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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
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#142I wish Kindle Scribe ran Android so I could sideload apps to it.
Take a look at the Supernote.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
My Kindle had this "bug" where my side loaded books randomly disappear. As a workaround, I have to keep it in flight mode at all times. Not a big issue since that’s what I would do anyway, but in case my Kindle would break, I wouldn’t think long to buy an alternative
This happend to my kindle to! After keeping in in flight mode for years I put it online again in order to buy a few new books from the kindle store, poof suddenly my entire library of side loaded books was gone, with progress and everything. I could see random metadata files related to the books on the drive, be books was gone. Super annoying as many of the books I didn't have locally anymore and to loose the "archiv…
I had an issue exactly like this with my iPad.
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
#144I own a Kindle Paperwhite (last gen, relative to this new one) and a Kobo Clara BW (purchase in the last 6 months). IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience. The issue is Amazon and how even if you want to put your own purchased ebooks on it, you have it send it through their servers. That tied with a few other privacy issues over the years led me to als…
There is only a small difference in their size. Paperwhite 5: 124.6 x 174.2 x 8.1 mm Paperwhite 6: 127.6 x 176.7 x 7.8 mm
Yet Amazon has been consistently increasing the size of the Paperwhite models over time, each one a bit larger than the previous one. They remain portable, but no longer fit into one’s pockets, for instance.
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
#145wow this whole time I assumed there was a color one.
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
#146The new Kindle Scribe looks kinda lame compared to the new reMarkable Pro, though significantly cheaper. Maybe the colored ePaper isn't that great, but at least you get some color for highlighting, which is probably a non-insignificant use of these types of devices. Either way, sad there's no Oasis refresh. I'm not super attached to the physical buttons, but I'd prefer it to not. Oh well.
I had exactly the other response when compared to my current scribe. I'm not sure they are trying to compete with remarkable on the design front, or that they should.
Remarkable, as a newer, smaller company, needs to seriously differentiate itself. Amazon can play it safer.
Having said that, I think the white bezel and introducing a professional looking colour to the Scribe, is so much better looking than my current Gen 1.
I normally wouldn't care, I didn't feel my scribe was ugly, until I saw the new one. I'm half considering passing mine to my mother, and buying the new version.
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
#147I own a Kindle Paperwhite (last gen, relative to this new one) and a Kobo Clara BW (purchase in the last 6 months). IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience. The issue is Amazon and how even if you want to put your own purchased ebooks on it, you have it send it through their servers. That tied with a few other privacy issues over the years led me to als…
I always use my kindles in fully offline, sideload-only. My current one hasn't left airplane mode since I got it in 2018.
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
#148I own a Kindle Paperwhite (last gen, relative to this new one) and a Kobo Clara BW (purchase in the last 6 months). IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience. The issue is Amazon and how even if you want to put your own purchased ebooks on it, you have it send it through their servers. That tied with a few other privacy issues over the years led me to als…
Where do you buy DRM Free books from? (I assume that's a requirement for the device to be fully offline, right?) Do you run everything through that DRM-stripper Calibre plugin?
TIL there are DRM books. But I have never owned kindle - just Kobo and Remarkable.
I buy at online site of book store or publisher.
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#149I wish they would do a bigger size kindle scribe. I read pdfs all day on my scribe, and often I wish the screen was bigger so the font size would be large.
How suitable is 10" for PDF reading? Is the font too small? Do various e-readers allow PDF content to reflow? I have been considering Boox Air 3C. PDFs are important for me. Thanks.
The size is good for PDF reading, but PDFs with huge margins or small font sizes don’t work well.
One way to fix the margins issue is to use the “Send to Kindle” feature, which converts PDFs to the Print Replica format and trims their margins in the process. Sideloaded PDFs actually appear with more margins (thus reduced font sizes) than books sent through Amazon’s servers.
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
My Kindle had this "bug" where my side loaded books randomly disappear. As a workaround, I have to keep it in flight mode at all times. Not a big issue since that’s what I would do anyway, but in case my Kindle would break, I wouldn’t think long to buy an alternative
Out of all the devices where having a physical airplane mode switch would be nice, I'd put the kindle pretty high up. Kinda sucks having a battery that lasts ~45 days in airplane mode, and like a week and a half when I forget to turn it off.
Rather than a physical switch just for that, why not a few reminders in the UI if one keeps the airplane mode off for a certain amount of time?