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| eti:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on August 11, 2020, 11:52:27 pm --- --- Quote from: eti on August 11, 2020, 11:46:53 pm ---Anyone complaining that an e-ink Kindle has "poor refresh rate" etc, is basically missing the point - a paperback also has "poor refresh rate" - wanna know why? It doesn't need one. It's like complaining "This twig is a terrible bicycle" - yeah... it's a twig, it's all you need to light a fire, not wheels and a chain. --- End quote --- Did it sound like I was complaning? They have a very slow refresh - if you want to flick between pages in a reference book, that's a big problem. Hence the unsupported format for such titles. --- End quote --- I wouldn't think it's a "big problem", it's a fraction of a second, around the same time it takes to flip a PHYSICAL page. People are far too spoilt "oh no, it's taking 0.000001 femptoseconds too long for my cheeseburger to arrive - I'M OFF!" lol |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: eti on August 11, 2020, 11:56:38 pm --- --- Quote from: Monkeh on August 11, 2020, 11:52:27 pm --- --- Quote from: eti on August 11, 2020, 11:46:53 pm ---Anyone complaining that an e-ink Kindle has "poor refresh rate" etc, is basically missing the point - a paperback also has "poor refresh rate" - wanna know why? It doesn't need one. It's like complaining "This twig is a terrible bicycle" - yeah... it's a twig, it's all you need to light a fire, not wheels and a chain. --- End quote --- Did it sound like I was complaning? They have a very slow refresh - if you want to flick between pages in a reference book, that's a big problem. Hence the unsupported format for such titles. --- End quote --- I wouldn't think it's a "big problem", it's a fraction of a second, around the same time it takes to flip a PHYSICAL page. People are far too spoilt "oh no, it's taking 0.000001 femptoseconds too long for my cheeseburger to arrive - I'M OFF!" lol --- End quote --- Well, being on my third Kindle and also having bookshelves full of dead wood.. I know it's a lot less convenient than a real book when you're flicking through looking for something specific. The Kindle suits a particular task. Reference books are not it. |
| PlainName:
I buy nearly all my light reading stuff from Amazon for use on a Nook ereader (soon to be replaced with a more upmarket brand, but not Kindle). Exceptions are reference books where being able to rifle through to quickly find a page is much simpler with a real book. The process is: buy on Amazon, download to Kindle for PC, open with Calibre, send to ereader. Bosh - I have bother the encrypted Kindle version and the unencrypted epub (or whatever is the format du jour), so I can stuff 'em on whatever ereader takes a passing fancy. First time I get a Kindle book that can't be decrypted is the last time I buy on Amazon... |
| 0db:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on August 11, 2020, 06:55:48 pm --- --- Quote from: 0db on August 11, 2020, 04:51:07 pm --- --- Quote from: Red Squirrel on August 11, 2020, 03:35:15 pm ---The issue with Kindle is you don't really own anything. It's all cloud based. --- End quote --- Files (ebook and pdf) are on the cloud but there is a copy of these files on the flash memory of my Kindle PaperWhite, and if I connect my Kindle to a computer via USB, I can copy them like if was a common pendrive. --- End quote --- They are, of course, encrypted.. Which I'm sure has been broken a few times now. --- End quote --- Pdf are not encrypted, so as mostly of my paid epub files. I bought from Amazon a lot of ebook tales written by Philip K. Dick, I cannot read them on my computer because I haven't installed an application, but by opening files via usb the PaperWhite works as if it was a pen stick and with a text editor I see readable strings of text. If they were encrypted, I should not read anything that looks like human sentences. |
| 0db:
What makes me very puzzled is that when you want to buy an ebook, and you are just so lucky to have found it available for your kindle device (Kindle, Kindle PaperWhite, KindleOasis), well ... you click on "buy it now" and Amazon returns you nothing but a weird error --- Quote ---Sorry, this title is not available for your country region --- End quote --- What? Why? The problem seems related to "rights", and especially "eBook rights" that can be messy with the country you have registered your Amazon account. I am not sure, but it has just happened for reasons incomprehensible to me, and wondering "ok, and now how can in change my country on Amazon so I can give them my money and get the content I am looking for ?", this trick seems to be the workaround. |
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