You picked a very good unit as your first reader, a number of your "gripes" have been stated before by others here in this thread, and some are easily fixed
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
Well, speaking as someone who hasn't owned an e-reader before:
Surprisingly heavy after you read for a while. Seems like I must need to build up my wrist muscles or something, but after a few minutes I have to prop it up. Actually, seems to be top-heavy.
Similarly, the page turn buttons. Need to be wider, I think. In either case, between the two, I've gotten a sore left wrist from reading 1 1/2 novels on it.
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As stated above, the K3 is lighter than many paperbacks. It is also one of the lighter ebook readers out there. There are some that are lighter, but not by much. The Nook is around 40% heavier than the K3, and many (many, many
) people are very happily using that. Maybe it will take a little getting used to. Heck, it's time to build up those muscles
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
I love the text. It really looks like well, text. But the white isn't even close to being white, it's barely even light grey.
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There is a reason for that. From my understanding, it makes for better reading. I have read here that a pure white background is not really wanted.
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
How it goes to sleep seemingly moments after I set it down. If there is no burn in with e-ink, why not just keep it there?
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Then how can they show off their pictures of authors
It's to let you know that it is in sleep mode.
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
And while it's something of a paradox, having the instructions on how to use the e-reader actually on the e-reader is kind of problematic. When you want to look something up and you're not familiar with using the e-reader, it's kind of frustrating having to use it to look it up.
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Here you go:
Kindle Documentation
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
Also, this isn't a Kindle problem, but more Amazon. I had "bought" a bunch of free ebooks from Amazon, classics. Only when they were delivered, they were formatted horribly, in some cases basically unreadable.
What's worse, many free versions of books have several versions. And there is no separate review page for them (or even from the print version). So there is no way of indicating that this book is horribly formatted.
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The books here have been hand formatted and all of the ones I have grabbed have been fantastic. You can also use
Calibre and do some of your own formatting and conversions. I have reformatted some free books, and have deleted others after finding a better formatted version.
Enjoy your K3
