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    New Study Claims Piracy is Driven by Availability and Price

    I know it seems like a "well, duh" to most of us and kind of stupid to make a study to show it but I think we could actually use MORE studies like this "duh" one. There is way to much "general wisdom" by people and companies who see something a certain way and can point to being right in their...
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    Real Books Are Back: E-Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20%

    Digital? Physical? As a wise child from the lands of advertisement once said, "Why not both?" Generally, if I would get it as a paperback I get it as an e-book. This also includes new authors and small print houses that do more and more digital to get their people out there. I've gone through...
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    Big RED "Egg" Smoker $288 Prime Shipping

    The Green Egg is ceramic, the Red "Egg" is doublewalled steel. Still a good grill/smoker, especially at the price difference.
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    Reinvention of books

    Seems that something like that is being led by the smaller publishers first. Several are doing exactly that. One that comes to mind is Angry Robot press. They have deals with indie stores that when you buy the hard copy you get the ebook free. Oddly enough, they reported that when they tried it...
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    Neverwinter MMO, 100% FREE! :)

    Recovery speeds up the recycle on your encounter powers. Movement affects...well, moving. How much faster you move than normal.
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    Anti-Piracy Groups Want Google to Lift DMCA Takedown Cap

    I suppose I will be in the minority but...YES! Raise the cap from 10,000 to 40,000. They NEED to send those takedowns to prevent loss of business. The digital works of these companies are extremely valuable and those who affect them should be held accountable! Of course, I mean ALL who...
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    Reading Tablet

    I generally use Aikido and Stanza (though Stanza is a bit hard to get now since they were bought up). They work well for me because they have tintable backgrounds and good control of screen use. Even the standard Kindle program for Android and OS really isn't that bad on a tablet. Background...
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    Reading Tablet

    As for reading on a tablet, OrangeWolf is right. It is extremely dependent on the reader software. You will go through several before you find one that you like. It makes all the difference.
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    Reading Tablet

    Depending on the size of reader and what is being read (as in technical manuals with lots of pictures and graphs or just general text reading), a lot of people are using eink and tablets interchangeably now. A few years back it made a big difference but now...not so much. However this is...
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    Getting Gouged By E-Books?

    With over 2000 ebooks in my virtual library, I have no worries that any of the vendors I've bought them from will ever delete or render them unable to be read. That would be because none of them have any DRM on them. (I'm sure you've heard of those horrible, horrible scofflaws who remove the DRM...
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    eBook Readers -- Any that fit these criteria?

    Well, that's part of the use of the tools suite for Calibre. The reason they say you can only read B&N or Amazon books on their respective readers is due to DRM. With the DRM even though you paid for the book legally and like a fine upstanding member of society, you are (as they've told you)...
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    Keepass or 1Password?

    Oooorrrr you could back up a copy when you change/add info to Keepass to avoid the risk of corrupt data. In my case, USB since I don't make changes often and have a key that stores copies of all important info for emergency use. I don't have to use the USB for my on the go use since Keepass is...
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    eBook Readers -- Any that fit these criteria?

    Just making sure you knew that you weren't necessarily "locked in" to anyone's reader just because you bought it from their store. When a good sale or special comes on from Amazon, B&N or any other house at a good price it's comforting to know you can put it on any reader so you can concentrate...
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    How do you aggressively build money in Skyrim?

    First house? Had that by level 4. That and a bit extra. Riverwood. Hod. Chop wood. All day. Slowly walk you massively over-encumbered carcass to him. Sell for 5 gold a stick. After you have enough money swear you will never do that again (though it IS easy to do while also watching TV or...
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    eBook Readers -- Any that fit these criteria?

    Well..... I've been reading ebooks for a bit now (little over 1900 titles in my elibray) and will just ask a couple things. 1) what format are your existing books in? And 2) do you know about Calibre and the tools pack that goes with it?
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