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Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle

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Re: Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle

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Post by bioweek »

ableal wrote: post #48
bioweek wrote: post #43

Can someone make a PDF reader for the Kindle? It would display PDF's somewhat sanely and it would allow bookmarking and annotations.

Besides the one Amazon ships in the latest firmware versions ? ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... ) The manuals ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... ) seem to say you can bookmark PDF pages, but do not mention clippings or annotations, which are allowed for the mobi/azw default format.

Yes, besides that one. It seems to completely barf on most PDFs especially multi column ones.

I don't recall the bookmarking working. And annoations and clippings are definately not there.

Re: Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle

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Post by ableal »

bioweek wrote: post #51
ableal wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Besides the one Amazon ships in the latest firmware versions ? ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... ) The manuals ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... ) seem to say you can bookmark PDF pages, but do not mention clippings or annotations, which are allowed for the mobi/azw default format.

Yes, besides that one. It seems to completely barf on most PDFs especially multi column ones. I don't recall the bookmarking working. And annoations and clippings are definately not there.

Well, I was looking at the DX manual - I confess I'm waiting to lay my mitts on one, which should be landing in my corner of Europe today.

If you're talking of the 6" e-ink screen (I have one of the Hanlin ones, branded BeBook), I do not think there's a good way of reading PDFs "printed" to Letter/A4 on them. (Thus the DX.)

(Short, of course, of intelligently reflowing the PDF to a smaller page size - which currently seems to be an opportunity ;-)

Re: Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle

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Post by dkokelley »

Herring wrote: post #44
dkokelley wrote: post #17

I'm excited to see what come of this. Although most of my 'connected' needs are filled by my iPhone, having a comparable substitute on the big, battery-sipping, easy-on-the-eyes screen seems like a good idea. Now if only they would come down in price just a bit...

Last I checked they had it refurbished for ~400

Oops. I meant to reference the Kindle's price. I already have an iPhone.

Re: Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle

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Post by Herring »

dkokelley wrote: post #55
Herring wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I checked they had it refurbished for ~400

Oops. I meant to reference the Kindle's price. I already have an iPhone.

Yeah I got that. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0015TCML0/?tag=kwab-...

Maybe they'll restock soon.

Re: Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle

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Post by dkokelley »

Herring wrote: post #56
dkokelley wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oops. I meant to reference the Kindle's price. I already have an iPhone.

Yeah I got that. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0015TCML0/?tag=kwab-... Maybe they'll restock soon.

Ouch. I would probably only want the 6" version.
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