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Old 11-17-2011, 11:52 PM   #76
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Opps... sorry, meant to post that last about the button in the fire thread.

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Old 11-17-2011, 11:53 PM   #77
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Oh yes then you can turn it upside down. In the dark it hard to know which way is which!
Hard to know which thread you are posting in as well.

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Old 11-18-2011, 12:01 AM   #78
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Hard to know which thread you are posting in as well.

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I know with two separate forums it sometimes runs together.
I mean the Touch doesn't have Rotation but the Fire does.
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Old 11-18-2011, 03:25 AM   #79
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There are already complaints about screen quality for KT on Amazon.
So I want to hear about it since I really was dissappointed with KNT screen.
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Old 11-18-2011, 03:32 AM   #80
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The screen seemed about the same to me as the month-old Kindle Keyboard/K3 I swapped out for the Touch; if anything, the Touch had a slight edge.

Still bummed about no hardware page turn buttons, though I'm adjusting.

The Touch fits surprisingly well and snuggly into the M-Edge GO! Jacket I had for the Kindle Keyboard, so I can keep the same case, which was an unexpected bonus.
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Old 11-18-2011, 06:24 AM   #81
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First - my Collections are a mess. I put all the books on and then transferred in the Collections. Some of my Collections didn't show up. Some Collections that I had months ago on the old Kindle but had deleted off did show up. Some Collections are listed two or three times. Then in some Collections there will be 3 books listed but on the screen it will say Collection name (5) and I can't figure out why or how to fix it. So, I did a Factory reset to wipe it clean BUT, the Collections stayed. This all seems to be a firmware Amazon Cloud Whispersync kind of problem and probably not a Kindle Touch hardware problem but let's just say right now I'm really missing the Calibre Kindle Collection plug-in which does not work with the Kindle Touch. I have way too many books and I've spent hours on getting my Collections just as I want. The thought of having to do it again makes me kind of pissy.
This is what I am facing now. I tried calling CS to see if they could explain to me how to get rid of all the "old" collections, they were no help. I eventually wiped my k2 cleaned, reset it back to factory reset, restarted it and then completed a sync. This wiped out all the collections associated with my k2. Then I was able to upload my current collections and they were recognized correctly. Though I was missing some, so I had to fine tune it some more. Now I am in the process of trying to import those collections into the Touch. It seems as if Amazon's servers are on some kind of delay but I have not figured out how long to wait between when I upload the collections for one reader in order to import them onto another. Needless to say I have not been able to read on either device because all this syncing is draining the battery so they have both been plugged up for two days while they are doing their thing.

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Old 11-18-2011, 10:04 AM   #82
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There are already complaints about screen quality for KT on Amazon.
So I want to hear about it since I really was dissappointed with KNT screen.
I don't see any problem with the KT screen, but I've only looked at it at Best Buy. Based on a side by side comparison of the display units, the new Sony T1 strikes me as having the better screen, having better contrast. But part of that might be that the Sony is dark blue as compared to the KT's light gray. That probably impacts the perceived contrast on the screen.
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Old 11-18-2011, 10:47 AM   #83
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Strange about the lack of landscape mode on the touch, maybe it's due to the way you where to touch the screen to turn pages. If you rotate the device the screen touch area is suddenly different, I know Amazon did that strange thing where the "previous" page turn is a small corner on the left hand side of the screen.

This product just seems rushed in order to get a touch version out there. Glad I went with the non-touch version.
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Old 11-18-2011, 11:30 AM   #84
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There are already complaints about screen quality for KT on Amazon.
So I want to hear about it since I really was dissappointed with KNT screen.
I'll have to check this out. My screen seems fine. I compared it to my K3 & my Sony 350 & it looks fine. I suppose some defective ones could have gotten by...Or I just don't notice the difference.
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Old 11-18-2011, 01:02 PM   #85
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Congratulations to everyone on their new Kindle!
So, this is the one question that I can finally ask:
Is it possible to highlight across pages on the Kindle Touch?
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Old 11-18-2011, 01:40 PM   #86
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Strange about the lack of landscape mode on the touch, maybe it's due to the way you where to touch the screen to turn pages. If you rotate the device the screen touch area is suddenly different, I know Amazon did that strange thing where the "previous" page turn is a small corner on the left hand side of the screen.

This product just seems rushed in order to get a touch version out there. Glad I went with the non-touch version.
Some features may be absent, or have changed, but that is to be expected with any new model. I would certainly not consider this "rushed" at all -- it's a very well designed and polished product.
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Old 11-18-2011, 07:06 PM   #87
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I think that Len Edgerly said on his podcast that you cannot highlight across pages. I tried and I can't get it to work either, so I am thinking that it does not work, sorry.
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Just tried HLing across pages and she's a no work boss. Creating another consecutive HL on the next page results in two HL entries.

I've been griping about this since K1, and for some reason I expected Touch to address it.

Oh well, warts and all eh?

Oh, and the screen LOOKS AWSOME!
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Old 11-19-2011, 11:52 AM   #89
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My feeling is that the Touch was a bit rushed. There are weird little glitches and oversights. The dictionary bug not the least of which. That said, the interface is far faster to use and more intuitive than the k3. In fact, because of the absence of buttons I feel that it is a more absorbing reading experience.
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Question since I haven't seen anything yet so is all webpage stuff locked down on the touch?
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