As I sit here madly rapping Fancy by Iggy Azalea, I am very conscious of no longer being the hip young demographic that advertises love. Yet I still have things to say! Or, write. Many of these ideas are ill-advised and poorly formed, and so I keep them in a ghetto of my own choosing: My zine, The Inner Swine, established in 1993 and still going. For some reason.
As it is Summer time, it’s time for the Summer issue! And it has been released to Barnes and Noble and Amazon for your e-reading pleasure:
Go and buy it. It’s just a DOLLAR for god’s sake, what are you, fancy?
(see what I did there? GENIUS.)
Bought.
Now I’ll just start reading it tomorrow… after I’ve stripped the Amazon DRM down to nothing and uploaded it back up to my Google Book Reader. (It’s just a superior reading experience to Kindle IMO, I’m not pirating any of my reads.)
I enjoy the zine’s!!! Humorous writing and insights all around. Keep them coming.
Hey Jason – I always set DRM off on these suckers. Let me know if there’s still cruft to strip away, I’m curious.
I will. I just ran all my Kindle stuff through a program the other day. I didn’t pay attention to the other Zine’s I did because at the moment I do the inport it spits the epub into a file for upload.
I’ll look tomorrow and see if it does anything.
I like how it doesn’t format perfectly with my Nook, so sometimes the pictures are over in the words … And, the letters are all jumbled together …. Strange symbols show up ….. ….. Then I think …. “I bet this is exactly how Jeff sees it in his head” …….
So I just converted it. When it comes through there is the Amazon file of the book (AZW3) and then the Calibre converter gives me the ePub file which is the one that I can upload to Google Books.
I believe Amazon Kindle does not read epub. So the DRM I’m actually removing is whatever this AZW3 is that Amazon uses. It would be great if everyone could just settle on epub. I understand why these companies want to “lock it down” but honestly.. the process to unlock it only takes 5 minutes to set up and then 30 seconds per book to convert.
I’m a sucker for the “page flip animation” and book marks that come with Google Books so for me it’s just a nicer experience than the Kindle Reader. I buy from both places though (Google Books and Amazon). So they are still getting my money.
Thanks for the report, Jason. I post PDFs of each issue when the new one comes out, but maybe I should start posting the ePub as well for everyone’s convenience.