forum and I thought that if I ticked the Notify box it would happen automatically or am I doing something wrong? 

  9. I'm particularly interested in Winston Churchill at the moment in particular, "An Alternative View of Churchill" Gavin Fowells I attempted to get a copy from Amazon but for some strange reason it was unavailable when it was elsewhere.  I then attempted to obtain a Kindle copy but of course that's Amazon. That experience persuaded me that maybe I should look for the title I require in a different EBook format but I no nothing about them so I wonder if anyone could advise me what E Book system (If that's the correct term) I should go for.

    I have another question which is:  Is the Free Ebook world worth considering and if so which one and does it require a new reading system? 

  10. I recently started to study the 1945 Labour Government which led me to read whatever I could find on the leading lights within the Cabinet and discovered that there were many books about or by most of the leading lights but only one that had the name, "James Chuter Ede" after it. "LABOUR AND THE WARTIME COALITION: From the Diary of James Chuter Ede 1941-1945

    I had three questions:  1. Why it was so expensive at £40.00 and the person who was selling it replied because there aren't many of them. 

    2.  My next question was, "but why were so few books written either by Ede or others about him? My third question is, "Surely the book is out of copyright so why hasn't a reprint been produced.

    Would anyone care to comment on the above? 

  11. When I started this thread I wrote that my primary interest in E Books and Kindle is that I wanted to be able to buy a book in order to look for information within it and that I wanted to be able to cut and paste say a sentence from the book onto a Word document. The thought crossed my mind since then that EBooks or Kindle books may not have an effective “Find” facility as Word has and therefore it might be more effective were I to be able to lift the entire contend of an EBook or Kindle book and paste it onto a Word document in order to use its “Find” facility.

    As I read the very kind responses that I have had to my thread I realised that I know nothing whatsoever about EBooks or Kindle books so I wonder if there is a source that discusses questions such as.

    What are the differences between EBooks - Kindle books, their readers, cost and availability?

    What are the differences between the different readers their cost and availability?

     

    Vodkafan

    Many thanks for your welcome. You said, “You didn't say whether you ever read for pleasure.” The answer to that made me think a bit and it bought back memories of when I was eight years old in 1944 and my parents had just reclaimed me from where I had been evacuated from London. The place they took me to was a Book Shop in Oxford which we were to live above. Obviously there was no TV and the wireless was normally only switched on for the war news. Being new to the area I had yet to develop any friendships but in the evenings I had the run of the shop and found all sorts of books that I could borrow and eventually when I was older I bought some of them and the ones below I still own so I certainly read and later bought them to read again for pleasure when I was older.

    “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell was one the books that made my blood boil at the unfairness of the social system that Robert Tressell lived in and wrote about.

    Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”. A book which filled me with rage

    “Ireland her own” and “Solo Trumpet”. Tommy Jackson.

    “English Episode” was written by Charles Poulsen.

    “Of Mice and Men”. John Steinbeck.

    “Cannery Row”. John Steinbeck.

    “Grapes of Wrath”, John Steinbeck.

    “The Story of London’s Great Fire”. Walter George Bell.

    “The Call of the Wild”. Jack London.

    “To Build a Fire”. Jack London.

    “White Fang”. Jack London.

    “At the Point of the Bayonet. George Alfred Henty.

    “The Jungle”. Upton Sinclair.

    “Lanny Budd”. Upton Sinclair.

    “And Quiet Flows the Don” Michail Aleksandrovich, Sholokhov.

    "English Episode."

    “Cannery Row”. John Steinbeck.

    “Grapes of Wrath”, John Steinbeck.

    “The Story of London’s Great Fire”. Walter George Bell.

    “The Call of the Wild”. Jack London.

    “To Build a Fire”. Jack London.

    “White Fang”. Jack London.

    “The Jungle”. Upton Sinclair.

    “Lanny Budd”. Upton Sinclair.

