Got me a kindle...

[ed miliband]

Been putting lots of stuff I can only find online on it:

- Simon Clarke's 'Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Crisis of the State'
- all the prole.info pamphlets (including this new 'Housing Monster' thing)
- various stuff from people like Bonanno and Fredy Perlman from that Anarchist Library site
- random stuff from libcom
- that new textbook on communization

what else do people recommend in ^ that vein?

[Koba1917]

I've had one for a bit, I enjoy it a lot. But Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=1286228011) has tons of Free/Cheap books. I downloaded a bunch of Plato, Marx and whatnot for free or 0.99!

[dodger]

Which model of Kindle did you puchase? Michel.

[ed miliband]

umm, the cheapest one I think? It was a gift...

edit: yeah, the one without the keyboard, etc.

[Ostrinski]

Yeah amazon has tons of free shit. Wish I had a kindle.

[ed miliband]

marxists.org also has lots of stuff by Marx available in PDF form so I'm grabbing that shit.

[RedAnarchist]

Feedbooks.com also has a lot of original and public domain ebooks that are mostly free, although they don't really have a lot of leftist books.

[NewLeft]

Well, if you're a pirate..

[RedAnarchist]

Well, if you're a pirate..

Yeah, I get a few ebooks from demonoid, although there tends to be a lot of rubbish books uploaded there.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

http://ebook30.com/

Has tons of books in pdf format. Includes a fair number of leftist books, more in the line of world systems theory or Hardt &Negri. Some good history stuff. With the bust of megauploads and the restriction of similar sites somewhat less is available but there's still a lot out there.

A Facebook page with links to book download sites. Not a lot of leftist content but there is some.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/essentials-for-knowledge/free-e-book-sites-with-star-rating/166438516797103



http://radicalebooks.blogspot.com/

This has some good stuff, although not really in the leftcom vein.

[NewLeft]

Yeah, I get a few ebooks from demonoid, although there tends to be a lot of rubbish books uploaded there.

I've uploaded quite a few book torrents to TPB. So check there too.

[MotherCossack]

bloody hell!!!
what!? do you lot actually like that shit?
oh no dont tell me they've caught on and everyone's got one?!
i musta missed it.....
nah!!!!NAH!!! OH NO NO NO!!
M-E N-O L-I-K-E!! [ only reason possibly acceptable is saving paper... but nahhh!]

so i've just made a load more people dislike me. whoops shit...note to self. serves you write!!!! hahaha

[coda]

The Communist Manifesto is under $2.00 US.

[dodger]

bloody hell!!!
what!? do you lot actually like that shit?
oh no dont tell me they've caught on and everyone's got one?!
i musta missed it.....
nah!!!!NAH!!! OH NO NO NO!!
M-E N-O L-I-K-E!! [ only reason possibly acceptable is saving paper... but nahhh!]

so i've just made a load more people dislike me. whoops shit...note to self. serves you write!!!! hahaha

Come on now!! Get up to speed. There is no excuse, they have come down in price, I was the last person at work to get a mobile phone. Computer, though not a dishwasher. I shall get one now, and likely as not wonder how I ever survived without one. I do believe there are user friendly services attached to uk libraries too. I will enquire. 21st century, Mother Cossack, I'll let you know how I get on with this new infernal contraption, on my return.

[Veovis]

Nothing beats paper books, but I'd like to get one just so I can read the heap of left-wing PDFs that I have piled up that I don't want to print out or read on my eye-frying laptop screen.

[ed miliband]

Nothing beats paper books, but I'd like to get one just so I can read the heap of left-wing PDFs that I have piled up that I don't want to print out or read on my eye-frying laptop screen.

Totally, I'm a book addict but I hate reading off a screen and there are so many texts online I want to read...

[MotherCossack]

With sadness i anticipate

soon all the world will think "it's Great"

"The printed word is a thing of the past

The future is coming towards us fast."

Ignored, my cries of "it wont last."


Resigned, i sit and await

my forthcoming lonely fate.

i will stand apart and see

the whole world swallowed by technology.

[RedAnarchist]

Nothing beats paper books, but I'd like to get one just so I can read the heap of left-wing PDFs that I have piled up that I don't want to print out or read on my eye-frying laptop screen.

Yeah, that's the main reason why my brother isn't going to get one - he much prefers paper.

[ernie2]

It is well worth having one of these machines it saves a lot of printing off of stuff from the net. It does take some getting used to but it is worth the effort because you can carry around a reference library with you.
Several comrades have said about downloading PDF onto kindle from my experience they are very difficult to read. It is better to download the kindle/MOBI version of books. Marxists.org has Capital and several other books by Marx in MOBI, which means there is a good table of contents etc. Sites like Internet Archive )which has lot of publications from the movement in the 10,20 and 30s in Mobi) and Guttenberg project also do most of there stuff in Kindle/MOBI.
Another tip is to save documents in HTML if you are going to put them on Kindle, it finds this formate easy to read and the formating is much better.
You can also get PDF and other documents converted into kindle format by sending them to your kindle account and writing convert in the text.
It is worth getting the Calibre software program to help organise your kindle, it also has allows you to download free (e-editions) of the main English language papers etc. Well worth getting, it is free. Another good thing to use is instapaper which is a site that has a plug-in for all the main browsers to allow you to send an article you are reading to your kindle account and thus to your kindle (remember to set up a free kindle account not the one they offer which charges you for sending things). This plug-in is great and saves a lot of time.
I think it is worth paying to down load some stuff, for example I paid about £2 for the collected works of Dickens and Hardy, but they are well laid out, good contents table and illustrations.
With kindle it is worth googling kindle forums etc because there is a lot of very useful information out there about how best to use this machine.

