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Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by fastball »

grakker wrote: post #118
jjice wrote: post #2

I 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 had the exact opposite experience. My kindle battery went wonky after a few years, but my kobo has gone on for a lot longer with no issues. It's made me a little wary of buying a kindle again. Aside, or on top of, not wanting to support Amazon.

Did you try contacting Amazon support? If you had they probably would've shipped you a new one for free.

Why don't you want to support Amazon?

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by gamblor956 »

thimabi wrote: post #74
packetlost wrote: post #34

The 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 wonder why they did not add color e-ink to the Kindle Scribe. Maybe they thought the price would be prohibitively expensive?

Color e-ink (both versions) isn't yet fast enough to be used for writing. Boox and Remarkable had to do a lot of hacky things to make the experiences usable on their color e-ink devices. (Boox currently uses the older color technology, Remarkable uses the newer one.)

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by Groxx »

>300 ppi (black & white), 150 ppi (color)

Ah. So it's just the color filter that basically everyone (except ReMarkable) has done.

I'm kinda curious to see it in person, to see if they are doing it better, but other brands' results have not been appealing at all to me. Washed out, worse contrast, and a consistently pixelated / screen-door look.

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by sourcepluck »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #94
jjice wrote: post #2

I 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?

Excellent list of DRM Free books here:

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by fastball »

thimabi wrote: post #144
TnS-hun wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have the last gen Paperwhite and it still fits in my pocket.

Admittedly I have big pockets.

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by Rebelgecko »

jemmyw wrote: post #105
foxyv wrote: post #81

I am so excited for this. I've run into so many books where color would make it ten times better. Also, the Comixology subscription will be so much more valuable with this device. The only thing I have a wish for is that the device is more responsive than the original Kindle. There is nothing more frustrating than tapping a touch screen and waiting 5 seconds for it to respond.

I agree, the lagginess of kindles drove me to distraction and I was actually reading less because of it. I bought a colour Kobo. Super responsive by comparison. The colour isn't wonderful, I like that it's there. Also, physical buttons! Such things are only available on the most expensive Kindle, I didn't realize how much I'd missed them.

I don't think any Kindles still have physical buttons. Kind of a bummer because buttons make it much easier to change the page while holding the Kindle with 1 hand

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by galleywest200 »

jjice wrote: post #133
thimabi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. You can sideload your books over USB too, using Calibre for instance. I own a few Kindle models and a Kobo Forma as well. The Kindles do have some quirks and bugs (e.g., disappearing books, issues with sideloaded fonts…). But my Kobo Forma’s battery completely died after a couple years of…

Sorry, you're absolutely right. The overhead of it was more than I cared to do (needing to use Calibre instead of a drag and drop of a file), especially since Amazon would then report my newly loaded books back to themselves. That's the part that I really didn't like. Shame to hear about your Kobo's battery. FWIW, they have great repairability (in newer models at least). That said, the Kindle's battery does smash the…

You can drag-drop the file from the file explorer, at least on my Kindle (2022). I think the OP mentioned Calibre because sometimes you need to convert the file for Kindle if you have a bespoke format.

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by hexagonalc »

timeon wrote: post #148
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Some of the books on the Kobo store are also sold with DRM. They only mention it in small print under eBook Details at the bottom of the page, e.g. Download options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by Aeolun »

soco wrote: post #11
thimabi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. You can sideload your books over USB too, using Calibre for instance. I own a few Kindle models and a Kobo Forma as well. The Kindles do have some quirks and bugs (e.g., disappearing books, issues with sideloaded fonts…). But my Kobo Forma’s battery completely died after a couple years of…

Why do you need a few Kindles and also a Kobo? Are you keeping them in different places and don't move them? I only have the first Paperwhite which I carry along, it's 11 years old already and it still does the job. The battery keeps up and I was probably lucky to not have noticed any hiccups.

I think you just naturally end up with that because the things appear indestructible. The first ever kindle I bought (dunno how long ago, it was before paperwhite, so more than 11 years) still works without issue. Even retains all the music I put on it 14 years ago when it was still an experimental feature.

I think the only thing that has been discontinued is the free 3G internet all over the world that they apparently figured was too expensive.

Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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Post by sourcepluck »

Using the wisdom of the crowd here: what is the best ereader for tinkering? I'm browsing the answers here looking for that and I don't know if anything actually fits the bill. Something with Android, tablet-type machines, seems to be the answer? Is there nothing better?
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