Kindle 3 gripes - Page 2

NormHart · 09-01-2010, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by pchrist7

Collections are better than nothing

1) What he said.

2) AT&T

Otherwise very, very happy.

babyd · 09-01-2010, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by sirmaru

If the K3 freezes, just wait a few seconds and it reboots by itself. With the Sony PRS 900 most times a freeze happened and there was no way to re-enter that book. As I remember, one had to enter a different book and then start in the frozen book from page one. That was very common if both PDF's and ePubs were on the same unit.

Kindle LG WiFi 3 solves its own problems very nicely. I find those freezes in the K3 rare anyway and only occurs if one is testing the limits of its capabilities.

thanks, it does seem to be behaving itself now anyway. I was showing it off a bit so it was trying to keep up and doing pretty well to be honest

yeah, the Sony's sure do have their quirks, love them though and am keeping mine, they have their own strengths and I still love them.

My real gripe is its too darn easy to buy books, Im spending ages trawling the store, getting samples and finding new books to buy, gonna cost me a fortune at this rate

Much better when I had to get up off my butt to go to the PC and look for books, then download them and plug in my reader to transfer them, plenty of time to change your mind, now Im just gonna stagnate in my chair with a cuppa and an empty bank account lol

kingduct · 09-01-2010, 12:25 PM

The back's slippery! I briefly owned a Kobo and returned it to get the K3. It is better in almost every way, but the Kobo's back was so much better for holding with one hand! (Too bad it's button was located such that holding it with one hand and turning pages was nearly impossible.)

So, that's my big gripe so far -- too slippery!

kwnewton · 09-01-2010, 12:45 PM

I love it when it works, but my Kindle 3 has had to be rebooted three times since Monday night when I got it. And it doesn't reboot unless I plug it in! I just sent Amazon a message. My K1 and K2 never had this problem.

HarryT · 09-01-2010, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingduct

The back's slippery! I briefly owned a Kobo and returned it to get the K3. It is better in almost every way, but the Kobo's back was so much better for holding with one hand! (Too bad it's button was located such that holding it with one hand and turning pages was nearly impossible.)

So, that's my big gripe so far -- too slippery!

You're not keeping it in a case???

NormHart · 09-01-2010, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by kwnewton

I love it when it works, but my Kindle 3 has had to be rebooted three times since Monday night when I got it. And it doesn't reboot unless I plug it in! I just sent Amazon a message. My K1 and K2 never had this problem.

Is it still indexing? If you have loaded a lot of ebooks onto it it can take quite awhile and a lot of power to index all those ebooks and it tends to crash alot. I had to leave mine plugged in over night for two days running for 650+ ebooks.

kingduct · 09-01-2010, 01:30 PM

I'm with the crowd that prefers to use a device as designed. After all, what's the point of getting something that is light and easy to operate with one hand if I'm going to block some of that advantage by sticking it in a case?

(I do have a small bag I carry it in to keep it safe when not being read.)

So take that shocked emoticon off your face!

hermano · 09-01-2010, 01:45 PM

Not sure if a gripe or just not used to it yet. Bought new kindle 3 to replace Cool-er. So far, it is not recognised by Calibre (cannot send to device as device not 'seen'), and I am also disappointed that i do not get book covers from all the books i bought over the years (epub from my cool-er converted to mobi).
Do you get book covers with kindle?

pchrist7 · 09-01-2010, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by hermano

Not sure if a gripe or just not used to it yet. Bought new kindle 3 to replace Cool-er. So far, it is not recognised by Calibre (cannot send to device as device not 'seen'), and I am also disappointed that i do not get book covers from all the books i bought over the years (epub from my cool-er converted to mobi).
Do you get book covers with kindle?

Did you you upgrade your Calibre within the last week ?
That's when support for the K3 was added.

kwnewton · 09-01-2010, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NormHart

Is it still indexing? If you have loaded a lot of ebooks onto it it can take quite awhile and a lot of power to index all those ebooks and it tends to crash alot. I had to leave mine plugged in over night for two days running for 650+ ebooks.

I did send over a bunch of books-- not 600, but maybe 150. But, I left it in sleep mode from last night until noon today and it was frozen when I tried to turn it on.

