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Post by allwein »

Jun8 wrote: post #11
hobbes wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Exactly, which take quite a bit of getting used to (see my comment above), because it doesn't work that way for real books. In fact when people cite references with page numbers, they usually give the precise editions of the book, since different editions may have the sentence or point being referenced on different pages. So it's important for the "bookmark" to hold the information about the whole text that the user…

In case you didn't know, "Locations" are actually sentences, images, etc. I don't know how you can get much more specific than identifying the exact sentence that you'd like to bookmark and remember.

Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

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Post by chopsueyar »

euroclydon wrote: post #10

I'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?

iPad hurts my wrists after about 15 minutes. I have the first gen Kindle, and I like how lightweight it is, plus it has a memory card slot, and I can read it in total brightness.

Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

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Post by andrys1 »

Jun8 wrote: post #9
philh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 diffe…

With bookmarks you need only type an alt-b -- it toggles.the bookmark.

  What you want here is to get back to a sentence.  I'd highlight it instead.

  At the beginning of a sentence, press the 5-way center down and
then continue to the right or down (or even across a page) and when you get to the end of the sentence or partial paragraph you want, press the 5-way button down again.

  That creates a highlight (underlined) and is faster for me than
doing it on my NookColor with my finger, which invariably gets the wrong letter or row.

  When you want to find your highlight (or note), press the Menu
button and go down to "View my Notes & Marks" and you'll get a list of the ones you made in the order they're in the book, with context and a link to the annotation.

  That's a pretty good solution.  You'll also find a personal
private,password-protected annotations webpage of all your notes for a book, on the Amazon servers. See how at bit.ly/webknotes1 as it's a really useful feature.

  If you don't want your annotations backed up to your area on their
servers, just go to the Kindle's Home screen and use the Menu button to get Settings and turn off Annotations Backup.

APOLOGIES. I have no idea how to edit on this. The first one I did w/normal word wrapping while writing didn't wrap when I was reading and most of it was off the screen. This final result is very odd. :-)

Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

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Post by drtse4 »

dwwoelfel wrote: post #15

I've used this extension, Instapaper's wireless delivery, and Wordcycler (a desktop app that that syncs files from Instapaper when your Kindle is connected to your computer). This extension is better than Instapaper's wireless delivery because it treats each article as a separate "book". Instapaper, on the other hand, groups all the unread articles in a single book with each article as a different chapter. This means…

Am i the only one that checked the content of background.js (in ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/[extension-id]/etc... on linux)?

Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

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Post by ronnoch »

philh wrote: post #5
Jun8 wrote: post #2

Just 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…

I only started taking notes once I got a Kindle. The idea of defacing a physical book just bothers me, and most the books I read are from libraries, anyway. Now that I have my Kindle I've been taking notes all the time, but there are a lot of missing features. Not being able to link to other sections in a book is a killer.

Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

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Post by ronnoch »

euroclydon wrote: post #10

I'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?

On the contrary, I've even started using my 3G as my primary internet device, just for basic web surfing and stuff. My eyes feel more relaxed than they have in years.

Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

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Post by rodh257 »

I tried RekindleIT but could never get it to work properly, and I didn't like instapapers method of doing things, was looking for something like this - awesome.

I love my kindle, no more piles of heavy coding books that I buy and never read (because I can only read them at home due to their size). I love the ecosystem, I bought ASP.NET Pro MVC 2, and for the walkthrough bits I can read it on Kindle for PC whilst doing the tutorials in Visual studio (I have a 24" monitor rotaed 90 degrees - perfect for reading short instructions). Then when it got into chapters where it is just explaining how things work, I could continue them on my kindle with its awesome screen anywhere I wanted, or on my phone while waiting in line somewhere. Brilliant.

Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

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Post by cincinnatus »

euroclydon wrote: post #10

I'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?

I vastly prefer reading in a 'night' mode of amber text on a black background to reading on my Kindle. However the iPad had other issues with it, including low res, and iPhone has too little text on the page, in both cases my wrists end up sore either from weight or repeated paging.

I'm hoping iPad 2 is a little lighter, and does have the 2x linear resolution bump. Then it will be quite a good experience.

Re: Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

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Post by thwarted »

pedanticfreak wrote: post #19
thwarted wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The interface is beyond clunky compared to simple taps and swipes that much more closely emulate the act of reading a physical book. I've often felt that the "need" to emulate something in the real world on new devices and new interfaces has held back significant innovation. Despite that "the desktop metaphor" is supposed to be familiar, people still can't manage their files effectively. And now new interfaces are ra…

Regardless of whether we should or shouldn't emulate the real, I still stand by my statement that swipes and taps are superior to the Kindle interface. Perhaps in your case despite rather than because that interaction is more like reading a physical book.

I fail to see the significant difference between a "tap" on a screen and what you actually need to do to turn a page on the kindle: "tap" a button.

The Kindle hardware is usable with one hand. I don't find reading books using the kindle app on my android phone to be as easy to do with one hand as with the hardware, mostly because since the kindle page turning buttons are physical and have decent resistance, I don't need to hold the device in an awkward way to avoid activating an action I don't want to.

The kindle is actually much better than a book because it's easier to operate with one hand than a physical paperback is.

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