"A plea for more products on Kindle" Topic

After my move from the US to Turkey forced me to part with about 150 books (including most of my Osprey Collection) I bought a Android Tablet and got Kindle with it, so that I would never need to part with my books ever again.

In these 5 months I have bought and read more military history than in a year. Many books, including rulebooks I would never buy before, are now happily resting in my android in pdf or kindle form.

I know it is not the best (the real book is better), and I know that it raises grave issues of piracy and corporatism. But please, do consider uploading your stuff.

With Respect
KTravlos

I prefer PDF as the format is better and I always have the option of printing. Kindle format doesn't allow printing and no colour pictures.

The Calibre software provides format conversion functions. I have used it to put a number of works on my Kindle that are not otherwise available in Kindle format.

calibre-ebook.com

It's free too!

I have kindle books and rules with colour pictures. Although they are B&W on my Kindle (I have a old kindle) they are colour on my iPad and PC.

Calibre will not work with DRM books unless you add a plugin though.

How does buying legitimate copies for Kindle promote raise grave issues of piracy? That is an illogical statement?

Corporatism? ? Corporations provide a lot of great products that keep us alive and living well. And Osprey is hardly Microsoft…

And a lot of Microsoft software doesn't work on my MAC. Choices have (good and bad) consequences.

I own a nook and I just have to choose wisely what I buy for it when I am shopping online.

PDF is my selection of choice for rules I won't use much or only buy for research into different mechanism for my gaming, which I store on my MAC and back up in Dropbox (plus DVD for frequently used rules.

I still like hardcopy in my messenger bag for when I travel. I am a printer's son and books rules.

Kindle fire shows color pictures just fine. PDFs are not a problem. You do have a pretty good choice out there. I think even Warlord Games has started putting there rules in PDF format. They also have Bolt Action in PDF.

"How does buying legitimate copies for Kindle promote raise grave issues of piracy? That is an illogical statement?"

A bit clam has never done a person wrong. There are programs to strip the DRM from a Kindle version of a document, which then permits you to turn it into a pdf. Some people then put those pdfs on torrents. You could claim one could do that with scanner, but the danger remains.

On Corporatism, while I have no issue with it, others do. Just because I gain from it, it does not shoo away that fact that some people are losing their livelihood because of these changes, and indeed at ages in which just changing a career is not that simple.You probably know that better than me.

I have nearly all the bolt action books on my Kindle, and got them cheaper, in verious sales, than they are now. Although I would say they are best read on my iPad.

On Corporatism, while I have no issue with it, others do. Just because I gain from it, it does not shoo away that fact that some people are losing their livelihood because of these changes, and indeed at ages in which just changing a career is not that simple.You probably know that better than me.

Yassou,
I almost hesitate to ask, and probably will regret it, but just what is your definition of "corporatism"?

the increasing centralization of production or distribution of goods in the hands of a very small number of corporations.

Let us not expand on this on a site on toy soldiers and war-gaming. Already I have crossed the line.