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mdibella · 10-11-2009, 02:20 PM

I was sitting on a plane, at the start of a 13 hour journey, and discovered to my horror that my DX had suddenly decided to re-index all 1200 of my books...thus ensuring that I would not have sufficient battery life for the whole trip.

Then, when I plugged in the Gomadic battery pack I bought from Amazon for just such emergencies, instead of a solid orange light I had a BLINKING orange light. Of course the manual does not mention such a thing so I have no clue what it was telling me.

There does not seem to be a way to turn off the indexing function, or at the very least to defer it until a more convenient time.

I read only fiction on my Kindle, and frankly I can't imagine a situation where I would want to search my books (do I want to know, for example, how many books contain characters named 'Bill'? naaaaah)

I really wish the firmware had an option to turn off indexing entirely. In this instance it prevented me from using my Kindle at a time when I was depending on it.

10-11-2009, 02:20 PM	#1
mdibella Groupie Posts: 193 Karma: 1107 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Infinite Kindles, Occasional Sony's	This darn Kindle Indexing process I was sitting on a plane, at the start of a 13 hour journey, and discovered to my horror that my DX had suddenly decided to re-index all 1200 of my books...thus ensuring that I would not have sufficient battery life for the whole trip. Then, when I plugged in the Gomadic battery pack I bought from Amazon for just such emergencies, instead of a solid orange light I had a BLINKING orange light. Of course the manual does not mention such a thing so I have no clue what it was telling me. There does not seem to be a way to turn off the indexing function, or at the very least to defer it until a more convenient time. I read only fiction on my Kindle, and frankly I can't imagine a situation where I would want to search my books (do I want to know, for example, how many books contain characters named 'Bill'? naaaaah) I really wish the firmware had an option to turn off indexing entirely. In this instance it prevented me from using my Kindle at a time when I was depending on it. Last edited by mdibella; 10-13-2009 at 10:25 AM.