I got a Kindle Touch for Christmas. Can you read the surveying magazines on this device? I would like to get POB, Professional Surveyor and The American Surveyor on my Kindle. Anyone have any experience with this? What do I need to do to download them to the device?
Generally, the magazines for the Kindle are available only from Amazon. They list them on the site. Not all publications are avbailable in e-reader format. You can read mags on the Touch, but not having color capabilities, it's just not the same.
yeah- you have to read the scanner ads in color or its just not the same.....
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U should have got a nook.
Amazon is pretty narrow minded about opening their Kindle up to access other formats. It seems they really want you tethered to AMAZON.COM.
Barnes and Noble Nook gives you a lot of freedom about where you want to go and do what you want to do.
We gave our kid a color nook for Christmas. Schools are moving to the tablet format here. It's a brave new world.
There’s a book on how to use use all of the features of your Kindle. It’s a paperback. That struck me as funny.
Can't your read PDFs on all the Kindles? I expect all the survey rags are available in PDF.
You can read pdf's on the Kindle but the formatting is a little odd. Amazon does offer to convert files to their proprietary format for free though.
For the fun of it I converted one of my ALTA surveys to a pdf and put it in the Kindle. Yes, it works. I also put a pdf of my business card in the Kindle under the title "If I'm lost."
Same thing with the Nook. I have the Carlson Survey PDF manual on my Nook. Takes a little getting used to.
> I also put a pdf of my business card in the Kindle under the title "If I'm lost."
Not a bad idea Bruce, I have a friend who has a dad that has alzheimers and refuses to quit driving, they have to hide the keys. Recently a gas station attendant across town called the son and said your dad has been standing staring at the intersection a for a couple hours, he was lost.
No disrespect to the gentleman with Alzheimers, he is a wonderful character I love to talk to him, except he repeats a lot of stuff, if you can just nod your head and act like you just heard it he will move on with his story and eventually get it out.
One of his favorites is to declare that he was among the very first men to invade the Marshall Islands in WWII and to recount the story.
I always act like it is the first time I heard it and he believes it too, I don't really care, mostly its jsut about being friendly.
From Wiki:
In World War II, the United States, during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, invaded and occupied the islands in 1944, destroying or isolating the Japanese garrisons. The archipelago was added to the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, along with several other island groups in the South Sea.
The battle in the Marshall Islands caused irreparable damage, especially on Japanese bases. During the American bombing, the islands' population suffered from lack of food and various injuries.
U.S. attacks started in mid-1943, and caused half the Japanese garrison of 5,100 people in the atoll Mili to die from hunger by August 1945.[14] In just one month in 1944, Americans captured Kwajalein Atoll, Majuro and Enewetak, and in the next two months the rest of the Marshall Islands except Wotje, Mili, Maloelap and Jaluit.
