I've tried out all the e-ink note taking devices (Kindle Scribe, Boox Go 10.3, Remarkable 2, and Remarkable Paper Pro). The Kindle Scribe can't really compete with the others right now since the software is so limited. I'd only get it if you were a huge Kindle user that very occasionally wanted to take some notes. Otherwise, the Remarkable 2 or Remarkable Paper Pro are your best bets. Those are absolutely excellent products that don't overwhelm you with distractions.
Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
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Honestly, I think they should optimize the time it takes a powered off device to boot up and turn the page after the user presses a button[0]. Sure, those readers tend to be full-blown Linux computers with nontrivial boot time, but approximately none of the features this stack provides are needed for simply turning the page. I'm sure I'm underestimating the complexities of the problem, but the first idea that pops in…
> Gosh, I keep forgetting the readers only have touchscreens now. Another reason for superiority of hardware buttons for page turning. Kobo still has a reader with buttons thankfully. I don’t understand how people tolerate touchscreen on e-readers. It’s extremely distracting compared to just pressing.
I stopped using one ereader we had because the damn touchscreen kept flipping the page if e.g. a blanked brushed it while I was reading in bed.
Buttons were absolutely perfect for this use case, on a dedicated e-reader—less so, say, an iPad mini that also does other stuff, but also those nicer touchscreens don't accidentally trigger as often so it's not as big a problem. Touch screen is nice for navigating menus but should be disabled when reading.
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That would be weird, it would make it hard to know if the device is on or off.
The whole point of e-ink screens is that the device only needs to be "on" when redrawing the screen. In fact, with respect to the e-ink readers, a "screen saver" that turns on automatically is a bad idea that removes useful functionality - being able to keep the same page up for hours without interacting with the device is a feature , as it allows you to use it as a reference, like you'd do with a paper printout.
"on" in this case mainly means whether it's unlocked and reacting to input. It can make sense to have no distinct lock-screen, but I can also see it leading to frustrated users who are annoyed by not knowing if the device reacts to input or not.
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#564I 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…
Have an older Kobo Aura H2O as well as new Onyx Boox Pgae and both work fine. :)
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
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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.
As far as problems go, I understand it's been a constant and this specific implementation is pretty low on the list, but generally, greed leading to ads intruding every aspect of our lives and people thinking up with new spots to place ads is a problem. Creating a different experience around reading books for those who have and those who have not is also a problem, given how important literacy and the printing press…
I'd love to see most advertising simply banned, but in the case of books there's precedent from back when people used to actually read enough to be worth advertising to: mid-century pulp novels often had a couple pages of glossy ads right in the middle, usually including one or more cigarette ads.
The first or last pages of books are still frequently used to sell other books from the same author or from the same publisher. Not that long ago they'd come with cut-out cards to mail in for your order for more of the publisher's books from the partial catalog printed in your book (nobody orders by mail any more, is the only reason the stopped that, I assume). Some of my books when I was a kid would have the first chapter of another book from the same anthology series at the end, to sell it (Goosebumps did this, for example).
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
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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.
Just FYI, this is now a Kindle option too. https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=23435466011
boo, book cover on lock screen not available for Scribe (yet)
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#567I want to recommend getting an e-ink smartphone. I've tried the Hisense A5 and the Bigme Hibreak, and software-wise, found the Bigme Hibreak to suck a little less, as I could not access the Google Play store on the Hisense. I had one with colour, and one without. The black and white screen is much better. Both sadly run outdated Android versions, so I don't do anything like banking on my e-ink phone. But I have found…
I'm hearing good things about the Palma. I currently have a first gen paperwhite and am looking to upgrade. I'm thinking either the palma or the kobo libra color. They are about the same price, I think.
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I don't get my books from Amazon, how would they be able to access my computer and my backups?
Ok then, you're probably fine, but you did reply to a comment that specifically said "from Amazon" so I don't think it's unreasonable to assume you meant you had bought them from Amazon. > You don't really own anything from Amazon. Kindle is good as ashtray.
Saying that the Kindle is as good as an ashtray is like saying cars are useless because we can travel by horse. It's ideologically motivated detachment from reality.
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It's definitely not "a decade". I have the 2013 Kindle Paper white and it doesn't have that feature without JB, the oldest device supported is Kindle Paperwhite 7th Gen which is released in 2019. It's likely you are just lucky to buy a KPW with that feature just rolled out.
I cannot speak on when it was actually introduced. I only added my experience because bongobingo said 2021 and cited a tabloid "article" as proof. The feature definitely predates April 2021, how long? I have no idea, possibly only 6-7 months, as I bought mine in October 2020.
First archive of the amazon announcement page was in April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210419114306/https://www.amazo...
Re: Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
#570I 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…
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