On K4 Pins & Needles!!

[eSheri]

Originally Posted by Harmon

This would be a nice outcome for me, too. I would buy a 7 inch screen e-ink Kindle Touch in a New York Minute.

I'm in agreement with that! Although I would love to see a new design, I would jump on a K4 with the current design with the addition of a touch screen! We'd have the best of both worlds!

[BobLenx]

Have a K3 and an iPad2 and happy with both. I'll wait for the K5 or K6 for my next eReader upgrade <G>.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

It would be nice, but with WiFi and 3G access to the cloud I don't see a big reason. I would rather have the ability to store personal documents on Amazon's servers and have them show up in my "archive".

BOb

Ditto. With syncing and backup of notes.

[Barty]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I'd have no issue with that scenario at all, but what's the likelihood of them giving you another inch of screen real estate in lieu of a keyboard? That's the problem I have with giving up the keyboard and giving me "nothing I value" in return. But as long as the non-touch scooter-model rumour is true, they can "touch up" the cadillac-model all they want.
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True. The most likely scenario is the touch version gets shrunk a la the new nook. Your best hope is there will be a keyboarded k4. However, I don't see them keeping that up for the k5.

Originally Posted by Badandy

I really want Amazon to add a Kindle Books Subscription service. I want to be able to sign up, for $15 per month or something, to read whatever I want from the Kindle Store. They can have their actuaries and finance people dig into average readership and think of a price where they can make a good profit, but for people who want to read a lot of books that are still in copyright, let us sign up for a subscription plan. I'd love that.

The publishers will have something to say about that. Like, no.

[thinkpad]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Me and my Kindle2 are just chugging along, not giving one damn what's in store for the K4. I Expect my current Kindle to easily outlast it and the next incarnation as well.

Buy book, read words, I'm happy.

at least until they come out with a model with a sd-card slot. Don't know why they removed it when the first Kindle had it .

[Harry_Y]

I would like the following:

Expandable memory (SD Card slot).
Bring Back the row of Number keys.

Menus with Roll over functionality.
Hot Keys for screen rotation etc.
A better MP3 Interface.
The ability to have Sub-Collections.

[ovaldisk]

I wonder if it's possible to have a backlit e-ink display?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by ovaldisk

I wonder if it's possible to have a backlit e-ink display?

No, it isn't. eInk screen are opaque, hence can't be lit from behind. Sony tried a side-lit device (the PRS-700) a while ago, but it was a complete failure: the light diffusion layer on top of the screen had a pretty awful affect on the screen clarity.

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Does time pass at a different rate in New York?

Indeed it does. It goes much faster. I'm hardly there when I find that it's time to leave. Bummer.

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by Badandy

I really want Amazon to add a Kindle Books Subscription service. I want to be able to sign up, for $15 per month or something, to read whatever I want from the Kindle Store. They can have their actuaries and finance people dig into average readership and think of a price where they can make a good profit, but for people who want to read a lot of books that are still in copyright, let us sign up for a subscription plan. I'd love that.

I can imagine a subscription based service focussing on genre books that never make it into pbook form.

I can also imagine a Book of the Month Club type of subscription, where you pay your $9.99 and get to choose one or two books from a selection of books, either genre or general, which also come out in print.

And I can imagine that Oprah wakes up one morning and starts a subscription based version of her book club.

And when I do this imagining, I think of the Kindle Cloud Reader and consider how it might be the platform for implimenting this kind of thing on a streaming Netflix basis.

[Tinks]

I just hope they don't completely do away with the physical keyboard. I put lotion on my hands all the time and a touch screen just would not work for me. I'd have big lotion fingerprints on my screen, lol.

[SpookyMunky]

Originally Posted by Tome Keeper

Actually I have, my aunt brought her Kobo Touch over from the US during a recent visit and the screen had fingerprints on it, similar to the smudges I get on my Kindle screen when I touch it. Not impossible to read but distracting. Admittedly not as bad as LCD screens but still not good. The textured back thing on it also seemed to have several smudges as well.

stop using kindle after eating kfc without washing hands !

Originally Posted by ficbot

The only issue I have had with my K3 is with the processor. It seems it has the capacity to store more books than what the processor could handle. I started getting navigation slowdowns at about 800 books and outright crashes at 900. When I got to 1000 books, it just kept rebooting and rebooting. But I had over 1.5 gb of space remaining on the Kindle. More storage space is not useful unless they have a processor that can actually handle that quantity of files. If this is improved, I would consider upgrading since I could sell my K3 and not have to pay too much more.

isnt that a memory issue as opposed to cpu ?.. also might be a bug with the silly indexing thing kindle has turned on by default.. was more designed for people adding a book or 2 to it a week, adding say more than 20 or so at once adds a huge overhead without the indexing disabled.. adding 1000 heh, you cant blame amazon for not foreseeing that, I guess in theyr minds if you can afford to spend about 5+ grand on books at once, why are you buying one of the cheapest ebook readers available .. I guess probably the best way without hacking kindle atall is to add 10 books a day, and leaving it plugged in.. no idea how long it takes to index each book. It is such a dumb feature, maybe 1% of kindle users actually use the search index hehe, it is the same in vista, and I am guessing windows 7.. just sits and eats up cpu time and memory unless you disable it.

As for storage space,you are right in that the kindle has enuf space but hmm,, if they added a micro sdhc slot to kindle 4 I would be a very happy person, costs about £10/-15 uk for a 16gig micro sdhc.. more than enuf for my entire music collection .. always seems silly to me using pc to play music / mp4 player / using kindle itelf for radio streams.. or heh, using psp for radio streams etc.. stick in a microsdhc slot and I would never have to use any of the above

[OtterBooks]

Honestly they could do nothing but add a faster cpu and I would buy it. Not like the device is that expensive, and I could gift my current Kindle to a friend.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by OtterBooks

Honestly they could do nothing but add a faster cpu and I would buy it. Not like the device is that expensive, and I could gift my current Kindle to a friend.

I did not go from K2 to K3, and I will continue to hold out for better pocketability and either sub-collection support or true directory and sub-directory support.

There is also a long list of nice to haves that are overdue, but the above would be enough to get me to buy.

[macminer]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

For those of you who say you would dislike a touch screen reader, I'd like to ask a few questions.

Have you tried IR touch?
If you have, what did you dislike?

What is it about a touch screen reader do you not like?

First of all: when I touch something, I like the real "haptic" response. I am a touch typist and I stay away from all solutions that require looking at the keys while I am typing. The current capacitive screens as well as IR ones don't offer any haptic response, the best that they can do is offer vibration, which sort of imitates a real "touch" response. With old resistive screens I could somehow feel when I was touching the screen and felt sure when typing. Currently I have two phones, one with capacitive screen (Android by Samsung) and the other one with resistive (WM 6.5 by HTC). Writing a text message on the capacitive screen is for me a nightmare, whereas the resistive one (combined with extra haptic response through vibration) is OK. But in an e-reader a resistive screen would not work, as it needs a layer on top of the physical screen.

Incidentally, I got used to Grafitti system (on Palm OS), because I hardly needed to look at the characters I was writing. Current touch screens with software keyboards impede my writing. And why am I so obsessed with writing? Mostly, because when I am reading a book (mostly non-fiction) I annotate it quite a lot. I also like to use dictionaries and other reference works when I am reading, which obviously involves text searches. All in all, the touch screen without an efficient way of entering text is a step backwards for me.