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20-30 | 19 | 18.45% | |
30-40 | 22 | 21.36% | |
40-50 | 28 | 27.18% | |
60+ | 34 | 33.01% | |
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02-13-2021, 09:52 AM | #76 | |
Wizard
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: New England
Device: PW 1, 2, 3, Voyage, Oasis 2 & 3, Fires, Aura HD, iPad
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02-13-2021, 11:04 AM | #77 |
Green Grass Newbie
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Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Far, Far Northern US
Device: Kindle Paperwhite
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"... what made you buy kindle?"
Basically, when my old Nook ST finally gave up and died, the only eReader that I could actually touch and play with in the store before purchasing was a PW4. All other ereaders were just advertisements and, therefore for me, vaporware. "...what is your favourite feature on your kindle?" That it works and, thanks to Calibre, I can read to my heart's content on it. |
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02-14-2021, 06:33 AM | #78 | |
Resident Curmudgeon
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Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
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02-14-2021, 08:23 AM | #79 | |
Wizard
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Karma: 52740263
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: New England
Device: PW 1, 2, 3, Voyage, Oasis 2 & 3, Fires, Aura HD, iPad
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02-14-2021, 10:00 AM | #80 | |
Wizard
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Karma: 9177222
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: USA
Device: sony prs-350,Nook HD+, Kindle 2nd gen, kindle keyboard
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02-14-2021, 02:58 PM | #81 | |
Running with scissors
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02-19-2021, 10:32 AM | #82 |
Connoisseur
Posts: 54
Karma: 66
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Italy
Device: Kindle Keyboard, Paperwhite 4
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The purpose of the browser is obviously to navigate through the pages of the Amazon site to buy ebooks. But Amazon cannot pretend to limit the use of a universal tool such as the browser to its site, it would be too narrow a vision for a company, in fact, as universal as Amazon.
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02-19-2021, 02:20 PM | #83 | |
Running with scissors
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It's probably there for backwards compatibility; they thought it was a good idea when they added it way back when and now they're scratching their heads and wondering why they did that. Given how the UI is still the same lame deficient thing from way back then, that's what I'd guess. Once I got a Kobo my Kindle stays unused in a drawer; I'm always amazed at how glacially slow the UI advances on the Kindle. But I suspect that the browser on the Kobo isn't much better. Last edited by hobnail; 02-19-2021 at 07:23 PM. |
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03-17-2021, 06:58 PM | #84 |
I draw.
Posts: 130
Karma: 4278578
Join Date: Mar 2021
Location: Midwestern US
Device: K1, K4B, KPW3, KOA3, KF7 (2019)
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Long battery life, good prices, good hacking scene, rather impressive support for legacy devices, etc.
A lot. Oh and a screen that puts no strain on your eyes. My first one was a Paperwhite 2 (still have it but it needs a new screen and frame), and then I got a K4, then K1, and now a KT1. They're great devices and frankly there are so few companies that can match their quality and support. |
03-27-2021, 03:42 PM | #85 |
Wizard
Posts: 1,099
Karma: 4234828
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Cape Canaveral
Device: Kindle Scribe
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I love my Kindle because of screen quality, good OS (speaking for that with Jailbreak on my PW3 5.9.7), great store with comics and books, excellent support (not only for Kindles, though), being compact and very useful (to read 1000+ books in a volume of a single book on a 1500 mAh battery device is impressive anyways!)
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05-02-2023, 11:05 AM | #86 |
try this: :(){ :|:& };:
Posts: 44
Karma: 10
Join Date: Aug 2022
Device: Pw3 (Bricked), Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard
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i have a pw3
i love that there is no glare the size is good the old-old ui is great but it updated to 5.15.1.1 the jailbreaks gone it has a terrible ui i bareley use it now |
05-02-2023, 01:56 PM | #87 |
Wizard
Posts: 2,266
Karma: 7406665
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Circling Earth @ Mach .83
Device: Elipsa 2E, Sage, Libra Colour, Libra 2, Clara 2E, Oasis3, Voyage
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With a horrible UI, walled-garden philosophy, ads/marketing, limitations with line-spacing, margins & personal font sizing (not just the few offered by AMZ) and lack of many other customizations, proprietary file format, forced updates, there is nothing to love.
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05-02-2023, 04:38 PM | #88 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 5,027
Karma: 18018738
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Scribe, PW SE & Kindle 2022, Kobo Libra 2
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Kindle is just one e-reader I have, I use it just to read Amazon ebooks. I have four kobo e-readers as well.
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05-02-2023, 10:23 PM | #89 | ||
Addict
Posts: 200
Karma: 9146378
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: New York State, USA
Device: Kindle Touch, DX, PW4, PW5, Scribe; Likebook Mars; Fire HD 8; iPad
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My first Kindle was a Kindle Touch, and I was upgrading from a Kobo 2, which had a very bad store, no touch screen, and preferential treatment for Kobo books. I think I mainly made the switch to Kindle because the Kobo store was terrible, and when I did get a Kindle, I found the Kindle store to be so much better. One thing that drew me in was that the Kindle store had Daily Deals, and this led me to buy many books for low prices. Since then, I have made use of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library (now defunct), Kindle Unlimited, and Prime Reading. Besides having lots of great deals, Kindle had some authors with books exclusive to Kindle, and I got into some of them.
Having already bought hundreds of Kindle books, and being a reader of various Kindle exclusive authors, I have been inclined to stick with devices that could read them, and these have mostly been Kindles. But I've bought new Kindles only when they had new features I wanted. I got a Kindle DX for its larger size, a Paperwhite 5 for finally combining warm lighting with a flat form factor, and a Scribe for being larger and more up-to-date than the DX. But before I got the Paperwhite 5, I got a Likebook Mars to also read Kindle books with warm lighting and a flat form factor. Quote:
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05-03-2023, 02:57 AM | #90 | ||
Enthusiast
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Device: PW2, Kobos Mini & Libra 2.
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I've got a slowly-dying Kindle Keyboard that I sometimes use as a portable terminal for ssh. The terminal emulator and physical keyboard are definitely some of the best things about it. Quote:
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