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Friday, November 23, 2012
Holiday Sale
We want to wish a special Thank You to the customers who help support our shop! Happy Holidays!
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
How to read a Kindle Book on a non-Kindle Device In Ten Steps
I love my nook and my wife and I both love our rugged, perfectly petite Sony Pocket readers but more and more of late, authors are going site specific, especially with Amazon's new KDP Select arrangement, which allows the books exclusive to them to be given away free for 5 days a quarter and to be borrowed by Prime members. That makes it very difficult for me to read a new book like Blake Crouch's thriller PINES or Lindsay Kiernan's romance A Taste Of Honey (Which I did the cover for) when all you have is a nook.
Luckily there is a solution! It takes a couple of steps and you do have to download a couple programs, but anyone can do it.
Today we're going to download and convert the hilarious Miss. Penny Watson's newest novel LUMBERJACK IN LOVE. Because lumberjacks are awesome.
STEP .5
For any of this to work, you'll need an eReader, a computer and an Amazon.com account.
STEP ONE - Is It Secret? Is It Safe?
This is the largest roadblock to reading an Amazon Book on a rival reader. If the author or publisher has elected to enable DRM, or Digital Rights Management, you have to do all sorts of tricky steps to make the book readable, including adding a few hidden steps to a program. It's a hassle. It's doable, but I'm not going into that here.Luckily, many authors, especially awesome self-pubbed authors like Penny Watson and Blake Crouch have elected to NOT protect their books so those of us that don't own Kindles can still enjoy their books!
STEP TWO - Download Two Programs
Download Calibre. It's free and without question, the best program out there for organizing your eBooks. It allows you to edit metadata, choose different covers and countless other nice features. It's well designed and absolutely free. I'll have to get into the rest of Calibre later. What's important today is the ability it has to convert eBooks from one format to another.
Once you've downloaded the program and started it up, this is the screen you'll see. There's a lot going on here, but it's all pretty intuitive. Down the center is your library (Or lack thereof if you've just opened it for the first time) with a fun little cover flow across the top.
Download Kindle For PC This is the program you'll need to get the file of the book to your computer so you can convert it.
STEP THREE - Attach Your Reader
Plug in your reader. Calibre should register the addition and a little icon for your device will pop up on the screen. Technically speaking, this task doesn't have to be done yet, but I'd already uploaded the cute picture of your reader plugged in. It can be done at any point after the conversion.
STEP FOUR - Click To Buy
Buy your book. You will have to set up an Amazon account and choose to download the book to your Kindle Cloud Reader.
STEP FIVE - You've Bought It!
Don't bother choosing to "Read now in Kindle Cloud Reader" that opens your book in a non-physical form in your browser, like a ghost. You'll never find the file.
STEP SIX - Open Kindle For PC
Now here's where it gets a little tricky. The book will open from Kindle For PC just fine and you can read it on your computer, but your book is floating in a digital collection in the internet and is not physically a file on your computer at this point. We need to save it to the computer to convert it. You see that little cloud in the corner of CHOKE ON YOUR LIES? That means it needs to be downloaded. Right click and download your new book.
Now we're talking.
STEP SEVEN - Find That Book!
This part can be a little annoying too, but shouldn't be too bad. Most computers store the books in your "Documents" folder in a folder marked "My Kindle Content" If it isn't there, the easiest way to find your ebook is to do a search of the computer for .azw, which is the Amazon extension for books. Unfortunately, your book wont be titled something simple like "LUMBERJACK IN LOVE" or even "BEARDS ARE SEXY" instead, it will be some gobbeldygook starting with B00. But that's okay - you've bought the file, it's downloaded to your computer and you know where it is! It's all downhill from here!
STEP EIGHT - Send It To Calibre
Now, if you've been good all year, you can take that new file and double click on it and it will open in Calibre without a hitch - even have the right title, author and cover attached! If not, you may have to right click the file and choose "Open With" and find Calibre to open the file with. But hey - compared to the rest so far, that's a piece of cake.
STEP NINE - Covert It!
Now that your book is loaded in Calibre, all you have to do it click on the title one time to highlight it and choose "Convert Books" at the top. That will bring up the conversion screen you see above. If you have a Nook, Sony Reader or pretty much anything but some obscure off-brand, the Output Format (The box in the upper righthand corner) should be EPUB. Choose OK. Down in the corner of the screen, you'll see a rotating wheel next to the word Jobs telling you when the formatting is complete.