NormHart · 09-01-2010, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by kwnewton

I did send over a bunch of books-- not 600, but maybe 150. But, I left it in sleep mode from last night until noon today and it was frozen when I tried to turn it on.

Plugged in?

If it was plugged in I'd say it was time to call Customer Service.

tomsem · 09-01-2010, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by nancywhite

I find it's very difficult to read PDFs. You cannot do the right zoom. The letters are just too small to read at fit to screen setting.

I have started to experiment with PDF cropping. Many PDFs have headers/footers that make the page taller and prevent full-screen view from using the screen real estate to its fullest By cropping them off, you can often get larger text. Kindle still displays the actual page number label.

If you have a Mac, Preview can do this. And there are free scripts and tools for it also.

Cropping doesn't destroy the contents that were cropped off, just creates guides that tell PDF viewing software what part of the page to display.

Zerodime · 09-01-2010, 04:14 PM

1st Post here

I got my Kindle3 this Monday and am super happy with it. My only gripe is really the screensaver...could so live without it (not because of the pictures but I'm using it to display a page for a longer time than a few minutes) hoping for a jailbreak ^^' But VERY happy with it nonetheless!

badgoodDeb · 09-01-2010, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pchrist7

And HOW on earth do you tell the k3 to show a series of books in the correct reading order ?
Cheers

If you make collections per author (I don't, but many people do) then create a small text file to drop into each collection. It would contain the list of books, in the correct read order. I know, it's a pain. But it's a little bit of help.

Or, one bigger file into which you add titles and read-orders as you get new authors. Title that file 00read-order and it will be at the top of the index (when organized by title).

PaulGuy · 09-01-2010, 07:30 PM

Love my K3, they really nailed it this time IMHO. But heck I have a suggestion. When reading a book the arrow right and left on the 5 way jumps to next and previous chapter. I never use this on books, newspapers sure, books no. I'd like a menu option to make that function as an additional next page/previous page button. When reading one handed, right handed, it would be really easy to turn pages that way.

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09-01-2010, 12:25 PM	#18
kingduct Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 220 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none	The back's slippery! I briefly owned a Kobo and returned it to get the K3. It is better in almost every way, but the Kobo's back was so much better for holding with one hand! (Too bad it's button was located such that holding it with one hand and turning pages was nearly impossible.) So, that's my big gripe so far -- too slippery!

09-01-2010, 12:45 PM	#19
kwnewton Member Posts: 23 Karma: 49999 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: DC area Device: Kindle	I love it when it works, but my Kindle 3 has had to be rebooted three times since Monday night when I got it. And it doesn't reboot unless I plug it in! I just sent Amazon a message. My K1 and K2 never had this problem.

09-01-2010, 01:30 PM	#22
kingduct Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 220 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none	I'm with the crowd that prefers to use a device as designed. After all, what's the point of getting something that is light and easy to operate with one hand if I'm going to block some of that advantage by sticking it in a case? (I do have a small bag I carry it in to keep it safe when not being read.) So take that shocked emoticon off your face!

09-01-2010, 01:45 PM	#23
hermano Connoisseur Posts: 66 Karma: 14 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: cybook gen 3	Not sure if a gripe or just not used to it yet. Bought new kindle 3 to replace Cool-er. So far, it is not recognised by Calibre (cannot send to device as device not 'seen'), and I am also disappointed that i do not get book covers from all the books i bought over the years (epub from my cool-er converted to mobi). Do you get book covers with kindle?

09-01-2010, 04:14 PM	#28
Zerodime Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 44 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle3	1st Post here I got my Kindle3 this Monday and am super happy with it. My only gripe is really the screensaver...could so live without it (not because of the pictures but I'm using it to display a page for a longer time than a few minutes) hoping for a jailbreak ^^' But VERY happy with it nonetheless!

09-01-2010, 07:30 PM	#30
PaulGuy Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 520 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Connecticut Device: GDX, K2i, K3 3G, nook wi-fi	Love my K3, they really nailed it this time IMHO. But heck I have a suggestion. When reading a book the arrow right and left on the 5 way jumps to next and previous chapter. I never use this on books, newspapers sure, books no. I'd like a menu option to make that function as an additional next page/previous page button. When reading one handed, right handed, it would be really easy to turn pages that way.