Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

so, kobo glo hd or kobo auro h2o? My Kobo touch has just died. H2o looks bulky, but reviewers say the 6.8 screen makes it feel like real book, and you really get used to it. Glo seems more in keeping with the touch.

they still sell the touch, it's the only one that looks reasonably priced at £70, even £109 for the glo HD seems like a lot of money, let alone the £140 for the aura. #kobomini4life

Mm yes, but i think im willing to pay extra for the light, plus the better pdf handling and screen quality sounds good.

Has anyone had a problem with their Kindle (paperwhite version) where the battery drains even when not being used?

My wifi isn't turned on so that's not the issue. I read somewhere that sometimes the Kindles struggles to index books (whatever that means) and so gets stuck in a loop. But I've deleted almost all my books and it still drains.

Pretty crap.

yeah mine has done that when i've let it sit for a couple weeks

I bought my paperwhite 2nd hand on ebay over a year ago and the battery hasn't noticeably degraded at all and it has never happened to mine. I permanently have mine on aeroplane mode and use the pc app to do any purchases, idk if that helps.

nothing about this makes me want to buy it: http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/amazon-kindle-oasis

original one was v good, the paperwhite one a fair bit better. can't think of any real ways they can improve on this. let it go, amazonpaws

@!#$#$ing typesetting

oh boy, mandatory leather cover... does it come with a wizard hat too?

I could see this being more comfortable to hold than the one I've got now (Voyage, I think), but I'd have to wait til I saw it in person.

yeah i kinda like it, but there is zero reason to get one if you already have a functional kindle. like, when i lose mine maybe i'll consider it

I like that they brought back physical buttons, but why would anyone pay $200 more than for a kindle paperwhite?

why would anyone pay $200 more

they're playing up the "thinnest, lightest ever" aspect, no doubt in homage to Apple. next up: the Kindle wristwatch

are left handed people SOL?

I assume you can just change the screen orientation in order to use it with your left hand

but the embossed logo on the leather cover will be upside down 8(

people on the tube will point and laugh

They will mostly point and laugh because you paid $300 for an e-reader

They will be too busy sneaking an admiring glance at the 300ppi screen to laugh. "Wow! I have never seen such well defined e-ink text before"

it has a mechanism that automatically changes the button directions when you rotate it and switch hands.

i love the idea of buttons but i just got a paperwhite in the last year and i really have no reason to upgrade. and i thought $200 for the voyage was too much, this is even more ott.

I have an old Nook with two sets of buttons so no gyroscopic bullshit needed. Still works great.

i think the airport fried my old kindle bc after i landed it had these streaks on the screen and online ppl say sometimes powerful electronics/magnetics or whatever effects can do that. so i got the paperwhite and it is so gorgeous. i really love it. it's light, v easy to read, touch screen, you can push on a word and it brings up a dictionary definition. you can click a footnote and it gives you the footnote in a pop up window instead of scrolling back and forth. v. pleased w/ it almost grateful that the tsa forced me to upgrade.

Everyone seems to fall in love with the paperwhite at first contact, it does deserve that love though - absolutely.

anyone use the 'send to kindle' add-on for firefox? mine has become inoperable in the past few days, with no indication as to why.

― j., Thursday, March 17, 2016 2:03 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it works again!!

what is with this update this is gross dnw

What happened

AUGH

there are all kinds of cosmetic changes, UI elements moved, the homepage contents listing had its font changed and it's all smaller and busy now

do these people even use the things they fiddle with before they foist them upon us

I'm still on 5.7.3. What am I missing?

there is a snazzy new homescreen, if you are willing to have buy recommendations put on it (if not, same old thing w/ adjusted appearance)

everything is thinner (lines, fonts, etc.) and the buttons and such are smaller (beyond the point of casual accurate buttonpushing)

for some reason collection views now default to showing you 'all' rather than 'downloaded', despite there being more things in 'downloaded' than in 'all' - and if you don't make the switch the only other way to find something now being shown in 'all' is to search for it

Yuck. Is there a screenshot online anywhere?

Have they changed the actual fonts for reading? Am kind of loving reading with the weirdo dyslexic font.

If this is the update from months ago, I don't mind it.

it may be that, i was notified of one that never seemed to come. i now have a dyslexic font i didn't have before.

I just want a baseline of mere competence for the books that get advertised on the sleep screen (of my paperwhite). Without exception they are the shittiest imaginable self published ebooks, many of which have grammatical or spelling errors in their promo blurb and some of which even have misspellings in their cover graphics! Seeing them makes me super depressed about, like, the debasement of writing etc. books are supposed to be my safe zone of craftsmanship.

I don't like the most recent update. I have the hardest time just finding books that I know are on my device.

The most recent update looks nice I think but it seems to have broken my battery use - which now drains even when I'm not using the thing

This is why mine has been in aeroplane mode since I bought it. I don't want any meddlesome interaction with Amazon at all, especially when I like it the way it is.

i think what they changed was, in going from options 'all' and 'cloud' to 'all' and 'downloaded', they stopped counting files loaded on manually as part of 'all'. also by default 'all' now covers undownloaded (or since locally deleted) cloud files, so what's called 'downloaded' is more accurately 'all the contents of the kindle'.

boo

question about a thing not new to this update, i think:

when you read a formatted (usual kindle file) book that has page sizing issues (e.g. set as poetry), a scroll/zoom option will pop up in the middle of the screen on page turn taps, so that you have to turn-tap repeatedly to get it to turn and ignore the scroll/zoom buttons. is there a setting to turn that off, or at least a way to use it to avoid that behavior? so that it's just clear and easy page turns from here til eternity?

argh i mean it's really annoying to move the orientation setting multiple levels in, so that it's harder to get to than the font

I just want a baseline of mere competence for the books that get advertised on the sleep screen (of my paperwhite). Without exception they are the shittiest imaginable self published ebooks, many of which have grammatical or spelling errors in their promo blurb and some of which even have misspellings in their cover graphics! Seeing them makes me super depressed about, like, the debasement of writing etc. books are supposed to be my safe zone of craftsmanship.

I'm glad it's not just me, I thought the ads were targeted/personalized somehow and I was deeply and profoundly insulted by what they thought I was interested in

Can't you put these ad infested kindles into permanent airplane mode and use the kindle app on your pc to purchase and move ebooks onto it? There is a nice free program called calibre that helps you do this.

I think then I would just be stuck with whatever the current shitty ad is?

I side load almost everything using calibre btw

one of the sync menu items i was used to seeing seems to have vanished at least some of the time, after the update i mentioned above, so i was surprised today to find that in the brightness item (sun) on the main menu bar, you can switch to airplane mode as well as do a sync

grumble

btw verso is having one of their $1 ebook sales today

they stamp your name and email in the file before they release it to you!

their kindle files are quite large tho, must be fulla crud

they come with a publisher's font by default, i wonder if that's it

Yeah, that makes sense.

Have we remarked yet on when the interesting, aesthetically pleasing cover art available at time of purchase gets replaced by clip-art or movie tie-in?

my paperwhite kindle suddenly started turning pages with a small lag - any experience with that?