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Originally Posted by jswinden
- K3 manual has 120 pages
- K4 manual has 21 pages
- KF manual has 23 pages
The older manuals contained about 6 times the information of the new ones! |
Pages != "information". The K3 manual gets to Page 9 before you have
any information (other than title, table of contents) and page 30 before you're done with the physical layout and using the keypad. Page 29, for example, is about the battery indicator. Seriously. Page 26 has the following:
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To enter lowercase letters, press the appropriate letter key. To enter uppercase letters, hold down the Shift key , and then press the desired letter key like you do on your computer keyboard. Alternatively, you can press and release the Shift key and then press the desired letter. Only the next letter will be capitalized.
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Page 31 defines Blog and AudioBook. Seriously. Page 36 tells you how to click-to-sort... which has been a standard computer function for over 20 years.
15 pages (75-86, 108-11) are about The Kindle Store. 7 pages are the Appendix, which is just safety and specs. And there are 39 graphics that are more than 1/2 page size (most are 2/3 page), plus many 1/5-page graphics.
I think the K3 manual was aimed at helping people new to electronics. Starting with sentences like:
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You can press the Next or Previous Page buttons to move forward or backward in your
reading material and press the Back button to retrace your steps on your Kindle.
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Kindle uses a high-resolution display technology called electronic paper. It works
using ink just like books and newspapers, but it displays the ink particles electronically.
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Judging from the manuals, the K3 was apparently aimed at people likely to mistake it for an Etch-A-Sketch, while the Fire's manual implies a target demographic born in the last 55 years or so. For the latter, the K3 manual imparts very little information.