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

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Post by dmd »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #351
andwaal wrote: post #35

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This happend to my kindle to! After keeping in in flight mode for years I put it online again in order to buy a few new books from the kindle store, poof suddenly my entire library of side loaded books was gone, with progress and everything. I could see random metadata files related to the books on the drive, be books was gone. Super annoying as many of the books I didn't have locally anymore and to loose the "archiv…

I just email epubs (as .txt) to my kindle's email address and they show up on the device in a couple of minutes. Never had any books just vanish. I find it easier than converting to Kindle format and then copying over USB.

Why email epubs as txt? You can just email the epubs. I do it every day.

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

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Post by NoGravitas »

komali2 wrote: post #195
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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 t…

I was thinking about this recently when a friend group argued that someone getting out of paying hospital bills is unethical since doctors are just as much victims of America's bad healthcare system as patients (due to exploitative pay structures I guess). To me this feels like some kind of victim blaming. The writer isn't getting paid (much), the reader is paying too much to a stranger, yet somehow the reader is the…

Yeah, there are a lot of things in our political and economic system that are oriented towards making victim blaming, or blaming individuals for systemic problems, the easiest and most natural line of thinking.

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

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Post by benterix »

jeremycarter wrote: post #460
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Can you please point me to the website/device where you got that device? I'm looking for something similar but affordable.

For a similar purpose I use the TCL Nxtpaper 11. There are also a larger version.

Can you tell me your experience? Any bad points? The bigger one looks really nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5QRVHSexJQ

But it seems something one would better test in person especially regarding the contrast/crispness of text hence my question how it works in the 11 model.

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

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Post by emmet »

chatmasta wrote: post #113
mazork wrote: post #12

Still no remote/bluetooth capabilities. That's the only thing that would make me upgrade, the third-party remotes you can buy are all pretty clunky (bulky clip on the side of the Kindle, need to be recharged often, can only flip forward as they just fake a swipe on the right of the screen).

I paid $20 for a remote page turner on Amazon and the battery lasts weeks. There’s no Bluetooth involved, it just uses basic radio signals to trigger a pulse that the kindle interprets as haptic input. It’s one of my favorite purchases, because now I can actually fall asleep while reading the kindle since I’m not activating my arm muscles to turn every page. This is the item (my kindle is one of the earliest versions…

Life changing isn't it? Coupled with a holder attached to the bed I feel like I read twice as fast when I'm using it rather than holding the kindle, side effect being that I look like the people in WALL-E.

I understand that people would prefer if it were built into the device but in all honesty it isn't really that much of an inconvenience when you're already only using it while it's stationary.

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

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Post by hasbot »

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?

"Speed" appears to be the only improvement over previous versions. It's only slightly larger than previous versions. My Paperwhite 4 is a little pokey especially in scrolling through a library, but it's not a big deal and not worth "upgrading." So the bigger question is "Why did Amazon create a new version of the Paperwhite with such marginal improvements?"

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Post by hresvelgr »

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I will second that the Kobo Libra Colour is an excellent device. To me it's the perfect reading device. To anyone using Calibre with it, make sure you get the Kobo plugin that transforms epub into kepub when sending to device. It normalises text size, margins, and so on so the reading experience is consistent no matter where you uh... procure your library from. I reconvert all my epubs anyway, but that step is critic…

Does the Libra Colour support KOReader? That removes the need to convert to kepub and generally gives you better rendering, at the cost of having to do more setup.

Well, their website seems to suggest it does. I will mention though, that plugin converts them automatically without intervention and does a pretty flawless job.

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

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Post by n4r9 »

gizmo wrote: post #431
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> Hacking might be characterized as ‘an appropriate application of ingenuity’. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html It's not far off a hack. And not OP but personally I've got very few problems with getting one over on massive corporations like Amazon.

It's about as ingenious as littering to save yourself a 20 second walk to a trash can.

I disagree. It's exploiting a weakness in customer service provision in order to work around built-in UX degradation. Not many people would think of it.

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Post by 4lun »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #154
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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.

> Also, physical buttons! Such things are only available on the most expensive Kindle Or the old ones you can get for $10 on eBay :) I use exclusively old models that have physical buttons for Kindles because they're just insanely cheap and still perfectly reliable (the battery too) even a decade later.

Unfortunately I've found the screens on the older ones to be quite fragile (at least the 4th gen)

I went through a phase of buying used 4th gen ones off ebay so that I could have physical buttons to turn the page, but within a couple of months they would always end up up with cracked screens

They would be stored in my bag next to my laptop (and in a case) but at some point I would end up pulling it out to read and find a cracked screen

I think I went through 4 of them before I called it quits, my current paperwhite is still going strong (just no buttons sadly)

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

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Post by hasbot »

animal531 wrote: post #435

Some of the biggest pros and cons of Kindles vs Books: Pros - Lightweight, I can even fit it into a holder on the side of a chair or bed so I don't have to hold it. - I don't have to physically manipulate the 1000 page book to try and get to certain pages. - No dust. Cons - I can't tell you the authors or names of most of the books I've read on it. When you have a physical book you're confronted by the book and autho…

My eyesight has gotten worse and I can't read a typical book with its tiny print. The biggest Pro for me is adjustable font sizes. Another Pro is free books! After purchasing probably a 1000 books in my life; I'm done buying and storing books. I did the library thing for a few years when the library was only a couple of blocks away but book selection and availability was never good. Now I can easily get any book I want from the comfort of my home.
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