    “And Quiet Flows the Don” Michail Aleksandrovich, Sholokhov.

    "English Episode."

    “Studs Lonigan” and “Fellow Countrymen.” James T. Farrell.

    “The “Iliad” Edited by Jeanie Lang.

    Children’s books.

    “At the Point of the Bayonet. George Alfred Henty.

    “My Friend Mr. Leakey”. J.B.S. Haldane

    “The Twisted Talisman”. Meta Shaw.

    “Bambi’s Children”. Felix Salten.

    “Pierre of Normandy.” Paul Tabori.

    “Purkess the Charcoal Burner”. Allen W. Seaby

    The book shop also carried the classics such as Dickens, Shakespeare, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wild and a number of American and Russian authors.

    When I grew up practically all the books that I bought were to study and the sort of subjects I worked in were Employment Law. Even those gave me pleasure because I was discovering new things all of the time. My recent reading was prompted by a wish to understand the terrorism that is now a part of the world so I started to study the history of Islam discovering new things about it every day so I think that I can say that I do read for pleasure but it may be a different pleasure than when I read the novels of John Steinbeck.

    Your comments on Lord Melbourne reminded me of what an interesting man he was and thank you for the information on the Kindle, that there is a Kindle version of “One’s Company. A Journey to China.” And that a kindle guidebook exists.

     

    Huggle A Muggle

    Many thanks for your welcome and all the way from North Carolina which fills me with wonder at how small the world has become. When I feel that I have developed an appreciation of the EBook-Kindle technology I will buy a reader but as they appear to go from £60.00 to closer to £300.00 although the Kindle appears to be the least expensive. I would like to be certain where I’m going because I still need to know if it’s possible to download or is it uplift and entire book and copy it to Word.

     

    Chrissy

    Many thanks for your welcome Chrissy and the information that Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Cybook etc. are all E Book readers, all pretty similar. However, I’m still a trifle confused as to whether one can read an EBook on a Kindle machine and vica versa. I will have a look at the Amazon Kindle and am amazed that the device can copy that number of books.

  12. Many thanks for that.  Not a very nice man, Melbourne.

    What I was hoping to be able to do was first to find if there is an E Book or Kindle copy of “One’s Company. A Journey to China.”  and I found that there is at least a Kindle edition

     

    Having found that a Kindle edition does exist the question is.  “Does a find facility exist within Kindle which I could use to see where it is in the book?”

  13. I am eighty years of age and my primary interest in E Books and Kindle is that when I'm writing something possible a letter to a provocative friend who has written to me in provocative terms and whom I wish to contradict I go into the Internet looking for ammunition. 

    If I find something complex that I wish to impress him with on let us say, Chinese history I can buy the book but then I have to look for information in that book in order to be able to use it in my discourse. 

    The problem with that is that between reading a sentence in a book and attempting to type it onto a Word page I normally forget what I have just read as soon as I get the Word page.  It might be something to do with the dyslexia which I am afflicted with or simply a rubbish memory.  I don't think that I'm going Ga Ga because it has always been like that.  From experience I know that when I have scanned a page from a book and pasted it onto the letter that I'm writing to my friend the memory loss disappears and I take what I find and edit it which I find very useful. 

    I have recently read “One’s Company. A Journey to China.”  Peter Fleming a rather arrogant young man who I remember quoting Lord Melbourne in this book saying something like, Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.”  I should have taken a note of where the quote was but I didn’t so now I need to see what context Fleming used that quote and although I have skimmed the book twice I can’t find it.  So, the first book I will buy if it is to be found as an Ebook or Kindle will be “One’s Company. A Journey to China.” where I hope that I will be able to a Find device if that is possible.

    So firstly.  Is it possible to access a book that way and find details?

    Secondly, where can I find something that will introduce me to the character of E Books and Kindle answering questions such as, Does it make sense to have them both.  

    Those are my primary reason for wanting to look into E Books and Kindle at the moment and I know nothing about them.

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