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

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Post by ane »

pfooti wrote: post #291
jacurtis wrote: post #223

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That is strange. I have had a Kindle for years (probably around a decade), upgrading mutliple times. I am using a Paperwhite Signature for the past year or so and I have not experienced this with any books. I have probably 70% Amazon purchased books, but that still leaves a decent amount of side-loaded books (mostly epub). The only annoying thing I experience is that the cover art will unload on the side-loaded books…

For me, they were drm free ebooks I bought legitimately and had to sideload via calibre because the kindle doesn't support epub. It's an old Paperwhite, and it only happens when I go out of airplane mode. However, I have to go out of airplane mode (or had to before I ditched the kindle for a kobo) to get library books and the occasional actual Amazon kindle book when I didn't feel like waiting for the library to get…

I have been using Send to kindle[1] for years to upload epubs directly to Kindle. It even syncs the position in the books so that if I read it on my Kindle, it syncs the position to the Kindle app on my phone.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle

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

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Post by eloisant »

WalterBright wrote: post #324
kaonwarb wrote: post #251

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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.

That would be weird, it would make it hard to know if the device is on or off.

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

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Post by chipdart »

Funes- wrote: post #227
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.

I get the joke, but color has been present in books (manuscripts, before the invention of the printing press, even) basically since their inception, many centuries ago, so just adding color wouldn't make these devices more similar to screens as much as it would make them more akin to... well, books. Just look at these marvels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript .

> I get the joke, but color has been present in books (...)

That's like saying confortable cars have been present since their inception, and then present as a example a royal coach.

True, you technically had colors in books. Just like you had books with hardbacks with gold inlays. The fact is that the bulk of the books being published were not color books because that costs a premium to make and moreso to buy. Hence the default stabilized in softcover books with B/W print on flimsy paper.

With e-readers you do not get higher production costs, and you can just download your books and benefit from that. Some ebooks even ship with high resolution images where you can zoom in all you want or need.

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

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Post by pta2002 »

hollerith wrote: post #304
mertd wrote: post #303

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Sorry but this is a bad take. The active light on "screens" is stimulating, causes eye strain and keeps you awake. The two technologies are not the same.

This again! Kindles have lights, too. On my old Paperwhite, the light could not be turned off. Although it could be dimmed, my iPad's backlight can be adjusted to be much dimmer than the Paperwhite's is capable of.

The Kindle's light is much more diffuse than the iPad's though, much closer to just having a reading light on, which you'd need anyway for a physical book.

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

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Post by thangngoc89 »

christianh wrote: post #358

I’ve been wanting to have a color ereader for a while (e.g. when non-fiction books have charts, illustrations, and photos I want to see them as they appear in print) and I’ve been looking at Kobo and others. But I want access to buy books on Amazon easily. It’s my understanding that you can’t easily get Amazon books onto anything else than Kindle, is that not true?

Unless it runs Android then you could download Kindle app from Play Store. Boox eReaders run on Android

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

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Post by chipdart »

thimabi wrote: post #235
entropie wrote: post #232

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It might also fold!

Come to think of it, a foldable Kindle would be very nice! And not just because it has the format of a book. The portability of a Paperwhite combined with the note-taking ability of a Scribe… there’s probably a market for that. Edit: also, holding the device semi-opened, hands on its back, seems much more comfortable than holding it by the bezels as we currently do.

> The portability of a Paperwhite combined with the note-taking ability of a Scribe… there’s probably a market for that.

There are already erasable notebooks that allow you to scan your notes and send the document to a storage of your choosing. Even BIC sells one of them.

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

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Post by potatoman22 »

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.

The dialectics of e-ink

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

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Post by letniq »

hi_hi wrote: post #329
al_borland wrote: post #246

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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…

Actually there is a hack. After buying a kindle, you just write to kindle support and say that you are getting ads and you are not aware why are you getting them. They usually would remove them for you. Worked for me though when I bought kindle.

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

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Post by lencastre »

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.

Both Kindle PW 10 and 11 gen support showing the cover. Personally I actually don’t like to see the cover of the books. Nobody’s business to see what I’m reading.

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

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Post by chrisandchris »

eloisant wrote: post #362
WalterBright wrote: post #324

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

That would be weird, it would make it hard to know if the device is on or off.

With these displays, there's not really an "off" because as long as there's no change on the display there's no energy usage. Of course, that dies not account for the OS.
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