The PDF file is by Adobe.
You can read PDF chess books by downloading Adobe Reader. Just log on to their site: adobe.com and you should find a link that allows you to download the application.
Here: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html?promoid=DJDXD
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Amazon Kindle DX or any other e-Ink reader with a large screen (9.7").
Has anyone tried using Kobo ereaders for reading chess books? Are they good?
I tried reading chess PDF's on Kindle but gave up very quickly. Now I use either laptop or Android 10" tablet.
Any big screen tablet is good. I use asus tf700.. No problem here.. And soe book have the Pgn files
Basically any big screen tablet is fine..
Hmmm. When I go to chessville.com I get redirected to some spam site or just a bunch of ads.
But to answer your question do some googling and find a free e-reader program for your computer. None of the little stand alone readers like Nook or Kindle can compare to a decent sized computer screen and you can also have a chess program open to analyze the moves.
If you MUST have a portable reader then a tablet perhaps? Some of them are as cheap as the readers and have bigger screens as well as the capability to do more than just read books.
Any big screen tablet is good. I use asus tf700.. No problem here.. And soe book have the Pgn files
Thanks. I think a tablet suits my need rather than plain ereader. I intend to use it for my ICS chess lessons which is a set of pdf, pgn and videos. Have been doing it through my laptop but I'm finding it inefficient and too overkill. I want a device that will enable me to purchase/download other ebooks too. So a tablet best fits my need.
I to have become interested in getting a tablet. I understand that some e-chess books have a chessboard so one can play through the games and variations. I find this to be a nice feature. It will come in handy when I'm traveling and what not.....any ideas on which brand of tablet?
A local bookstore here recommends kobo line of ereaders and tablets.So my eye is on Kobo Arc as it seems to be within my budget plus it's a tablet that evolved from an ereader.
Alas, I am now posting through a tablet with an ereading apps. It is definitely better than basic ereader feature wise. Compared to a laptop, the screen size (7 inch) is better for reading too as my eyes fixation has been minimized but as was mentioned above, a bigger screen size is the best. As for my ICS lesson, I was able to open the PDF stuff with the installed PDF reader but for video lesson, I needed to download a free video player from the Google store. Never tried the pgn stuff yet, maybe I'll be needing a separate app for this. But my biggest concern here is the free books that I have downloaded so far - Lasker's manual and capablanca's chess fundamentals- are poorly digitized. I want to purchase the paid versions of these books but I'm not sure if the paid ones are properly converted for ereaders, as preview of the inside pages is not available. Any ideas?
I to have become interested in getting a tablet. I understand that some e-chess books have a chessboard so one can play through the games and variations. I find this to be a nice feature. It will come in handy when I'm traveling and what not.....any ideas on which brand of tablet?
Yes, thats right. Ipad is great, but I think more expensive than other tablets. It has some great apps where you can buy ebooks and play through the games.
e+chess is a good one. It comes with some free books.
Everyman does a Chess Viewer, so you can buy any of their ebooks, and upload any of your own databases. There's a massive choice of books.
Smartchess is good. I just downloaded chapter one of Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual for £1.99, which has about 200 endgame examples to go through.
Much easier to play the moves on the tablet than have to set up a board.
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Noreaster wrote:
I to have become interested in getting a tablet. I understand that some e-chess books have a chessboard so one can play through the games and variations. I find this to be a nice feature. It will come in handy when I'm traveling and what not.....any ideas on which brand of tablet?
Yes, thats right. Ipad is great, but I think more expensive than other tablets. It has some great apps where you can buy ebooks and play through the games.
e+chess is a good one. It comes with some free books.
Everyman does a Chess Viewer, so you can buy any of their ebooks, and upload any of your own databases. There's a massive choice of books.
Smartchess is good. I just downloaded chapter one of Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual for £1.99, which has about 200 endgame examples to go through.
Much easier to play the moves on the tablet than have to set up a board.
Are Everyman's e-books compatible with android tablet?
I dont know. Probably, but you would have to check your app store.
I don't believe you can 'play through variations' in PDF. PDFs are as good as printed materials. There are however chess materials that are produced both as PDF (reading/printing) and pgn (playing through variations). Just my 2 cents.
An app that interprets chess notation in pdf files and allows playing through games and variations would be a KILLER!
How hard would that be to implement?
In addition to the Everyman reader, e+chess and Smartchess, there is also Forward Chess:
You cannot play through games which are in PDF format.
They games need to be PGN's.
Try Everyman - the books are windows compatible. You can read them on anything, a chess engine such as - Fritz, Hiarcs, Chess X, whatever. You could also download the everyman reader which is free.
http://www.everymanchess.com/downloads.php
You can download free samples of the books to try.
I have been thinking about getting an ereader to read some public domain pdf chessbooks and want to know from your experiences what is the best besides and ipad and a Kindle Fire.
From doing research, many ereaders are good at getting the text, BUT the diagrams are scrambled. Please give me some feed back about the readability and diagrams. Some of the books I am talking about can be found at:
http://www.chessville.com/downloads/ebooks.htm#AmericanChessBulletin