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Old 01-31-2009, 11:12 AM   #16
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What I may do is purchase one of the original ones for my sister since the price will go down.
My 505 is just fine right now and I truly dont see a reason to purchase another one just because it is newer....
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Old 01-31-2009, 11:28 AM   #18
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I really don't know why anyone is assuming that this press conference has anything to do with the Kindle. All we know is that Amazon are holding a press conference - the overwhelming majority of Amazon's business is completely unconnected with eBooks or the Kindle.
There doing it at Library on Feb 9th. Isn't this also the O'Riley publisher event... or is that just concurrently at the same place?

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Old 01-31-2009, 11:29 AM   #19
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I think the indexing slowed it down for days (yes, actual days) because for the first few days it was taking 4-5 seconds to turn a page. It made me stabby.
I don't think so. I noticed with the Topaz book I read that the further you get into the book the longer each page turn takes. It is annoy as heck and now that I know about this I won't be buying an more Topaz books. There are to many other books that I want to read anyway.

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Old 01-31-2009, 11:33 AM   #20
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It depends. Right now, i have my entire library of e-books on the MkI and I like that a lot. If they don't have mongo memory or SD support, I won't get the MkII. Also, folders. If they have folders, I'd be really tempted.
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I don't think so. I noticed with the Topaz book I read that the further you get into the book the longer each page turn takes. It is annoy as heck and now that I know about this I won't be buying an more Topaz books. There are to many other books that I want to read anyway.

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Mine's sped up. The first few days, it was on average 4-5 seconds to turn a page with occasionally having to wait up to 10. Now it's only slightly longer than a regular page turn and I'm about 2/3 through the book. That's why I figured it must be indexing its little heart out because something had to account for that slowdown. Poor prioritizing of tasks if that's true, though.
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Old 01-31-2009, 01:05 PM   #22
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Also, folders. If they have folders, I'd be really tempted.
If they implement folders, but not in the current model's firmware, they would deserve my scorn and not an upgrade purchase from me.
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Old 01-31-2009, 01:31 PM   #23
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It depends. Right now, i have my entire library of e-books on the MkI and I like that a lot. If they don't have mongo memory or SD support, I won't get the MkII. Also, folders. If they have folders, I'd be really tempted.
I've heard the folders would only require a simple software upgrade available to all Kindle folders? opinions?
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Old 01-31-2009, 01:52 PM   #24
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Poor prioritizing of tasks if that's true, though.
I just can't imaging it taking "days" to index something. I mean what are you talking about here... 2GB SD card? The Kindle CPU isn't all that fast, sure, but 2GB of data isn't that much either. I'm to lazy to do any calculations here but the thing indexing for days just can't be possible. Unless you are constantly changing the date every few minutes causing it to need to do some reindexing.

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I just can't imaging it taking "days" to index something. I mean what are you talking about here... 2GB SD card? The Kindle CPU isn't all that fast, sure, but 2GB of data isn't that much either. I'm to lazy to do any calculations here but the thing indexing for days just can't be possible. Unless you are constantly changing the date every few minutes causing it to need to do some reindexing.

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It was a few hundred documents. About half books and half recipes.
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Old 01-31-2009, 02:00 PM   #26
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It was a few hundred documents. About half books and half recipes.
Ah... it just can't take days to index this. And, the indexing does happen as a background non-priority task. Alas, there is no activity monitor for the CPU. Perhaps Igorsky can spread some light on this as he has gained shell access and can watch and see what is happening on the thing.

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Ah... it just can't take days to index this. And, the indexing does happen as a background non-priority task. Alas, there is no activity monitor for the CPU. Perhaps Igorsky can spread some light on this as he has gained shell access and can watch and see what is happening on the thing.

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It doesn't make sense to me either. Luckily it's over and my book is back to being tolerable. I still HATE topaz. The font isn't nearly as readable as the native font and there have been some horrible errors. A couple pages had a line or two of overlapping text and one even had a huge chunk taken out.
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Yes, Harry, but Mobi is just another Amazon venture. How about being open to ePub? That's what I want at minimum.
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There doing it at Library on Feb 9th. Isn't this also the O'Riley publisher event... or is that just concurrently at the same place?

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From what I understand, it is during the Tools of Change conference.
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