Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

got my $44 paperwhite in the post yesterday; super light but not quite as much lighter feeling than the iPad mini I bought last weekend as I'd expected. and e-ink is weird, looks like an etch-a-sketch. but I wanted it because it'll work well in heavy sunlight, and for my kids, so I'm happy.

i am p sore about being excluded from that promotion

Bundling digital books with physical ones would have tax implications in the UK, as the VAT on printed books is 0%, whereas ebooks are the standard 20%. For no good reason as far as I'm aware.

i am p soure about being excluded from that promotion

New, non-promotion price paperwhite is still indexing. What's up with that?

Just deleting unindexed stuff and then will load up again incrementally. Seems to help it get unstuck.

Welcome aimless

it just seems ugly that it won't support ePub

part of that might -- *might* -- be technical. i might get this wrong in part, but epub is based on html and css, and those hardware, non-tablet kindles are garbage at rendering webpages, or at least they used to be, i think. maybe they could beef up that capability, and maybe part of this does have to do with business reasons, but i think there could be another side to it too.

and the thing that would lend some credence to your argument is the fact that the kindle app for ipad will not let you read epub, while ibooks will, even though the former's format of choice is some modification of .mobi and the others is a modification of .epub. that being said, i don't think ibooks supports .mobi either. heh.

your best bet is just to get an ipad, which can support basically whatever you need it to support due to the fact that it has a robust app ecosystem.

i have the kindle app for the kindle store, ibooks for epub and ibooks, and pdf expert for pdfs. if there were another format i needed to view, i could see if one of those apps would handle it or install another one.

it's hard to argue with $49 though.

esp. if you're going to be mainly reading kindle books!

I read on my tablet the odd time but its def a screen in a way a kindle's isnt and my eyes know the difference v quickly.

Theyre different beasts and a tablet really doesnt sub for a kindle imo

yeah e-ink is key, fuck an ipad just for reading

yeah also why pay like 6 times more than you have to... you can easily convert any format. and like i said above you can be chiller with a kindle and not worry about it getting stolen as much. or getting all slow with an os update.

Fully indexed at last! Now to gentle add back stuff

D'oh! If you click on the Unindexed Titles thing it tells you what they are.

Now I can enjoy the eye-soothing e-ink in tranquility.

Thought I'd lucked onto another kobo mini in Hammersmith just then but despite having them on display they didn't have them for sale and the display models are dumb copies apparently (not sure I believe that as you can switch mine into demo mode).

This page is kind of useful, although it takes hella long to load: https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights

Seem to recall that when I searched for text on all items, it used to only put the book on top of Most Recent if clicked all the through to the hit but now it seems to so even if I just click through once to the book. Do u see?

Perhaps I am misremembering.

On another note, just figured out this second how to get page number displayed on paperwhite. Have to pull down the menu, on a book that has page numbers, then set yr Reading Progress. I'm sure most of you already knew this.

One problem with the Nook that I have noticed is that when you connect it to the PC to add content to the micro sd card it resets all your bookmarks.

That drives me fuckin nuts

unlimited

FYI there is a store in town here called kindlenook

very curious to know how authors will be getting paid in the kindle unlimited ecosystem, also what it means for pirating ebooks... if I can download any participating title to my computer using this service, I can strip the DRM and keep it.

Dunno about that.

You can keep ten at a time, you want to take another it suggests what to return or gives you option go return something else. So far found lots of Robert Sheckley and Ed McBain.

And along with the Sheckley lots of OpenRoad Integrated Media stuff. Thomas Berger, for example.

see 2k14 worst thread

Yeah, maybe

Mines having this annoying glitch where it keeps asking me to enable location based services but they are already enabled

I always said I'd get a Kindle as soon as the DPI got better. Well http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/17/amazons-kindle-voyage/

" The navigation buttons are all gone and the interface has gone all-touch " (new "upgrade" to the basic kindle)
Just leave the buttons alone ffs, I occasionally use the touch-screen on my Nook Glowlight but mainly I use my buttons and this design trend for phasing out buttons is shit.

yeah, I recently bought a kindle paperwhite after having lost my basic non-touch kindle and I very much preferred being able to change pages with a button.

Also so far don't really see the point of a touch screen at all. I guess it's a bit quicker when I want to click on a word to get its definition. I do enjoy being able to read in the dark though.

The Voyager has squeeze-to-turn page buttons. Haven't tried it yet...

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Yeah reading in the dark is a delight, it is brilliant when you suffer from insomnia and have a proneness for late night bad thoughts.

What are the displays like on these paperwhite/voyager type next gen readers, they always look quite bright and eye-strainy from pictures.

Not eyestrainy, no. And you can adjust the level.

How are they in sunlight?

hey, that looks pretty great, although I'd want to test out the page turn buttons first. also, as a general complaint about e-readers, WTF is up with this 2GB and 4GB of storage shit? memory is dirt cheap these days, 8GB should be the absolute floor. I get not wanting the hassle of a card slot, but come on.

Pretty sure only like 1% of Kindle owners have more than a GB of books on their Kindles...

yeah i can't imagine ever filling it up to remotely those levels

You missed an important word there .. Legally.

I've got a memory card in my Nook because I used up the main memory almost immediately... maybe I read too many picture books.

8GB doesn't seem like too much to ask for a "premium" model like that Kindle Voyage... still think it looks really good overall.

hey, that looks pretty great, although I'd want to test out the page turn buttons first. also, as a general complaint about e-readers, WTF is up with this 2GB and 4GB of storage shit? memory is dirt cheap these days, 8GB should be the absolute floor. I get not wanting the hassle of a card slot, but come on.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:15 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is a big deal IMO, both Kindle and Nook are trending toward smaller storage and deleting card slots. I mean yeah, I need the extra storage for shit I downloaded illegally. But do you wanna sell me a device or not?

(I love my Nook Glowlight in all respects except for diminished storage)

(I love my Nook Glowlight in all respects except for diminished storage)

I am guessing you are talking about the Nook Glow, because the Glowlight has an expansion slot. Which is the main reason most of my e-readers will be purchased 2nd hand on ebay for the next decade at least.

problem with the Simple Touch Glow is the physical buttons wear out and break after a while