Top 10 Kindle Irritations

[EricDP]

Originally Posted by J. Strnad

Funny how "lack of epub support" didn't make the list.

People who think ePUB is important didn't buy a Kindle...

[ProfCrash]

If the Kindle had EPub it would probably pick up a bunch more users.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Solicitous

I'm still rather curious why people feel the device should support epub? What is so good about this format?

Library books.

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Library books.

IF the library you belong to has a decent selection of books that you like.


Within the last 90 days, my library has added ONE book. Not even one I'd like.......

[Solicitous]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Library books.

But Library books are DRM'd. Given that I have yet to see an ereader support ADE and another form of DRM its makes be believe perhaps exclusivity on devices when it comes to DRM support - ie: pick one but not both kind of situation.

Hmm, the cheap price of ereaders is it really that big a deal to own a Kindle and another ADE-based ereader (for library books if that is your thing)??

[ProfCrash]

While e-readers have come down in price, $140 is still a decent chunk of change. It would be nice if Amazon allowed EPub's on their reader if only because it would stop everyone kvetching about the lack of EPub support. I don't know that I would use the library or buy from anyone outside of Amazon but the option would be nice.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

IF the library you belong to has a decent selection of books that you like.


Within the last 90 days, my library has added ONE book. Not even one I'd like.......

Mine do. My three favorites have over 19,000 (+708); 4700 (+330); and 3400 (+247) respectively and have increased their collections. I'm not wanting.

[nohmi2]

To be quite candid, I found them to be very minor irritations.

Nothing that would make me give up on my Kindle.

Cheers.

[dwig]

Originally Posted by L.J. Sellers

...The top three flaws were:
1. Only one user
2. No applications
3. Dictionary for single words only

#1 - only one user - no more so than a cell phone is for only one user.

#2 - its an ebook reader and not a multi-use tablet computer. This "irritation" is as ludicrous as complaining that a premium chef's knife has only one blade unlike the "jack of all trades, master of none" Swiss Army knife.

#3 - completely wrong; the reporter doesn't know how to use the dictionaries. The dictionaries, at least the Oxford American that I use as default, has quite a number of definitions of phrases. After moving the cursor to the first work in the phase in question, one simply needs to press the return button to open the dictionary and read the rest of the definition and, often, page forward through the many related definitions to find the phase in question. A single "Back" press returns to your book.

[JaneD]

I have to agree with several of these points. I love my k3 but it is weird how they place the buttons (why isn't Home on the outside?) so that there's no place to pick it up that I won't hit a button. And I have little hands!

[HappyMartin]

I find 9 of the 10 points irrelevant for me but the Free 3G goes beyond irritating. It is misleading and actually downright dishonest.

[Kumabjorn]

Originally Posted by dwig

#3 - completely wrong; the reporter doesn't know how to use the dictionaries. The dictionaries, at least the Oxford American that I use as default, has quite a number of definitions of phrases. After moving the cursor to the first work in the phase in question, one simply needs to press the return button to open the dictionary and read the rest of the definition and, often, page forward through the many related definitions to find the phase in question. A single "Back" press returns to your book.

I would actually have to agree with the author on that one. Probably because English is a foreign language to me. I tend to open my definitions a lot to read through it all. Despite that, there are times when I'm forced to guess the intention of the author because there aren't any definition given for a phrase. This becomes even more apparent when you switch between UK and US books.

[gertblij]

This guy either doesn't get it or works/is paid for by Apple.
For crying out loud, the Kindle is a device to read books on, nothing more, nothing less, it is not an iPad, or a PC, or a calculator, or a game console or a ................

As a device to read books on its price/perfomance is great and its abilty to display book pages even better.

"After so long he still hasn't found out how to hold the K3", poor thing :-(

[Vandy]

Hello, All.

I saw this thread and was immediately interested in what would be posted. I have to be honest and say that the 10 irritaions listed by the author are (IMHO as a brand-new Kindle user) irrelavent. As others have already commented on these 10 rather completely, I am not going to "rehash" or revisit them.

I have the WiFi version so 3G isn't an issue for me.

Very honestly, my NUMBER ONE (complaint? irritation? wish?) enhancement to the Kindle 3 would be in giving use a much more robust collections management function.

I am a nester -- no, not someone who is comfortable in always staying at home. I like to keep my "stuff" be it files, documents, music, books, etc. nested in a folder structure of MY choosing. For example, I would LOVE to be able to do:

o Fiction
- General
- Historical
- Military
- Non
- Science

o History
- Ancient
- American
- General
- Military
- World

o Romance
- Erotic
- General
- Historical
- Parnormal

etc., etc.

To me, NESTING COLLECTIONS would my much more valueable than the irratations listed.

Regards,

Vandy

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

I would actually have to agree with the author on that one. Probably because English is a foreign language to me. I tend to open my definitions a lot to read through it all. Despite that, there are times when I'm forced to guess the intention of the author because there aren't any definition given for a phrase. This becomes even more apparent when you switch between UK and US books.

I've got a few different dictionaries on mine and I swap out the "default dictionary" depending on what I am reading at the time. Although it is true that you can't highlight a phrase to look up, often if you highlight the key word in the phrase and open the dictionary you will see that phrase in one of the definitions.