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Old 09-29-2011, 01:29 PM   #16
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Ah, okay, so basically like an annotated version of the book? (only have to tap to see the notes).

Nice idea, but considering that a lot of publishers can't even proofread/format their books properly, it seems like creating a file full of notes is going to be unlikely, especially since it's only for a subset of Kindle owners/users.
That's the first thing I thought of. It's a great idea, but the content will only be as good as the publishers make it. You're right MANY ebooks are so poorly formatted (which is crazy even still in 2011) that I can't see the x-ray sidenotes being very well done if you leave it up to the publishers.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:34 PM   #17
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That sucks imo. Yes the navigation via d-pad would be clunkier, but so what? So are word lookups. I see no reason why not to let the d-pad navigate Xray. Let me decide if it's worth the effort. I hope they add it in a software update, or I may just be sticking with my K3.
It's product tiering. They want you to pay more for higher end model.
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Old 09-29-2011, 01:55 PM   #18
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This looks like an amazing feature. It's something I can see myself using often, as I habitually forget who minor characters are as I'm reading a book.
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Old 09-29-2011, 03:40 PM   #19
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ETA - yes, Shelfari does seem to be the source. In this video, at about the 2:05 mark he starts demoing x-ray, and a few seconds later he mentions Shelfari.
Shelfari and Wikipedia it seems...
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This looks like an amazing feature. It's something I can see myself using often, as I habitually forget who minor characters are as I'm reading a book.
Yep, that's me! I'm looking forward to using this.
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I don't think I would consider the Kindle books a subset though. Publishers will quickly tell you that 67% of their eBooks are sold through Amazon and that eBook sales through all the other stores combined only account for about 33%. So I would say that all the other stores, including all the ePub books, are the actual subset.
Yeah, but my point was, apparently it only works for Kindle Touch owners (and maybe Kindle Fire?), while K1-3 and K4 no-touch don't have the X-ray feature.
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