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sbaldrick posted:So my kindle poo poo the bed with the flashed screen of death, but then again it is about 2 years old. sadly no one will ship a worthwild e-reader to Canada. Is there any worthwild third party that will ship a kindle touch or nook touch to Canada. I got a Kindle Touch for about 140$ shipped on eBay, it's not much more than the non-Touch Kindle from amazon.ca (which is like 110$ + shipping).
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sbaldrick posted:So my kindle poo poo the bed with the flashed screen of death, but then again it is about 2 years old. sadly no one will ship a worthwild e-reader to Canada. Is there any worthwild third party that will ship a kindle touch or nook touch to Canada. There's always the Canadian option: Kobo Touch which is available at Coles, Chapters, Futureshop, Bestbuy, etc.
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The Kobo anything is horrible.
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sbaldrick posted:The Kobo anything is horrible. Eh, I enjoy my Kobo Touch.
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sbaldrick posted:The Kobo anything is horrible. A friend of mine loves his Kobo - I haven't paid close attention to it, but it doesn't look especially horrible.
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Dec 17, 2011 23:48
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sbaldrick posted:The Kobo anything is horrible. The software/social stuff is really great on multiple platforms.
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Dec 18, 2011 00:27
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sbaldrick posted:The Kobo anything is horrible. I like my $60 Kobo thank you very much I've also now replaced my 3G Kindle with a Fire, is there anything I should be aware of with it that hasn't been repeated on every review site in existance?
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Dec 18, 2011 02:55
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If there's any ereader that deserves scorn it's any Pandigital device. I've helped a few people at my job with those, and the hardware and OS simply aren't sufficient for what the devices try to do. In my brief experiences, Pandigital ereaders were slow, unresponsive, and used cluttered menus. If Pandigital's gotten its act together in the past couple months then I apologize, but I've yet to see something by them worth taking home.
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The Kobo is fine, as long as you haven't used a Nook or Kindle. It's just not as responsive.
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Does anyone know if the Nook Simple Touch handles PDFs any different than the 1st gen? I'd like to use it for recipes and patterns for things, but the Nook resizes text and throws off the formatting, making it difficult to follow. I might consider one of the cheaper tablets, as long as they just zoom and don't resize. Also, what would be a reasonable price to ask if selling my 3G Nook?
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Dec 18, 2011 18:12
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Anyone have a case recommendation for a Kindle Touch? The Amazon Touch case doesn't have as good of reviews as the Keyboard so maybe there is room for a 3rd party to move in. The 3rd party ones are cheaper too.
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Dec 18, 2011 21:39
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I got this case for my Kindle Touch: http://www.amazon.com/Marware-Eco-Vue-Kindle-Touch-Cover/dp/B005HSG446/ref=sr_1_12?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1324248704&sr=1-12 I'm pretty darn happy with it so far. It's very snug, looks great, and feels well-made. It's got a handle for you to put your hand in, in the back. It still doesn't make reading a one-handed experience unless you have big hands or don't ever need to go backward, but it is really comfortable after the first ~hour of use. I got mine using a half-off special offers coupon so it was under $20. Totally worth it.
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About to get the lady a Kindle for her birthday. Probably going to Best Buy and grabbing a Kindle 4. Just a high quality, affordable eReader is all she's looking for. Is Best Buy a terrible place to buy, compared to online vendors? I'm googling and googling and it doesnt seem like there's a great deal anywhere unless I'm missing something. Any comments on a different model of Kindle to buy are welcome, but if my understanding is correct the basic Kindle 4 is what I want for someone who just wants books and has no need for 3g. What's up with the keyboard? Is the web browser good enough to warrant paying extra for the keyboard?
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Elephunk posted:Any comments on a different model of Kindle to buy are welcome, but if my understanding is correct the basic Kindle 4 is what I want for someone who just wants books and has no need for 3g. The webbrowser isn't that great at all. The keyboard mostly shines if you take a lot of notes while reading books.
