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Originally Posted by beej231
My question is, what does the Kindle Fire lack in functionality? Is it just the broader choice of apps that is attractive or is there something the Fire is missing. I haven't found anything that I needed to do that I couldn't do but I'm a casual user. What's lacking?
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My biggest disappointment with the Kindle Fire is that it makes it MUCH harder to download free books from the internet using the web browser. In the previous kindles all you had to do was click on a book and it was downloaded and installed.
In the Kindle Fire, i click on a book and it downloads to the wrong directory "Downloads" rather than "Documents." I then have to use Quickoffice to move that file to "Documents." I then have to use File Expert to "touch it up" before it actually appears on my documents list. What a pain!
Also, if you have a book that doesn't have its title and author correctly shown in the cover image, such as the garbage cover image automatically included in all the books from one really big free book provider we all know, then the carousel just keeps showing you say 20 identical book covers, and there is no way you can pick the book you actually intended to read from the carousel. At least in "Documents" if you look closely they still give you the author and title somewhere.
Also, there are a lot of great android apps out there that one cannot not get from the Amazon store and the Kindle Fire doesn't include Marketplace. Sometimes you can search on the web and find them available in apk form somewhere, and sometimes installing those apk's actually work, again if you use File Expert. But its a hassle and sometimes you simply cannot find the app in apk form anywhere.
Also, I would like the Aa interface to allow one to set negative margins, aka "margin trimming" like the Sony Readers support. Mobi7 seems to "automatically" throw away stupid HTML coding such as setting body margins. But kf8 *doesn't* seem to throw away these stupid margins, such that say using kindlegen to compile an epub source file to kf8 often results in unusably large and ugly margins.
Also, it sure would be nice if Amazon could solve the ubiquitous "<p> top and margins ended up too large" problem ONCE AND FOR ALL! No other readers have this problem JUST Amazon!