At this point, you may have to actually unplug and replug your reader into the computer, depending on whether it fell asleep and disconnected from Calibre.
STEP TEN - Send It To Your Reader
Now that conversion is complete, click on Send To Device on the toolbar to load your novel onto your reader. Click on the arrow next to the Device icon and choose to Eject the device when it's done sending. (Again, look for the little jobs icon in the corner)
READ YOUR NEW BOOK!
Look at how sexy that is - it's cute little images are there, the font is adjustable, the Table Of Contents and Menu works, pretty sweet!
So it is a bit of work, but with a couple of programs and a teensy bit of know-how, that new novel by that author you love can be yours! Just keep in mind that the book does have to be DRM FREE. If it isn't and the novel is self-pubbed or the author is one of the many out there that interact with their fans, encourage them to make it DRM free - after all, it allows the best of both worlds - they can take advantage of the perks from Amazon's Select program and their fans that own a different brand of reader can still buy and enjoy their novels!
Luckily there is a solution! It takes a couple of steps and you do have to download a couple programs, but anyone can do it.
Today we're going to download and convert the hilarious Miss. Penny Watson's newest novel LUMBERJACK IN LOVE. Because lumberjacks are awesome.
STEP .5
For any of this to work, you'll need an eReader, a computer and an Amazon.com account.
STEP ONE - Is It Secret? Is It Safe?
This is the largest roadblock to reading an Amazon Book on a rival reader. If the author or publisher has elected to enable DRM, or Digital Rights Management, you have to do all sorts of tricky steps to make the book readable, including adding a few hidden steps to a program. It's a hassle. It's doable, but I'm not going into that here.Luckily, many authors, especially awesome self-pubbed authors like Penny Watson and Blake Crouch have elected to NOT protect their books so those of us that don't own Kindles can still enjoy their books!
STEP TWO - Download Two Programs
Download Calibre. It's free and without question, the best program out there for organizing your eBooks. It allows you to edit metadata, choose different covers and countless other nice features. It's well designed and absolutely free. I'll have to get into the rest of Calibre later. What's important today is the ability it has to convert eBooks from one format to another.
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Once you've downloaded the program and started it up, this is the screen you'll see. There's a lot going on here, but it's all pretty intuitive. Down the center is your library (Or lack thereof if you've just opened it for the first time) with a fun little cover flow across the top.
Download Kindle For PC This is the program you'll need to get the file of the book to your computer so you can convert it.
STEP THREE - Attach Your Reader
Plug in your reader. Calibre should register the addition and a little icon for your device will pop up on the screen. Technically speaking, this task doesn't have to be done yet, but I'd already uploaded the cute picture of your reader plugged in. It can be done at any point after the conversion.
STEP FOUR - Click To Buy
Buy your book. You will have to set up an Amazon account and choose to download the book to your Kindle Cloud Reader.
STEP FIVE - You've Bought It!
Don't bother choosing to "Read now in Kindle Cloud Reader" that opens your book in a non-physical form in your browser, like a ghost. You'll never find the file.
STEP SIX - Open Kindle For PC
Now here's where it gets a little tricky. The book will open from Kindle For PC just fine and you can read it on your computer, but your book is floating in a digital collection in the internet and is not physically a file on your computer at this point. We need to save it to the computer to convert it. You see that little cloud in the corner of CHOKE ON YOUR LIES? That means it needs to be downloaded. Right click and download your new book.
Now we're talking.
STEP SEVEN - Find That Book!
This part can be a little annoying too, but shouldn't be too bad. Most computers store the books in your "Documents" folder in a folder marked "My Kindle Content" If it isn't there, the easiest way to find your ebook is to do a search of the computer for .azw, which is the Amazon extension for books. Unfortunately, your book wont be titled something simple like "LUMBERJACK IN LOVE" or even "BEARDS ARE SEXY" instead, it will be some gobbeldygook starting with B00. But that's okay - you've bought the file, it's downloaded to your computer and you know where it is! It's all downhill from here!
STEP EIGHT - Send It To Calibre
STEP NINE - Covert It!
