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13 | 12.75% |
Only if I like the book |
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3 | 2.94% |
Rarely |
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26 | 25.49% |
Never |
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60 | 58.82% |
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It's a gimmick that was cheap to implement and that Amazon could laud as a new feature.
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As someone said above.... it's great for any Russian classic in which half of the character are named Alexander-something.
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#21 |
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I will add that though I rarely read fiction, X-RAY would have come in VERY helpful way back when I read The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those were the most difficult to keep track of characters and their names. I have trouble remembering names anyway, especially when they are from made up languages imagined in the mind of Tolkien!
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I used it exactly once and it immediately listed something that hadn't happened yet in the book. I can live without an auto-spoiler function.
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Of all the thousands of books that I have read with my paper white I have never had xray available.
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Nameless Being
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X-RAY has to be added by the book author/publisher. Amazon added a feature that most publishers don't seem to support. I don't blame the publishers though as it is a lot of work to add X-RAY to their books.
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I never use it.
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I use X-Ray constantly. I've always had trouble remembering character names and X-Ray is a great help. In a book without too many characters I still find myself using it some. In a book with a lot of characters, which a lot of the books I read are, I use it constantly.
When I read "Under the Dome" I'm not sure I'd have remembered half of the huge number of characters by the time I was half way through. X-Ray was a real life-saver. It's true that most books don't have it yet. I read a lot of older books and I always give preference to those that do have it. And I've noticed that it keeps getting added to more and more books. One book, I don't recall which now, updated itself because I have the auto-update feature turned on at Amazon, while I was about halfway through the book, adding X-Ray. I think this is an important and a very major feature and I suspect as time goes by it'll become a selling point, encouraging more publishers to take it seriously. Barry |
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#28 |
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One of the reasons for this is I only occasionally buy from amazon, most of mine come from Baen.
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Although I like this feature, you have to be careful of spoilers. I was reading a book by Stephen King and when I looked up one of the characters, x-ray revealed plot information from later chapters and it spoiled some of the surprise in the story. After that, I have felt less inclined to use it.
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Spoilers are a huge issue with X-Ray. It can reveal major plot points that you have not reached yet. This happened with "Mockingjay" for me. I would not use it again unless I was rereading a book.
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