I'm really getting tired of the fact that I can't highlight things in my newspaper subscription is really annoying. I want to be able to mark up the newspaper so I can tell people about cool news stories and I can't. It's back to paper and pen and that's not why I got a Kindle. What's worse: this is just the Kindle Fire. If I want to carry 2 Kindles, my older DX will do it just fine.
Add to this that they removed the ability to create collections of books. I really want a way to organize my book collection. Let's see you try and sort through 200+ books by title or author alone and quickly find what you want.
And the carousel at the top is impossible for me to use reliably. It goes too fast, or too slow and the item I want is always almost what I click on.
And page turning - on web pages and the web-like tools, I scroll up and down. In books I turn pages (left to right). How about giving me a preference so I can turn pages in books by scrolling up and down or page turns.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Wow! It's been a while
It's been a while since I posted anything here. Not much changed, I have been reading on my DX for a couple years now. I use a program on the mac to make Kindle books out of my documents and I buy lots of books from Amazon.
Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) is a free program for creating kindle, iPad (epub) documents and lots of different formats. I've gotten pretty good at creating tables of content and having linked content in my "books". I scanned lots of little books I like to keep for reference and ran OCR on them and put them through Calibre. I'm ignoring the copyright violation question because these are books I own and have in my house. This way I can carry them in a more convenient format.
I also was given a link to Pixel of Ink (http://www.PixelofInk.com) they have lots of free kindle books every day.
The best/worst thing to happen to my Kindle reading - someone let me play with her Kindle Fire for a little while. I bought one a few days later. I love the size and readability of the Kindle DX. But the Fire is pretty cool. Reading on it in daylight isn't too bad, and it covers most of my needs for a laptop. It's like a giant android phone. Sometimes it sucks because I expect to have internet all the time, lol, but the wifi is pretty good. I'll try and post something about my Fire and what I like/don't like about it soon.
Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) is a free program for creating kindle, iPad (epub) documents and lots of different formats. I've gotten pretty good at creating tables of content and having linked content in my "books". I scanned lots of little books I like to keep for reference and ran OCR on them and put them through Calibre. I'm ignoring the copyright violation question because these are books I own and have in my house. This way I can carry them in a more convenient format.
I also was given a link to Pixel of Ink (http://www.PixelofInk.com) they have lots of free kindle books every day.
The best/worst thing to happen to my Kindle reading - someone let me play with her Kindle Fire for a little while. I bought one a few days later. I love the size and readability of the Kindle DX. But the Fire is pretty cool. Reading on it in daylight isn't too bad, and it covers most of my needs for a laptop. It's like a giant android phone. Sometimes it sucks because I expect to have internet all the time, lol, but the wifi is pretty good. I'll try and post something about my Fire and what I like/don't like about it soon.
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