Quote:
Originally Posted by lymimi
-when choosing an e-reader, what made you buy kindle?
|
My first Kindle was a Kindle Touch, and I was upgrading from a Kobo 2, which had a very bad store, no touch screen, and preferential treatment for Kobo books. I think I mainly made the switch to Kindle because the Kobo store was terrible, and when I did get a Kindle, I found the Kindle store to be so much better. One thing that drew me in was that the Kindle store had Daily Deals, and this led me to buy many books for low prices. Since then, I have made use of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library (now defunct), Kindle Unlimited, and Prime Reading. Besides having lots of great deals, Kindle had some authors with books exclusive to Kindle, and I got into some of them.
Having already bought hundreds of Kindle books, and being a reader of various Kindle exclusive authors, I have been inclined to stick with devices that could read them, and these have mostly been Kindles. But I've bought new Kindles only when they had new features I wanted. I got a Kindle DX for its larger size, a Paperwhite 5 for finally combining warm lighting with a flat form factor, and a Scribe for being larger and more up-to-date than the DX. But before I got the Paperwhite 5, I got a Likebook Mars to also read Kindle books with warm lighting and a flat form factor.
Quote:
|
-what is your favourite feature on your kindle? (intuitive interface, how easy it is to use, the size, no glare, its weight and so on)
|
I have multiple Kindles with different features. I like that my Kindle Touch works better for books with lots of footnotes, and it lets me run active content. I like that the Paperwhite 5 has warm lighting, a comfortable reading size for novels, native support for custom fonts, and dark mode. I like that the Scribe has most of the same features as the Paperwhite 5 but is larger, which suits some books better, and supports dual columns in landscape mode. Of course, the most essential feature is the use of e-ink, but that feature merely separates ereaders from devices with LCD screens, and it's not unique to Kindle.
Quote:
|
- are you happy with the color of your kindle? would you like one in a color that's not available on amazon?
|
Most of my Kindles are black, and my Kindle Touch has a skin on it. Black seems to work well enough, and I keep all my Kindles in cases anyway. So, the color of the back cover is irrelevant to me. My Paperwhite 5 and my Scribe are both in colorful cases that both look very nice.