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Proper Right - Amazon *Slam-dunked* this time!!! | 30 | 55.56% | |
Paper Weight - What *were* they thinking??? | 9 | 16.67% | |
It's about the same old same old... | 8 | 14.81% | |
I don't get excited about new technology, time will tell | 7 | 12.96% | |
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09-06-2012, 05:13 PM | #16 | |
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I would like to know how the processor compares to the 1st gen touch. I've ordered one....I just hope the screen is as durable as the new Kobo screen claims to be. |
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09-06-2012, 06:24 PM | #17 |
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I think the 5 is 20% faster.
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09-08-2012, 11:55 AM | #18 |
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That could be based on a half hour of reading per day, instead of an hour. Amazon did that the day the Nook Simple Touch was released, since the Nook advertised 2 Months of battery, Amazon instantly changed the battery life to being based on half the time.
So I'm betting the Kobo Glo and the Kindle PaperWhite have the same battery life. The Kobo Glo says upto 55 hours of continues reading before the battery dies (With Glow on). |
09-08-2012, 12:13 PM | #19 |
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It seems odd to me that there is no audio jack. I actually have my KT read to me quite often while on the road. Sad to see this feature being phased out.
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09-09-2012, 09:42 AM | #20 |
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The capacitive touchscreen worries me a bit. Those affect the screen, and is the reason IR touchscreens are some popular in e-readers. Could very well be they cracked the problem, OR that the paperwhite feature caused the same effect anyway, so they added it again. (edit: seems to have mixed-up the various touch-screen technologies. Resistive screens were what was used on ealier models)
Also, I think the omission of EPUB support and a memory slot is a mistake, in the sense that those are the distinguishable features of the competition. I don't see how including those would hurt Amazon's business, to be honest. Last edited by ijdod; 09-09-2012 at 11:37 AM. |
09-09-2012, 10:15 AM | #21 |
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You don't see how giving people to ability to buy books in their competitors' stores would hurt Amazon's business?
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09-09-2012, 10:44 AM | #22 | |
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So people with substantial epub libraries could just strip them of DRM and move over to the Kindle ecosystem without a hitch. I know I've converted some epubs to mobi, but I prefer the way the epubs look and function. Besides, as it is, there are certainly other places that one can buy .mobi books without DRM and Amazon isn't worrying about that affecting their business. |
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09-09-2012, 11:39 AM | #23 |
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09-10-2012, 03:27 AM | #24 | |
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I guess it's a question of whether the benefit of being able to use ePub directly would outweigh the loss of sales from the Amazon store which would inevitably result. I strongly suspect that it would not. |
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09-10-2012, 03:54 AM | #25 | |
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09-10-2012, 04:54 AM | #26 | |
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09-10-2012, 04:55 AM | #27 |
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A capacitive touch screen is a completely transparent chemical layer "painted" onto the screen. It's not an actual physically thick "thing" like the old resistive touch screens were.
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09-10-2012, 05:56 AM | #28 | |
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Also, I'm a firm believer in standards. If they support non-DRM MOBI and PDF, they can do EPUB as well. |
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