Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.
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Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.
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#2Just another reason to totally love my Kindle.
As an aside, I just traveled with my Kindle to Europe and was ecstatic by the ability to load up on (free, from Gutenberg) books, and easily switch between them on the long flight.
However, those who herald the end of books is here are very wrong. Except from the "many books on long trip" or "Netflix-like instant book delivery" (and a few other, like reading long web pages) use cases, I wouldn't event think about switching to Kindle full-time. Gripes are:
* All books appear almost the same, little or no typesetting
* The note taking interface is shockingly primitive, e.g. just to get a questions mark requires several clicks
* AFAIK, pagination depends on you display, so bookmarks may change place among Kindle readers on different devices.
Of course, all of these are easily addressable. The question is: can the device that does these and other cool stuff (e.g. color) be sold around ~ $150.
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#3Just another reason to totally love my Kindle. As an aside, I just traveled with my Kindle to Europe and was ecstatic by the ability to load up on (free, from Gutenberg) books, and easily switch between them on the long flight. However, those who herald the end of books is here are very wrong. Except from the "many books on long trip" or "Netflix-like instant book delivery" (and a few other, like reading long web pag…
The main thing I'd like to see is a Kindle DX with Wifi support.
Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.
#4Just another reason to totally love my Kindle. As an aside, I just traveled with my Kindle to Europe and was ecstatic by the ability to load up on (free, from Gutenberg) books, and easily switch between them on the long flight. However, those who herald the end of books is here are very wrong. Except from the "many books on long trip" or "Netflix-like instant book delivery" (and a few other, like reading long web pag…
Pagination doesn't actually exist because (except for pdf's) there are no pages, only locations (see bottom of screen). Bookmarks mark locations, not pages.
Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.
#5Just another reason to totally love my Kindle. As an aside, I just traveled with my Kindle to Europe and was ecstatic by the ability to load up on (free, from Gutenberg) books, and easily switch between them on the long flight. However, those who herald the end of books is here are very wrong. Except from the "many books on long trip" or "Netflix-like instant book delivery" (and a few other, like reading long web pag…
> The note taking interface is shockingly primitive, e.g. just to get a questions mark requires several clicks
Do you normally make notes in your physical books?
> AFAIK, pagination depends on you display, so bookmarks may change place among Kindle readers on different devices.
The start of the page you bookmarked will still be the start of the page you jump to, whatever display layout you use. The pages might be different length.
Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.
#6Just another reason to totally love my Kindle. As an aside, I just traveled with my Kindle to Europe and was ecstatic by the ability to load up on (free, from Gutenberg) books, and easily switch between them on the long flight. However, those who herald the end of books is here are very wrong. Except from the "many books on long trip" or "Netflix-like instant book delivery" (and a few other, like reading long web pag…
> The note taking interface is shockingly primitive, e.g. just to get a questions mark requires several clicks Do you normally make notes in your physical books? > AFAIK, pagination depends on you display, so bookmarks may change place among Kindle readers on different devices. The start of the page you bookmarked will still be the start of the page you jump to, whatever display layout you use. The pages might be dif…
Some people do annotate in the margins. Especially non-fiction books. At the very least I've been known to add a bookmark (i.e. shred of paper) to a particular spot with some notes written on it.
My criticisms of the Kindle are for its page transitions and poor interface. The Kindle is really like the Blackberry of of digital readers. The interface is beyond clunky compared to simple taps and swipes that much more closely emulate the act of reading a physical book.
My best hope is that Mirasol comes to the Nook Color sooner rather than later as I highly doubt the iPad will come with a non-backlit display for several generations.
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#7I considered building something like this for some time (there are similar extensions but they either not work or send only pdf) and will probably do it anyway even if send to kindle kinda work.
The thing i don't like about this particular implementation is that looking at the code (background.js) it looks like that it contains a list of urls with the location of the text content (tag path to the location).
I guess this is done for pages that are not being parsed correctly (the user then select the text manually, and the url+tag path is sent to the server and it will be added to the list in the next release), he should have used readability. I'd prefer something that doesn't log in any way the urls i'm sending to the kindle (even if only to fix some issue with the text extraction algorithm).
Edit: The contained urls have query parameters too, not good.
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#8Just another reason to totally love my Kindle. As an aside, I just traveled with my Kindle to Europe and was ecstatic by the ability to load up on (free, from Gutenberg) books, and easily switch between them on the long flight. However, those who herald the end of books is here are very wrong. Except from the "many books on long trip" or "Netflix-like instant book delivery" (and a few other, like reading long web pag…
From these you said, I only miss the typesetting.
If they add some new fonts, and differente typography. It would be more awesome!
And one thing, I think all books for people more then 14 years old, are in black and white. Lol.
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#9Just another reason to totally love my Kindle. As an aside, I just traveled with my Kindle to Europe and was ecstatic by the ability to load up on (free, from Gutenberg) books, and easily switch between them on the long flight. However, those who herald the end of books is here are very wrong. Except from the "many books on long trip" or "Netflix-like instant book delivery" (and a few other, like reading long web pag…
> The note taking interface is shockingly primitive, e.g. just to get a questions mark requires several clicks Do you normally make notes in your physical books? > AFAIK, pagination depends on you display, so bookmarks may change place among Kindle readers on different devices. The start of the page you bookmarked will still be the start of the page you jump to, whatever display layout you use. The pages might be dif…
Yes, I do take notes in books, but as they say, the margin is too small for some of my notes. I thought this would be one of the big pluses of Kindle for me, and it still is, but using the 1980s style interface really is a killer.
Bookmarks work as you say, which is counterintuitive is one is used to how bookmarks use in real books, i.e. generally one or two points are of interest on a page. On the Kindle, with different pagination, a sentence you like may not be on the bookmarked page anymore. There's no easy solution to this problem, I guess.
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#10I've gotten to where I hardly ever read from my latest-gen small-sized Kindle Wi-Fi. I prefer the touch screen interactivity of the Kindle app on my iPhone4. This makes me think that reading on an iPad would blow the Kindle away, with the only caveats being battery life and nighttime reading where I wouldn't want a back-light to keep me awake.
Anyone else feel this way?