To the Kindle with special offers owners

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Every so often (perhaps once a month) you get a screensaver saying "Connect to the wireless network to download new offers" or something like that. At that point I turn on 3G (or connect to WiFi) for a few minutes to let it download the latest batch of ads, then turn it off again. The ads cycle within each "batch", so you still get the variety.

I no longer do that on my K4, because the Special Offers are no more and the ads are worthless.

Now it appears that Amazon is going to start up the SOs again with the release of the new Kindles. If they do and the offers are good, I'll turn wifi back on.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I no longer do that on my K4, because the Special Offers are no more and the ads are worthless.

They're all worthless to me, in the UK, as ads. I just regard them as interesting and varied screensavers.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by HarryT

They're all worthless to me, in the UK, as ads. I just regard them as interesting and varied screensavers.

I can do without screensavers. I never pay attention to them. My K4 currently has the jumbled letters and a banner box telling me to connect. I have enough books on it for a few more months.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I can do without screensavers. I never pay attention to them. My K4 currently has the jumbled letters and a banner box telling me to connect. I have enough books on it for a few more months.

Wow, aren't you afraid that only connecting to Amazon once every few months you might lose all you bookmarks, notes, highlighting, etc. if the K4 crashes. I know crashes are rare, still I would hate to lose all that information. plus in my case i need to Whispersync to read on other devices and sync all the info between them.

[odiakkoh]

Originally Posted by jswinden

Wow, aren't you afraid that only connecting to Amazon once every few months you might lose all you bookmarks, notes, highlighting, etc. if the K4 crashes. I know crashes are rare, still I would hate to lose all that information. plus in my case i need to Whispersync to read on other devices and sync all the info between them.

Can't answer for monkey but I don't use any of those features so I wouldn't mind losing them lol.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by jswinden

Wow, aren't you afraid that only connecting to Amazon once every few months you might lose all you bookmarks, notes, highlighting, etc. if the K4 crashes. I know crashes are rare, still I would hate to lose all that information. plus in my case i need to Whispersync to read on other devices and sync all the info between them.

I don't do bookmarks, notes, highlighting, searches, definitions, etc. Nor do I whispersync with my K3 or any other device. I just read.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by odiakkoh

Can't answer for monkey but I don't use any of those features so I wouldn't mind losing them lol.

ditto

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I don't do bookmarks, notes, highlighting, searches, definitions, etc. Nor do I whispersync with my K3 or any other device. I just read.

That's cool, a lot people don't. In my case I seldom read fiction or read for pure entertainment purposes. I mostly read history books, science books, biographies, treatises on emergency management, et cetera, for all of which I feel the need to highlight and book mark. I never use Kindle notes though as they are too slow to create. Without Whispersync I would be really frustrated!

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by jswinden

Wow, aren't you afraid that only connecting to Amazon once every few months you might lose all you bookmarks, notes, highlighting, etc. if the K4 crashes. I know crashes are rare, still I would hate to lose all that information. plus in my case i need to Whispersync to read on other devices and sync all the info between them.

You don't lose that information if you reboot your Kindle.

Originally Posted by HarryT

You don't lose that information if you reboot your Kindle.

I didn't say reboot. I'm thinking about a factory reset or a totally dead Kindle. Both happen, though rarely.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by jswinden

I didn't say reboot. I'm thinking about a factory reset or a totally dead Kindle. Both happen, though rarely.

I've never had to do a factory reset of any Kindle that I've owned (except when I've sold them) so I can't say that I'll lose any sleep over this .

Originally Posted by HarryT

I've never had to do a factory reset of any Kindle that I've owned (except when I've sold them) so I can't say that I'll lose any sleep over this .

Whatever....I guess you've never had a computer harddrive fail either causing the loss of data. It might occur rarely, but if it does and you don't have cloud or some kind of backup you're just out of data and luck. I'm sure this means nothing to most users of Kindles or other eReaders, but if someone uses them for research it can be a big deal.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by jswinden

Whatever....I guess you've never had a computer harddrive fail either causing the loss of data. It might occur rarely, but if it does and you don't have cloud or some kind of backup you're just out of data and luck. I'm sure this means nothing to most users of Kindles or other eReaders, but if someone uses them for research it can be a big deal.

Certainly I have, and I'm rigorous in my backups, but I don't regard anything that's on my Kindle of being of any importance - it can all be reloaded. I don't annotate my books; if I did, I'd certainly feel differently about it.