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Elephunk posted:Is Best Buy a terrible place to buy, compared to online vendors? I'm googling and googling and it doesnt seem like there's a great deal anywhere unless I'm missing something. It's fine price-wise, although they may not have all the models. And I'm not sure if they give the choice of ads vs. no-ads, or even if they have the ad version. If you buy at Amazon, you can get the power plug for $10 with the purchase instead of $15, but that's about the only diff and you may not want that. And I have a Kindle 3 and use the keyboard once every few months. Mainly to search for something like a character name earlier in the book. Actually, I usually rotate the screen and use the keyboard part as the handle, so I do appreciate having it there.
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Elephunk posted:About to get the lady a Kindle for her birthday. The keyboard browser is awful, the browser for the touch is doable for 60% of websites probably. I am kind of impressed with the kindergarten touch, but all 3 are fine.
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Dec 19, 2011 16:49
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Also, if the web browsing part is a big selling point for you, you might be better off looking at a kindle fire or another tablet. Web browsing on e-ink is doable, but its not really cut out for it.
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Dec 19, 2011 19:37
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Is the Nook Simple Touch the cheapest e-ink reader that does epub or can you hack em onto the cheap Kindle? (in this case I mean just tossing a bunch of epub files onto a device, nothing fancy)
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low-key-taco posted:Is the Nook Simple Touch the cheapest e-ink reader that does epub or can you hack em onto the cheap Kindle? (in this case I mean just tossing a bunch of epub files onto a device, nothing fancy) You can't hack them on but calibre will convert them easily and put them on the device for you.
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low-key-taco posted:Is the Nook Simple Touch the cheapest e-ink reader that does epub or can you hack em onto the cheap Kindle? (in this case I mean just tossing a bunch of epub files onto a device, nothing fancy) If you're getting this "bunch of ePub files" from where I think you are, you could just as easily get mobi files that kindle does support and skip conversion altogether
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Do you guys keep your e-readers in a case or cover? I'm looking around online for something to protect my Nook Simple Touch and was wondering what you guys would recommend.
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Karthe posted:Do you guys keep your e-readers in a case or cover? I'm looking around online for something to protect my Nook Simple Touch and was wondering what you guys would recommend. I am working on a home-made solution. Leather lined with microfiber. My wife wants a neoprene case for hers, one of the ones that folds over in front at the top. Someone on Etsy hollows out old books (nothing neat, they're using remaindered textbooks IIRC) with a clip inside to hold the Nook.
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Karthe posted:Do you guys keep your e-readers in a case or cover? I'm looking around online for something to protect my Nook Simple Touch and was wondering what you guys would recommend. I went with this one. Nothing fancy, but it will keep the screen from getting damaged. I also like that it clips onto the Nook. No elastic straps to deal with. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/lew...n=9780594017349
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Karthe posted:Do you guys keep your e-readers in a case or cover? I'm looking around online for something to protect my Nook Simple Touch and was wondering what you guys would recommend. The main thing you want with a case or cover, is to protect the device from twisting or warping that might occur if you stuff it into your back pack or whatever. But nearly all cases to this anyway, so basically don't waste your money on one of those neoprene sleeves. If you're taking it outside, get a case/cover.
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SlightButSteady posted:The main thing you want with a case or cover, is to protect the device from twisting or warping that might occur if you stuff it into your back pack or whatever. But nearly all cases to this anyway, so basically don't waste your money on one of those neoprene sleeves.
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I'm looking at buying an eReader in Australia, and I'm wondering if anybody could offer their opinion as to what would be the best option. The Kindle 4 and Kindle Keyboard 3G are available, although Amazon fixes the price on these units in Australia, and the cheapest I can buy these is $139 and $219 respectively. Other options of note include the Kobo Touch at $137 and the Sony PRS-T1 at $179 At the moment I'm considering the Kobo Touch, it seems to offer good features for the price, but I'm reading conflicting reports online regarding the quality of this unit. The Kindle 4 gets good reviews online as a cheap eReader, but the fact that it's approx. 75% more expensive in Australia I wonder if it's even worth buying.
