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

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Post by mulderc »

alexawarrior4 wrote: post #76

Why is no one making higher dpi ebook readers? I've been waiting decades now for an ebook that would actually have the resolution of printed 600 dpi pages. The chunky text simply makes ebooks for me uncomfortable and unpalatable for long reads.

My understanding is that e-ink with higher than 300 dpi is very difficult to produce which means it is rather expensive and doesn't look that much better to most people. Additionally, people think of an e-reader as a sub-$200 device so the market for a premium high DPI e-reader is just rather small. People are already complaining about the price of the Kindle Colorsoft, think what they would say if amazon put out a Kindle high DPI and it was in the $400-$500 range.

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

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Post by jeffybefffy519 »

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…

How do you legitimately buy books on it?

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

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Post by rhcom2 »

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 have the Kobo libra 2. I love the thing, especially the Pocket integration.

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

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Post by C-Loftus »

There is so much market disruption potential for e-readers.

Every one has a pretty big tradeoff if you are looking to use the e-reader as a general study tool (i.e. using it with Anki for language learning)

- boox devices run Android 11, illegally violate the GPL, and have poor customer service

- meebook devices are too underpowered and also run Android 11

- Kindles are too restrictive and anti-consumer; also does not have an Android option

- Kobo is probably the best, but still no Android option

- PineNote or Linux options are too expensive and unstable

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

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Post by al_borland »

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 switched from a Kindle to a Kobo (monochrome), and simply having the book cover as the lock screen makes me like it so much more. I always paid to not have ads on the Kindle, but it would show a bunch of generic images. The book cover is the obvious choice. Kobo gets it.

The reading experience is a little more bare bones, but good enough, and still offers things a physical book does not.

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

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Post by rkharsan64 »

yawnxyz wrote: post #233

huh the site has an interesting way of doing internationalization — it's just a different blog post w/ Spanish, rather than another language like /[sp]/[blog link]. Curious why they chose that route

It's a website where most articles don't have translations. This article seems like an exception, and I can't think of a simpler way to do this either.

If you had separate paths for each language, most links would have an unnecessary /en/.

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

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Post by mcmcmc »

heelix wrote: post #130
andwaal wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Same, though I don't think it is going to help Amazon the way they hope it does. I moved books over to my kindle and had it nuke my humble bundle collections when I added a purchase from Amazon. I've not connect it again until I figure out how to backup and restore MY metadata.

Won’t help with restoring metadata, but if you add books by using the “email to kindle” feature it will keep them in your library through syncs

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

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Post by mcmcmc »

thimabi wrote: post #228
freedomben wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder what is behind such a persistent bug. At what point do we stop giving the benefit of the doubt that it's a "bug"?

You make an interesting point. Maybe facilitating the usage of sideloaded books is not among Amazon’s priorities. Yet I don’t know how much of that comes from malice rather than simply negligence or lack of interest.

It’s directly against their priority of influencing you to only purchase ebooks through their monopoly. Whether anti-competitive, anti-user practices are malicious or just a consequence of capitalism run wild, I don’t think there’s much of a difference

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

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Post by elijaht »

al_borland wrote: post #246
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 switched from a Kindle to a Kobo (monochrome), and simply having the book cover as the lock screen makes me like it so much more. I always paid to not have ads on the Kindle, but it would show a bunch of generic images. The book cover is the obvious choice. Kobo gets it. The reading experience is a little more bare bones, but good enough, and still offers things a physical book does not.

I have a kindle that just displays the book cover. Are you sure it’s not just a setting?
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