Love my new paperwhite! - Page 2

DuckieTigger · 12-30-2012, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by booklover6

The addition of page turn buttons seems unlikely. I'd like to see increased storage. 2 GB is ridiculous. Some book hoarders *ahem* want to carry 5 years worth of reading in their bags!

Solution: only read the recommended 30 minutes per day. And read sloooooooooower. Problem with storage solved. Or, reread once you are through.

booklover6 · 12-30-2012, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

Solution: only read the recommended 30 minutes per day. And read sloooooooooower. Problem with storage solved. Or, reread once you are through.

Oh you are SO Funny today! 30 minutes a day? ROFL!

ProDigit · 12-30-2012, 09:38 PM

I got my cover on evilbay!
2 covers for $11 (one hard cover with stand for $4,50, and one immitation leather cover (looking like a book), with touch pen for $6,50).

Forget about paying $30-$40 for a cover!
Evilbay has it for 1/4th the price!

booklover6 · 12-30-2012, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

Don't just think about it, just do it and pay to remove ads. The longer you wait, the more money Amazon makes on showing you the ads, but you won't get a discount on removing the ads. I don't even know where my on and off button is, my cover takes care of that. Open cover, boom ready - that is what I love about it.

I paid the fee and got them off this morning, then couldn't remember where I'd read your comment. I do like it, very handy just to open and right on the page where I was. With my lifestyle, sometimes I only have time for a paragraph, so this speeds things up a lot for me.

ProDigit · 12-30-2012, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by booklover6

The addition of page turn buttons seems unlikely. I'd like to see increased storage. 2 GB is ridiculous. Some book hoarders *ahem* want to carry 5 years worth of reading in their bags!

When you're reading PDF's the filesize goes up significantly when having pics in them.
I've seen PDF's of 200+ MB's; largest PDF was around 1GB, some kind of reference PDF or usermanual with parts manual for a device.

But hey, most PDF's are between 2 and 8MB. That's still 10x more than ebooks.

DuckieTigger · 12-30-2012, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by booklover6

I paid the fee and got them off this morning, then couldn't remember where I'd read your comment. I do like it, very handy just to open and right on the page where I was. With my lifestyle, sometimes I only have time for a paragraph, so this speeds things up a lot for me.

As long as you remember you read about it. I am glad you like it ad-free better. This also tells me that I made the right decision to order my Paperwhites ad-free directly from Amazon.

holgalee · 12-30-2012, 11:30 PM

Just wanted to chime in about how much I love my Paperwhite too. The slight shadows cast by the LED lights are hardly noticeable. Initially I found the Paperwhite slippery to hold when lying down and went through the trouble of a getting "carbon fibre" sticker for the back and also a silicone case meant for the Touch. Neither survived a few minutes of use and I have since adjusted the way I hold the device. Another issue which bothered me was inconsistent display of fonts: some were more bold than others, but changing the page refresh to every page solved that.

The Paperwhite is nearly the perfect ereader, especially with my custom screensavers and fonts. I would really like to incrementally adjust the font size and margins instead of being stuck to the current few settings.

DuckieTigger · 12-30-2012, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by holgalee

The Paperwhite is nearly the perfect ereader, especially with my custom screensavers and fonts. I would really like to incrementally adjust the font size and margins instead of being stuck to the current few settings.

Sounds like you already jailbroke the PW. Ixtab is working on making JBPatch compatible with PW. The hyphenation part and the custom font sizes are already working. He posted somewhere that he will work on the part with custom margins next.

omega34 · 12-31-2012, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by holgalee

Just wanted to chime in about how much I love my Paperwhite too. The slight shadows cast by the LED lights are hardly noticeable. Initially I found the Paperwhite slippery to hold when lying down and went through the trouble of a getting "carbon fibre" sticker for the back and also a silicone case meant for the Touch. Neither survived a few minutes of use and I have since adjusted the way I hold the device. Another issue which bothered me was inconsistent display of fonts: some were more bold than others, but changing the page refresh to every page solved that.

