06-21-2014, 01:49 PM | #76 | |
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Just as an example, right now they don't have a lot of insight into whether or not SCRIBD is a popular model--why? Because I don't read SCRIBD books on my kindle. I'd actually like to, but that is a different story. The point I'm trying to make (probably badly) is that data is valuable and I don't wish to give that data away just because they have a convenient cloud. |
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06-21-2014, 02:55 PM | #77 | |
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As for the margins, I know on the Touch and PW1, you can use negative margins in the p class for. KF8 to get rid of the margins. The PW1 works well with a left/right margin of -40 and the Touch is good with -30. If you like, I can make a KF8 book that has -40 L/R margins for you to try on the PW2. One thing that is a bother is the larger line height the KF8 code forces. You cannot make it any smaller other then modifying a font's metrics to force it to have a smaller line height. I've done this with my version of CharisSIL. Because the Kindle uses different numbers in the metrics then ADE, we can have one font family that works well for ADE and the Kindle. I'll embed my new hinted CharisSIL along with the negative margins and post in this thread for anyone who wants to test it. As for the small amount of memory, that's just being cheap on Amazon's part. |
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06-21-2014, 07:01 PM | #78 |
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I'm of the opinion that keeping memory minimal contains cost, makes the cloud services more valuable and/or paves the way for charging for the storage on a recurring basis rather than paying once for your own memory or allows the cloud makers to mine for data. Which categories are read most, are they re-read, do most people collect by genre or are they eclectic, ad nauseum...
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06-21-2014, 07:47 PM | #79 |
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The cloud wouldn't be quite so bad if it wasn't for the stupidity of the kindles being set up so that in order to remove a book from your device you first have to remove it from it's collection then remove it from the device. When you want to read it again you have to search through a hundred or so pages of archive, download it to your device and then put it back into it's proper collection(s). Too many steps. After going through the trouble of organizing all my books into collections I don't want to have to keep undoing and redoing it over and over again. Sort of makes collections pointless.
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06-21-2014, 08:33 PM | #80 | |
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What you read is what you (or your character) are. Do you really want to give so much personal information to the NSA? |
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06-21-2014, 10:01 PM | #81 | |
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I rely on my anonymity as being part of a large amount of people whose data is being stored/analysed and my lack of gullibility to targeted advertising as a minuscule amount of protection and my basic law abiding nature. Not that that will work if anyone is out to get me, but neither will cloud avoidance either. One can conceivably be off the grid if one spends a lot of effort and avoids a lot of conveniences like bank accounts, regular jobs, buying anything on credit or making expensive purchases, having long time friends or calling home to mother. The list could go on and on. To much effort for me to expend on what I see as a futile exercise. Helen |
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06-21-2014, 10:27 PM | #82 | |
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Except tinfoil --- I buy that in bulk with my personal credit card, shipped to my real address, and include at least three NSA trigger phrases in every transaction. I mean, you have to leave at least some data footprint, or they get real interested in you. |
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06-22-2014, 12:28 AM | #83 | |
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The 1100-3500 estimation is based on a reasonable 1MB-per-book estimate, which is a little on the large side... for books that are mostly text, which is where e-ink ereaders excel. Anything larger than 1MB should probably be read on a tablet, unless it is simply one of those giant omnibus/collections that are tens of megabytes simply because they contain 50 books or so -- those are, technically, 50 books in one file. |
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06-22-2014, 12:28 AM | #84 | |
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06-22-2014, 12:29 AM | #85 | ||
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All three formats (AZW3, MOBI, EPUB) are roughly the same sizes. If books are bigger, it is because there is more in them (either text, images, or embedded fonts) and not because the format is intrinsically bigger. In act, my few ADE ebooks average 3-4X the size of my Amazon books, for no good reason -- a conversion in calibre makes it much smaller. Amazon seems to have higher standards for using space in ebooks wisely. In short, books are no bigger than they used to, except in terms of how the authors/publishers make them... a problem that applies equally to every bookstore. Quote:
Amazon is fine with you having 1000 books on your ereader. This is possible with the PW1/2, and easily with the Touch/Keyboard which can hold about 3500. At a certain point, they have judged that the vast majority of Kindle owners do not need the extra storage, based on the fact that they never use it, and have saved everyone money by lowering the cost of making Kindles, allowing them to keep charging the same low price after adding on new features (think frontlight) that people will actually use. Don't keep all your books on your ereader. Keep them on your hard drive (dedicated storage exists for a reason) and merely keep the next few months worth of reading materials (taking into account lengthy TBRs, keeping favorites handy, eclectic tastes and being in the middle of 6 books at once, I manage to do precisely this) on your ereader. Rotate as necessary. |
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And since all those problems can be soved with jailbreak plus easy-to-use hacks courtesy of ixtab twobob knc1 and NiLuJe, that isn't a problem. By default the Kindle is dumbed down because that makes it easier to use for the majority of readers. You have stated Quote:
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06-22-2014, 01:23 AM | #87 |
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All anyone has to do if they want to know what I'm reading is look at the "What are you currently reading?" thread here at MR. It's not a secret.
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06-22-2014, 06:05 AM | #89 | |
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I'm speaking in general and not only for me. Why do you and others confuse the two so frequently? And what's with all the bold underlines? Brand loyalty? |
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06-22-2014, 06:09 AM | #90 | ||
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The other thing that would irk me about the PW2 options is the lack of narrower margins. Why not let the user use the whole screen? Would that lack, as eschwartz suggests, make it easier for users? But as he / she suggests, a user can jailbreak. But quite why Amazon doesn't include such a feature is beyond me. Last edited by Rizla; 06-22-2014 at 06:12 AM. |
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