Amazon Kindle for Chess Books !?

[AdminX]

Kindle!

Chess books may never be read the same way again ...., can't wait for a price drop!

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Thanks Ted,even at this high price,it have been sold out for now
A damn attractive toy to buy in my opinion....

[AdminX]

Yeah,

Not a very big Chess Library for it yet. Here are the titles I found so far:

The Blue Book of Chess by Howard Staunton

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess by Patrick Wolff

Chess for Success: Using an Old Game to Build New Strengths in Children and Teens by Maurice Ashley

Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone by Monty Newborn and C. Lieserson

The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

Chess Strategy by Edward, 1885-1981 Lasker

Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward)

[sje]

The Kindle is burdened with too many DRM restraints. There are even fees and restrictions for loading the device with your own documents.

Wait a year or so and there will be plenty of competition offering more features, better prices, and little or no DRM.

[AdminX]

The Kindle is burdened with too many DRM restraints. There are even fees and restrictions for loading the device with your own documents.

Wait a year or so and there will be plenty of competition offering more features, better prices, and little or no DRM.

Yeah,

I thought that also, but then I came across this post by a kindle owner. He outlines alot of simple work arounds to alot of my issues. Below is a quote that deals with the "fees and restrictions " issues that you talk about.


There's also been a great deal of confusion about Amazon charging for the conversion and delivery of our own content into our own Kindles. Amazon *only* charges for wireless delivery, the conversion is 100% free. If you eMail your content to YourKindleName@kindle.com it's converted and downloaded into your Kindle for 10 cents. But if, instead, you eMail your content to YourKindleName@free.kindle.com it's converted and a link to the converted file is eMailed to your registered eMail address at NO charge. You can then download it and use your PC's USB connection to transfer the content to the Kindle.

Moreover, the FREE MobiPocket v4.2 Creator will convert many formats -- HTML, MS Word Docs, Text, and Adobe PDF into .PRC files -- nicely compressed and encrypted if you wish -- which, when transferred into the Kindle are directly readable. I have converted two large eBooks which I already had in PDF format into native Kindle format and they work perfectly -- no cost and no Amazon involvement at all. And I'm sure that quite soon there will be all sorts of free Kindle content converters popping up all over the place.

See link for his full write up:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3R24QH3CD ... 4QH3CDS83N

[sje]

But why should anyone have to resort to DRM avoidance hacks? What happens if the hacks are deactivated by the next firmware update? What do I do if one of the hacks has a virus or trojan? Why should I or anyone else give money to a company that's so in love with DRM?

Like I said, just wait a while. There will be plenty of competition and no need for DRM avoidance hackery.

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DRM: Defective By Design

[mjlef]

The Kindle is burdened with too many DRM restraints. There are even fees and restrictions for loading the device with your own documents.

Wait a year or so and there will be plenty of competition offering more features, better prices, and little or no DRM.

Well, you can easily put pdf documents on it for free using your computer. And there is a very small fee to use the "cell phone" interface to put it on wirelessly.

Mark

[Cubeman]

Quite a good idea for chess books.I remember when I use to travel around the country playing in long chess tournaments I had to have just about a suitcase dedicated to chess opening books.Or even for a 1 day rapid I would bring books for a quick brush up of what to play against my next opponent.But these days I use my notebook PC but still like the chessbook format for the ability to have words explaining the reasons for the moves.

[sje]

Well, you can easily put pdf documents on it for free using your computer. And there is a very small fee to use the "cell phone" interface to put it on wirelessly.

I have a Palm TX and I can wirelessly synchronize it for free. And that's been available for years. Why take a step backwards?

Also, regardless of the fee, why does Amazon want a copy of everything you might want to read?

Supporting DRM products only encourages their production. Count me out on this one.

[mjlef]

The Palm TX (which I own and love) has a small screen, nearly impossible to read in sunlight and runs for about 4 hours. The Kindle uses a display technology that needs no power at all to retain an image...just a tiny bit of power to change a page, so it typically can be used for a week between recharges. Plus the contrast and viewing experience is better (assuming shades of gray is good enough).