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Originally Posted by Richwood
Prior to Christmas Amazon had the Kindle Basic refurbished units available for $40. Same price offered during their earlier 10th anniversary Kindle sale too. Same warranty as the new ones and mine appeared to be new. Not a scratch on it. Quite a bargain unless you do not care for capacitive touch screens.
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I bought one of these during the Kindle Anniversary sale (as you say, for $40 for a "like new" "refurbished" unit -- I don't know that mine had any use at all). I added a Fintie case to it and it's a nice reader. It doesn't get as much use as some of my other Kindles because I normally read at night, in poor light, and the thin Fintie flap doesn't hold my E-Luminator as well as my other cases. Also, I wanted to put the Constantina font on it, jailbroke it, but the font hack wouldn't work with this release. So I un-jailbroke it and went back to stock. By then the new firmware release allowed bolding (as you've mentioned) so it wasn't as big of a deal. But the 8th Generation Kindle may be one of them I'm going to sell. I don't know for sure yet.
I should mention, however, that the 8th Generation Kindle Basic (KT3) is not capacitive, it's infrared just like the original Touch.
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Originally Posted by Richwood
I still personally think that the Sony infrared touch screen was about the best of the ebook reader versions. Better than capacitive screens and better resolution than the Kindle Touch infrared screen.
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I've been busy converting Kindle books for the "new" Sony T1 (mostly religious and historical for Lent reading). With its lighted case I think this is going to be my main non-library (non-novel) book reader. I've got Calibre (with de-DRM plugin) to convert these books consistently, using Constantina and the margins I like and the T1's screen
is about the best of the Pearl era screens that I've seen. I will also be able to load some speeches/sermons/music on the T1 which fits in with the purpose of this reader. The Kindle Keyboard and Touch have an MP3 players, but no way to navigate and choose specific files -- so kind of useless for my purpose.
I want to thank you again for the T1/T2 lighted cover link.