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SlightButSteady posted:The main thing you want with a case or cover, is to protect the device from twisting or warping that might occur if you stuff it into your back pack or whatever. But nearly all cases to this anyway, so basically don't waste your money on one of those neoprene sleeves. I honestly haven't seen anything yet for the Nook Touch that could prevent warping. Nobody's making braced wrought iron cases.  I just want to defend the screen from poking/scraping. Also, I learned something cool about neoprene the other day, if you have a neoprene sleeve on your device and you drop it in the cat's water dish, the neoprene will take a couple seconds to wick water around its internal structure before the water makes it to the device; it was my phone and it was bone-dry even though the neoprene was soaked. I was shocked and pleased.
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qtek posted:I'm looking at buying an eReader in Australia, and I'm wondering if anybody could offer their opinion as to what would be the best option. I personally think the kindle is still worth buying, but if you can get a better deal on the kobo touch that isn't a bad option. Read the reviews online and compare and contrast which ecosystem you want. Whatever you do, avoid the kobo tablet (different then the touch).
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Is the X-Ray feature on the Kindle Touch worth it? edit: I'm considering a Kindle, but all I'll be doing is reading academic papers converted w/ k2pdfopt or Calibre from pdf->mobi FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Dec 21, 2011 |
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Dec 21, 2011 19:24
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I'd like to here some opinions on the Kindle touch v. Kindle 4. I can get the K4 severely discounted because I have Amazon.com gift cards, but I'd have to get the touch somewhere else because I live in a third world country that Amazon won't ship their more advanced devices to. Is the touch that much better? Is it even really better at all? I would think that the slow response of an e-ink screen would make for a frustration touch experience, but I haven't actually been able to try one to see for myself.
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I bought the Touch because it's only $20 more than the Kindle 4 in the USA. I don't consider the touch features a big deal, I mostly bought it because it has double the battery life and I guess the virtual keyboard is a little more convenient if I ever have to use it. If it was more than a $20 difference I'd just get the Kindle 4.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Is the X-Ray feature on the Kindle Touch worth it? I might be wrong on this, but it seems that the X-Ray feature just uses metadata added to a book by Amazon, it doesn't actually do any parsing on the Kindle. This means PDFs you put on it aren't going to have the x-ray feature. This is my theory because I don't think any of the Project Gutenberg books have x-ray information. I could be wrong though, and can check when I get home.
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Pretty sure I'm getting a Kindle Touch for Christmas. That said, I'm curious about jailbreaking/rooting it. What cool stuff can I do with a rooted Kindle? I use an iPhone, so I'm used to a shitload of neat tweaks that should have already been implemented by Apple anyway. Second question is pertaining to how easy it is to "undo" the root? With an iPhone, I can just hit a certain button combo and put it in a restore state where everything goes back to stock firmware with no residual effects. Can I do the same with the Kindle Touch if I end up messing something up?
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Heads up, Amazon's Kindle app for iPhone and iPad was just updated to allow you to download your Send-to-Kindle docs. This means that books emailed to your @Kindle email can be read on iPad and you can use WhisperSync on books other than books bought from the Amazon store. It's awesome because I had a few books that were mobi's that I had emailed to my @kindle email and now I can read them on my phone without worrying about keeping my last page read synced up.
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Woot's got the DX for 199$. Damned good deal for it. It's a refurb, but that's still something like 50$ off the normal price of the refurbs.
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My Kindle 3 has those hairline cracks in the bottom two corners of the screen. I've just noticed them for the first time, and given that it was a Christmas present last year, I suspect it's just out of warranty (Assuming the standard warranty is a year). Thing is, I'm planning to get the Kindle 4 very soon anyway, and give this Kindle 3 to my mother. What will happen to those hairline cracks? What are the chances that Amazon in the UK will replace it for free even though it was bought over a year ago?
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Centipeed posted:My Kindle 3 has those hairline cracks in the bottom two corners of the screen. I've just noticed them for the first time, and given that it was a Christmas present last year, I suspect it's just out of warranty (Assuming the standard warranty is a year). Can't hurt to try, and the worst answer is 'no'.
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The eReader Megathread: Maybe You Should Try The Phone
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SB35 posted:As many have said before, CALL them and find out. They've been much more responsive to calls than online requests. That was my plan, but in case they say "no" I wanted to know what the end result of these corner cracks is going to be.
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