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Originally Posted by delphin
Sorry you thought so, but no one should buy a Kindle expecting a highly sophisticated, polished, well thought out product.
Aside from simple-stupid page-forward, page-back reading, I found nearly every element of the Kindle's interface to be poorly implemented and awkward (even given the limitations of it's non-touch-screen design.)
You can't even set the clock without web-access, not because the Kindle can't keep time without contacting a web server, it can, but because the Kindle STUPIDLY hides this menu on a setup screen that is not accessible until the device is registered. There is no real technical reason that this limitation should exist - it shouldn't be there . . . It just is.
Between the features that are so poorly implemented as to be barely usable, like the browser and MP3 player, and the totally unnecessary ridiculous "can't get there from here" navigation issues . . . Well I'm sorry, the Kindle software is just not very well written.
So I apologize, I should not have said that the Kindle could be called, "a 'mature' software design ONLY BY 1980's standards," what I should have said was that the Kindle would have been considered a POOR DESIGN EVEN BY 1980's STANDARDS.
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i got two music albums and a single loaded up, homie. use it all the time. putting music on it is a breeze. the cloud service amazon made is nice, too, btw. the browser is perfect, as is, imo. i went without a pc for awhile and the kindle browser supplemented my e-need super.
complaining about a minor detail about the clock is really, really splitting hairs. it's incredible how intimately you know the device. did you own it for awhile?