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I am not an Apple guy either, but now with both the Columbia and the Edison book available it starts to become tempting to get an iPad just for these books. Has anyone tried if these books also run on an iPhone or just on iPad?

Thanks
Andreas

De Soto Frank wrote:Interesting irony - a bunch of hobby geeks burning-up the internet, discussing 100+ year-old completely un-plugged talking machines, and e-books about them...


I hope we don't create a dangerous rift in the space-time continuum...

Just for grins, I once took a video of my TV playing a video of a Victrola playing a record recorded from an old music box

Or, as Stephen Wright once put it, "I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and it almost went back in time"...

Trying to figure out how to download this to my 8MM movie projector.

Bill K

I think that I'll keep my two printed copies Thank You...

It looks as if this newer IPAD version is a more concise version... with totally different pictures...though the pictures are bigger and have color.

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Tony K.

Edison Collector/Restorer

NEFaurora wrote: It looks as if this newer IPAD version is a more concise version... with totally different pictures...though the pictures are bigger and have color.

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Tony K.

Edison Collector/Restorer

Concise? It's 647 pages!

George P.

Hi Does anyone know whether this canbe converted to run on a pc. Or alternatively. Does anyone have a copy of the book for sale.
Regards Brian

Yes, You can run it and view it in iTunes on your windows PC.

It has 647 pages, but seems to contain just half of the data on its pages than the actual printed book itself...if you look more closely.

Tony K.

All these ebooks are copy protected and heavily user restricted, therefore a conversion should be impossible - at least officially. It's a nice try but in my opinion nothing to consider as serious effort.

And now it also trapped within the Apple universe. Even under the current circumstances of digital restriction management, it should be at least offered at Amazon's Kindle store too. I would never leave my freedom at Android just for that. Just glad to own a hard copy of this book.

I had contacted Robert Baumbach about offering the Columbia Phonograph Companion Vol.II for Kindle. He told me that he used special software from Apple top create these books and that he tried them on Kindle , but they looked crappy. So I doubt that he will offer the Edison book on other platforms. These two e-books are the only reason I would even consider an Apple, even though I otherwise do not like them at all.

Andreas

alang wrote:I had contacted Robert Baumbach about offering the Columbia Phonograph Companion Vol.II for Kindle. He told me that he used special software from Apple top create these books and that he tried them on Kindle , but they looked crappy. So I doubt that he will offer the Edison book on other platforms. These two e-books are the only reason I would even consider an Apple, even though I otherwise do not like them at all.

Andreas

Likewise re. your opinion of Apple computers. I bought a Mac Mini a couple years back for private use. It runs windows too but it's not nearly as seamless as it was sold to be. I'm going back to PC. I'll keep the Mac around for these books or just put them on one of the kids iPads.