Kindle for Samsung Free Selections

[alee]

Originally Posted by sufue

Me three! Does anyone know any way to mitigate the memory hogging, other than periodically uninstalling and reinstalling? When I first install, it eats a couple hundred MB, but quickly grows to eat up to 2 GB. I can tamp it down a bit with a cleaning app, but eventually just have to uninstall and reinstall if I want to keep it on my phone - which for the moment, I do, although I'm rapidly losing patience with it...

Well, you can clear all of the app's data without uninstalling it and reinstalling it. You go to Android's settings, then the app manager, then select the Kindle app, and clear the data for it. The details may vary somewhat depending on the hardware manufacturer's modifications to Android.

Once you've done this, you may (or may not) need to log in to Amazon again, and you're pretty much where you would be if you uninstalled and reinstalled the Kindle app. It'll still eat up more and more space until you have to repeat this.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by alee

Well, you can clear all of the app's data without uninstalling it and reinstalling it. You go to Android's settings, then the app manager, then select the Kindle app, and clear the data for it. The details may vary somewhat depending on the hardware manufacturer's modifications to Android.

Once you've done this, you may (or may not) need to log in to Amazon again, and you're pretty much where you would be if you uninstalled and reinstalled the Kindle app. It'll still eat up more and more space until you have to repeat this.

All true, but in my case (and those of some others who reported the same problem), that didn't help, though uninstalling, then reinstalling the KFS app did. Therefore, I think the problem extended beyond a storage/memory issue.

[sufue]

I had sort of forgotten I had amplified the complaints about Kindle for Samsung's memory-hogging tendencies back at the beginning of the month, but when I came back to check out Feb's selections once more before making my choice, I remembered . And I much appreciate folks' answers, even if it's just shared misery! Thanks especially for the suggestions below - I already do 1-4, although with different apps, but wasn't aware of suggestion 5, so many thanks for that!

And yes, I suppose I could buy a new phone with more internal memory, but (1) 16 GB SHOULD be enough, and (2) even if I got something with 32 GB, a cynical part of me suspects that Kindle would expand to take up almost all of that too! (Probably not the case, but I'm cynical sometimes...)

Anyway, thanks to tubemonkey for the summaries - much easier than looking at them on my phone...

Oh yeah, and this'll bump the thread up for the end of the month, since time is short to make a choice if you haven't already...

Originally Posted by Froide

Thumbs down to unhelpful smart-alecks. To answer the question you posed in the Kindle forum, see (3) below.

I traded up from a SGS4 to a SGS7 last April (via a $1 trade-in at Best Buy; you might consider trading up, too, if you can find a good deal or get fed up with the SGS4's storage limitations). I also disabled the regular Kindle app (which is part of Samsung's bloatware) and regularly perform the tasks listed below. Nonetheless, I continue to share your complaints about the KFS app.

Because I use a lot of apps and storage-hogging content, I regularly perform the following tasks, which you might also benefit from performing:

(1) Move content from such apps as Kindle, Kobo, and NOOK to the cloud, or archive it.

(2) Disable or Greenify apps not currently in use.

(3) Use the ES Task Manager app's Kill, Clean, and Optimize functions.

(4) Use the AppMgr III app to transfer moveable apps - including KFS - to external storage and to clean cache again. It's a daily whack-a-mole game, though, because each time apps update, they move themselves back to internal storage.

(5) Type *#9900# on my phone's keypad and then select delete dumpstate/logcat, to remove unneeded log files.

[Froide]

YW. Which book did you choose?

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by sufue

Anyway, thanks to tubemonkey for the summaries - much easier than looking at them on my phone...

You're quite welcome

[ATDrake]

Just a reminder that this will probably be the last day to pick up one of the monthly selections if you haven't already.

[Froide]

Anticipation!

Impatiently wai..ai...ai...ai...aiting for this month's freebies to go live at Samsung Book Deals (likely ca. 3 AM Eastern Time) and the other usual suspects - er, outlets.

[Froide]

They're out! Here are the March 2017 Samsung Book Deals selections from the Kindle store (in the order in which Amazon presented them). I researched them a bit, to identify series (if any) each belongs to and its genre(s).

Click on Samsung Book Deals to learn how this works. You may also want to read the earlier, related MR thread: Kindle for Samsung launched in 90 countries

Damocles by S.G. Redling

• Regular Kindle Price: $3.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,945 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #628 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Alien Invasion
  #852 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > First Contact
  #1144 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > First Contact
• Description

When Earth is rocked by evidence that extraterrestrials may have seeded human DNA throughout the universe, a one-way expedition into deep space is mounted to uncover the truth. What linguist Meg Dupris and her crewmates aboard the Earth ship Damocles discover on Didet—a planet bathed in the near-eternal daylight of seven suns—is a humanoid race with a different language, a different look, and a surprisingly similar society.

