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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
I've had limited luck with that on my ipads and iPhone. Sometimes it'll just crash, other times seems to get stuck.
I'm not a fan of the Kindle apps for IOS. I want the eink screens for easier reading, and find the android devices much easier to load. Loading the paperwhite, even with 32 gig, is a test of my patience. I just wish I could turn the indexing off, because I never use it except for title/author search.
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I have used the download everything in collection at least once and had no problem with it. Again, I’m not generally ‘loading up’, just using this to restore what was on an iOS device that I’m replacing with a new one.
The iOS app is nearly indistinguishable from the Android app, but has the advantage that it is impossible to purchase anything in-app, thanks to Apple (but you can borrow freely from Kindle Unlimited). Collections cannot be sorted (have to sort manually), and it lacks Word Runner. But I like to use Speak Screen sometimes, and that is much simpler to use than Android screen reader, which requires more specific skills with accessibility just to have it read the screen (and why don’t they just add TTS? It’s not like many people will bother to get a Fire tablet for that feature).
I use immersion reading a lot on iOS, and like using scrolling, neither is supported on Kindle for obvious reasons. My eyes are fine with reading on LCD/OLED; I almost never use anything but white text on black theme, which I think helps. I find it much more comfortable than Kindle in low light situations.
Looks like the PWSE I ordered will be coming next week; looking forward to the snappier responsiveness and the larger screen, and maybe I’ll like the warm light. My main complaint with PW4 is that it’s slow (not so much page turns but just transition between books).
With a faster CPU, It would be nice if they’d restore plain old TTS (in addition to VoiceView) and support more languages. I’d like it if it would also do some form of immersion reading so audiobook could play as you follow along in the text with synchronized page turns. But it is probably too much to hope for.