Kindle.amazon.com is going away

[Deskisamess]

I read this on another forum. It's s copy/paste from the OP who posted it:

"I received an email from Amazon that states:

First, we’ve created a new home for all your Kindle notes and highlights that’s easy to access and review from your phone, tablet, or PC. All the notes and highlights you’ve made over the years with Kindle are safe and sound at https://read.amazon.com/notebook.

and then

In addition, if you like to share what you’re reading with others, we’re merging some of kindle.amazon.com’s features into Goodreads. Goodreads—an Amazon subsidiary—is the world’s largest community of readers, with more than 60 million members. You can enjoy great features, like keeping track of what you read...

and to top it off:

Please note that your Kindle profile, book lists, and notes and highlights will no longer be accessible via https://kindle.amazon.com after August 31, 2017."

[HarryT]

Does it make any practical difference, other than a name change?

[Deskisamess]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Does it make any practical difference, other than a name change?

I can't answer that, as I don't highlight or make notes that often. But the folks on the Amazon Kindle forum who are talking about it aren't crazy about a more robust connection to Goodreads. Looks like they are concerned about privacy issues.

I can't post in that forum anymore...I was put in the corner permanently by the Mods. I can still post on the official Help forums though...

[tomsem]

There is loss of some functionality with demise of kindle.amazon.com, e.g.:

- cannot 'follow' comments of another Kindle user who read the same book (by which it is possible to see their notes and highlights with their user name shown 'in line')
- cannot review status of Content Errors that you have reported

For the first of these you need to follow them on goodreads and go to Goodreads to see their comments. Perhaps Amazon will eventually work out how to pull these from Goodreads and overlay them while you are reading the book (but I won't hold my breath).

But it does not seem they have a plan for how one can review content errors.

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by tomsem

But it does not seem they have a plan for how one can review content errors.

That's academic, since the content errors you report go into a black hole anyway.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by NullNix

That's academic, since the content errors you report go into a black hole anyway.

That is not true. Some publishers update the books, and if more people were aware of the feature and generated more reports, perhaps more publishers would do so. In any case it makes me feel better to report them.

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by tomsem

That is not true. Some publishers update the books, and if more people were aware of the feature and generated more reports, perhaps more publishers would do so. In any case it makes me feel better to report them.

I reported problems with a hundred or so books from most of the big publishing houses before I finally gave up because not one was acked or fixed. I finally abandoned hope when an indie author of my acquaintance told me to just email her my proofreading fixes because Amazon won't even show her typo corrections people enter against her books. Makes you wonder what on earth the feature is for...

[Barbara1955]

Originally Posted by NullNix

I reported problems with a hundred or so books from most of the big publishing houses before I finally gave up because not one was acked or fixed. I finally abandoned hope when an indie author of my acquaintance told me to just email her my proofreading fixes because Amazon won't even show her typo corrections people enter against her books. Makes you wonder what on earth the feature is for...

Why cant your friend read her e-book to correct mistakes Before she publish?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Barbara1955

Why cant your friend read her e-book to correct mistakes Before she publish?

And then what would people like HarryT do?
He has been proofreading that same book in his signature for over a year.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Barbara1955

Why cant your friend read her e-book to correct mistakes Before she publish?

Typically authors can't see their own mistakes. Though why didn't her proofreader catch it. Or did the cheap proofreader introduce the errors.
I use the term proofreader lightly.
Thing is if Amazon is contacting the author, it means there are multiple reports and many errors.

Answering other poster now.
Amazon doesn't go through the book to find the errors and I don't think the report button includes a space for the actual errors.
I think that Amazon assumes that authors can um what's the word I'm looking for, oh yeah write. Alas I think some perform a rite and think their words are right.

Barbara,
I totally agree that authors should actually make sure their book is readable before clicking that upload button.
If they all did that, there would be about 2 million less books on Amazon.

[Barbara1955]

Good then at least the rest would be Readable!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Barbara1955

Why cant your friend read her e-book to correct mistakes Before she publish?

For a lot of the errors I've seen lately, a remedial English class would be needed. In one recent book, I finally gave up and edited the bloody book. Such items as using: rein for reign, sight for site, bow for bough, their for they're, etc. I suspect the spellchecker showed no spelling errors but sadly the final result was a "triumph" for the North American educational system. Sadly when I emailed the author about the errors, her sole response was an offer to join her mailing list and get a free book.

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.

[Barbara1955]

Originally Posted by knc1

And then what would people like HarryT do?
He has been proofreading that same book in his signature for over a year.

My boss a retired school teacher Proof Read a book for a friend took them 2 years to get it done. They worked on it a couple hours a week was a 1000 pages by the time it was published in HD.....

[Barbara1955]

Originally Posted by DNSB

For a lot of the errors I've seen lately, a remedial English class would be needed. In one recent book, I finally gave up and edited the bloody book. Such items as using: rein for reign, sight for site, bow for bough, their for they're, etc. I suspect the spellchecker showed no spelling errors but sadly the final result was a "triumph" for the North American educational system. Sadly when I emailed the author about the errors, her sole response was an offer to join her mailing list and get a free book.

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.

THIS IS Mine! No Spell Check involved!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Barbara1955

My boss a retired school teacher Proof Read a book for a friend took them 2 years to get it done. They worked on it a couple hours a week was a 1000 pages by the time it was published in HD.....

Going by memory, Harry T. posted that he had finished proofreading the book years ago. Quick Google search and: "A Thousand Miles Up the Nile" by Amelia B. Edwards from May, 2012.

So the real question should be why he has never changed that signature. Hmmm.... Harry T.'s real name is Eliza?

For those fans of Sherlock Holmes, my mind is pretty much that attic stuffed with useless information he denounced in A Study In Scarlet. Who the expletive deleted would want to remember some of this stuff?