Kindle PW gen 10 some advice please

[Deskisamess]

The Paperwhite 4 has 14 font sizes.

My old Paperwhite 2 has 8 font sizes.

[Gandulf]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Also, it needs to be able to allow Calibre to access the database to manage collections. And KFX needs to go away and KF8 needs to allow better typesetting. Then the Kindle would be worlds better then it is.

And it goes way above my head.

I have a book or 2 on my tab and phone, read 1, mark as read with date, connect using cc to pc, sync and remove book I have read.
Calibre manages what few books I have, easy to see what I have and any I have not read yet.

I would look at kobo if I could get 1 but as I have told you, no stock and it's been that way for months.
If their is something you really want to say, say it or pm me. But I can't buy something that's not available.

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by Gandulf

I have a book or 2 on my tab and phone, read 1, mark as read with date, connect using cc to pc, sync and remove book I have read.
Calibre manages what few books I have, easy to see what I have and any I have not read yet.

In that case, sounds like not having collections support is fine.

For what it's worth, I use the PW4 w/SO unregistered. Ads are tied to registration so I'm actually not receiving ads on that one.

On my ad-supported PW2, I only get the ads on screensaver and home screen. I don't get ads while reading.

You don't have to register and you can skip wifi setup entirely on the Kindle if you want. As mentioned, you lose some features like cloud collections and sync. Otherwise, it reads books just fine and you can easily transfer books via USB.

As far as I can tell, out of the box, there are 19 dictionaries for 10/11 languages pre-installed on the Kindle (de, en, en-GB, es, fr, it, ja, nl, pt, ru, zh-Hans). Most of them get deleted during initial setup when you select the locale/language.

If one selects English, the following dictionaries are kept:
Oxford Dictionary of English
The New Oxford American Dictionary

TL;DR
For your aforementioned usage, the PW4 sounds fine.

[Gandulf]

Thanks ilovejedd.

I hope Jedd knows

Been looking and reading more things and seems I couldn't register if I wanted too, need a credit card or gift card. Pity they don't sell gift cards in SA like uber, netflix, iTunes and play. Would save me some hassle buying a amazon card over the freeken play cards.

Yes my initial question was about kindle using my phones data up, but seems I have received other important answers. Thx.

[Gandulf]

With the PW4 is the only way to read a book from overdrive to email it to the kindle?

And does kobo work the same way?

Didn't know but my province uses overdrive one of the few in SA so making sure a device works with it I think is a good idea.

[murraypaul]

Originally Posted by Gandulf

With the PW4 is the only way to read a book from overdrive to email it to the kindle?

And does kobo work the same way?

Didn't know but my province uses overdrive one of the few in SA so making sure a device works with it I think is a good idea.

Kindles can only access Overdrive books in the USA.
Kobos can only directly access Overdrive books from the device in these countries:

• Canada
• United States
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Denmark
• Finland
• Norway
• Sweden
• Taiwan
• Hong Kong
• Singapore

In South Africa I think you would need to download the book to a computer and use Adobe Digital Editions to transfer it to a Kobo device.
You could not transfer it to a Kindle device without removing the DRM.

Edit: Here are the instructions from Kobo for transferring an Overdrive book to a device via a computer: https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...rary-s-website

[Dr. Drib]

Just curious: Do VPNs help on any of this? (If so, that would be an additional cost, I suppose.)

[Gandulf]

Thanks murraypaul.

So kobo is definitely better in the overdrive department, US only

Found out today the local importers of both kindle and kobo haven't imported any kobo's because they can't compete with price of kindles.