That really is terrible luck, Pangolin - you have my sympathies. I agree with Harry, stomp your feet a bit and see if you can get a replacement sooner. It is, after all, their fault, not yours!
Anyway, my Kindle Voyage arrived safe and sound yesterday (thankfully!), so I've been playing with it yesterday and today. I've also paired it with this
Incipio case (which arrived today).
The case is a bit pricey for what it is, but the Voyage really does fit into it securely, and the look and feel of it is very nice. The power button cover in the back of the case is a nice touch, but you do have to push a bit harder to get the Kindle to turn off. I would've much preferred the auto-sleep option and it's a bit baffling that Incipio didn't go for this, to be honest. However, as this case may only be a stand-in until I cave and order an Oberon Design one (which
does do the auto-sleep thing, apparently), I'm not too upset; I just wish the Oberon Design shipping costs weren't so high, otherwise I'd've gone straight to them in the first place!
I can, however, say that the Voyage itself is
fantastic. I did a side-by-side comparison with my Paperwhite, and the difference is really marked. The Voyage's screen is just so much nicer, clearer and even more like the printed page than ever before. Whether HarryT and I are not particularly fussy about our screens, I do not know
, but I can say that I see nothing wrong with mine. It's magnificent.
I also love the haptic feedback on the page turn buttons, and the fact that the screen is flush with the bezel is very pleasing on the eye. I don't know why the latter is true, but to me it just looks more...correct. And yes, I'm aware of how odd that sounds
I have only two minor gripes - one is the apparently inescapable insistence of putting recommendations for books on the first page if you are in Cover View. I do not want this feature, and was disappointed to find it here. If you prefer List View, you have no problems, but otherwise you're out of luck, unless you enable the parental controls by restricting access to the Kindle Store. This solves the problem immediately, but is rather clunky as workarounds go. I side-load all of my books (having sent them to Calibre first), so not being able to browse the Kindle store on a whim through my Voyage isn't exactly a deal-breaker for me; some of you may feel differently, however, and I know of no other workaround in this instance - do please correct me if I'm wrong, though!
EDIT: This is totally unnecessary (see responses below)!
The second minor gripe is actually a technical problem at my end, I think; none of my 381 books appear to have page numbers (only the location is displayed at the bottom of the screen). Has something gone wrong when I've copied them over from Calibre? They all had page numbers on my Paperwhite! If anyone knows how to correct this, can they let me know? I'm really hoping that I won't have to copy all my books over again, but I will do if I have to.
EDIT: ...and this is extremely easy to fix. Again, see responses below. I
really wasn't having a good day here, was I?
In summary? Kudos, Amazon - this is the king of e-readers, IMO. I can't recommend it highly enough.
