HOW TO: Read Any Book You Want On Your Kindle

There are a bunch of e-readers out there to choose from. But once you do choose one, you're usually stuck using that device's online bookstore.

That's where this nifty app from Hamster comes in. It can convert any text file or e-book format to play nice with your device.

It works with PDFs, Kindle Books, ePub books, you name it. All you do is drag and drop the files you want to covert, select your device, and you're all set.

Hamster's eBook Converter is a free download here. Sorry, Windows only.

Check out Hamster's video tutorial below:

HAMSTER Free eBook Converter from Hamster Soft on Vimeo.

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Amazon: The Book Industry “In a Box”?

While most thought the biggest news out of Amazon’s e-book business this week was the revelation that e-books now eclipse print books, it was actually the launch of the company’s second genre imprint in the span of two weeks (and fifth imprint overall) that’s the bigger deal.

Amazon: The Book Industry “In a Box”?

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Amazon's Kindle Book Sales Bigger Than Print Book Sales (AMZN)

Amazon just announced sales of Kindle books are bigger than print book sales on Amazon.com.

Quite the milestone for Amazon.

Here's the release:

Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, less than four years after introducing Kindle books, Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books -- hardcover and paperback -- combined.

"Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly -- we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years," said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com. "In addition, we're excited by the response to Kindle with Special Offers for only $114, which has quickly become the bestselling member of the Kindle family. We continue to receive positive comments from customers on the low $114 price and the money-saving special offers. We're grateful to our customers for continuing to make Kindle the bestselling e-reader in the world and the Kindle Store the most popular e-bookstore in the world."

Recent milestones for Kindle include:

-- Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. This includes sales of hardcover and paperback books by Amazon where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the number even higher.

-- So far in 2011, the tremendous growth of Kindle book sales, combined with the continued growth in Amazon's print book sales, have resulted in the fastest year-over-year growth rate for Amazon's U.S. books business, in both units and dollars, in over 10 years. This includes books in all formats, print and digital. Free books are excluded in the calculation of growth rates.

-- In the five weeks since its introduction, Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family in the U.S.

-- Amazon sold more than 3x as many Kindle books so far in 2011 as it did during the same period in 2010.

-- Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as hardcover sales continue to grow. Since April 1, Amazon.co.uk customers are purchasing Kindle books over hardcover books at a rate of more than 2 to 1.

Kindle offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read. The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 950,000 books, including New Releases and 109 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 790,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 69 New York Times Best Sellers. Millions of free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle devices. More than 175,000 books have been added to the Kindle Store in just the last 5 months.

All Kindle Books let you "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" -- on all generation Kindles, as well as on the largest number of devices and platforms, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android-based devices, and soon HP TouchPads and BlackBerry PlayBooks. Amazon's Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon, where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

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Another OpenStreetMap Book Review

Oliver O’Brien reviews OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World by Frederik Ramm, Jochen Topf and Steve Chilton. “The book succeeds in simultaneously being OpenStreetMap for Dummies, OpenStreetMap: The Missing Manual and the O’Reilly OpenStreetMap book — that is to say, complete beginners, intermediate users and enthusiasts/hackers will all get something out of the book. If you are at all interested in the OpenStreetMap project, even if you don’t intend to contribute to the project but are just curious about what it is or what you can do with it, then I recommend this book. It’s as near-perfect as any book can be about one of the web’s, and the geospatial community’s, most exciting projects.” Via @steev8.

Previously: OpenStreetMap Manual Reviewed.

• Buy OpenStreetMap at Amazon.com (Canada, UK)

Another OpenStreetMap Book Review first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on February 21, 2011. Copyright © 2011 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

Another OpenStreetMap Book Review

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Book80 after death

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You Can Now Gift Anyone With An E-mail Address A Kindle Book

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, retailers are clamoring to publicize their sales, deals and more. Amazon issued a release today that customers can now give any of the 725,000 Kindle books to anyone with an email address. So a recipient doesn't need a Kindle to even receive an e-book. The normally data shy Amazon also revealed that the Kindle is the most gifted item in the company's history, and that "millions" of people are using the Kindle or Kindle apps to read books. Of course, those without a Kindle can read their e-books on the Kindle App for the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices. Gifters can choose a book in the Kindle Store, and send give the e-book as a gift by simply inserting the recipient's email address. Recipients can redeem the gift in the Kindle Store to read on any Kindle or free Kindle app.

