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Originally Posted by patrickt
And I would hate having every book opening on the cover. I also don't want a never ending list of "adjustments" to personalize my Kindles.
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I understand. I'm not saying you
should like the book opening at the cover ... I was saying
IF I had a choice that's the way
I would want it to work. When I read a book I (personally)
always want to start at the cover. So, with a Kindle, it's always, open the book, hit the Menu and go to cover. As for "not wanting endless adjustments" — first, they wouldn't be "endless" (that's a bit of hyperbole) — second, if you were happy with the defaults you wouldn't have to worry about the "adjustments" (I'll call them "choices") at all. So we could both be completely happy with our Kindles if these choices were provided.
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Originally Posted by patrickt
I think Kindle knows that making everyone happy is impossible because some have no intention of ever being happy.
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I don't really think Amazon cares about these user choices... yet. It's kind of like Microsoft with Windows 8. No one liked the user interface, but Microsoft figured they didn't have anywhere else to go. They eventually figured out users did have somewhere to
STAY, they just kept using Windows 7. Eventually Microsoft adjusted to their users. (And Amazon has been doing that with Kindles also — we can now add fonts, you can turn the new home page off, now the Oasis is going to have a night light... etc. So it's not out of the question that Amazon could make further changes that enhance
some user's experiences. There's still hope for
my opening a book at the cover, after all!)
EDIT: To clarify... Kindles and Windows 8 are not the same. Basically almost nobody like Windows 8 — I'm guessing the majority of users like their Kindles (as I do). But there's still room for improvement (in my opinion).