11-08-2009, 10:23 AM | #1 |
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Read without author name/book title at top?
Hi, I just got a kindle 1 refurb and I was wondering if there's a way to read a book without that author name at the top.. to maximize screen real estate for the text of the book...
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11-08-2009, 10:37 AM | #2 |
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I'm not sure about the answer to your question, uncola, but would minimizing the size of the script help?
You'd get more content, but the type would be small. |
11-08-2009, 01:49 PM | #3 |
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hehe I'm already using the smallest font. I just wish there was a way to make the book text full screen without the title at the top and the battery monitor/menu at the bottom. It's no big deal but I'm surprised there's no way to do it since it gives like 15% more screen space for the book
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11-08-2009, 05:28 PM | #4 |
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No way afaik unless you were to somehow hack the Amazon firmware (if that is even possible).
Perhaps contact Amazon with the suggestion, it seems like a great idea. The iPhone already has an interface like that (touch the screen to show/hide meta data for the current song). Could be something that we get for the next revision of the software. |
11-08-2009, 06:07 PM | #5 |
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I was listening to The Kindle Chronicles this afternoon, and heard a persuasive argument that any further upgrades to the Kindle were pretty unlikely except to fix problems. This is the source of the story:
http://blogkindle.com/ Last edited by JMikeD; 11-08-2009 at 06:40 PM. |
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11-09-2009, 06:35 PM | #7 |
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I think the iphone does a similar thing.. this sounds totally reasonable to me. I just manually updated my kindle 1 refurb from 1.1 to 1.2 and it was easy.. it seems like it updated itself from 1.0 to 1.1 over the air somehow the day I got it but it didn't detect the 1.2 update so I had to download it from amazon.com
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