QUOTE(MirzA @ Dec 11 2010, 05:13 PM)

Hello.

I would just like to ask:

1) Why doesn't Amazon ship Kindle to Malaysia?
2)Can we get the eBooks for the Kindle from the internet (Amazon)?
3)Are there any restricted titles? Been Looking through and am worried that I might not be able to obtain some books that i would want to read.

Sorry if these questions have been asked, but i couldn't find the desired answers.

cheers!

Heya there buddy, sure let me help.
Firstly though, im sure you may have missed the answers even in the first page of the thread since most of the questions you asked were already answered
there as well as the last few posts before this. So here goes.

1) Why doesn't Amazon ship Kindle to Malaysia?
Well the easy answer is, I dont know. Its a question that is best answered by Amazon themselves and only from the Customer Service Of Amazon.
I wouldnt know their marketing strategy and plans. Who knows why they dont ship it to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia but decides hey we can ship it to Vietnam. (they do by the way)
So for those who want what is currently the best eBook reader in the market, Kindle is the only way to go. Personally I guess is each book and ebook has distributorship and rights that can only be sold to
a certain country because of copyright laws and similar things on the country or region which is the reason why they decide, naah they will send Physical books but not ebooks over.

2)Can we get the eBooks for the Kindle from the internet (Amazon)?
Err yes but of course, thats the very reason you would choose Kindle now would it instead of other eBook readers like Kobo, Nook, Iriver and Ah Yam ereader. Kindle has specific access to the Amazon
bookstore and hence access to the titles. Bonus point would be how light and how long Kindle's battery last and the extra ability to read other ebook formats like .pdf and .mobi.
How to do it ? Well easy, its just a matter of research.

3)Are there any restricted titles? Been Looking through and am worried that I might not be able to obtain some books that i would want to read.
In short that would defeat the reason why folks here buy the Kindle now would it ? Kindle however restricts the IP that downloads the ebooks must come from countries where Kindles can be shipped to.
Its really a simple matter of later to let Amazon know that youre technically in the US. I have personally purchased and paid for 35 ebooks and 20 free ebooks from Amazon myself.

Some titles are really restricted to countries because again of distribution and copyright issues. Ken Folliets ebook the Pillars Of The Earth, can be found in UK Kindle's store but if you try to download it
from the US you will get an error as it will not allow you to since the book has yet to get distribution in the US. I have it in my Kindle. So its not really a problem. There's space in the Kindle for 33000 ebooks,
there's always a way to get the ebooks on it.

Maybe do this MirzA, you mentioned you read through the thread, I personally think there's a wealth of information to look at if you actually did. Another source would be the LYN Book Club where you will
find a sizeable group of folks already happily using the Kindle. From my Bulk alone, you'd see there's at least 25 happy campers

This post has been edited by havocx: Dec 12 2010, 12:14 AM

Hi I've wanted to ask how will the books with colored pictures being displayed by the Kindle? One of the book I can think of is "The Digital Photography Book" which is colored and available in kindle version as well.

It would be sweet if you could display some samples of it cause I'm on the edge of getting one soon =)

QUOTE(Moonflown @ Dec 12 2010, 02:03 AM)

Hi I've wanted to ask how will the books with colored pictures being displayed by the Kindle? One of the book I can think of is "The Digital Photography Book" which is colored and available in kindle version as well.

It would be sweet if you could display some samples of it cause I'm on the edge of getting one soon =)

Sure buddy, am gonna go a little futher even by providing you some actual sample books that I have.
Remember that Kindle may however only display pictures in 8 bit Black and White but with all details intact.

Pictures 1 - Tolkien Screesaver on my Kindle.
Pictures 2 - 5 are photo's from Travel Hong Kong an ebook I got when I was on Business Trip to Hong Kong.
Picture 6 is a comparison of the same page using an iPad vs Kindle.
Picture 7 - 9 are the sample pictures from your Digital Photography book, i got the ebook sample.



My personal feel and looking at the same pictures on my iPad, for Picture specific iPad would win of course but reading the articles was also kinda difficult to me with the screen glare. Reading full stop will be Kindle. It doesnt do so well with pictures. The good thing though is that if you have the Kindle, then iPad or Iphone, you can do the reading via Kindle and from the iPhone and iPad Kindle app to look at the pictures in more detail if needed.

Some folks may not even need the physical Kindle too, just would suffice with the Kindle app. I found the glare and battery life on my Apple devices not comfortable for my reading unfortunately.

Hope this helps!

Wow really appreciate your effort and you even manage to get the exact picture of the book I'm looking for!

It looks pretty OK to me, thanks a lot for your time and effort and I will certainly let you know if I want one =D

Btw have you tried using whispersync?

