New Kindle with WiFi announced - Page 29

seagull · 07-30-2010, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Graham

Let's hope so, and that the fact that the fifth image on the UK Amazon page is of the Daily Mail while the tooltip reads the Economist isn't a sign that a deal fell through at the last minute!

Graham

There is an image of The Economist though.

Graham · 07-30-2010, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by seagull

There is an image of The Economist though.

Oh, yes! Lower down the page. With the tooltip AltText_5. I didn't spot that before. Hey, Daily Mail and the Economist. All bases covered...

Graham

Crowl · 07-30-2010, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by RDaneel54

I haven't seen the UK ones, but the American ones are pretty bad. I actually put off reading the books because of the covers. I know that is stupid, but they look like they were drawn by an amateur. The story was good but got a little overdone by book eight.

The uk covers are quite a subtle and restrained design, basically just a colour variation on the one below:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...jL._SS500_.jpg

kindlekitten · 07-30-2010, 02:48 PM

I have to admit that the US covers pretty much sucked. one has to wonder what was wrong with the artist's sense of proportion among other things

RDaneel54 · 07-30-2010, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowl

The uk covers are quite a subtle and restrained design, basically just a colour variation on the one below:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...jL._SS500_.jpg

Now that's more like it.

Dean

brecklundin · 07-30-2010, 05:06 PM

fyi....where are the number keys on the K3 keyboard? just asking...

Ajax · 07-30-2010, 05:07 PM

alt key + the top row of the keyboard, the same as the DX

brecklundin · 07-30-2010, 05:11 PM

in case ya don't know....the numbers on the K3 are now buried in with the SYMBOLS under the SYM key....oh, joy. Sorry that really is not a good thing for me and probably for a lot of folks who never even bothered to look at the keyboard, I know I missed that the numbers were gone.

see K3 user manual Ch1 p.33-34

morrissey2k7 · 07-30-2010, 05:17 PM

I love when people complain about how the Kindle doesn't support this format or that -- If you're too lazy to use Calibre to convert your books, then you deserve to have your ebook reader license revoked.

kindlekitten · 07-30-2010, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by morrissey2k7

I love when people complain about how the Kindle doesn't support this format or that -- If you're too lazy to use Calibre to convert your books, then you deserve to have your ebook reader license revoked.

I think a lot of people flat out don't understand. it just gets repeated over and over again so that it becomes "truth"

mrscoach · 07-30-2010, 06:08 PM

I have to say that I am fairly new to the game, and until recently didn't know how to format shift most of my books. I finally broke down and learned to back up my restricted books, too. Then I made the jump and "Russified" my 300.

Most normal people (face it, WE are not normal) do not do these things. I went with the 300 because it was easier for me at the time to find epub books and I didn't want to be tied to Amazon. Now I am drooling over the K3, and know that I would be able to change my books, if needed.

I'm on the fence, and the major factor holding me back is $$$$. I have a reader, and cannot justify another. My son also drooled when I told him about the new Kindle. He just got his 300 for graduation.

Guess I'll hang around and see what the future brings. This could get interesting, boys and girls. (I hope)

volwrath · 07-30-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by morrissey2k7

I love when people complain about how the Kindle doesn't support this format or that -- If you're too lazy to use Calibre to convert your books, then you deserve to have your ebook reader license revoked.

Heh well actually I am moving from Sony to kindle cause I am too lazy to keep figuring out where my bookmarks should be. Does this mean I need my license revoked?

Sweetpea · 07-31-2010, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by morrissey2k7

I love when people complain about how the Kindle doesn't support this format or that -- If you're too lazy to use Calibre to convert your books, then you deserve to have your ebook reader license revoked.

Not everybody is as computer savvy as you may be. I would have to explain to my mother how to remove the DRM and convert books if she bought the Kindle. As most Dutch (if not all) books are in DRM'd epub.

(I've not even done it myself!)

aagstn · 07-31-2010, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by morrissey2k7

I love when people complain about how the Kindle doesn't support this format or that -- If you're too lazy to use Calibre to convert your books, then you deserve to have your ebook reader license revoked.

So to be a Kindle owner all I have to do is convert a few hundred books in my collection and steal from the public library by cracking the DRM? No thanks.

ePub is the standard for ebooks and until Amazon supports it as far as I'm concerned they don't even make an eBook reader.

anathema · 07-31-2010, 03:03 AM

I just did a return on the Kindle I ordered on the 15th online.

Anyone know when I ship it back if they will accept it without original packaging? I tossed the box, didn't exactly expect this to happen.

Doh!

07-30-2010, 05:11 PM	#428
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	in case ya don't know....the numbers on the K3 are now buried in with the SYMBOLS under the SYM key....oh, joy. Sorry that really is not a good thing for me and probably for a lot of folks who never even bothered to look at the keyboard, I know I missed that the numbers were gone. see K3 user manual Ch1 p.33-34 Last edited by brecklundin; 07-30-2010 at 05:14 PM.

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kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	I have to admit that the US covers pretty much sucked. one has to wonder what was wrong with the artist's sense of proportion among other things

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mrscoach Guru Posts: 767 Karma: 4837659 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: San Angelo Texas Device: Samsung Galaxy tab	I have to say that I am fairly new to the game, and until recently didn't know how to format shift most of my books. I finally broke down and learned to back up my restricted books, too. Then I made the jump and "Russified" my 300. Most normal people (face it, WE are not normal) do not do these things. I went with the 300 because it was easier for me at the time to find epub books and I didn't want to be tied to Amazon. Now I am drooling over the K3, and know that I would be able to change my books, if needed. I'm on the fence, and the major factor holding me back is $$$$. I have a reader, and cannot justify another. My son also drooled when I told him about the new Kindle. He just got his 300 for graduation. Guess I'll hang around and see what the future brings. This could get interesting, boys and girls. (I hope)

07-31-2010, 03:03 AM	#435
anathema Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G	I just did a return on the Kindle I ordered on the 15th online. Anyone know when I ship it back if they will accept it without original packaging? I tossed the box, didn't exactly expect this to happen. Doh!

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