New Kindle Voyage

[maxkhoon]

Still can't believe I am buying this because of the flush bezel design, I hate seing dust stuck around the pit!

I have to pay around usd 250 for the non ads wifi version,you guys complaining the price is very lucky already=)

I think kv will stay with me untill kindle comes out with something like color flexible screen with front light (one can dream)

Btw I am going for pouch instead of cover this round,gonna make use of kv light weights,any affordable suggestion? Is paperwhite pouch useable?

Thank you!

[DNSB]

Interesting. I was curious as to what the Canadian price for the Voyage would be so trundled off to amazon.ca. Hmmm... no Voyage being offered for pre-order. So let's try amazon.com. Kindle Voyage, no special offers, $219. Run through the checkout procedure. Can't ship to your address. You must order from amazon.ca. Bounce a query off amazon.ca and 3 days later get a polite canned response that they do not know when the Voyage will be offered to Canadian residents.

However a quick look at the various models on Amazon.com suggests the order of popularity for the various models:

Wifi Only, no ad support    shipping week:  2014-Dec-07
WiFi/3G, no ad support      shipping week:  2014-Dec-07
WiFi Only, ad support       shipping week:  2104-Nov-13
WiFi/3G, ad support         shipping week:  2014-Oct-19

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kaufman

As others have pointed out, the swipe motion is on pretty much every touchscreen.

Having said that, the swipe, is not a very good motion to use to turn pages. My goal is to have the minimal motion to turn pages, not the most booklike one. The swipe is too big a motion to do for every page forward. I love it for page backs because I rarely do them.

Actually, I find swiping very good. It means I can hold the Reader in either hand and a simple small flick of the thumb and the page is turned. Doesn't matter which side of the screen I swipe. It just works. There's no need for tap zones.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by tomsem

I don't suppose there is (on Voyager) a way to turn off page turn touch gestures (both tap and swipe)? That would reduce accidental page turns.

Most likely not. There's never been any touch screen Reader that's has a setting to turn off page turns even if there are hardware buttons. I don't see this happening with the Voyage.

[HYPE]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Most likely not. There's never been any touch screen Reader that's has a setting to turn off page turns even if there are hardware buttons. I don't see this happening with the Voyage.

We already know it's not the case. You can see page turns by swiping in a few YouTube videos.

Originally Posted by JSWolf
I feel for you having to live in Texas. if I lived in Texas, i would be doing everything I could get get out of Texas. No way I'd want to live there. The government there is against human decency. I just could not live in such a place.

I can't find the original post for this, copied this from a reply by JosieB, so I'm not sure if it was directed at me are not. Although I'm inclined to agree with you in principle that Texas politics and politicians suck more than a million vacuum cleaners, it is my native home and most of my family still lives here. My roots in Texas go back to the early 1800s prior to independence. I'm not really sure why my dopey ancestors stopped here in a dry, cactus encrusted, rattlesnake infested wilderness run by greedy white land speculators and a corrupt Mexican dictator, but they did. Personally I would have continued westward until I reached New Mexico or Colorado. As much as I'm a fish out of water here, politically, ideologically, and religiously, I stay because of family. Without family I am nothing. Not a day goes by that I don't want to string up half or more of the Texas politicians, but it is home, and these days they no longer allow us to hang corrupt politicians in the town square.

[Xanthe]

All their various changes and they still haven't increased the number of font sizes. For those of us who need the larger fonts, there just isn't enough gradiations between medium-large and huge.

That's one of the things that is always keeping me away from a Kindle ereader. I buy a lot of Kindle books but I convert them to epubs and read them on my Nook HD using either the Mantano Essentials or Moon+ reading software because they let me adjust the font size more precisely.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Sorry, but incorrect. The H2O is not $17 in tax. I'm not sure if Kobo would be charging tax. I'll find out tomorrow when I place my order.

Well, that's what they tried to charge me.

Having said that, someone already pointed out that some people are charged tax on Amazon purchases as well.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Well, that's what they tried to charge me.

Having said that, someone already pointed out that some people are charged tax on Amazon purchases as well.

I have to pay taxes on all of my Amazon purchases.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I have to pay taxes on all of my Amazon purchases.

Including e-books?

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Including e-books?

No idea. I don't buy digital media from Amazon with my money. I only use credits, promos, and such.

