Comments on: SBM e-Books

By: (Long) Weekend Reading | Science-Based Pharmacy

(Long) Weekend Reading | Science-Based Pharmacy — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:40:59 +0000

[...] blog I contribute to, Science-Based Medicine, now has a series of ebooks. Some of my posts are in [...]

By: Narad

Narad — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:10:10 +0000

Yah, I no longer purchase DRMed material. Although most online music services have gone DRM-free, I had already switched to buying directly from the artist whenever possible. Bye-bye, iTunes store.

There are of course trivial ways around the DRM issue, but the wildly overbroad and technologically incoherent 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)* presumptively makes stripping DRM illegal.

* Is burning an iTunes-purchased album to CD or virtual drive and then returning it to the machine “circumvention”? (How does this differ from QTFairUse6?) Decompressing a downloaded software purchase “descrambling”? Only The Shadow knows.

By: Ash

Ash — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:42:28 +0000

Any plans to release them on other ebook platforms? Amazon, ibooks and Nook all use proprietary DRM that prevents reading on other e-readers (presuming they have DRM – there generally isn’t a way to find out before buying); basically every other seller (Kobo, Sony, etc.) use a standard format and DRM that can be read on anything except a Kindle.

By: rwakacs

rwakacs — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:20:49 +0000

LOL! I’ve only been looking at the title and (rightly) assume you were pushing your e-books, but I was getting annoyed that you hadn’t written any new posts since this one. Without something to distinguish it from another article (or much larger text indicating to look below) I thought you were just getty lazy on us.

Now I have some serious catching up to do.

By: PJLandis

PJLandis — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:56:21 +0000

Any plans to move this to the right column or maybe a banner-type ad rather than taking up the top fold of the website?

By: lizditz

lizditz — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:34:45 +0000

Thank you so much for doing this.

I hear and obey.

I have just downloaded the vaccine-autism book and look forward to reviewing it.

By: Hiroaphasic

Hiroaphasic — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:11:10 +0000

Usually I don’t comment because I have very little to contribute, but I registered today especially to say thank you for this. Also, while I’m at it, thank you for the SBM blog. I read this blog regularly and I enjoy it immensely. I cannot thank you enough for your work. (I’ve also been a long-time listener of the SGU, and I adore it, too.)

Thank you very, very much.

By: Epinephrine

Epinephrine — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:02:57 +0000

Is there any plan to publish the books for other readers (Kobo, Sony)?

Nook books are only viewable on the Nook (or via apps), Kindle format is only on kindle (or apps) and itunes is only iOS.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:56:39 +0000

Oh, Amazon is so much fun! I just left a review of the e-book based on reading this blog since it started. But for some reason it thinks I bought the e-book (I don’t mind if there was an actual file on my computer and they asked me to confirm the purchase). Well, at least I an fix it in edit once it appears.

By: cervantes

cervantes — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:44:41 +0000

The complete guide to homeopathy:

It is utter nonsense.

The end.

By: Narad

Narad — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:15:38 +0000

The Kindle reader doesn’t seem to be available for pre OS 10.6 Macs (I’m a 10.5.8). Am I mistaken?

Nope, 10.6+. You could try their cloud reader if you're going to be someplace with a connection.

By: pharmavixen

pharmavixen — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:57:38 +0000

The Kindle reader doesn’t seem to be available for pre OS 10.6 Macs (I’m a 10.5.8). Am I mistaken?

By: Mark Crislip

Mark Crislip — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:30:56 +0000

Yes, I do the quackcasts, but not as often as I used to. It is a matter of time.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:27:18 +0000

@elburto

Are they only in Kindle format for the US? Amazon won’t even let me access the sample, as I’m in the UK.

They are available on amazon.co.uk – in fact there are currently 6 there, the three mentioned in this blog post plus “Herbs, Supplements and Nutrition”, “Quackademic Medicine”, and “Vaccines…”. Just search for “science based medicine’s guide”.

By: lsimons

lsimons — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:18:24 +0000

I now have made my Mac into a large screen Kindle and will turn it sideways when I read in bed. Hmm.
Dr. Crislip-are you no longer recording your quackcasts? I wasn’t sure where to write to you, but seeing as you peruse the comments, I hope you will comment on mine
?

By: Mika

Mika — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:19:36 +0000

@PaulIngraham

Thanks for the links. I read them through and I have to say, my understanding of trigger points diagnostics seem to differ somewhat from what you describe in your article. Browsing through your site I also found your long article about sciatica and I have to say … I’m not too impressed with it. Perhaps it’s out of date, seeming to date from 2011, but I think you put *way* too much weight to piriformis syndrome (lots of massage therapists seem to, it’s almost nonexistent in reality) and myofascial causes (which you seem to somewhat discredit in other articles, hence my thinking that this might be outdated).

By: Janet

Janet — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:43:56 +0000

@lsimons

I think you simply click on the simple ibooks, as I did with my simple MacBook Air.

@M. Crislip

Eek! Shouldn’t the obvious errors have been corrected?–I’m giving these to my grandchildren!

By: Mark Crislip

Mark Crislip — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:46:08 +0000

The current volumes represent the first 2.5 years of the blog. Every couple of years the volumes will be updated with the subsequent essays. And no, the upgrades will likely not be free.

By: lsimons

lsimons — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:32:52 +0000

Can you be available in googlebooks?

By: Mark Crislip

Mark Crislip — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:30:41 +0000

Kindle reader is available on every platform: mac, PC etc

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=sr_1_1_acs_h_1?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200438360&qid=1361413153&sr=8-1-acs

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