Now that your book is loaded in Calibre, all you have to do it click on the title one time to highlight it and choose "Convert Books" at the top. That will bring up the conversion screen you see above. If you have a Nook, Sony Reader or pretty much anything but some obscure off-brand, the Output Format (The box in the upper righthand corner) should be EPUB. Choose OK. Down in the corner of the screen, you'll see a rotating wheel next to the word Jobs telling you when the formatting is complete.
At this point, you may have to actually unplug and replug your reader into the computer, depending on whether it fell asleep and disconnected from Calibre.
STEP TEN - Send It To Your Reader
Now that conversion is complete, click on Send To Device on the toolbar to load your novel onto your reader. Click on the arrow next to the Device icon and choose to Eject the device when it's done sending. (Again, look for the little jobs icon in the corner)
READ YOUR NEW BOOK!
So it is a bit of work, but with a couple of programs and a teensy bit of know-how, that new novel by that author you love can be yours! Just keep in mind that the book does have to be DRM FREE. If it isn't and the novel is self-pubbed or the author is one of the many out there that interact with their fans, encourage them to make it DRM free - after all, it allows the best of both worlds - they can take advantage of the perks from Amazon's Select program and their fans that own a different brand of reader can still buy and enjoy their novels!
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Hogwarts Library Bookplates
Our newest item, a gorgeous Old-Timey bookplate for those fantastic people that still have real books. Also makes a great gift tag for that special Christmas gift!
You could also use them for luggage tags or inside your eReader case, like Mr. Potter did - He's got great taste in books!
You can buy your copies here!
We can also design a custom bookplate for you - email us for more details. Kraken@deeplydapper.com
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
New In The Etsy Shoppe - Baby Bugaboo #8!
Meet Whiskers!
The eighth in a line of diminutive beasties in jars, Whiskers has baleen-like teeth and a small whiskers along it's side that aids in propulsion. Now available on Etsy!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
NEW - Harry Potter Light Switch Plates
A little bit of Harry Potter magic, the Deeply Dapper way - with interesting textures, luxurious colors and tints and a touch of goofy fun. A few of our designs will stick around - each handmade, but keeping the same general design and a few will be limited edition one of a kind plates, with extra layers or funky colors. Check back for more additions!
Monday, July 9, 2012
Out Now!
Another novel by a Deeply Dapper Client is out now - RELUCTANTLY IN LOVE by Lindsay Kiernan
We changed the cover around a little bit, trying to get the right vibe for the story, but it turned out nicely, I think!
If you're looking for a romance, check it out -
Beatrice Clark has run out of options...
Available at Amazon.com and Smashwords for only $2.99!
If you're looking for a romance, check it out -
Beatrice Clark has run out of options...
She must escape her dangerous fiancé by ruining her reputation before
the wedding can occur. Armed with a sultry red dress and a list of
London's disreputable men Beatrice has one night to find the right man.
William
Bradley enjoyed his nights of debauchery and found himself at home
amongst London's depraved citizens. He never wanted to be the hero to
any damsel in distress. But his past is working against him. Forced by
his own conscience into helping Beatrice escape her future husband he is
now tied into the unwanted role of a woman's savior.
The unlikely pair could fall in love, if they don't destroy each other first.
Available at Amazon.com and Smashwords for only $2.99!
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Catching up.
Man, it's been a while, eh? Well, Deeply Dapper is back and going strong. I hope. A ton of new items and item lines in the Etsy shop, and lots of cool stuff on the web to share too.
First off, a new item -
First off, a new item -
LEGO HEAD DECAL
Based on the original Lego Minifig Head, this lightweight auto decal is 4.25" tall and perfect for showing the world that you too are a Lego Maniac.
Available HERE
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Morbid Messages #15 - Broke In Black
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| #15 has a small 3/8" hole in the back of the skull and a broken cheekbone. |
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Back For A Limited Time - More Morbid Messages!
For those that haven't seen them, The Morbid Messages line are custom painted and cured skulls, most with chalkboard paint for leaving messages, notes or doodling.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
And if you see any little people in the woods today, realistically, unless he's standing on a pile of gold like this and had pretty short, clunky legs, just leave him be. Not worth the trouble. Trust me.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
MetaPost - A Protest
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