Peter Hudson - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How does this compare to Amazon's Kindle MatchB (Score 2) 82

by Peter Hudson on Sunday June 29, 2014 @02:24PM (#47345589) Attached to: Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own

Matchbook only works for books you buy on Amazon.com and only works if you have a Kindle registered under the same account... For an average reader, the physical books they've purchased on Amazon is a relatively small percentage of the books on their shelf. BitLit works for all books regardless of where you acquired them. Excuse me while I don my fireproof suit and remind /. comment thread readers that they are not average.

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 82

by Peter Hudson on Sunday June 29, 2014 @02:20PM (#47345573) Attached to: Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own

A smartphone has a GPS... so taking a picture with a smartphone inside B&N (disappearing ink or not), might not be such a great idea. Just saying :)

Comment Re:Unfortunately, US only (Score 1) 82

by Peter Hudson on Sunday June 29, 2014 @02:19PM (#47345565) Attached to: Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own

Available in US, Canada, and UK (for now).

Comment Re:brb going to the library (Score 1) 82

by Peter Hudson on Saturday June 28, 2014 @06:19PM (#47342381) Attached to: Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own

Is that a GPS in your smartphone? or are you just happy to read?

Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong (Score 2, Informative) 82

by Peter Hudson on Saturday June 28, 2014 @05:56PM (#47342289) Attached to: Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own

There are probably easier ways to get a free eBook (e.g. BitTorrent) that don't involve a GIMP and printing on acetate. Just saying...

Comment Re:O'Reilly (Score 1) 2

by Peter Hudson on Saturday June 28, 2014 @05:15PM (#47342115) Attached to: Publishers offer free/discounted ebooks of the print books you own with BitLit

Some old O'Reilly titles don't have digital versions... but if there is a digital version available, then BitLit has it. At present there are 1723 O'Reilly titles available through the system.

Submission + - Publishers offer free/discounted ebooks of the print books you own with BitLit (boingboing.net) 2

Submitted by Peter Hudson on Saturday June 28, 2014 @04:48PM

Peter Hudson writes: Cory Doctorow write on boingboing.net "BitLit works with publishers to get you free or discounted access to digital copies of books you own in print: you use the free app for Android and iOS to take a picture of the book's copyright page with your name printed in ink, and the publisher unlocks a free or discounted ebook version. None of the Big Five publishers participate as yet, but indies like O'Reilly, Berrett-Koehler, Red Wheel Weiser, Other Press, Greystone, Coach House, Triumph, Angry Robot, Chicago Review, Dundurn, and PM Press (publishers of my book The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow) are all in."

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