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1a.: Re: ebook suggestions From: Bekah

2.: Air Display update makes iPad a Retina monitor for Mac, enables HiDP From: Bill Boulware

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1a.: Re: ebook suggestions

Posted by: "Bekah" bekah0176@sbcglobal.net bekalex

Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:12 am (PDT)

I have a Kindle 2 and an iPad2 as well as Kindle for Mac and they're all good. The iPad2 Kindle app recently took the Google and Wikipedia link out (like this week). The page numbers are on some books not on others but they weren't on any books at first. I don't think there's anything missing - I read with several reading groups and many of us use Kindles while others use regular books and no one has ever complained about that.

There is a Kindle app for the Mac which can probably be downloaded onto your laptop - it's free - just buy the books. Try it. It's at the Kindle store /Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sd_allcat_karl?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

Bekah

On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Jay Abraham wrote:

> Not sure I understand issue of page numbers. On the kindle app for the iPad, I am seeing page numbers as well as % complete and a location number. The page numbers seem to correspond to roughly what an actual book would be at as the page number doesn't always match a page forward if you have large type.
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> However this is my first book on the Kindle App and I checked it out from the library.
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> Jay
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> On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:28 PM, "N.A, Nada" <whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Rob, you make a good argument for the Kindle, and if I were to buy one
>> that would probably be the brand.
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>> I whole heartedly agree with your issue with the lack of page numbers,
>> but the issue has to with the resizing ability according to the
>> particular reader being used.
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>> If you were to look at two different editions of paper books, you
>> might also find that the page numbers don't always match, also. But if
>> e-books used some sort of convention to refer to either an arbitrary
>> page number or a paper book page number it sure would help. Even for
>> pleasure reading. I can go back to a page number, but it is awfully
>> hard to go back to "this much of a progress bar".
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>> It doesn't have to be on every screen, just every so often, say every
>> thousand words.
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2.: Air Display update makes iPad a Retina monitor for Mac, enables HiDP

Posted by: "Bill Boulware" bill.boulware@gmail.com boulware0224

Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:27 am (PDT)

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Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: Air Display update
makes iPad a Retina monitor for Mac, enables HiDPI mode via 9to5Mac by
Jordan Kahn on 3/21/12

Developer Avatron announced its "Air Display" app, which allows
iPhones, iPads and Macs to act as a second or third monitor, would be
implementing support for the 2048-by-1536 resolution of the new iPad's
264-DPI Retina display. That means you will soon be able to use your
third-generation iPad as a 2048-by-1536 computer monitor.

The update will also benefit the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S with
"dramatically better frame rates." In addition, the upcoming update
will allow you to enable HiDPI mode in Lion or Mountain Lion, a
"feature in Mac OS X that renders with double-resolution on a
double-resolution screen." The results of turning on HiDPI mode in OS X
is viewable in the image to the right. Avatron explained on its blog:

To turn on HiDPI, you just go to the Displays Preferences and select
1024×768 (HiDPI)… HiDPI has been shipping with Mac OS X for some time.
But it isn't enabled in the System Preferences, because until now there
hasn't been a mass-produced computer display with high enough
resolution to do it justice. That's where Air Display and the new iPad
come in.

Avatron noted it is waiting for "another Apple review cycle" before the
update goes live on the App Store. We will keep you updated when it
does.

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