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Cream_Filling posted:Oh also a way to permanently turn off the backlight because I hate cool blue-white lighting and the whole point of buying an e-ink screen is to not be staring at a backlight all the time. Well it isn't a backlight, and you really can't see the light when its turned all the way down and you're reading in a lighted room (sun or otherwise). Make sure to swipe it all the way down, it doesn't seem to want to go under 1 if you just tap the minus.
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The Paperwhite screen (and similar recent ereaders from other companies) is 1024x768 in the 6 inch screen. The older Kindles (and older similar ereaders) were 800x600 in the same 6 inch screen. The 63% more pixels in the same screen size is primarily a help for 1) Graphic-heavy content. Scaling images works out nicer when there's more pixels available so that less detail is lost 2) Reading with small font sizes. The extra resolution isn't too important for those who read with large text since all necessary smoothing and the like is easily handled at lower resolutions, but the smaller your text is the more having more pixels will help 3) Reading non-reflowable content. PDFs and other things where the thing you're reading might as well be a static image. Again, the extra pixels allow for better scaling or cropping while losing less detail.
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Fremry posted:Yeah, you'll have to make the decision yourself, because I am the exact opposite of this. I bought an E-ink reader because it looks like paper. When you shine a light behind it, in my opinion, it looks like an old backlit cell phone screen. I find myself turning on a lamp or light very often to read my kindle, but I'd much rather do that and keep it looking like printed paper than use an internal light that kills that part of it. The Paperwhite doesn't shine a light behind the screen. It shines it on the front of it, coming from the sides like the fancier book lights for paper books. It's actually almost impossible to backlight an e-ink screen, due to the fact that the screen in current designs is always opaque whether it's currently black, gray or "white".
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Oct 15, 2013 21:18
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Capntastic posted:So through a weird misadventure I've ended up with 25 Euros on Amazon.de What you can do is purchase books there and then strip the DRM to ensure you can use them on your Kindle, if you don't want to temporarily deregister the Kindle from your us account to put a Euro account on.
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Nihiliste posted:Everyone says that until they actually try the Paperwhite. I have a Paperwhite, I'd still love to have the buttons back.
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Island Nation posted:I'm well familiar with Calibre and use it quite a bit to convert my books. I have a SDHC card with a lot of epub books and want to use it but my Kobo struggles to work with it so I wanted to see what was out there. I saw the Aura but I was looking for other opinions as well. Where are you having problems with them? You can try opening up your EPUB books in Calibre's editor and manually splitting up the internal HTML files to lengths of less than ~260 kilobytes per segment. Some EPUB devices start to have issues the bigger the HTML segment they have to load, but the EPUB file itself can hold tons of them with no performance impact.
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Fremry posted:Has anyone had their PaperWhite 2 automatically update to 5.4.3? Mine has not updated, and I've been trying to get an answer from customer service for over a week as to why it will not auto update, and the rep has given me some terrible reasons. He finally said, and I'll quote Question: how's the free space looking on your device? You might need to temporarily clear off a couple hundred megabytes of space for the update file, they can be finicky about not having lots of free space for the update process.
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Mar 24, 2014 04:16
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Fremry posted:I have 1.2 GB of free space. It just has the OS and like 5 books on it. You're better off just downloading the update file direct from the Amazon website: http://s3.amazonaws.com/G7G_FirmwareUpdates_WebDownloads/update_kindle_5.4.3.bin Simply place that in your kindle's storage, and then go into the settings menu on the device, there should be an active update option
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Mar 24, 2014 05:18
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Tupping Liberty posted:Have you tried to buy a book yet? I got one of those emails with how much credit I got but I couldn't actually find it anywhere in my account, so does it just automatically spend kindle book money on things until it runs out? Yeah, it gets auto applied to Kindle and paper book purchases on payment. Annoyingly, I can't find a way to double check balance after purchasing.
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Mar 26, 2014 03:32
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Swiping and touching areas on the screen both require moving your fingers more than resting your hand right between forward and back buttons did. It works ok, but I'd love to have the buttons back.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:28
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^burtle posted:How bad of an idea is it to take my Paperwhite to the beach? I'm always afraid the black back is going to soak up sun and melt it. It's not going to melt, but if you want to avoid getting sand or water ground into/on it you can simply place the kindle in a sandwich size ziplock bag and it'll still be perfectly readable and the screen will detect your fingers just fine.
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moflika posted:Ugh, I thought the cheapo kindle would be safe from the touch screen invasion. If this glossy glass screen business is as annoying as I'm assuming it is, then every kindle model has now found a way to annoy me. Where are you seeing glossy? The Kindle Voyage has an anti-glare matte finish on the glass. Glossy finishes don't really work for monochrome displays anyway.
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Edmond Dantes posted:I have a Kindle, I don't remember the model name; it's the one without a keyboard but without touchscreen, it still has the buttons on the side. The Voyage's higher resolution makes handling PDFs a lot nicer, and I really like the page press buttons on mine. But the Voyage isn't going to be in stock again until March 20, so if you want a new kindle to use this week, you'd have to order a Paperwhite which is in stock now.
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