The Paperwhite is nearly the perfect ereader, especially with my custom screensavers and fonts. I would really like to incrementally adjust the font size and margins instead of being stuck to the current few settings.

I definitely agree with you on the Paperwhite's ease of use. Is there a thread that explains how to get custom fonts on the Paperwhite? I know how to jailbreak it, but I'm confused where to go from there.

DuckieTigger · 12-31-2012, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by omega34

I definitely agree with you on the Paperwhite's ease of use. Is there a thread that explains how to get custom fonts on the Paperwhite? I know how to jailbreak it, but I'm confused where to go from there.

Look at this https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...23#post2353723 - there is some debate weather or not you need to have it jailbroken or not for it to work on 5.3.1. It might work without a Jailbreak (it should). But then again you are not against doing a jailbreak either (the new one ixtab made all up to 5.3.0 and 5.3.1 is simple enough).

omega34 · 12-31-2012, 03:53 PM

What kind of fonts are compatible?

DuckieTigger · 12-31-2012, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by omega34

What kind of fonts are compatible?

I think ttf and otf. It is recommended to have 4 versions of the same font - regular, bold, italic, bold-italic, but you can use fonts that only have part of those.

new · 12-31-2012, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

Don't just think about it, just do it and pay to remove ads. The longer you wait, the more money Amazon makes on showing you the ads, but you won't get a discount on removing the ads. I don't even know where my on and off button is, my cover takes care of that. Open cover, boom ready - that is what I love about it.

You still have to swipe it don't you?

Do you have the little ad at the bottom anymore then? I hate that.

DuckieTigger · 01-01-2013, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by new

You still have to swipe it don't you?

Do you have the little ad at the bottom anymore then? I hate that.

No, I never had the Special Offers. I ordered my Paperwhites ad-free. No swiping or tapping, no ad on bottom of homepage.

silasgreenback · 01-01-2013, 01:49 AM

One of my favorite features of the Paperwhite is an unadvertised one...no more filtering out Audible results from Kindle Store searches. I assume this has everything to do with not having speakers and as far as I know, the K4 is the same way. What an upgrade this hardware downgrade makes!

As far as the rest, having a light to read by was what led to a brief flirtation and subsequent return of a Nook Glowlight. The devices really are worlds apart and those couple of days with the Nook make me appreciate the Paperwhite all the more.

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12-30-2012, 09:38 PM	#18
ProDigit Karmaniac Posts: 2,553 Karma: 11499146 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Miami FL Device: PRS-505, Jetbook, + Mini, +Color, Astak Ez Reader Pro, PPW1, Aura H2O	I got my cover on evilbay! 2 covers for $11 (one hard cover with stand for $4,50, and one immitation leather cover (looking like a book), with touch pen for $6,50). Forget about paying $30-$40 for a cover! Evilbay has it for 1/4th the price!

12-30-2012, 11:30 PM	#22
holgalee Kindle Newbie Posts: 48 Karma: 362 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Kindle 3 & PW	Just wanted to chime in about how much I love my Paperwhite too. The slight shadows cast by the LED lights are hardly noticeable. Initially I found the Paperwhite slippery to hold when lying down and went through the trouble of a getting "carbon fibre" sticker for the back and also a silicone case meant for the Touch. Neither survived a few minutes of use and I have since adjusted the way I hold the device. Another issue which bothered me was inconsistent display of fonts: some were more bold than others, but changing the page refresh to every page solved that. The Paperwhite is nearly the perfect ereader, especially with my custom screensavers and fonts. I would really like to incrementally adjust the font size and margins instead of being stuck to the current few settings.

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silasgreenback New Leaf Turner Posts: 260 Karma: 1026664 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Hadestown Device: Kobo Glo	One of my favorite features of the Paperwhite is an unadvertised one...no more filtering out Audible results from Kindle Store searches. I assume this has everything to do with not having speakers and as far as I know, the K4 is the same way. What an upgrade this hardware downgrade makes! As far as the rest, having a light to read by was what led to a brief flirtation and subsequent return of a Nook Glowlight. The devices really are worlds apart and those couple of days with the Nook make me appreciate the Paperwhite all the more.

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