[krazy4katz]

Originally Posted by jswinden

I can't find the original post for this, copied this from a reply by JosieB, so I'm not sure if it was directed at me are not. Although I'm inclined to agree with you in principle that Texas politics and politicians suck more than a million vacuum cleaners, it is my native home and most of my family still lives here. My roots in Texas go back to the early 1800s prior to independence. I'm not really sure why my dopey ancestors stopped here in a dry, cactus encrusted, rattlesnake infested wilderness run by greedy white land speculators and a corrupt Mexican dictator, but they did. Personally I would have continued westward until I reached New Mexico or Colorado. As much as I'm a fish out of water here, politically, ideologically, and religiously, I stay because of family. Without family I am nothing. Not a day goes by that I don't want to string up half or more of the Texas politicians, but it is home, and these days they no longer allow us to hang corrupt politicians in the town square.

Hi Jack,

Living in North Carolina BY CHOICE (sort of). Not thrilled with the politics here either. You know what I say to all those people who question why I live here? I say "Y'all come down and vote! No point in living in Massachusetts or one of them there liberal states. Go where your vote does some good."

More power to you, Texas Man!

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Xanthe

All their various changes and they still haven't increased the number of font sizes. For those of us who need the larger fonts, there just isn't enough gradiations between medium-large and huge.

That's one of the things that is always keeping me away from a Kindle ereader. I buy a lot of Kindle books but I convert them to epubs and read them on my Nook HD using either the Mantano Essentials or Moon+ reading software because they let me adjust the font size more precisely.

I would call it medium, not medium large. I've never understood the lack of all modifications, not just text size like others have already said. Line spacing, margins, font choices...

[Zeebra]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Interesting. I was curious as to what the Canadian price for the Voyage would be so trundled off to amazon.ca. Hmmm... no Voyage being offered for pre-order. So let's try amazon.com. Kindle Voyage, no special offers, $219. Run through the checkout procedure. Can't ship to your address. You must order from amazon.ca. Bounce a query off amazon.ca and 3 days later get a polite canned response that they do not know when the Voyage will be offered to Canadian residents.

However a quick look at the various models on Amazon.com suggests the order of popularity for the various models:

Wifi Only, no ad support    shipping week:  2014-Dec-07
WiFi/3G, no ad support      shipping week:  2014-Dec-07
WiFi Only, ad support       shipping week:  2104-Nov-13
WiFi/3G, ad support         shipping week:  2014-Oct-19

I guess us Canadians shouldn't hold our breath on this.

[blue_skies]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Many e-books have tiny images, but I think the popularity of tablets is changing that. When I read "Wicked Bugs" and "Wicked Plants" by Amy Stewart on a 6" e-ink screen several years ago, I checked out paper versions from the library to refer to the illustrations. I recently looked at the illustrations in these on my Nook HD+ in the Kindle app, and they looked amazing. It turns out that the subtle shading on these doesn't come out well on e-ink, but at least it shows that at least some e-books have higher resolutions images. I hope that reviews start covering this aspect.

Some e-readers clip large images, so it is not just a matter of pressuring publishers to use larger images. The reading software needs to handle them, and the HTML/CSS needs to be done correctly.

I hope the awareness of this issue increases. It is really sad how needlessly bad most e-book images are.

I totally agree! I used to often try to read my Amazon purchased ebooks on my computer using the Kindle app, and the images were so ridiculously tiny and low resolution they were worthless. It was especially frustrating for non-fiction books like those with fashion illustrations or interior design photos... with teeny-tiny photos. I could never understand why they didn't just use nice high resolution photos.

The various devices should be able to figure out how to display a higher resolution photo rather than defaulting to worthless low resolution photos. I had to return books because the photos were so awful.

I made up a couple of books for my own use and always used the largest photos I could, and they never failed to display on my Kindle Keyboard. I'm not sure what the difference is in the case where a previous poster here said large photos won't display on Kindle devices. Maybe they were way bigger than the large photos I was using. Still, no reason to use poor quality. Fix the eReader software instead!

Originally Posted by DNSB

Using Kobo's .kepub.epub formatted books, you can tap on an image to zoom it. Pretty useless in most cases since most of the images are low resolution -- one ebook I was recently reading had maps that were 120x144 pixels so zooming gave you a closeup view of fuzz.

If you use the correct css, an image can be set to use as much of the page as possible without needing any user intervention. Sadly too many publishers of epub format ebooks seem unable to pay any attention to how their ebooks look on a screen with more than 600x800 resolution.

Publishers and developers really need to fix this.