Your Favorite Older Kindle Reader?

[teraflame]

Why do you hate the DXG? I just bought one to read manga on.

[Frogm4n]

The screen is the worst resolution of any Kindle ever released. It's just bigger.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Frogm4n

The screen is the worst resolution of any Kindle ever released. It's just bigger.

Yes, only 150 dpi.

And also the DXG was hyped for PDF. It's deadly slow for PDF.

Also doesn't do AZW3/KF8, so no CSS, no embedded fonts.

[Hardboiled]

Originally Posted by Smitmiller

I adore the K3. If it had a front light, I'd use it all the time. For reading in bed without disturbing the hubby, I use an Oasis 2, which doesn't balance as comfortably in my hand, but it gets the job done. And it's jailbroken so I don't have to go through the crazy UI changes Amazon keeps imposing on folks.

The official lighted case is well worth getting for the K3. It's real leather with a little pull out lamp; came in a variety of colours too and very durable/booklike. I've got two Keyboards both with the lighted case; they can still be had for next to nothing on eBay. The page turn buttons, lamp, 8GB and readily available/easy to install new batteries cover everthing I'll ever need.

[Frogm4n]

FWIW, they were 4 GB of storage. Amazon didn't sell any past 4 GB until the PW3 Manga Edition, and mass market Kindles until the Oasis 2.

[Quoth]

I think PW1 was less than 2G free?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I think PW1 was less than 2G free?

According to my computer, the PW1 has 1.328GB (1,426,055,168 bytes) of disk space. I use 1 GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes.

[texasnightowl]

I do still love my Oasis 3. My mother is using it right now and I'm using a refurbished 11th gen PW which is fine. But I miss my buttons and the auto-rotate feature on the Oasis. I wish the battery was replaceable (all reports I've seen say it's not possible...that attempting to do so will almost certainly breaks the screen) and of course wish it was usb-c, but otherwise...

I had a long run with my K5 too (non-touch K4?)...loved it, but I might have to give 2nd place to the PW 11th gen. (I never had a Voyage and I know it gets a ton of love.)

[Hardboiled]

Originally Posted by Frogm4n

FWIW, they were 4 GB of storage. Amazon didn't sell any past 4 GB until the PW3 Manga Edition, and mass market Kindles until the Oasis 2.

I've got two Keyboards both with the lighted case... do you get it?

[tsgreer]

The 1st generation Kindle is my fav. I bought it the first day Amazon started selling them. It wasn't my first e-ink device, cuz I had the Sony PRS-500 already. (My Sony PRS-505 is the best built/best looking of all my e-readers.)

I am one of the few that likes the ugly design of that first Kindle. I still have one and it still works. I was fascinated why it was designed so weirdly and is so 'ugly.' Turns out the designer wanted it to be shaped kinda like how a book looks when it is open. Hence the sloping edge and weird shape, mimicking the cascade of pages on the right side.

I wonder if he is still proud of that idea? He should be tho, cuz it looks like something out of the old sci-fi show Space:1999 to me. lol

I'm not normal like you all; I haven't sold any of my readers. Which is why I have about 11 e-readers laying around my house so far. I've kept every one I bought over the years. lol

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by tsgreer

The 1st generation Kindle is my fav. I

But it only does Mobi, has no WiFi. No users fonts, publisher fonts or even small PDFs.
Only Western Roman language. No Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, or Asian support or fonts.
The software was from Mobipocket, bought in 2005. Despite the 2007 release and Linux the user software application was 10+ years out of date.

Also an abysmal vizplex screen.

[tsgreer]

Originally Posted by Quoth

But it only does Mobi, has no WiFi. No users fonts, publisher fonts

Yeah, it's definitely limited. I wonder if they have hacks out for it? I don't mind the mobi, tho I prefer epub, because I just convert in calibre. As for the other languages, fonts, etc, I'm cool with that. I'm in US, so just english reader.

And I like the no wi-fi. I'm a sideloader. I never bought from amazon, I'd always get my ebooks from other places that had no DRM. Every ereader I have, I turn off the wi-fi.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by tsgreer

Yeah, it's definitely limited. I wonder if they have hacks out for it? I don't mind the mobi, tho I prefer epub, because I just convert in calibre.

I doubt it due to limited RAM.

The old mobi is only HTML3, a small step-up from plain text. The later AWZ3/KF8 was backported to K3 and later. It's very similar to epub, especially epub2, so conversion to/from is very good.

The K3 is the first useful Kindle.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Quoth

The K3 is the first useful Kindle.

That is simply not true. The K2 was my first e-ink device and it was vey useful to me for years. Even after I got a K4NT I kept my K2 at work for times when I forgot to bring my K4NT and to be able to buy ebooks on 1 day special without having to remember when I got home or even go through all the overhead of making a purchase from home.

Kindles are horrible for browsing around for books, but 15 years ago they were great for buying and immediately starting a specific e-book.

I never got a K3 because I didn't consider it sufficiently better than a K2. That view eventually changed, but by then the Voyage blew all its predecessors out of the water.

[tsgreer]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Kindles are horrible for browsing around for books, but 15 years ago they were great for buying and immediately starting a specific e-book.

Yep, I read soooo many books on my first Kindle. I had lots of books already converted to the .mobi format, from the early days of reading books on a palm pilot. And I had a sony reader before I got the Kindle, so converting ebooks and sideloading them was no issue for me.

Besides the fact that I read so many books on that first Kindle, for me, it was proof that the world was starting to take e-books and e-book readers seriously. I knew widespread adoption was around the corner, and I was right.