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

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Post by ErigmolCt »

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…

This policy has been around for several years.. Hopefully, some competition from other e-reader brands will help rein that in

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

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Post by jeremycarter »

criddell wrote: post #71
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.

The Scribe is neat, but it's too small (same goes for the Remarkable devices). It wish it was A4/Letter size to read PDFs at full size. There are a few devices like that out there (I've heard the Fujitsu Quaderno is nice), but none of them can be used with books purchased at Amazon. And yes, I know about Calibre and the DeDRM tools. They don't work on KFX files and the workarounds degrade the book (you lose typograph…

Have you seen the TCL Nxtpaper 14? It's huge! I'd imagine reading a textbook on it would be as good as the real thing.

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

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Post by oblio »

fransje26 wrote: post #433
oblio wrote: post #425

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These Kindles look great but I want to upload my own books. I wonder if there is a way to do that safely, long term.

I've been doing that for years using the Calibre app. No problems so far.

Since I'm a total noob, I guess:

PC + USB cable + Kindle = books transferred the old fashioned way?

I'm very tempted by the thing another commenter mentioned, with not giving the Kindle internet access, if it works, I need 0 smart features.

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

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Post by ErigmolCt »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #437

> fastest Kindle Paperwhite ever Is this something people value in an ereader? As long as its fast enough, idk why speed would be the thing they promote in the sub heading. I read on an ipad mini all the time but I don’t understand this. It’s weird messaging. Who in amazons product and marketing teams decided that this is the most important thing to mention?

It does seem odd for Amazon to highlight speed as a major selling point for an e-reader

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

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Post by wakeupcall »

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

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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.

Anyone with some critical experience also with the ipad pro pen?

I'd really like some comments there. There's a lot that goes into writing and drawing, and all the online reviews I've seen seem just to praise it.

I used most digital writing devices starting from wacom tables (first intuos series), to laptops with foldable screens and currently using the rm2/rm3.

I agree that nothing still has the precision of a real pen or pencil. I can lazily fill and shade even with a micron fineliner when I want, and simply can't replicate the same precision with anything else I tried. I could buy a lifetime supply of the best pens and paper with the cost of the rm3.

Writing is mostly fine, but when drawing I notice immediately the precision just isn't there. But still, at least on the rm (both 2 and pro), the digitizer is well calibrated, and the feel is good, the pen is actually like a pen and not the sucky abomination what wacom like to call "pens" or the tiny unusable styluses of the samsung "note" or lenovo yoga series. The show distance between tip and display is very good, and even though it seems ridicolous, the slighltly shorter one on the rm3 makes a difference. The rm2 is still requires a bit too much pressure for my taste (I have a light touch being used to mechanical pencils, fineliners and tech drawing); the rm3 seems slightly improved.

I can still tell instantly that lines are occasionally wobbly due to the digitizer's grid and pen position.

That being said I got the rm2 at some point, and it's the first e-notebook I actually stuck with because it's effectively "endless paper" and has reached the "good enough" feeling for me. I used to have tons of sheets of paper with notes, now I have somewhat less ;).

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

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Post by ErigmolCt »

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.

That's a perfect summary of the strange evolution we've had with reading devices!

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

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Post by IWeldMelons »

m463 wrote: post #428
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 have had many ereaders: several kindles including dx, remarkable 2, kobo clara 2e and the latest is the pocketbook inkpad lite. (all are b/w) Honestly, I just wanted an open reflective reader just for reading. Just put the books on the reader with usb and you're done. I liked the remarkable 2 - they didn't require an account or cloud syncing. I didn't use the pen much, but when I did it was pretty good. I mostly st…

inkpad's 150ppi is a dealbraker

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

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Post by robertwt7 »

MBCook wrote: post #277
thimabi wrote: post #197

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The thing is that the iPad screen truly doesn’t compare to e-ink in reading black-and-white books. If the e-ink screen is made properly, with high resolution and no PWM, one can read for hours on end without eye fatigue. Battery life on e-ink devices is in another league as well. For me at least, issues with an e-ink device simply mean moving on to another device, or another manufacturer/brand, instead of switching t…

I don’t think that was their point.

yeah my point was I feel like ipad is more reliable. I can live with not having to read from e-ink.
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