11-09-2018, 05:00 PM | #16 | |
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Why single out Romance? Drama and Detective is just as popular with women. Men don't read Romance as much. PDFs are really intended to interchange paper printouts, and proof paper on screen. Ghastly format to actually use for reading, especially if a scanned source BECAUSE deliberately it's not meant to reflow or resize! There are eInk devices for PDFs that can do magazine, letter size or A4. Unfortunately they are expensive, and some of the good ones don't do eBooks. The big issue is the software. It's poor on EVERY eReader and app I've tried. It's like they only test with a few dozen books. Also like they have not researched libraries or document management. They've concentrated on stupid stuff (advert and & social media sharing). Navigation and Collection organisation has hardly progressed since before Kindle existed. The original Kindle was CRAZY. Worse font & language support than every OS at the time. Desperately poor support for annotating and getting annotations off to PC (Kobo H2O better than Kindle and the PRS350 ghastly). I've written document management systems and software to manage physical libraries. The current state of eReaders book management, navigation, annotations, fonts, layout is poorer than late 1980s specialist DOS SW and poorer than Mac, Windows and Linux in 1998! |
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11-09-2018, 06:02 PM | #17 |
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An Audible subscription is a regular monthly revenue stream. A new Kindle is a on-off purchase. Amazon are more interested in the former (see also Prime and Kindle Unlimited)
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11-09-2018, 10:18 PM | #18 |
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That's a good point. Personally, I'd prefer mp3's than Audible files. I used to listen to music, while reading, on my Sony readers. I almost forgot about it, since getting a Kindle.
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11-09-2018, 10:47 PM | #20 |
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I too was surprised they didn't add color temperature adjustment but from a business standpoint it makes sense. Adding it to the Paperwhite would have upstaged their flagship reader, the Oasis, hurting sales. Especially now that the gap between the Oasis and Paperwhite has closed with waterproofing, bluetooth, and a flush screen.
Moreover there's no incentive for Amazon to give away everything at once. E-reader technology moves at a glacial pace and they are saving this feature for next time. You have luxury of doing that when you're a monopoly. Enough people are satisfied with the update to the Paperwhite. I predict they'll add color temperature controls to the Oasis first and then to the next generation Paperwhite. |
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11-10-2018, 12:59 AM | #21 |
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Instead of waterproofing or audible, I would have liked to see text-to-speech with fairly realistic voices (like one I have on my computer, a UK voice called Audrey, which I had to buy and install into Balabolka.) Maybe even the option of adding Librivox for immersive reading (not underwater!)
My Sony prs 505 has an amazing library management system I would love to see on a kindle. It's been a long time since I've used it, but I seem to remember that this was done using the Sony Ebook Software on the computer. The reader was linked to the computer via usb, collections could be created (I have things like Historical, Humour, Romance, Juvenile, Sci Fi/Fantasy etc) then the books 'slipped' into the collections using the software. There was absolutely no need to use wifi. I can't put collections on the kindle, apparently this is something that happens in the cloud. I returned a Kobo Clara yesterday (friday). I bought this because of the light temperature adjustment, but the light bleed was terrible: it had strips of light down both sides and bright patches in each of the bottom corners. I was thinking of buying a PW4, but the early reviews have put me off. I'm going to wait until readers make a bigger improvement. Waterproofing? Flush bezels? Not really much of an upgrade. Now if someone remade the Sony prs 505 with frontlight and temperature control which gave even light, I'd snap it up. |
11-10-2018, 09:11 AM | #22 |
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No. You can make collections on a Kindle locally, while the Kindle is in airplane mode. But the Kindle must be registered, i.e. it has to connect to a wifi network at least once. In your case I would go somewhere with public wifi and register my Kindle. Or at a friend's/relative's place. Then it can be in airplane mode for the rest of its life, but you can still make collections on it.
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11-10-2018, 03:18 PM | #23 | |
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11-10-2018, 05:49 PM | #24 |
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11-10-2018, 10:22 PM | #25 |
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11-10-2018, 10:50 PM | #26 |
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Or Kindle Natural Paper?
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11-11-2018, 01:55 AM | #27 |
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11-11-2018, 08:29 AM | #28 |
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Yup, they also started a new series of Amazon Classics that was free for a while and is now 3 bucks each or KU subscription. I picked up a few when they were free but will likely never complete my collection now.
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11-13-2018, 05:26 PM | #29 |
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No, but Nausicaa is right. The 6 and 7 inch screens are just too small to have enough words on one page for stuff that cannot simply be gulped down.
I‘ve tried reading more technical philosophy and more complicated non fiction as well as some more difficult novels for years, and it simply does not work for me, the text is just too fragmented... (I‘ve switched to an iPad Pro 10 for that and it has just the right size, plus PDFs have the added benefit of fixed layouts which generally helps me memorize stuff by picturing the page layout) |
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