Paperwhite Second Gen: First Impressions

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I just wish my custom font work with italics and bold type. Mantano is never going to fix that!

Oh, I thought I was doing something wrong....glad to hear it's nothing I am doing.

I've noticed italics work perfectly in Cool Reader, with my favorite side-loaded font.

[ProfCrash]

My Hubby and I each get a monthly allowance that we can spend however we want. We can tease each other all we want but we cannot complain about how the other spends that money. Works great.

[Chi Cygni]

Originally Posted by aceflor

Shoot, I missed the party

I am in the same situation as you are Chi, with one husband and two kids saying the same to me (kids thinking I have too many devices, and the money should be invested in a new wii, or a playstation, or an xbox..you get the drill), and a dog barking if I try to conceal sthing behind my back...

Oooh I feel for you. Tbh, isn't it super annoying at times? Instead of being happy you're happy so you can enjoy your new gadget even more you have to explain yourself and justify. Anyway. We shall be strong and order stuff anyway!

[fearindex]

Originally Posted by Chi Cygni

Oooh I feel for you. Tbh, isn't it super annoying at times? Instead of being happy you're happy so you can enjoy your new gadget even more you have to explain yourself and justify. Anyway. We shall be strong and order stuff anyway!

I read a very wise article once, where it was pointed out people have a natural tendency not to appreciate things which are important to others but not to themselves - and thus take a negative stance on decisions where they really shouldn't be involved at all, because they don't care or even know anything about the matter they are involved in. They just say no, because it isn't important for them, so they don't understand or even try to understand why it would be to someone else.

This is why it can be a mistake for spouses to decide everything together, or meddle with every decision the other is making. Chances are you will block something you don't deem important, you don't know anything about, and you don't care at all, but the other finds very important for a multitude of reasons. Be it Kindles or apparel or cars or whatnot, if it isn't our passion, we can't possibly understand what the other person is going through.

To quote another (not so serious) source, Dr. Phil once said, if a matter is 90% important to once spouse and 10% important to the other, the one who finds it 90% important should be allowed to decide because it would be worse for them to be denied than for the other to be overruled. By this logic if you really want and need a Kindle, and the partner really doesn't suffer that much if you do get it, you should be allowed to get the Kindle.

Now, of course every successful partnership requires checks and balances (so that, say, one partner doesn't bankrupt the whole enterprise), but the basic idea is really good in my opinion. We may not always understand why our partner finds something important, but if it seems like more important for them to have it, than for us to stop them, let them have it.

[SubElement]

Got my PW2 in Australia today. I opened the box and I was ecstatic. The screen was leaps and bounds better than the PW1. Thought I got a perfect unit.

Then I saw the pin holes... *sigh*

Getting it replaced. Sad to see the replacement system has been made a little more complicated. The standard Amazon support used to get send you a new one, and get the old one back. Now it has to go through the Kindle replacement team. I hope that means better quality control? Who knows.

Originally Posted by Blossom

I don't use bookmarks but I am glad you like that feature. X-Ray for books has always been wonky. the only book I own it works is Stephanie Plum series. X-Ray for movies and music is cool though.

X-Ray has to be added by the author/publisher. It cannot just magically appear in books. As such the problem is that most authors/publishers don't take the extra time to add this feature to their books. For those who read a lot of non-fiction like I do, X-Ray is just a mythical feature we hear about but never see.

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by jswinden

X-Ray has to be added by the author/publisher. It cannot just magically appear in books. As such the problem is that most authors/publishers don't take the extra time to add this feature to their books. For those who read a lot of non-fiction like I do, X-Ray is just a mythical feature we hear about but never see.

+1.

It's my own unicorn .

Originally Posted by booklover6

I've noticed italics work perfectly in Cool Reader, with my favorite side-loaded font.

When embedding a font you have to add four font files to get the entire font. One file each for Normal, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic. Not all fonts come with all files (glyphs). Arial Rounded MT Bold for example is Bold only, so you either have to borrow the other three files from another font (or fonts) or settle for Bold text throughout the book. So perhaps Blossoms font doesn't have all the files (glyphs).

[duydangle]

Yes, my replacement come and I think the light is even, although it's warmer than my first pw2.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Chi Cygni

Oooh I feel for you. Tbh, isn't it super annoying at times? Instead of being happy you're happy so you can enjoy your new gadget even more you have to explain yourself and justify. Anyway. We shall be strong and order stuff anyway!