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Bennett's OpenStreetMap Book Reviewed

On GIS Lounge, Caitlin has a review of Jonathan Bennett’s OpenStreetMap: Be Your Own Cartographer, which she calls “an excellent reference volume for anyone wanting to become involved with this wiki-style geographic data collection project.”

A Book Roundup

A brief review of Rachel Hewitt’s history of the Ordnance Survey, Map of a Nation (previously) from the Financial Times. Via All Points Blog.

Making Maps reports that Denis Wood’s Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas (previously) is now out, and has some sample images.

James Fee reviews Map Scripting 101 by Adam DuVander (previously). “I was totally turned off by the use of the open source Mapstraction library. But what do you know … I’m a total convert now for beginners looking to get started in web mapping. […] [I]t is clear that Adam is a great writer who is excited about technology and it shows. The book is very accessible for beginners and even intermediates who might want to get more familiar with Mapstraction. Adam should be very proud of his book as I think he’s done a superb job on it.”

• Buy Everything Sings at Amazon.com
• Buy Map of a Nation at Amazon.co.uk
• Buy Map Scripting 101 at Amazon.com (Canada, UK)

A Book Roundup first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on November 1, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

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Book Review: Map Scripting 101

Yesterday, James Fee shared his enthousiasm for Adam Duvander's "Map Scripting 101" book about web mapping.

From the review: "Adam starts off with some simple maps built on a couple APIs, but quickly gets into how you can use Mapstraction to simplify it. Once he gets beyond the intro to creating maps with these APIs, he gets into some samples that should get the attention of those who this book was written for. [...] Adam also got into some of the formats that are important to web mappers; GeoRSS, GeoJSON, KML and even threw in a MySQL example. [...] The one thing about the whole book though is that it is clear that Adam is a great writer who is excited about technology and it shows. The book is very accessible for beginners and even intermediates who might want to get more familiar with Mapstraction."

We already linked to the review of the same book by Geoweb Guru.

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Slashgeo: Book Review: Map Scripting 101

Yesterday, James Fee shared his enthousiasm for Adam Duvander's "Map Scripting 101" book about web mapping.

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The Radar: Singapore's Dim Sum Dollies, Get Married Maya Style, Phone Book Shed

• Musical cabaret trio the Dim Sum Dollies sing about how to "love your ride" on Singapore's public transit system, the MRT, in the video above.

• Get married Maya-style at Mexico's Playa del Carmen on the Yucatán Peninsula. Maya shamans conduct the authentic ceremony in the Maya language as bride and groom exchange the symbolic gifts of corn and cacao. Ceremonies incorporate pre-Hispanic music and can be held in a chapel, on the beach, or near Mayan ruins.

• Architecture students at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia constructed a shed made of recycled phone books. The laminated phone books that constitute the roof help weatherproof the structure that's also something of a time capsule, preserving the names and numbers of those listed in the building-block phone books. [neatorama]

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TripTrace: A Place Book For Where You’ve Been And Where You’re Going

Back in August, we got word that a startup called PlaceBook was being bullied by Facebook into changing their name. Obviously, a lot of companies are trying to ride on the coattails of Facebook now given the social network's massive success, but in the case of PlaceBook, their name really just perfectly describes their service — more on that in a second. Still, Facebook lawyered up and PlaceBook founder Michael Rubin had to make a decision: fight or survive. He chose the latter. PlaceBook is now known as TripTrace. Still in private beta, it's a service that allows you to note places around the world you've been to. And places you'd like to go to in the future. All of this is done in two books (dare I call them "Place Books"?): your Atlas (places you've been), and your Travel (places you want to go). There's a heavy emphasis on maps in these books, and all of your places are marked by pins (red for where you've been, blue for where you're going).

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