This post has been edited by Moonflown: Dec 12 2010, 03:47 PM

QUOTE(Moonflown @ Dec 12 2010, 11:58 AM)

Wow really appreciate your effort and you even manage to get the exact picture of the book I'm looking for!

It looks pretty OK to me, thanks a lot for your time and effort and I will certainly let you know if I want one =D

Btw have you tried using whispersync?

Sure buddy, no worries, let me know if youre interested, ill let you know and put you in my Bulk 5 interested list.
Dont worry no deposits and payments yet, until BULK 4 is completed.

Whispersync ? There's no reason to. Kindle directly syncs to your Amazon account. You will only want to use whispersync if you would want Kindle to help convert an ebook format it cannot read to one that it can.
But there's already so many free apps online that can do that for you. You dont have to wait a delayed one day or a few hours to get it into your Kindle.
You could convert it and then using USB copy and paste the new converted ebook into your Kindle
Easy peasy.

The reason I wanna use whispersync is because I plan to read some on PC and I heard it will continue where u left off even if I switch to Kindle. Do PM me the price for Kindle along with leather case. I hope I'll get a good price on the leader case >"<

QUOTE(Moonflown @ Dec 12 2010, 08:06 PM)

The reason I wanna use whispersync is because I plan to read some on PC and I heard it will continue where u left off even if I switch to Kindle. Do PM me the price for Kindle along with leather case. I hope I'll get a good price on the leader case >"<

Ah that, my bad.
Yes sure! Actually if you see in the post before where you asked on the Digital Photography book, the sample of the writeup with pictures on Hong Kong, that IS whispersync in action.
Gadgets I have are :

2 x Kindle
Iphone 4G
Ipad
Iphone 3GS

All these items are registered to one account. Its also the maximum registration of devices that can carry per user account. This means that if im reading an ebook on the iphone, I stop and then take out the Kindle, whispersync it,
it will show the current page where I was. So will all the other devices if you sync it.
What if 2 devices are reading different things ? Say Im reading on Hong Kong on my Ipad and wife is reading Canada on her Iphone 3GS.
No biggie, if i then take the Kindle out, it will show the last page where im reading on the Ipad of Hong Kong and wife on Canada on the Iphone 3GS if I sync it
Similarly, if wife then decided to sync her Iphone 3GS, she will find the last page where im reading on Hong Kong.

Not really confusing, key word is when we sync.

Hope that helps!

Moonflown, would you mind asking the queries via the thread ? Itll help with similar questions other folks may have as well. I mean so I dont have to repeat the queries You understand right, if i reply all queries via PM, i may have to repeat it over and over

Can you also later paste your query on the thread all the same ? Ill reply your query here too and paste the answer on the main thread later.

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Answer from bro havocx

Nope, havent tried.
Reason : Dont have a reason to. Amazon Kindle takes PDF files directly without the need for conversion. Unless of course you somehow want to convert .PDF to .mobi. Ill need to try that out and report back. But really, Kindle has a capacity of 3GB free space for MP3 and other ebook files. PDF files display as how it is, only in black or white.

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Yea I know but some pdf are way too small to be viewed with pdf format directly without conversion. They need zooming and scrolling around =)

QUOTE(Moonflown @ Dec 13 2010, 11:24 AM)

Moonflown, would you mind asking the queries via the thread ? Itll help with similar questions other folks may have as well. I mean so I dont have to repeat the queries  You understand right, if i reply all queries via PM, i may have to repeat it over and over 

Can you also later paste your query on the thread all the same ? Ill reply your query here too and paste the answer on the main thread later.

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Answer from bro havocx

Nope, havent tried.
Reason : Dont have a reason to. Amazon Kindle takes PDF files directly without the need for conversion. Unless of course you somehow want to convert .PDF to .mobi. Ill need to try that out and report back. But really, Kindle has a capacity of 3GB free space for MP3 and other ebook files. PDF files display as how it is, only in black or white.

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Yea I know but some pdf are way too small to be viewed with pdf format directly without conversion. They need zooming and scrolling around =)

Heh Moonflown,
You only added the answer but not the query, now folks dont know the question. Haha the question for the above is
Hi I wanted to ask have you tried using Amazon conversion of PDF files? I have a lot of e-books in pdf formats and some of it are as large as 55MB. I wonder is it possible to convert and read it page by page in Kindle rather than scrolling around

Answer is above.

To your 2nd question :
Hmm cant say I have the chance yet perhaps, maybe you can send me a sample PDF, ill upload it to mine and capture the picture out from it. That way, we'll both know. You have email address, send the PDF there and ill work it out

Sorry my bad =P, I'll send the thing to you now, thanks a lot.

QUOTE(Moonflown @ Dec 13 2010, 02:51 PM)

Sorry my bad =P, I'll send the thing to you now, thanks a lot.

