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

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Post by Latty »

pfooti wrote: post #179

I have a pretty old paperwhite. When it started deleting books i had side-loaded via calibre, I decided to get a kobo. I have a libra color, and I have to say: price notwithstanding, it's a great device. I don't have a lot of experience with more recent devices, but compared to my 2nd gen paperwhite, it is _amazing_. Color is good enough to read comic books on it, the google drive integration means it's not too hard…

I've got a Boox Note 3 and love it for what it is (my hardware has been fine), but I'd find it very hard to recommend generally. Boox are dodgy at best (GPL violations, random connections to china, etc...), you start with an already old version of Android and if lucky you might get another major version, they aren't cheap, Android stuff is mostly not designed for black-and-white/low refresh rate and some apps have unreadable buttons, things like that.

But, with that all said... it's great for my specific uses. Android is just so much better if you want to run self-hosted stuff. When it dies or the software just gets that old I'll be really at a loss for what to get to replace it.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

ValentineC wrote: post #187
Aeolun wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess he’s never seen the kind of insane contracts people that publish on the Amazon store need to sign xD

As someone who has self-published a book on the Amazon Kindle store once, Amazon's cut is something like 70% + bandwidth fees (author only gets maybe ~25–28% of the selling price).

I find it hard to believe you’d ever earn enough on an Amazon book to make any such contract worth it.

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

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Post by stevepike »

wooque wrote: post #200
koyote wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When it started deleting books i had side-loaded via calibre Could you expand on that? I load all my books via calibre but I also have the kindle set to aeroplane mode at all times. Does this happen when syncing?

It deletes all side-loaded books when you connect it to the internet, happened to me as well.

It doesn't do this for me. I've got side-loaded and Amazon store books on the same device, no problem.

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

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Post by innocentoldguy »

I've been using a Kobo Clara Color for several months. I love the size and functionality, but the color isn't that big a deal since I'm not reading picture books.

I used to use a Kindle Oasis, but I like Kobo's software better than Amazon's, so I switched.

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

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Post by Turon »

deergomoo wrote: post #181

I wonder if they’re still using soft touch/rubberised plastic on the back? My last-gen Kindle Paperwhite has already started to go sticky and gross. I’ve also got an issue where the latest software update is causing frequent hangs when opening new books (literally 5+ minutes) and I quite often get stuck in books, unable to summon the menu to go back to my library. Seems to be a fairly common problem judging by Reddit…

I’m on the latest update too and, yes, sometimes I can’t get the menu or bookmark to open. I have to reboot the device to get it working again. The previous updates were fine.

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

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Post by abound »

Latty wrote: post #201
pfooti wrote: post #179

I have a pretty old paperwhite. When it started deleting books i had side-loaded via calibre, I decided to get a kobo. I have a libra color, and I have to say: price notwithstanding, it's a great device. I don't have a lot of experience with more recent devices, but compared to my 2nd gen paperwhite, it is _amazing_. Color is good enough to read comic books on it, the google drive integration means it's not too hard…

I've got a Boox Note 3 and love it for what it is (my hardware has been fine), but I'd find it very hard to recommend generally. Boox are dodgy at best (GPL violations, random connections to china, etc...), you start with an already old version of Android and if lucky you might get another major version, they aren't cheap, Android stuff is mostly not designed for black-and-white/low refresh rate and some apps have un…

Yeah, I have a Max Lumi and I feel broadly the same way. My hardware has been great, I use it daily and have read 100s of books and written thousands of pages of notes on it, but wouldn't necessarily recommend it to others because I think mine has already stopped getting updates, the GPL violations aren't great, and the cloud stuff seems a bit dodgy.

On the cloud stuff though -- note syncing has support for WebDAV, so I've fully disabled the Boox Cloud integration and all notes get synced to my self-hosted OwnCloud server, which is nice.

I'd love to figure out how to install some stock Android or Linux on it down the road, though Boox's notes + reading apps are really quite good, and likely very optimized for the hardware.

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

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Post by kevmo314 »

TZubiri wrote: post #207

We had books, but then we thought, what about screens. Then we had screens but we thought, what if screens were more like books. Then we had book screens and we thought, what if the screens we made to look like books were more like screens.

Next up: a kindle with physical pages, each page is a screen!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

wooque wrote: post #200
koyote wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When it started deleting books i had side-loaded via calibre Could you expand on that? I load all my books via calibre but I also have the kindle set to aeroplane mode at all times. Does this happen when syncing?

It deletes all side-loaded books when you connect it to the internet, happened to me as well.

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