Re: "New Kindle Fire Review"

>....and, mentioned on the main page that it's the Webmaster's review, not
Project Gutenberg's review.
  -- Greg

You still have the problem Greg that the content of the review is not
truthful.  I download books directly from my Kindle Fire to my Kindle Fire
all the time, directly from the PG site.  It can be done and it is being
done.  Not as well as on previous Kindles, however.  I wouldn't call it
"locked down." I would simply call it "not a particularly competent software
implementation."  In contrast B&N products used to make it impossible to
download directly from PG, but now at least their tablet makes it pretty
clean and easy.  One can still "trivially" move content to the Kindle Fire
using the "Send to Kindle" application, which is actually very convenient.
When I'm doing book dev for example, when I come to a good stopping point, I
save my changes, hit "Send to Kindle" and then go check out my process on my
Kindle Fire.  In summary, his hysteria is based on him not knowing how to
use the product.  I also don't get any ads, because I made the choice, which
was mine to make, that I didn't want to get any ads. He chose to get the
ads, and is now throwing a fit about it.

Now mind you, if I had to try to write a sausage-maker app that took all the
html crap that volunteers throw at it, and try to grind that all down to the
narrow subset of html that Mobi7 actually supports, I would be throwing fits
too. Mobi8 ain't too bad by comparison -- Mobi7 sucks.  And again, Google is
itself doing some very bad things in the world of "risen to the public
domain books" -- restricting their distribution by licensing agreement among
colleges.  And Apple in turn is well-known for its "lock you in"
monopolistic practices.

 So: buyer beware, and watch out for the fanatics aka "fans" of one or the
other companies.








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