Hey hey, no worries, sorry for the delay with the reply, work caught up with me. So here goes.
Im gonna give you the example of first of what happens if you copy a book that you have legally bought from Amazon into a Kindle that has an account that didnt purchase the book in the first place.

Remember I purchased Travel To Hong Kong ? My Kindle is on the right vs colleagues Kindle on the left.
Copied all the files from my Kindle into the other Kindle, the error will show as Picture 2. Amazon ensures that books you have rightfully purchased cannot be shared with other Kindles. Unless of course the other Kindle is also registered to your account.



Your sample book, Pic 3-8 copied it in directly as PDF
Pic 3 shows how it displays by default from the 55mb file. It may be a little too small for your eyes.
Pic 4 shows me increasing the size of the PDF.
Pic 5 shows the same pic like pic 3 but a focus area.
Pic 6 shows the 150% increase in the focus but this is where you found it troublesome to scroll around
Pic 7 shows an alternative i did. Instead of increasing focus, i just changed orientation.
Pic 8 shows the alternate orientation with the fonts being nice and big. This way the left or right button are the only buttons you need to use to turn the pages, nice and easy. And dont worry not all PDF files get small fonts, it depends on how the originals were.
Pic 9 shows the PDF file converted to .mobi, .prc. Horrible and cant be enlarged. Easier to just paste the PDF in.



Hope the answers help!

I have loads of eReader books (.pdb format) and Mobipocket books (.mobi and .prc fomats). Unfortunately, these are protected because it uses the device PID.

My questions are:-
1. Can Palm Books in .pdb formats be converted to Kindle Compatible books at all? if so, how?
2. I know that Kindle can read .mobi and .prc books, but how do I get it to open on the Kindle - or is it possible to find out the Kindle 3's PID?

I actually tried the old site but the Kindle 3 PID has an asterisks in it which does not register on the Mobipocket site - basicaly doesn't bloody worklah!

Oh great Kindle Grandmaster! Hope you can help little grasshopper here.

Cheers!

QUOTE(MacJazz @ Dec 16 2010, 02:44 PM)

I have loads of eReader books (.pdb format) and Mobipocket books (.mobi and .prc fomats).  Unfortunately, these are protected because it uses the device PID.

My questions are:-
1. Can Palm Books in .pdb formats be converted to Kindle Compatible books at all? if so, how?
2. I know that Kindle can read .mobi and .prc books, but how do I get it to open on the Kindle - or is it possible to find out the Kindle 3's PID?

I actually tried the old site but the Kindle 3 PID has an asterisks in it which does not register on the Mobipocket site - basicaly doesn't bloody worklah!

Oh great Kindle Grandmaster! Hope you can help little grasshopper here.

Cheers!

Oy lil grasshopper, am no Grand Master. Am also still learning in this great vast world of ebooks.
So here goes.
These are some sample books in question I have to test it out.



Copied all of them into the Kindle, youll also notice that I did a conversion to the .pdb file. Please ignore the book names, haha they are just random ones I scored of the net.
To your queries :

1. Yes they possibly can. However not all comes with excellent results as you will see in the pictures below.
I used the Auto Kindle Ebook Converter, best one so far but that also depends on the quality of the .pdb book you have.
2. This really is a no brainer. .mobi and .prc files copy straight into the documents folder of your Kindle and youre golden, they read beautifully

Pic 1 - Dermamobi Book.prc shows in Kindle as ABC Converter
Pic 2 shows that for some PDB's you get messy results of conversion. Unfortunately for this one it was converted from .pdb to .html to .prc
Pic 3 is a pure .prc book that's copied inside and opened, which is the Wits and Beaux of Society


In conclusion simply, .prc and .mobi files can be copied in directly without conversion and itll show and display in the Kindle.
.pdb files will need to go through conversion although it may not all be successful.
Hope that helped!

This post has been edited by havocx: Dec 17 2010, 03:27 AM

Hello Havocx/All kindle 3 holders,

I am interested .

Meanwhile, I have few more questions(sorry if it already answered in other pages, but I am still blur about it):

1. How do you purchase kindle books? Buy gift card way? or you own a US credit card? Any step by step guide
2. Why would you need to use calibre since kindle 3 supports pdf natively?
3. Can you provide the link to the see the Official Kindle Leather Covers? I need to select my cover too.

Thanks a lot for your help.

QUOTE(biscuitrice @ Dec 17 2010, 12:42 PM)

Hello Havocx/All kindle 3 holders,

I am interested .