[Grenzer]

I've got a kindle and now I can't stand paper books. Very inconvenient in comparison to digital format, but I can still see why people would prefer the paper medium. I hope it stays with us for a long to come.

I get most of my books as free PDFs, but if there is something particularly good I will usually want a physical copy to go with it. One of the many great things about being a leftist is the amount of free literature available. Fuck that Ayn Rand shit.

[piet11111]

You guys remind me of this article i read a while ago.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384314,00.asp

But i doubt i will live to see the end of printed book releases.

[Decolonize The Left]

bloody hell!!!
what!? do you lot actually like that shit?
oh no dont tell me they've caught on and everyone's got one?!
i musta missed it.....
nah!!!!NAH!!! OH NO NO NO!!
M-E N-O L-I-K-E!! [ only reason possibly acceptable is saving paper... but nahhh!]

so i've just made a load more people dislike me. whoops shit...note to self. serves you write!!!! hahaha

No way - I agree with you entirely.

Kindle's (and all other ebooks) are worthless trash. I am personally committed to creating my own personal, actual, library of physical books. There is nothing like the smell of a book, or the feel in your hands, the broken spine, the frayed edges of the hardcover, etc...

Plus ebooks suck to read, hurt your eyes, and make you look lame. Go real books!

- August

[Comrade J]

No way - I agree with you entirely.

Kindle's (and all other ebooks) are worthless trash. I am personally committed to creating my own personal, actual, library of physical books. There is nothing like the smell of a book, or the feel in your hands, the broken spine, the frayed edges of the hardcover, etc...

Plus ebooks suck to read, hurt your eyes, and make you look lame. Go real books!

- August

I used to think this until I got a Samsung Galaxy tab and downloaded the Kindle App. I absolutely love reading and I have boxes full of books that I have no space for, but it's an expensive hobby.

However, with eBooks I can get them from pbay and have about 10 on the go at once. This is especially useful as I backpack around Europe and carrying a thousand books in a little black thing is soooo much easier! I try not to make it obvious in public if I'm reading cause I will inevitably look like a dick. They are very easy to read, automatically bookmark the last page you were on, don't hurt your eyes and... well, maybe they do look a little lame, but so what, the pros massively outweigh any cons.

[Decolonize The Left]

I used to think this until I got a Samsung Galaxy tab and downloaded the Kindle App. I absolutely love reading and I have boxes full of books that I have no space for, but it's an expensive hobby.

However, with eBooks I can get them from pbay and have about 10 on the go at once. This is especially useful as I backpack around Europe and carrying a thousand books in a little black thing is soooo much easier! I try not to make it obvious in public if I'm reading cause I will inevitably look like a dick, but the pros massively outweigh the cons.

No doubt - I'm sure ebooks are super convenient (especially in your situation). I was merely ranting emotionally about books and how much I love them.

- August

[Scarlet Fever]

No doubt - I'm sure ebooks are super convenient (especially in your situation). I was merely ranting emotionally about books and how much I love them.

- August

I've resisted an ereader for years because I love physical books and the bond that can somehow be forged with a bit of paper and glue (inexplicably), but I received a kindle as a gift recently. So, I'm continuing to buy physical copies of books that I always want before me--poetry, books I will reference, etc.--but for an average read, convenience and affordability are swaying me. It's a workable compromise.

[RedAnarchist]

I think a lot of people who have Kindles still buy paper books, even if they have the book on Kindle. I still buy paper books even though I have thousands of ebooks on an external hard drive. I research my family history and so when I go to my local records office, I can look though books that in some cases are from the 1700s and there's no way a Kindle could ever replace the feeling of reading a paper book, whether that book is an 18th century directory of people living in a Lancashire town, or a copy of a contemporary novel.

Ereaders probably won't ever replace paper books, but maybe they'll get more people reading, and that can't be a bad thing.

[ohphooey]

libcom.org/tags/pdfs has loads of interesting stuff

[TheGodlessUtopian]

The Communist Manifesto is under $2.00 US.

I think on Gutenburg you can find the communist manifesto for free...

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61

[Grenzer]

What I recommend is going to the Marxists.org archive and you can get many, many works available in PDF format. Once you've downloaded them, send an email with an attachment containing the PDF to <whatever the name of the email address is>@kindle.com Then the file will automatically be downloaded to your kindle. I'm not positive, but it should work on E-ink Kindles. I have a Kindle Fire so I couldn't say for sure whether it would work on yours.

[Ballyfornia]

I got a new kindle recently but I am having a lot of trouble connecting it to Wi Fi. Anyone else have this problem and maybe a solution?

[ed miliband]

I got a new kindle recently but I am having a lot of trouble connecting it to Wi Fi. Anyone else have this problem and maybe a solution?

i haven't even connected it yet i've got a lot of shit on there