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

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Post by bloopernova »

OnionBlender wrote: post #96
bloopernova wrote: post #91

Kindle Scribe should show your calendar, news, weather, etc when it's plugged in. I hope Scribe note sharing is improved from "email yourself a PDF". And come on, still no physical page turn buttons? I also want a Kindle Scribe with a scroll display: a high-refresh-rate LCD touchscreen that sits just below the bottom of the eink screen. Use case being: swipe to a bookmark or page very quickly. It would stay off until…

The "email yourself a PDF" note taking issue made the Scribe a no-go for me. Basically, if you transfer your PDF over USB, it wouldn't allow you to use certain note taking features. You had to email the PDF to yourself through Amazon's servers. I hope Kobo releases a new Elipsa. I waited for the new reMarkable, but it is full of subscription garbage.

I hadn't looked at the Elipsa before. It looks very much like the 1st gen Scribe, did Amazon simply buy that hardware?

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

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Post by jjice »

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?

It's usually a small marketplace like Leanpub. Tilted Windmill Press (Michael W Lucas) [0] is another one I've done a good bit of purchasing from in the last six months or so.

[0] https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/

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

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Post by jjice »

thimabi wrote: post #4
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…

> 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 Kobo's in my experience as well.

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

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Post by stogot »

legohead wrote: post #39

I want to upgrade my Kindle but first I need to know where the power button is. My current one has the power button on the bottom and it turns off when I rest it on things - extremely annoying. Can't be certain from the product pictures, but looks like it's on the bottom again.

Turn it upside down? It works in both directions

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

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Post by bloopernova »

bloopernova wrote: post #91

Kindle Scribe should show your calendar, news, weather, etc when it's plugged in. I hope Scribe note sharing is improved from "email yourself a PDF". And come on, still no physical page turn buttons? I also want a Kindle Scribe with a scroll display: a high-refresh-rate LCD touchscreen that sits just below the bottom of the eink screen. Use case being: swipe to a bookmark or page very quickly. It would stay off until…

And the Scribe won't even accept a bluetooth keyboard. In the Kindle app on my iPad I can use a bt keyboard to turn pages.

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

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Post by foxyv »

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.

My partner has a Kobo and I'm seriously considering one. My Kindle has done more for my sleep than any other device. I get sleepy reading it, unlike my phone or tablet. I really wish I could my content on either device.

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

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Post by thimabi »

stogot wrote: post #134
legohead wrote: post #39

I want to upgrade my Kindle but first I need to know where the power button is. My current one has the power button on the bottom and it turns off when I rest it on things - extremely annoying. Can't be certain from the product pictures, but looks like it's on the bottom again.

Turn it upside down? It works in both directions

The last Paperwhite model, for example, did not work upside down, just in landscape mode (and even so, only rotated to one direction). I don’t know whether Amazon finally added a gyroscope to the Paperwhite in order to fix this issue.

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

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Post by tene80i »

carlosjobim wrote: post #129
tene80i wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shame you don’t see any need to compensate writers for your enjoyment of their work.

I don't know about the commenter above, but most writers I read have been dead for at least a hundred years. Should I purchase their e-book online for $850 each or should I get it from a shadow library?

If they’re dead who cares? Often it’s in the public domain. Go nuts.

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

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Post by tene80i »

widowlark wrote: post #117
tene80i wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shame you don’t see any need to compensate writers for your enjoyment of their work.

Not OP, but a few things: - the authors are unfairly compensated by amazon and the public libraries due to publisher issues with ebooks already. OP is hardly contributing to this disparity. - I choose to purchase expensive copies of books I love - but the digital copy is the one I read.

The fact that the situation for authors is already poor hardly makes it better to opt not to compensate them. If you or the OP feel that you’re only playing a small part, that’s between you and your conscience.

And sure, if you’re buying some copy of the book and downloading a convenient second copy, that’s totally different. I was responding to the OP being pleased about not having spent anything at all (except on the kindle itself presumably).

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