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

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Post by bald »

mmahemoff wrote: post #325
ghostpepper wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

If you tap on the minutes left text in the lower left corner of your screen, it will cycle through pages, minutes left in chapter, section and blank

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

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Post by rdn »

hi_hi wrote: post #329
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.

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…

Its been that way for years, the ad is on the lockscreen, and its an ad for other books. The version with no advertisement is 20$ more, I don't see the problem if someone wants to get a discount for looking at ads.

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

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Post by grogenaut »

pedalpete wrote: post #146
packetlost wrote: post #34

The new Kindle Scribe looks kinda lame compared to the new reMarkable Pro, though significantly cheaper. Maybe the colored ePaper isn't that great, but at least you get some color for highlighting, which is probably a non-insignificant use of these types of devices. Either way, sad there's no Oasis refresh. I'm not super attached to the physical buttons, but I'd prefer it to not. Oh well.

I had exactly the other response when compared to my current scribe. I'm not sure they are trying to compete with remarkable on the design front, or that they should. Remarkable, as a newer, smaller company, needs to seriously differentiate itself. Amazon can play it safer. Having said that, I think the white bezel and introducing a professional looking colour to the Scribe, is so much better looking than my current…

I agree, the new one looks snazzy. Though I have my og scribe in the composition notebook cover which is super slick and discrete.

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

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Post by grogenaut »

habosa wrote: post #279

The new Kindle paper white may finally get me to upgrade … but also maybe not. I have a 10+ year old Kindle Paperwhite (I think first gen). I use it daily and it’s still just nearly a perfect device. It’s withstood rough treatment, battery life is still ~2 books long, and it has never been made obsolete by a software update. No other electronic device I’ve ever bought has had this kind of longevity and it’s not even…

Thinner, waterproof, usbc much faster charging, and I think the screen isn't as brittle. I bought the new one on a whim when it was on hella sale and I really like it.

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Post by grogenaut »

reaperducer wrote: post #67
Ekaros wrote: post #53

I wish someone did slightly smaller models still. Not phone size, but bit down. Would be easier to carry sometimes.

I wish someone did slightly smaller models still. Funny, because I'd like a larger one. When e-readers first started, one of the big companies offered a machine that would display an entire page of The New York Times on it large enough to be able to skim the headlines, then you'd tap on the article and it would take you to that part of the page. Back then, I didn't have the money for it. Now I do, and the only option…

Try a scribe, it's like a kindle DX that you can take notes on and is modern.

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

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Post by majormajor »

hi_hi wrote: post #329
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.

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…

At least ten years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/technology/personaltech/r...

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

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Post by prlin »

coremoff wrote: post #70
prlin wrote: post #32

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A friend showed me usb adapters from usb-c to lightning and I found that very helpful for usb-c -> micro as well to charge the kindle.

unfortunately it's not much different carrying an adapter around than carrying the cable; but I'll have a look at options, thanks

just to be clear its a small piece like this https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Adaptor-Charger-Extender-Sams... which I feel like is much easier to bring around than another cable, but I can see how it's annoying to have another dongle

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

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

hi_hi wrote: post #329
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.

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…

It's a one-time thing, it's like $20. They've been doing it for at least six or seven years. You probably selected it when you ordered your current model.

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Post by grogenaut »

technothrasher wrote: post #185
grecy wrote: post #7

I bought a used paperwhite in 2015 and have read many hundreds of books on it. Still works flawlessly and even great battery life despite taking it around the world through -45 and +45 many times. I don’t love Amazon, but this may be the best device I’ve ever owned. It does one thing really, really well.

I bought a Voyage in 2015 and don't want to give it up. I like it more than any of the newer models I've tried. Battery life is starting to get poor, but even 'poor' gives me about a week of typical reading before I have to charge it again.

I loved my voyage then I lost it for week and splurge bought an 8gb paperwhite that I could read in the hot tub. I just use the paperwhite now. The voyage sits as a backup to the scribe which backs up the paperwhite and goes along for note taking

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

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Post by ptman »

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?

I've had this problem as well. When going from offline to online, it removes books sideloaded via USB. But not books I've added via send to kindle or ones that I've downloaded via the experimental browser. So now, instead of sideloading via USB, I convert to mobi, run a python -m http.server on my laptop and use the experimental browser to download them on kindle.
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