10-17-2009, 01:51 PM | #1 |
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I've been Kindled
Kindle2 specifically. Arrived about an hour ago. I had sample book already ready to go, "House of Sand and Fog" and it downloaded immediately.
I'd already downloaded to my computer a separate sample "A-Few-Short-Notes-on-Tropical-Butterflies" which I proceeded to purchase and download to my computer. I've been able to transfer that book to the kindle as well as doing a few other things with it I think the only thing I've not yet tested is copying a non-drm mobi book to the kindle. I do expect that to work... I saw some dictionary look-ups working I do like the display and the size (thin-ness) of the kindle! The ergonomics of button pushing etc are fine, but certainly not what I'd call perfect. I had thought it would have a Standard mini USB plug but it appears to be propitiatory (like the amazon book format) . I'd like to thank everyone for their help as I was evaluating whether to take this step to an additional reader or not. I'm a happy guy at this point. Last edited by kennyc; 10-17-2009 at 01:57 PM. |
10-17-2009, 02:04 PM | #2 |
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Just tested the non-drm mobi by copying 1984 over to it.
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10-17-2009, 02:16 PM | #3 |
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10-17-2009, 03:15 PM | #5 |
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10-17-2009, 03:16 PM | #6 |
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10-17-2009, 04:33 PM | #7 |
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Glad you are enjoying it and happy.
Don't forget that you can get free samples of Amazon books and read the first chapter or so to evaluate it before buying. That, along with reader reviews is a big help. |
10-17-2009, 05:05 PM | #8 |
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I think you'll be going back to your 505 since the K2 hasn't got (never will) ePub.
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While I'd like to see Amazon add ePub support it's not a huge deal at this point and time IMO. Besides mobi books look better on the Kindle than epub books look on the Sony IMO (and ePub is easy to convert to mobi ).
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This is true. ePub is easy to convert to Mobipocket. But, I have to disagree about Mobipocket looking better then ePub. Once I've sorted out an ePub (added fonts, fixed the font sizes, fixed the margins, removed excess paragraph spaces), it looks very nice to me. On a Kindle, can I choose the font I want? Can I set the margins?
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10-17-2009, 05:25 PM | #12 |
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I said mobi looks better on the Kindle than epub on the 505 (In My Opinion), not that epub didn't couldn't look better. I don't like the way the Sony's justification has looked on most epub books I've read on it. Now if we're talking epub on the Opus that's different.
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Yes, the Kindle font hack I have installed took all of 30 seconds.
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I'm liking them both, but as you say I will keep pushing for epub support from Amazon. We can always hope, but at least at this point I have both options. |
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