After looking over the DIY bubble wand options that are available online, I had to find a better way. The other DIY wands were either very large circles (six-pack rings) or rope hoops. I needed something with a fixed diameter and/or rigid design. I finally found two ways to make cheap, household, rigid (slightly flexible) bubble wands.

Certain servers have some ebook channels for sharing epubs and other formats.

#!/bin/sh
find . -name '* *' | while read file;
do
target=`echo "$file" | sed "s/ /_/g"`;
if [ -f $target ]
then
echo "File Exists: $target";
else
echo "Renaming '$file' to '$target'";
mv "$file" "$target";
fi
done;

I have been converting most of my electronic books from PDF to EPUB. Using Sigil makes editing the EPUB files very easy. One trick I have experimented with in the EPUB is paragraph spacing and indentation. What appeals to me in a book is a slightly room feel with paragraph indentaiton. I personally don't like non-indented paragraphs even if there is space added between paragraphs.


p {text-indent:15px;
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px;
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:5px;
text-align: justify; }


The 15px; indentation is enough to set-off new paragraphs visually, but adding a small amount of space (5px) below each paragraph makes the book seem not too cramped and a bit roomy.

There is an Android app for the Kindle Fire to use the TOR network. I stole this from the following website:
https://guardianproject.info/2011/11/16/dont-get-burned-anonymize-your-fire/

Installation Instructions

1) Under the settings section labeled “Device,” there is an option that says “Allow Installation of Applications From Unknown Sources.” Enable this!

2) Then download these files directly via the Fire’s browser, or side-load them from the desktop using the Android SDK “adb” tool.

Orbot: https://www.torproject.org/dist/android/Orbot-1.0.6-Tor-0.2.3.7-alpha-FINAL.apk

Orweb: https://github.com/downloads/guardianproject/Orweb/Orwebv2-20010809-0.2.2.apk



3) Start Orbot, follow the wizard, and press the power up button to connect to Tor.

4) Start Orweb to connect to the Tor Check page to verify your connection, then browse away to your (private) heart’s content.

5) Do a happy dance because your Kindle Fire just got way more l33t and slightly less p0wn3d.

The Windows 7 box didn't completely recognize the Kindle Fire. After some research, it turns out that the Fire has to be "on" and not in "sleep" or off for the drivers to be loaded completely.

This list is incomplete. If you are like me, curious, try reading some of these just to find out why they were banned in the past (some will be in the future as well).

I love my Kindle. I don't love the .azw format. I love buying ebooks and reading them on the Kindle. Since most ebooks are only $1 less than mass-market paperbacks, I tend to see them as "sharable". Amazon encrypts the .azw ebooks to a single Kindle. That keeps the books from being shared. At the moment, the decryption software does not handle Kindle 3 books. Thanks to BN.com, I can download ebooks in a much nicer format, specifically .epub. The tools to decrypt .epub books handle the encryption very well. If I am shelling out $6-$14 per book, I treat them like true physical books--I give them out to others. That seems to fall under the "fair use" idea. Don't I own the ebook once I have purchased it? When I buy a physical book I read it and pass it on to my coworkers and family. I will do that with ebooks too.

I have worked with LaTeX to create PDFs for some of my documents. I wanted to create a LaTeX set-up that works well with Kindle 3. Using a caliper, I measured the width to be 90mm and height 113mm. The reason I limit the height to 113 instead of the more common 120mm is due to the progress bar at the bottom of every page that takes several millimeters.


\usepackage[left=0.8cm,top=0.8cm,right=0.8cm,bottom=0.8cm]{geometry}
\geometry{papersize={90mm,113mm}}

This information I have taken from http://www.8-bitdesign.com/web-stuff/kindle-css-formatting/ and other sources on the internet. http://kindleformatting.com/formatting.php