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

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Post by atulatul »

koyote wrote: post #191
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…

> 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?

My notes/ underlines were wiped out when synched. (new edition with quality issues- spellings, I think- corrected.)

Any workaround?

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

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Post by theshackleford »

boznz wrote: post #315
thimabi wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Calibre is able to integrate with the “Send to Kindle” email interface as well, so you can have the best of both worlds :)

Sigh.. "Send to Kobo" would be nice to have

I have my Calibre install setup with the content server feature which makes your Calibre library accessible to any device on the local network. I can then transfer the books to my Kobo by using the browser and hitting the content server's IP address.

I can't remember all the specifics of how I set it up and honestly i've not used it in a while because I used it to get all my old Kindle purchased books on (which was a lot) and i've not booted the docker container since.

Is this a reasonable work around/alternative or have I misunderstood? If so, I apologise. Oh also, I think I had to do some custom stuff with my Kobo as well to support this functionality, but I don't remember it being difficult. Got it all wrapped in an evening of tinkering.

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

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Post by imp0cat »

elevatedastalt wrote: post #268
robertwt7 wrote: post #176

I loved my kindle paperwhite so much. I have a case on it all the time, there is not a single scratch on my kindle. One day, out of the blue, the touch screen stopped working. it is unresponsive to any touch, I've soft reset it, hard reset it, googled everything. Apparently its a common thing in amazon forum, and of course what does amazon support say? just buy a new one. At this point my kindle is only 2.5 years old…

My Kindle Paperwhite has been running strong for 10 years. No issues whatsoever except diminished battery life.

Yeah, my 2011 Kindle 3G needed a new battery, but otherwise, it's still as good as new.

Were the quality standards just different back then?

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

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Post by WalterBright »

kaonwarb wrote: post #251
al_borland wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just FYI, this is now a Kindle option too. https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=23435466011

Finally! But what I'd really like is the last page read is the screen saver.

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

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Post by mmahemoff »

ghostpepper wrote: post #297
110jawefopiwa wrote: post #262

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> IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience. Interestingly, I switched from Kindle to Kobo because it was lacking various basic features that made it not feel premium. * Kobo epubs can show "pages in chapter" progress so I know how much longer there is until a nice stopping point, while Kindle only shows "minutes left in chapter" which is functionally use…

> Kindle only shows "minutes left in chapter" which is functionally useless The kindle recomputes your reading pace as you go, so unless you prefer to do that math in your head and track your own pages-per-minute moving average, I don't see how it's functionally useless

I always find Kindle's "minutes left" too low for some reason, so I have to ignore it. I'd find it simpler - and easier to make progress - if it just showed pages read/remaining within the chapter. Absent that, I am often having to go through the distraction of using the overview feature to figure out where I am in the chapter.

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Post by ffsm8 »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #299
notatoad wrote: post #254

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kindles have displayed the book cover on the lock screen for approximately the last decade.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387146/amazon-display-c... 2021. People have certainly been asking for it for at least the last decade. Jail breaking doesn't count.

I bought a Kindle Paperwhite in 2020, it's been doing that since day 1 of my purchase without jailbreaking or anything.

It's not a new thing that journalists cover old features as if they've just been added, because they just found out about it and feel they're newsworthy

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

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Post by grogenaut »

TechDebtDevin wrote: post #255
Latty wrote: post #201

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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…

Boox is dodgy, but everyone I know that has one loves them. I wouldn't expect any Chinese company to respect GPLs. Although, I've seen people on Reddit say they can have QA issues, and if you receive that unit you're likely SOL, this is the only reason that I've been hesitant to spend money on one. I've also been eyeing this new company, daylight, that has a 60hz refresh rate with what I think is E-Ink[0]. Their webs…

I have a boox note 3, I don't love it. I barely use it. Have a remarkable 2 but spouse stole it when I iddn't use it much. I bought a scribe and used it more. I had 2 sets of classes this spring. I used the crap out of the scribe. I tried the boox for it and went back to the scribe. All I was doing was taking written notes in class and using it as infinte paper for doing homeworks. The boox takes forever to wake up and just is more laggy. It was usable for reading stuff in google docs outside but an umbrella and a laptop worked better.

That said all 3 have amazing battery life, they'd all last all semester on a charge.

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

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Post by grogenaut »

thimabi wrote: post #6
jsheard wrote: post #3

The color model is uncharacteristically expensive for Kindle at $280, more than the color Kobos which are $220 for the same 7" size (which also has physical buttons and stylus support) or just $150 for the smaller 6" size. Kindles are usually the cheaper option, at the expense of being less amenable to sideloading and jailbreaking than Kobos are.

The color model is expensive, indeed. My guess is that they will quietly offer discounts after the hype goes away.

the scribe was on a nice discount for fathers day and randomly in march this year

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

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Post by hi_hi »

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.

Wait, you have to pay to not have ads on a Kindle?

When did that start being a thing? I've been using a kindle for about 14 years, my current one is a few years old. I've been thinking about upgrading, but it works perfectly fine, and I've never had it display ads, and haven't had to pay anything for that "privilege".

It sounds like this will be my last Kindle device if I now have to pay extra for no ads, on a device I've already paid for, to read books I also pay for.

When will the madness stop!?

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

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Post by grogenaut »

packetlost wrote: post #184
linsomniac wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an original Scribe and while the writing experience was superb, I felt like the software experience was minimal and over the year or so I had it, it didn't really get enhanced any. My review of it was: It's just like paper, only more expensive. It seemed like if you wanted a large ebook reader AND occasional note taking, it's probably great. For my use, I would have been just as happy with just a spiral noteboo…

This is similar to me with my reMarkable 2. The writing experience is strictly worse than even cheap notebook and dramatically worse than a nice one with a nice mechanical pencil + lead. It's fine for reading PDFs, I guess.

I have bad hand writing and over scratch paper with pencils... I greatly prefer the e-tablets for writing, so ymmv. I'm 47. I just did 6 months of college classes out of the blue, I did about 50/50 paper/tablet so this is based on about 100 hour recent testing. I had to practice a lot of mec pencil and paper as that's how our exams were.
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