How do you hold a Kindle?

mr ploppy · 10-25-2010, 11:20 AM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...uL._SL135_.jpg

This is how Amazon shows one being held, but I can't really see how that would work unless you had really sticky hands. A more obvious way of holding it would be with your thumb over the front bottom of it and a few finges behind it, but there is a keyboard there and you would probably keep pressing buttons by mistake. So they only way I can see how you would hold one would be with both hands or with your hand spread out behind it. I'm thinking more about holding it while lying down than sat up.

kindlekitten · 10-25-2010, 11:25 AM

I hold it pretty much like the picture except the corner of it is in the frog of my hand and I use my thumb for the page turns. works equally well with either hand and is perfect for reading in bed. one hand is kept free for kitty pets, being under the covers, holding a glass... what ever!

TomF · 10-25-2010, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

...frog of my hand...

I've never heard this term before, can you please explain?

Timoleon · 10-25-2010, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by TomF

I've never heard this term before, can you please explain?

I think it's the "web" between your thumb and forefinger --- like the "web" between a frog's toes.

kindlekitten · 10-25-2010, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TomF

I've never heard this term before, can you please explain?

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Originally Posted by Timoleon

I think it's the "web" between your thumb and forefinger --- like the "web" between a frog's toes.

exactly. is this not the correct term? I've always referred to it that way

flandroid · 10-25-2010, 01:21 PM

Right-side-up...most of the time.

Bad Astronaut · 10-25-2010, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by mr ploppy

I'm thinking more about holding it while lying down than sat up.

For lying down it's a little trickier to keep it balanced. I usually form an "L" with my thumb and forefinger, with the thumb over the keyboard and the finger stretching up to the page turn buttons. The corner of the kindle then sits in my palm and the other fingers clamp on to the back of the device.

Pressing keyboard keys accidentally has not been an issue for me - they require a lot more pressure than the light grip I hold the kindle with.

FF2 · 10-25-2010, 01:28 PM

Living on the Olympic Peninsula I would expect you to have webbed hands and feet unless you live in the Sequim Rain Shadow. But I never heard that term either. Shall we drive the censors crazy and mention Pysht, Wa?

OakIris · 10-25-2010, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by TomF

I've never heard this term before, can you please explain?

I think she means this http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-ma...-hands-322235/ or this http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-3255...uman-hand.html

(Sorry, kindlekitten...)

Perhaps she is talking about the wedge of the palm - the hand curled around so the Kindle is cradled by the palm. It is sort of makes the same shape as the frog of a horse's hoof. I think she will have to explain - I'm just an ignorant American.....

I never really tried to hold the "naked" Kindle in one hand, to be honest. I have an Oberon cover for my Kindle, so usually hold it with the cover folded back and my left fingers tucked into the front flap of the cover and my thumb on the left hand forward page button. This way, the Kindle can't slip out of my hand and fall and it is easy to use the page buttons.

Holly

desertblues · 10-25-2010, 02:06 PM

I read one-handed (right): fold my Oberoncover (red wild roses) double, forefinger through the elastic, Kindle rests in my hand, thumb free for page-turn.
Works also hanging on one arm in a subway or any other vehicle.

mr ploppy · 10-25-2010, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by OakIris

I never really tried to hold the "naked" Kindle in one hand, to be honest. I have an Oberon cover for my Kindle, so usually hold it with the cover folded back and my left fingers tucked into the front flap of the cover and my thumb on the left hand forward page button. This way, the Kindle can't slip out of my hand and fall and it is easy to use the page buttons.

Holly

How are the covers held on, magnets on the Kindle or something like that?

OakIris · 10-25-2010, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by mr ploppy

How are the covers held on, magnets on the Kindle or something like that?

No - 3 leather loops and one elastic/bungee loop to hold the Kindle to the back cover at each corner of the device. Here's a video about the Kindle 2 cover, which is exactly the same as the Kindle 3 cover only slightly bigger: http://www.oberondesign.com/k2vid01.php

Holly

kindlekitten · 10-25-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by FF2

Living on the Olympic Peninsula I would expect you to have webbed hands and feet unless you live in the Sequim Rain Shadow. But I never heard that term either. Shall we drive the censors crazy and mention Pysht, Wa?

and this has certainly shaped up to be a frog worthy day! I've spent a couple of hours without power myself

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Originally Posted by OakIris

I think she means this http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-ma...-hands-322235/ or this http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-3255...uman-hand.html

(Sorry, kindlekitten...)

Perhaps she is talking about the wedge of the palm - the hand curled around so the Kindle is cradled by the palm. It is sort of makes the same shape as the frog of a horse's hoof. I think she will have to explain - I'm just an ignorant American.....

I never really tried to hold the "naked" Kindle in one hand, to be honest. I have an Oberon cover for my Kindle, so usually hold it with the cover folded back and my left fingers tucked into the front flap of the cover and my thumb on the left hand forward page button. This way, the Kindle can't slip out of my hand and fall and it is easy to use the page buttons.

Holly

I do indeed mean the webbing between the thumb and forefinger. wonder where I ever got the "frog" bit from??? hmmmmm

anyway, in bed I read naked.

I also have an Oberon, but that only works for left handed reading!

J. Strnad · 10-25-2010, 08:46 PM

I hold the naked Kindle with my thumb on the keyboard and haven't accidentally pressed any buttons. They're pretty stiff. Otherwise, I use the case.

I do prefer the Kobo for holding, though, because it has that large "empty" space with no keyboard.

kevinp · 10-25-2010, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by FF2

Living on the Olympic Peninsula I would expect you to have webbed hands and feet unless you live in the Sequim Rain Shadow. But I never heard that term either. Shall we drive the censors crazy and mention Pysht, Wa?

I spent a year and a half at Ft. Lewis, so I know what you're talking about! Being from sunny Florida, I didn't care much for WA except those two months of summer when it actually dries up and the sun makes an appearance!

10-25-2010, 11:20 AM	#1
mr ploppy Feral Underclass Posts: 3,622 Karma: 26821535 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Yorkshire, tha noz Device: 2nd hand paperback	How do you hold a Kindle? http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...uL._SL135_.jpg This is how Amazon shows one being held, but I can't really see how that would work unless you had really sticky hands. A more obvious way of holding it would be with your thumb over the front bottom of it and a few finges behind it, but there is a keyboard there and you would probably keep pressing buttons by mistake. So they only way I can see how you would hold one would be with both hands or with your hand spread out behind it. I'm thinking more about holding it while lying down than sat up.

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flandroid Connoisseur Posts: 98 Karma: 294 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle 2/3/4/PW3	Right-side-up...most of the time.

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10-25-2010, 08:46 PM	#14
J. Strnad Guru Posts: 915 Karma: 3537194 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Kobo, Kindle 3, Paperwhite	I hold the naked Kindle with my thumb on the keyboard and haven't accidentally pressed any buttons. They're pretty stiff. Otherwise, I use the case. I do prefer the Kobo for holding, though, because it has that large "empty" space with no keyboard.

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