Sunday, January 31, 2010

Hardware/user interface comments

Here's an email I sent to Amazon's Kindle feedback team:

The mouse stick is difficult to use. IBM came up with a mouse-stick for their laptops that works, blackberry has a "ball" on their phone, both work better than your directional stick.

When creating a note, sometimes the note box appears right over the text I've highlighted, so I can't see what I'm trying to write a note about.

I'm trying this to edit a "manuscript" from a friend. It'd be nice if my note file included all the text I highlighted. This way, I could just email him this clipping/note file and he'd have his text and my suggestions/comments. I understand copyright issues, so put a limit on how many words can be done this way at a time.

PDF documents are VERY slow. Need to have a ZOOM feature other than rotating unit.

Some documents (PDF and kindle books) I want to scroll down just a little bit cause the text I'm reading is at the edge of the display.

Give me a set of REAL number keys. Alt-number alt-number alt-number stinks.

I put 60 documents on here in 3 days (lots of pdfs and word files I emailed to the Kindle). Give me the ability to create folders in the kindle-documents folder so I can have my list of books grouped. Right now the home button shows me all of them. Let it show me all the items in "documents" and the names of "folders" in documents.
i.e.
book 1
book 2
Shakespeare folder
Macbeth
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
Stephen King
The Stand
The Shinning
etc
documents to read for work
memo 1 (emailed to kindle)
memo 2 (emailed to kindle)

Yeah, I got a generic "thanks" email. Maybe they read this, maybe they don't. I'll publish more hardware/user interface comments from time to time.

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