Meanwhile, I have few more questions(sorry if it already answered in other pages, but I am still blur about it):

1. How do you purchase kindle books? Buy gift card way? or you own a US credit card? Any step by step guide
2. Why would you need to use calibre since kindle 3 supports pdf natively?
3. Can you provide the link to the see the Official Kindle Leather Covers? I need to select my cover too.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Thanks for asking your query here buddy, so here goes :


1. How do you purchase kindle books? Buy gift card way? or you own a US credit card? Any step by step guide
Using our normal Credit Card. It doesnt matter that you dont have a US billing address, as long as the billing address is valid.
Youre recommended to have a US based address though. Or you can do it like how some of the other forummers do it, using a Malaysian based Credit Card you purchase the Amazon
Gift Card. From there youre golden.

I do have my own US based Credit Card but because of the loopholes ill have to go to making payments to it, I would usually just use my Malaysian based Credit Card.
Step by Step ? Easy.
Register your Malaysian based Credit Card on Amazon.
Put your Malaysian based billing address.
Make sure you also have a US address.
Purchase your books!


2. Why would you need to use calibre since kindle 3 supports pdf natively?
I dont ?
Never mentioned I used Calibre. Dont actually know what youre speaking of ? Perhaps you were reading the guide for Kindle 2 ?
Kindle 2 does not natively support pdf hence the workaround. For Kindle 3 its just a copy and paste.
Never used or know of Calibre too.


3. Can you provide the link to the see the Official Kindle Leather Covers? I need to select my cover too.
Here's the link. Amazon Kindle Covers.
You get to choose your colours too from here. I really recommend the original covers simply because they fit the Kindle and I know the exact size they come in.

A little unfortunate lesson I learnt about Volumetric weight. In one of the orders, it looks like there is one Decal for the Kindle, its pretty light probably a few grams. Maybe less than 150grams in weight.
Amazon packaged it in such a way that it was packed big, as in wide. Measurements were 18" x 7 " x 7".
Divided by 305 which is the standard measurement DHL uses gets you 2.98KGs! Ouch !

So although its only 150grams in dead weight, for shipping its counted as 2kgs!

So in short, yes there are also Belkins, Roocases and a few others also competing on the Amazon market to be a Kindle Case.
They may seem cheaper by USD 7 - USD 13 but really how they are packaged makes it non worthwhile since they will be packed big unlike the Official Kindle Case.
If youre in the US they are cheaper but to ship them over, might as well go for the Original Kindle Case.

Thank you for the clarifying! Very much appreciated!

Step by Step ? Easy.
Register your Malaysian based Credit Card on Amazon.
Put your Malaysian based billing address.
Make sure you also have a US address. ->> Why would I need the US address? since I can use Malaysia credit card?
Purchase your books!

However, I am still unclear about the purchasing kindle book. You brought up that we can use Malaysia credit card, I thought Amazon will not allow us to purchase if we using local CC instead US CC. A lot tutorial used VPN as well? Do you use it?

Thanks again!!!

Amazon uses 2 ways of determining your location. Payment method is not one of them.
Thats the reason why there's no problem even if you use a Malaysian bases credit card, US based Credit Card or even one of those Postpaid Credit Cards.

First location method is the mailing address. This is to ensure that youre residing in the US.
Second one is more discreet and may hit you sometimes but rarely. This is via your IP address that youre giving out to see if youre in the US.

Reason for this location detection.
Some books on Amazon has restricted copyright distribution ie the book may only be sold in the US and Japan but not UK and Russia (for instance).
Amazon will then need someway to determine if the person receiving the book is in the countries it can be sold to or otherwise.
First choice is off course always your address hence the need for the US based address.
Remember again, payment method does not even need for you to have a US based address or US based Credit Card.

Its a little tricky when it comes to ebooks. More often than not Amazon just relies on the US based address. Politically sentitive materials for instance however may
go through a little more scrutiny, they will want to make sure the IP address buying them is from the US.
Of course with that, you can always use the various methods available to show that your IP is from the US.

I have a US based IP that I can use at home.
In the office my company transmit a US based IP so I can purchase books easily without going through IP loopholes.

havoc then what would you suggest for users without US IP?

QUOTE(jimmy_none @ Dec 17 2010, 07:39 PM)

havoc then what would you suggest for users without US IP?

Tell you what, let me know once you come across problems purchasing ebooks via Amazon because of IP limitation, I'll pass you the links and software that I use. I don't foresee this being a big problem for Kindle users but for those who has it and has gotten their Kindle via my bulk, just let me know and I'll definitely help ya out via PM

From the various blogs I've read, even if you use a Malaysian IP to purchase your gift cards or your e-books, Amazon will just ask you to confirm your address. Then you confirm as US. That's it. It's more of an annoyance.

If it ever becomes worse than that, you can always take precautions by using Hotspot Shield. Look it up. There will be annoyances and problems, but I haven't come across anyone who had to throw away their Kindle because of the Malaysia limitation issue.