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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4336 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes  Studies: German | Message 17 of 28 31 August 2013 at 8:33am | IP Logged | |||||
You need to register your account to Amazon.fr, but you also have to supply a CC and French billing address. I have heard of people getting around the CC by using a gift card to top-up their accounts, but I am not sure how effective that is. You might also need to log into the account with a French (Belgium/Monaco) IP, but maybe not. My guess is Amazon doesn't really care, but has to make an effort for legal reasons to stop people buying ebooks, but there is probably a limit to how much they will check. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4631 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 18 of 28 31 August 2013 at 11:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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What might those legal reasons be though?
To quote a very old British pop song "What a crazy world we're living in". We have potentially the most connected and connectable world that there has ever been, but people keep erecting artificial barriers. Edited by montmorency on 31 August 2013 at 11:42am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4676 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 19 of 28 03 September 2013 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Have anyone here read kindle books or other ebooks while taking part in Tadoku? How
does that work? Many ebooks don't feature page numbers, and the location numbers seems to be rather arbitrary... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5065 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 20 of 28 03 September 2013 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For kindles without page numbers, they still give a percentage. You can google the book to find out the book's total pages in print form and then use the percentage to find out a rough estimate of your progress. Although pages are all variable depending on size of book- hardcover, trade or mass-market paperback. Still if a hardcover has 400 pages, a trade paperback 500 pages and a mass market paperback 650 pages, and your kindle says you have read 30%- then you will have read 120 pages in hardcover 150 pages in trade and 195 in mass-market paperback. I'd use the hardcover version as my benchmark. Edited by iguanamon on 03 September 2013 at 5:53pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6668 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 21 of 28 03 September 2013 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
Many thanks, very precise guide! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4336 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 22 of 28 04 September 2013 at 9:28am | IP Logged | |||||
You can also just include in your search terms "German edition" or whatever language you are looking for. Edited by patrickwilken on 05 September 2013 at 7:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4631 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 23 of 28 04 September 2013 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Or just search for the German (or whatever) title.
Can be a bit hit or miss though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4471 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 24 of 28 04 September 2013 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You can buy e-books in Norwegian (Bokmaal, Nynorsk) and Swedish here>
http://www.ereadz.com/ The prices are very ''Norwegian'' though. :( Edited by Medulin on 04 September 2013 at 7:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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