Now you know how about 91.7581% (approximately) of men feel like this all the time.

And we're off-topic as well. Oh, bother...

Originally Posted by fearindex

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Agree... as you said, there needs to be a balance.

Buying the latest Kindle, Kobo, Bokeen, Icarus, the iPad and the iPad Mini each and every year is a bit... uh... obsessive. I can fully understand that a spouse is against that.

I wouldn't care if my girlfriend buys some new $insert_stuff_here once in a while, but if she would buy a pair of shoes every WEEK, then it would become problematic.

To be honest, if prices are reasonable, and I/we can afford it, I expect to be able to buy the heck whatever I want, and when I want it. I'd allow a partner to do the same, obviously. You can be QUITE sure that I'm not going to come home and say: "Hi, honey! I've just bought myself a new car! It was on offer, for just €28995!"

[sirmaru]

Originally Posted by jswinden

X-Ray has to be added by the author/publisher. It cannot just magically appear in books. As such the problem is that most authors/publishers don't take the extra time to add this feature to their books. For those who read a lot of non-fiction like I do, X-Ray is just a mythical feature we hear about but never see.

X-Ray is on all my history and biography eBooks from Amazon and those are the only eBooks I read. I sometimes forget what the acronyms mean like SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) plus the life stories of important figures in those historical settings. X-Ray discloses it every time and usually its from Wikipedia articles.

Thus, the author may NOT have introduced them. It could be Amazon just linking to Wikipedia and other widely available sources (DOD, Sratfor etc.) after the author submitted the book to Amazon for publication. Maybe the authors mark the key words and Amazon Publishing just provides the links.

[sirmaru]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Now you know how about 91.7581% (approximately) of men feel like this all the time.

And we're off-topic as well. Oh, bother...



Agree... as you said, there needs to be a balance.

Buying the latest Kindle, Kobo, Bokeen, Icarus, the iPad and the iPad Mini each and every year is a bit... uh... obsessive. I can fully understand that a spouse is against that.

I wouldn't care if my girlfriend buys some new $insert_stuff_here once in a while, but if she would buy a pair of shoes every WEEK, then it would become problematic.

To be honest, if prices are reasonable, and I/we can afford it, I expect to be able to buy the heck whatever I want, and when I want it. I'd allow a partner to do the same, obviously. You can be QUITE sure that I'm not going to come home and say: "Hi, honey! I've just bought myself a new car! It was on offer, for just €28995!"

Everyone buys according to their own financial resources and tastes. Some folks are buying self driving cars for 150K and trade them in every year. I'm sure those kinds of "obsessive" purchases are not even considered by 99.9999% of the country.

If folks are at the low end of the economic scale, a PW 2012 is more than enough to just read eBooks. If folks are well endowed economically and like electronic "toys," then a PW 2013 AND HDX 2013 provide great entertainment.

Originally Posted by sirmaru

X-Ray is on all my history and biography eBooks from Amazon and those are the only eBooks I read. I sometimes forget what the acronyms mean like SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) plus the life stories of important figures in those historical settings. X-Ray discloses it every time and usually its from Wikipedia articles.

Thus, the author may NOT have introduced them. It could be Amazon just linking to Wikipedia and other widely available sources (DOD, Sratfor etc.) after the author submitted the book to Amazon for publication. Maybe the authors mark the key words and Amazon Publishing just provides the links.

I mostly read histories and biographies, but to date I've never bought a book from Amazon with X-Ray activated. Not that it would matter as I always modify my books for darker fonts and that turns them into Personal Documents, which I don't think support X-Ray.

[jocampo]

Originally Posted by jswinden

X-Ray has to be added by the author/publisher. It cannot just magically appear in books. As such the problem is that most authors/publishers don't take the extra time to add this feature to their books. For those who read a lot of non-fiction like I do, X-Ray is just a mythical feature we hear about but never see.

True!

The only non technical or IT related book that I read recently was Steve Jobs bio. There, X-RAY was useful indeed.

But for my regular MS-SQL or database books, I do not see the point of X-RAY. It's not available on most of those books and it won't provide any added benefit.

[ProfCrash]

What the heck is X Ray?