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I have a selection of Kindles because two were bought before I discovered Kobo (not long before discovering here). I got two more for test reasons as we format ebooks and upload epub to Amazon KDP and now there is no way to test what Amazon does with the epub. The preview download is now an epub! Send to Kindle doesn't do the same as the conversion for sale items, which is strange. So we test mobi/KF7, azw3/KF8 and occasionally KFX on actual Kindles. We buy some copies to test if we are using any new style/content that results in different CSS & HTML. Oddly the PW3 and KK3 don't always do the same things with images in azw3 and the KK3 is "more correct". Next new styles etc will also get tested on a gen 9 Oasis picked up cheap S/H. It seems a bit different to PW3, and not just due to size. I'd only get another Kindle eink now if they bring out some new format converted from the epub upload that only works on a new model Kindle. Years ago we uploaded docx and then one day they changed the processing for mobi / kf7. No page breaks. They said the only solution was to upload an epub. That actually only works for Amazon's sale conversion to mobi/azw/KF7 for page breaks if each new page is also a new internal HTML file in the epub. Fortunately Calibre can do that automatically on converting a single docx to epub. Then we make all other test formats from the epub. |
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Gentleman and scholar
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I do think Amazon has really stepped up their game with the latest Paperwhite and this new basic. They look to be very nice devices. But I wouldn't buy one because of all the heavy-handedness Amazon imposes on Kindles. You seem to feel the same way. Considering the most recent device you have listed is four years old, it seems like you would be better off paying a few extra bucks for something that won't annoy you every time you use it. |
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Supporting EPUBS is different than supporting EPUBS protected by some other merchants DRM. But the Kindle does neither.
In the end, it doesn't really matter anyway. At least not to me. Calibre does a great job of all the converting that I need. And for the majority of Amazons customers - most of which have probably never even heard of Calibre - having Amazon do conversions for them is a plus. True, their Kindle is not actually supporting these other formats, that is a marketing lie, but they don't know the difference and don't care. The average Amazon customer is probably not a hard-core reader that is technically inclined, as most people who seek out a forum like Mobile Read are. You could say to most people here, "I converted an EPUB to an AZW3" an they would know exactly what you mean. Say that to a more typical Amazon customer, and they would look at you cock-eyed wondering what language you were speaking in. I think it is this second group of people that Amazon is targeting with their send-to-kindle conversion process. |
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Ebook ecosystems are all 'walled gardens' and none of them are perfect. All are more or less unfriendly to side loaded content, or (in case of Apple and Google) have no eInk device support. There's no way to migrate from one ecosystem to another easily, and even if that were friction free, one would still be left with imperfection (in the eye of the beholder). Even if you 'liberate' your entire ebook collection and use KOReader (as if that were the perfect reading application), there will be something missing. As someone who mostly uses Amazon's, I would like to see Author grouping and auto-tagging for filtering purposes (based on Kindle Store categories). And TTS for Kindle and the mobile apps. I expect they'll do the first of these things eventually, like Series grouping it would help them sell more books. |
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Ugh. Good news for Kindle Basic user fans but was hoping for a release announcement for a new, improved Oasis as well.
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I wonder if they are using the screen from the 10th Gen Paperwhite assuming that they can still get a good deal on them. |
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It won't be the same because it's not flush. That does bode well for it looking similar to the PW3 and maybe better if it's using the newest eInk screen like the Kobo Libra 2.
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You could say that the Kindles support MS-LIT, LRF, eReader, and any other format that's convertible to KF8. That just marketing nonsense. |
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I think the PW4 is quite nice myself. It’s hardly “botch[ed].” Aside from the flush screen which one may or may not prefer, it’s lighter, waterproof, has Bluetooth and twice the storage of the device it replaced. As I pointed out the last time you referred to it as a “disaster.” |
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