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Originally Posted by TheKindleWorm
By the way, if you store all your DRM-free mobi books in dropbox, you can access your dropbox account via your Kindle and clicking on a mobi file will download it onto your kindle rightaway. No messing with emailing - it's instant and all done via the Kindle.
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Thank you so much - that's a great idea, and especially useful for me when travelling!
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Originally Posted by 6charlong
And what happened to all our old Mobi books when Amazon stopped selling eBooks; and what happened to all the old books using old Mobi DRM? But along came the K3 and...  |
Yes, I fought my own bete noir with Amazon e-books - I had one of the original Rocket E-books that they briefly supported, as well as a number of DRM PDFs to which I lost access when the shut up shop with their ebooks. But, with Kindle representing such a stellar percentage of their business nowadays, I think I'm safe from a middle-of-the-night decamping from the market.
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Originally Posted by CarlBullock
You see this is the current argument (well more discussion  ) I'm having with my brother, he maintains that a touchscreen is what's holding back the Kindle and the reason he won't buy one as he see's them as counter intuitive  where as I'm more interested for the very same reason. |
I loved the touchscreen back on the old backlit Rocket / RCA / Gemstar ebook readers - the 1150 was my favourite. But once I became accustomed to the quality of eink, I found the addition of a touchscreen had a noticeable detrimental impact on the screen contrast and just took too much away from the experience. Sent my PRS-700 back when the touchscreen/light wedge combo made it too muddy compared to the 505, and can't say I was too pleased with the 600 when it came out.