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How to video on YouTube

Just posted a walk-through video of the flow of searching, downloading, uploading, and editing of a Google epub through RetroRead into Kindle format. Hope it encourages more users to take the plunge and do some of their own conversions! It’s … Continue reading

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Feed Happy

Recently we added an option to allow others to view your personal library at a custom RetroRead url. (/mylibrary/myusername). Now for those who care to share, your personal library page (if you have one) now sports an RSS feed (you … Continue reading

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tiny urls for Kindle downloads

You can now enter a tiny url in the Kindle browser to quickly download any title you see on the RetroRead website. (Users already have the ability to access www.retroread.com from their browsers and get a ‘dumbed down for Kindle … Continue reading

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…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Or so says Sherlock Holmes. For me, it’s a lot murkier … I received an email from Amazon two weeks ago more or less out of the blue telling me they had removed my Sherlock Holmes title in an effort … Continue reading

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RSS feed for RetroRead

… we’re sporting a new RSS in the right hand panel here, a feed of the most recent titles which have been added to the library after being converted to Kindle format. The RSS link is available now on the … Continue reading

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RetroRead Stuff

Cute little feature: you can now select an option in your RetroRead profile to enable your library to be externally visible (e. g. www.retroread.com/mylibrary/myusername. Here’s a link to mine, careful it’s rather long!

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Google Books and other stuff

Well this week Google did finally launch their ebook venture. Right now it’s a bit of a yawn although I’m relieved to see that it is not just about the cloud (Amazon’s announcement of web reader is sort of “me … Continue reading

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More Preview Content ..

In line with the new browsability by title, the detail page for any title (follow the link from either the latest listing or browse by title) now includes an excerpt from the first few pages of the book; so if … Continue reading

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New ways to browse RetroRead / Mostly about searchability

… not really that exciting for most folks probably, but every title in the RetroRead library now has a “permalink” url formed from the title and author; and there is now an alphabetical index of titles, so search engines can … Continue reading

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BLTC Sales doings

Well, the absolutely wild sale of the BLTC Press Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is down from its 500/month peak, but still puttering along nicely … meanwhile our updated Alice edition is moving along quite nicely, thanks to some nice reviews … Continue reading

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