But here, it’s the “Earthers” who are the extraterrestrial invaders, and it’s up to Meg—a woman haunted by tragedy and obsessed with the power of communication—to find the key to establishing trust between the natives and the newcomers. In Loul Pell, a young Dideto male thrust into the forefront of the historic event, Meg finds an unexpected kindred spirit, and undertakes an extraordinary journey of discovery, friendship, and life-altering knowledge.

Told from both sides of a monumental encounter, Damocles is a compelling novel about man’s first contact with an extraterrestrial race.

Chasing the Sun: A Novel by Natalia Sylvester

• Regular Kindle Price: $4.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,935 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #56 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > United States > Hispanic American
  #163 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Hispanic
  #1170 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Literary Fiction > Women's Fiction
• Description

Andres suspects his wife has left him—again. Then he learns that the unthinkable has happened: she’s been kidnapped. Too much time and too many secrets have come between Andres and Marabela, but now that she’s gone, he’ll do anything to get her back. Or will he?

As Marabela slips farther away, Andres must decide whether they still have something worth fighting for, and exactly what he’ll give up to bring her home. And unfortunately, the decision isn’t entirely up to him, or up to the private mediator who moves into the family home to negotiate with the terrorists holding Marabela. Andres struggles to maintain the illusion of control while simultaneously scrambling to collect his wife’s ransom, tending to the needs of his two young children, and reconnecting with an old friend who may hold the key to his past and his wife’s future.

Set in Lima, Peru, in a time of civil and political unrest, this evocative page-turner is a perfect marriage of domestic drama and suspense.

The Moon and the Stars by Constance O'Banyon

• Regular Kindle Price: $3.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,870 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #1725 in Books > Romance > Western
  #27796 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance
• Description

WANTED:

Caroline Richmond stared running on her wedding day—the same day her busband died. Her malicious brother-in-law had kept his vow to make her a widow, but she knew he wouldn't stop at that, and her solitary life was filled with fear of him always one step behind her. She thought she'd found a shred of peace in Texas, and at least a glimmer of the life she deserved. But when a mysterious bounty hunter came to town, she knew the wrath in his amber eyes was meant only for her. He found a way to be everywhere she was, speaking words with double meaning in his smooth Freanch accent and making her nerves hum in a way she thought she'd conquered.

Wade Renault came out of retirement for one reason: to see a deceptive murderess brought to justice. But when he met the woman pictured in the tintype he'd carried for months, he sensed more panic than treachery. She lived too simply, she seemed too honest and scared. Someone had deceived him, but he would wait it out and get her right where he wanted her, beneath...THE MOON AND THE STARS.

Big Maria by Johnny Shaw

• Regular Kindle Price: $0.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,458 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #58 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Comedy
  #542 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Men's Adventure
  #975 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Historical
• Description

There’s gold in them thar hills—or more precisely, in Arizona’s Chocolate Mountains, where one hundred years ago a miner stashed a king’s ransom of the stuff. But times have changed. The world has changed. And now the Chocolate Mountains are the home of the largest military artillery range in the world.

Harry’s living on disability and getting liquored up and beaten down. Frank’s a feisty old-timer battling cancer and a domineering daughter. And Ricky’s a good kid in a bad spot, doing everything for family. Together they’re staking what little they have left on a dangerous quest to the Big Maria Mine—and the gold that can offer them a new beginning.

Unfortunately a meth-dealing biker wants a piece, a trigger-happy AWOL soldier wants to play chicken in a live minefield, two stubborn burros want to go home, a starving mountain lion wants his dinner, and the US Army wants to rain on our heroes’ parade with real bombs.

When you’re all out of crazy ideas, you’ve got to try the stupid ones.

Imagine Chuck Palahniuk and Don Winslow’s love child – and that would be ribald author Johnny Shaw. His novel Big Maria is a unfiltered, wild romp in which three men get one chance to find a lost gold mine; the only problem is the Big Maria Mine is right in the middle of a US Army artillery range.

[Dngrsone]

I think I'll go for Damocles. First pick I've done in months....

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

I think I'll go for Damocles. First pick I've done in months....

Indeed, we haven't been receiving embarassments of riches. I haven't made this month's pick yet but did sample Damocles. Looks interesting; I hope you'll enjoy it.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

I think I'll go for Damocles. First pick I've done in months....

I went with Damocles too.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I went with Damocles too.

Me, three.

[Dngrsone]

Mini-review: Damocles by S. G. Redling is a First-Contact drama, done well. In this case, the aliens are the humans, a team of six sent off into deep space to look for... well, we know the drill.

Redling concentrates on the trials and tribulations of learning to communicate with an entirely unknown and unknowable group/society/culture, and she does a good job of pointing out some likely mistakes and errors that would crop up in this kind of venture. While a relatively short book (for me, anyway), the length is appropriate, and though this is obviously a one-off novel plotwise, it would be interesting to see her revisit one or more of the characters in a future book.

The formatting of the ebook was good, and I found but a single error in the entire reading, which is a nice change.

[Froide]

Thanks for the review. Looking forward to reading the book.

[ATDrake]

Just a reminder that today will probably be the last day to pick up one of this month's selections, if you haven't already.