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Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

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Re: Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

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Post by NetMageSCW »

paulcole wrote: post #249
lynndotpy wrote: post #150

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"Crying" is needlessly dismissive and it doesn't strengthen your position. I'm happy there is a mass of popular sentiment that consumer devices are better with buttons. I think they're to whom we can credit the return (or addition of new) buttons to cars, to phones, and to all manner of appliances (induction stoves, thermostats, ACs.) In either case, it looks like the last Kindle with buttons disappeared only late 20…

> I'm happy there is a mass of popular sentiment that consumer devices are better with buttons There is not. It’s the same 11 people who have a hobby of posting online about how much they miss buttons.

There’s 12 of us!

Re: Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

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u_fucking_dork wrote: post #234
avazhi wrote: post #70

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> The ads are only shown while it's off, they're static black and white images, and 99% of the time they're for books. Totally unobjectionable Speak for yourself. Aside from the principle, some of us don’t want to be advertised to in the comfort of our own home/bed/while we’re camping or whatever. Ads don’t have to be actively flashing, spaz-inducing insanity to be objectionable. Not to mention that by definition an…

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Re: Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

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Post by blcknight »

t-3 wrote: post #245
blcknight wrote: post #208

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It hasn't changed, and I don't know why people are saying that most books don't have DRM. It is only a small minority. Tor books is the largest publisher without it (owned by Macmillan). Otherwise everything is truly hard DRM either ACSM with epub or Kindle's. They are both more or less easily defeated though.

Kobo does carry DRM-free books, and I've never encountered DRM on any books I bought directly from authors' or publishers' websites either.

The vast majority of kobo books are still ACSM protected.

Re: Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

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Post by rypskar »

MrDOS wrote: post #262
rypskar wrote: post #179

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I did consider a Kobo, but the terrible website did turn me away. When trying to browse it was wait for button on tracking consent to be active so I could click reject. Then change language to what I'm fluent in instead of getting language based on IP, reject tracking, reject changing region back to IP based and the same two reject for every link clicked. Half the times pages was still shown in language based on my l…

This argument would hold a lot more water if the alternative you're siding with weren't Amazon.

How did you get siding with Amazon from giving up on the Kobo website? There are more than two options, re-reading some of the dead-tree variants I have would keep me occupied for years. Hopefully a new alternative would come out before I run out of space for books

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Post by phil21 »

literalAardvark wrote: post #188
phil21 wrote: post #156

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> But then I also understand that'd increase the price by 10% and only help right handed people with weak hands so... c'est la vie. You can... turn them upside down to become a left-handed device. That way you can be weak-handed with either hand!

Only way to get buttons that are comfy on both sides would be to flip it screen out. That doesn't seem like a very useful position to hold a reader in though. If you turn it upside down the left hand buttons will be way too high on the reader

The Oasis solves this - buttons are in the middle. Since you tend to not use the back page button much, it works pretty well.

I was skeptical of the "lopsided" design at first but it grew on me and is what I'd prefer in future devices from here on out.

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Post by Zambyte »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #298
Zambyte wrote: post #182

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There are other people who can and will support it. Let them.

There are companies that will make deals with tens of thousands of book publishers and provide storage and access for millions of books, magazines and comics? I suppose they will do it for free?

How do you know what Aloha does?

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Post by u_fucking_dork »

wiseowise wrote: post #282
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #229

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As opposed to what?

Ah yeah certainly there’s nothing else to be done. One must complain on social media about something that they have no control over yet is easily avoidable.

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Post by arikrahman »

BeetleB wrote: post #170
arikrahman wrote: post #14

Glad I went the Kobo route. Koreader beats Kindle any day of the week.

Koreader is available on Kindle.

Says it needs a jailbreak on the device voiding the warranty from what I read. That's good though, I'd like to see my Kindle peers break out of that walled garden.

Re: Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

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Post by NetMageSCW »

j45 wrote: post #86
__rito__ wrote: post #77

I will just stick with Kindles. Indian heat and humidity make a Kindle unusable in 7-8 years, unless you have a 100% AC life. Kindles last a month on a charge or two. It's very light. It's affordable. It doesn’t show colors, but I have an android tab to read papers and technical content, anyway. I tried looking at alternatives, but low price + extreme power efficiency + being able to sideload books is just great.

There are other similarly priced and equally capable e-readers.

They aren’t similarly capable unless they have access to the same books.

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Post by redsocksfan45 »

jzb wrote: post #265
Aloha wrote: post #107

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14 years of support for a device is pretty incredible.

No. It’s not. It’s just that we’ve been conditioned to accept that disposable devices are the way of things.

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