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More sophisticated users are simply going to have to put up with the fact that Amazon is not going to cater to our whims or preferences at the cost of making the GUI even a little more complicated, unless the case for it is very compelling indeed. I'm sure the existing GUI attracts many support calls for simple help, with each added little complexity generating more. The only real option is to vote with your feet, though to do so in many cases would be cutting off your nose to spite your face, at least to some extent. I could be happy reading exclusively on my H2O, but would still want to buy my books on Amazon. I would miss whispersync and 3g connectivity. I would probably end up having to deprive myself of KU, because there would be no verifiable way of ensuring the author would be paid when reading on my H2O. That would be money straight from my pocket! And my Oasis or Paperwhite offers an excellent reading experience, even if not as customisable as my H2O. Last edited by darryl; 12-13-2017 at 12:05 AM. |
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I too would like Amazon to have stuck with kf8. But unfortunately I am in a small minority that Amazon is not prepared to cater to in this regard. You are too. You have chosen to go to Kobo. I have stuck with Amazon. I love my H2O but find I'm using it with declining frequency. My First Generation Oasis does not give the same level of control as the H2O, but does give sufficient control now further bold font options have been added. I must say that it does give a very good reading experience. Others of course are much more fussy. |
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12-13-2017, 08:29 AM | #81 | |
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If we also include the phone/tablet market, the number of people using anything other than Kindle4Android or Kindle4IOS to read MOBI/KF8 books must be miniscule and therefore, by your own reasoning, too niche for Amazon to care about. Once again, Amazon proprietary apps, so my conclusion is the same as above. Reading these forums, it seems the definition of "niche" is "features offered by other brands which Kindles do not currently have". I could swear that demand for screens bigger than 6" was being dismissed as "niche" this time last year. Am I also to believe that adding a few more options for margin-widths and/or line-spacing would cause a meltdown on the CS phones, whereas the recent adding of a few more font-sizes won't? |
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12-13-2017, 09:59 AM | #82 | |
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All things being equal (similar specs, size, price) which version of ereader do you think would sell better? The Amazon version that is tied to the Amazon eco system or the epub version? |
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12-13-2017, 01:19 PM | #83 |
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12-13-2017, 01:25 PM | #84 | |
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Yes to the general public 100 million or so seems like a lot. Compared to the billions of phones and tablets, it is just a drop in the bucket. Expect at least 6 months from enough people wanting something to it being implemented. |
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12-13-2017, 02:22 PM | #85 |
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I think that in this very thread, Diap Dealer pointed out that Apple requires a specific library be used for all HTML rendering on Apple branded devices. (Not that I have a lot of sympathy for the way either treats the other.)
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For sure. Buttons took longer, and it has been years for the first toe dipping for touchscreen disabling. |
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12-13-2017, 02:57 PM | #87 | |
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What is wrong with continue giving Amazon money for a service that does not need DRM circumvention in the first place? There is no alternative with the same selection. Buying ebooks you can do from different stores - whichever store still gives the option to bypass DRM is the one that will get your money. |
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12-13-2017, 03:09 PM | #88 |
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In point of fact, the fact that Amazon added a 32 GB option to the O2 shows that many customers do want more storage and that the SD-card option was not merely for a fringe minority. Users wanted more storage. Didn't Apple to this? Remove the card slot but add more internal storage. I suppose this has two benefits for companies. 1) they can charge over the odds for the RAM, and 2) they shut down a possible hacking inroute. But clearly storage and the SD-card slot was something that many users wanted, otherwise Amazon wouldn't have included it.
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12-13-2017, 03:35 PM | #89 | |
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12-13-2017, 04:03 PM | #90 | |
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I agree they needed to bump up to 8GB storage just to make this story more plausible, but flash memory is very cheap these days so it doesn’t cut into profit margins much, on a $249 device. And it is a twofer: there are people who want more storage just so they can carry their entire library with them (never mind that it represents many reading-years to consume), or they read lots of manga or prefer more storage just in case they might need it in the future. More selling points. I can imagine too that they want to add VoiceView support for non-English languages. That takes a little storage as well, though the voice files don’t necessarily need to all be on device. This is all OT though. Back OT: it seems to me that objections to KFX have mostly to do with the inconvenience it causes for format-shifting and the idea that Amazon is imposing DRM by other means. I very much like it for the improved and more consistent reading experience it confers between books and across platforms. FINALLY. It is ‘sausage’, and I don’t care how it is done. When I want to format-shift it is easy enough to get KF8 bits to work with. And it seems this will be the case for the foreseeable future. Last edited by tomsem; 12-13-2017 at 04:06 PM. |
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