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Bookworm_Girl · 02-10-2011, 08:41 PM

When you are used to the touchscreen navigation on the Sony ereaders, it is difficult to get your brain around the Kindle organization system. They are quite similar though once you get used to the differences. As you noted, the Kindle is all about the wireless ecosystem and interaction with the Amazon store for ebooks and also Audible.com (owned by Amazon) audiobooks. You have to remember that the Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, in response to comparisons to the iPad emphasized that the Kindle is all about reading. I think that's why they place the web browser and music player in the Experimental submenu, which would not be intuitive to a Sony user to find them there. The music player truly is experimental and practically featureless. The K3 web browser though is quite sophisticated. I would call the 950 browser experimental by comparison. The K3 even has an image photo viewer like your Sony does, which many people probably don't even know! You have to create an images folder and then enter a special keyboard code to activate it.

Here are some tips for when you help your parents with their K3. The Menu key on the K3 is like the Options key on your Sony. Press it anywhere to see a list of menu options. The 5-way navigation joystick is also critical. Moving it left and right will often bring up menu options. You probably didn't guess that one! For example, when you have highlighted a book to open, press the left button and it brings up the option to delete the book. Press the right button and it brings up a special menu related to that book where you see the book cover, you can add it to a collection, you can go to last page read or a specific location, you can search the book, you can see your annotations, you can see a book description from the Amazon store, and you also have the delete option again.

The other thing about interfacing with the Kindle is that you can do many things by special keyboard combos. For example, Alt + G refreshes the screen if you have ghosting. Here is a link to the MobileRead wiki on Kindle Keyboard shortcuts.
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Amaz...oard_Shortcuts

After playing with your parent's K3 last week, I would guess that now you understand better why Kindle users so often say "I want my wireless, who cares about touchscreen" and Sony users so often say "I want my touchscreen, who cares about wireless". Me, I like both, which is why my 950 is my primary ereader.

Hope that helps you understand the differences a little better.

02-10-2011, 08:41 PM	#5
Bookworm_Girl E-reader Enthusiast Posts: 4,873 Karma: 36536965 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southwest, USA Device: Kindle Oasis 3; Kobo Aura One; iPad Mini 5	When you are used to the touchscreen navigation on the Sony ereaders, it is difficult to get your brain around the Kindle organization system. They are quite similar though once you get used to the differences. As you noted, the Kindle is all about the wireless ecosystem and interaction with the Amazon store for ebooks and also Audible.com (owned by Amazon) audiobooks. You have to remember that the Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, in response to comparisons to the iPad emphasized that the Kindle is all about reading. I think that's why they place the web browser and music player in the Experimental submenu, which would not be intuitive to a Sony user to find them there. The music player truly is experimental and practically featureless. The K3 web browser though is quite sophisticated. I would call the 950 browser experimental by comparison. The K3 even has an image photo viewer like your Sony does, which many people probably don't even know! You have to create an images folder and then enter a special keyboard code to activate it. Here are some tips for when you help your parents with their K3. The Menu key on the K3 is like the Options key on your Sony. Press it anywhere to see a list of menu options. The 5-way navigation joystick is also critical. Moving it left and right will often bring up menu options. You probably didn't guess that one! For example, when you have highlighted a book to open, press the left button and it brings up the option to delete the book. Press the right button and it brings up a special menu related to that book where you see the book cover, you can add it to a collection, you can go to last page read or a specific location, you can search the book, you can see your annotations, you can see a book description from the Amazon store, and you also have the delete option again. The other thing about interfacing with the Kindle is that you can do many things by special keyboard combos. For example, Alt + G refreshes the screen if you have ghosting. Here is a link to the MobileRead wiki on Kindle Keyboard shortcuts. https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Amaz...oard_Shortcuts After playing with your parent's K3 last week, I would guess that now you understand better why Kindle users so often say "I want my wireless, who cares about touchscreen" and Sony users so often say "I want my touchscreen, who cares about wireless". Me, I like both, which is why my 950 is my primary ereader. Hope that helps you understand the differences a little better.