Sturdiness of Kindle?

[Alpha o]

I'm thinking of getting a cheap or used Kindle just to use for crafts or cooking.
How does the screen hold up to spatters, lint, whatever?

Amazon is the only place where I have seen quilting books with an ebook version.

Can you print from a Kindle?

Amazon has some old models that are fairly inexpensive. Will they work on the newer books?

I don't want the Kindle plugin on the computer or my phone.

[crich70]

As far as I know you can't print anything from Kindle. Kindle ebooks seem to work on the various models I've had (k3, PaperWhite, Kindle Fire). At least I've never had problems. You might have to wipe the screen down from time to time if you have it around food.

[eschwartz]

You can, however, DeDRM your purchases and print from calibre's Ebook-Viewer.

[meeera]

You can get great cookbook holders with the front panel all clear acrylic to protect from spatters.

[JSWolf]

Question, can the sleep timer be disabled without jailbreaking? If nt, a Kindle would not be a good choice for using as a cookbook or to display crating instructions.

A Reader such as a Kobo Aura would be better because you cn turn off the sleep timer of set it for a higher value (I don't know if the highest value would be long enough, but a setting of never would be).

The reason I say a longer sleep timer is needed (or the ability to turn off the sleep timer) is because there could be cases where you are in the middle of something be it cooking or crafting where you can't easily turn the Kindle screen back on.

[eschwartz]

Yes, you can disable the screensaver with a simple ";ds" in the search bar IIRC.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Yes, you can disable the screensaver with a simple ";ds" in the search bar IIRC.

Is this documented in the User Guide? How do you turn the sleep timer back on?

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is this documented in the User Guide? How do you turn the sleep timer back on?

It is documented in our Wiki, after spelunking through the vanillla debug_cmds.json extracted from a hacked device.
Rebooting will turn the screensaver back on. So will running lipc commands from a shell, which requires jailbreaking and using KUAL (and optionally packaged helper scripts ).

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

It is documented in our Wiki, after spelunking through the vanillla debug_cmds.json extracted from a hacked device.
Rebooting will turn the screensaver back on. So will running lipc commands from a shell, which requires jailbreaking and using KUAL (and optionally packaged helper scripts ).

So the sleep timer can be shut off, but it's not documented in the official documentation and unless you think to look for how to do so online, you'll never know it can be done.

Does this work on all eInk Kindles that handle KF8 with all the different firmware?

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So the sleep timer can be shut off, but it's not documented in the official documentation and unless you think to look for how to do so online, you'll never know it can be done.

Yep.

Does this work on all eInk Kindles that handle KF8 with all the different firmware?

Probably. The Touch and PWs were pretty similar in this menner, and I wouldn't be shocked to learn the KV and KT2 are as well.

[crich70]

With Kindle Fire the time til the tablet sleeps can be changed (ranging from 30 seconds to never) so that is useful. You go to Settings>Display & Sounds and tap on Display Sleep.

[Alpha o]

On the old Nook wifi, I just tapped the top button and it went into sleep. I think sleep could be set to never. If you wanted to turn the Nook off, you long pressed that button.

I'm thinking the simpler the better.

I was reading the Kindle section and saw something about now allowing sharing. Which devices will that apply to? How does it work?

If I can get instructions to the phone, I do have 2 printers that will print from a phone.

I simply have too many craft/Quilting books and I'm running out of room for those.
The Kindle and charger would stay in the kitchen/sewing room.

The stand sounds pretty good. Will have to look. Had to resort to a huge Bull clip to keep one softcover sourdough book open.
Thanks

[eschwartz]

The big news about sharing is that it now works across all Kindle devices/apps, through your Amazon account settings.

See http://amzn.com/myk
You can link any two accounts together. They can then share content between accounts.

This is useful when two people want to merge libraries.

To read in other, non-Amazon apps/devices, you stil need to DeDRM and sideload.

[Bricorn]

Originally Posted by crich70

As far as I know you can't print anything from Kindle. Kindle ebooks seem to work on the various models I've had (k3, PaperWhite, Kindle Fire). At least I've never had problems. You might have to wipe the screen down from time to time if you have it around food.

Although you can't print from a Kindle, it photocopies well, so if you have access to a copier or multifunction printer, just lay it on that and copy.

[pidgeon92]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Yes, you can disable the screensaver with a simple ";ds" in the search bar IIRC.

So, I tried this with my Voyage ( I think the command is ~ds after looking at the Wiki, but I did do both). It worked, but now my Voyage doesn't shut off when I close the Origami cover. When I push on the haptic buttons through the cover, the page turns. I rebooted the Kindle and it's back to normal now.