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Originally Posted by JSWolf
have you really read MR? There are a good number of Kindle users here that WANT properly configurable margins and user installable fonts.
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The vast majority of people in the world are not MR members.
MR members are almost by definition those who care far more about these types of issues than the average person.
The Kindle is MORE than selling well enough to indicate that audio, fonts, and margins are not enough of an issue for Amazon to notice or care, regardless of the fact that yes, some people do get bothered.
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Do you have some sort of proof that most people did not want TTS or even audiobooks? I think it was so Amazon could save money on the hardware. Why else remove useful features like audio and SD card slot?
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Again, the Kindle is selling quite well, and the removal of audio has not dented their sales in any measurable fashion.
Amazon is not going to save money by removing useful features that sell people on the Kindle environment. They will remove features which their records show were not used. I am sure Amazon looked at the logs of people downloading audiobooks for their E-ink Kindles and determined that the feature cost more to include than it made them in sales... which is all that matters.
I am not and have never said that nobody uses/used the audio.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That's irrelevant. Having to hack does not count.
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Why not? The minority who care tend to be the people who like getting extra mileage out of their devices, and are willing to make it work. They will google how to do it, and install the one-click update.bin which requires no technical knowledge to use. (And they
do do that...) They will not be frightened off by the thought of hacking.
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The margins are fairly wide. I do think they get noticed more then you think. And if you do show them a properly formatted eBook on a device that handles ePub, they then notice if they didn't notice before.
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And currently they are blissfully unaware... according to
you. So, what is your point?
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I'm sorry (well, not really), but your saying that people are sheep (in your own words) is wrong. Yes, the Kindle sells, but that does not mean that enough people would not like margin control, font control, audio (maybe TTS), memory card slot, computer editable collections and other features not available or once available.
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Oh? Please point out where I said that???
Except here, now that you said it. People are sheep.
I have *proved* it by saying the Kindle sells. I am sure you will say that is not good enough proof, so how about looking at it this way:
I sez: People are sheep because they buy Kindles. -- Some proof
You sez: No they aren't because you're wrong, that doesn't mean people won't notice. -- No proof.