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WV Loyal user South Africa, Durban 290 Posts |
I saw a few on Amazon's site. Does anyone know of any good Kindle Books on Mentalism?
Vernesto
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Jon_Thompson Inner circle Darkest Cheshire 2404 Posts |
This article has information about how to read PDFs on a Kindle.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32987/how......rsion-3/ |
WV Loyal user South Africa, Durban 290 Posts |
Thanks. You can email the PDFs to your special Kindle email address, this then converts it to Kindle format, but the formatting is a bit off. I tried it with some books from Trickshop.com. Also have Calbre (free program) to convert PDFs. Same formatting problem though.
But thanks for the info. There are some Anneman books, but I want something different. Had a chuckle at this comment for this book: Mental Magic - spoon bending, mind reading, clairvoyance Comment: This book is really a lot of nonsense. I don't think it even deserves a ranking at all. Being a hypnotist, I have a good understanding of true mentalism, and bending a spoon when one can truely do it, doesn't mean *******. I was really very disappointed by this book. Maybe I'm not understanding her comments, but it seems as though she believes when it comes to bending spoons you "can truely do it".
Vernesto
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NFW Inner circle UK 1002 Posts |
WV are you saying you cant convert PDFs for the kindle then?
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WV Loyal user South Africa, Durban 290 Posts |
BTW. I added the ******* to block out what could be considered exposing.
Vernesto
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WV Loyal user South Africa, Durban 290 Posts |
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On 2012-05-31 11:59, NFW wrote: I can, but the format is off.
Vernesto
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Decomposed Eternal Order High Desert 12059 Posts |
I love my Kindle! Never thought I would when I bought it. I save mentalism, cold reading and hypnosis notes, PDFs etc. On the PDFs, I use the copy and paste function for text to Kindle. PDFs font are too tiny for my taste.
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WV Loyal user South Africa, Durban 290 Posts |
Email it to your kindle email address. eg. I used my Gmail account: willem.voigt@gmail.com. My free kindle email is then: willem.voigt@free.kindle.com
Email the PDF to the kinle one and it will be in your cloud account in a few minutes. It works for the greater part, but sometimes, especially images, will be a bit "miss formatted".
Vernesto
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Decomposed Eternal Order High Desert 12059 Posts |
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On 2012-05-31 12:08, WV wrote: Yes and you can also email text documents the same way. That is how I save the things I need to memorize for my mentalism performances. I then can just puruse them the night before to stay on top of my game.
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DavidSena New user 71 Posts |
What I tend to do is convert the pdf's to more friendlier formats such as .mobi using Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/
Sometimes certain ebooks get a little bit messed up but Calibre also allows you to use regular expressions in order to remove these anomalies. |
DT3 Inner circle Hill Valley 1920 Posts |
Yeah, you can send the PDF to your Kindle, but as mentioned above, it's a bit of a crap shoot regarding format.
As David mentioned, the best thing to do is to convert the file to .mobi. If you google "pdf to mobi converter" you will see there are several free online services to do this without the need to download a program or software. Then either plug your Kindle in and drag and drop the converted files or email them to your free kindle adress. |
maxpax Regular user Sweden 120 Posts |
Does the mail to kindle thing cost money? I looked into it a while back and I think that was the reason I didn't get into it. Then I just went "screw it" and started reading pdfs as they were. I rarely have any issue with small fonts and stuff like that. I can understand it if you have trouble reading small fonts though.
But really can't you just plug the kindle into your computer copy paste the pdf then read? That's what I do most of the time. |
WV Loyal user South Africa, Durban 290 Posts |
I've never paid for the free.kindle thing.
Vernesto
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mindmagic Inner circle London 1740 Posts |
I bought a Sony Reader because it handles "pdf reflow", which the Kindle doesn't. Even on the Sony some pdfs work much better than others. I have tried using Calibre for conversion but it tends to be hit and miss. The Calibre help pages comment that pdf is a terrible format for conversion.
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On 2012-05-31 13:22, maxpax wrote: Yeah its all free with my Kindle 3G. Anywhere and even without wireless free. Many free books on Amazon also you can read for free. Bestsellers are super pricey though, $12.99 yikes. I can go to half price book store for those and clutter the house.
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Curtis Alexander New user 74 Posts |
If you have Amazon Prime you can use the "Owner's Lending Library" where you are able to "borrow" a book for free on your Kindle (you're limited to one book per month). It's only available for selected books, but you can find a lot of the slightly more random/not well known books on magic and mentalism. So far, everyone I have checked out has been complete crap, but it doesn't hurt to try.
As for reading PDF's on the Kindle, it can be done but with varying degrees of success. The best way, in my opinion, is to hook your Kindle up to your computer through the USB and simply place the PDF's in the Kindle folder like you would if you wanted to add a regular Kindle file. This will keep them in their original PDF format, which can be hard to read on the Kindle but it is manageable when you use the zoom features. I wouldn't recommend converting a PDF to .mobi (Kindle file) because it almost never comes out well. It can be hard to read and many times you won't even be sure if you're reading things in the correct order! The ideal way to read PDF's on the go would be with an iPad or some other type of tablet, if you're lucky enough to have both a Kindle and an iPad. |
boydy Special user Ayrshire, Scotland 881 Posts |
Best way to convert PDF books and keep the formatting is to save the PDF as an HTML file and then convert that file into mobi using calibre.
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JoshLondonMagic Special user 675 Posts |
Thanks for the tip boydy. I still like my magic books in proper book form so I can see all my post it's.
Josh
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