What are the advantages of buying one with a keyboard? Is it worth the extra money? Is the Fire pretty cool, or not worth it?
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Dalguno
United States2446 Posts
What are the advantages of buying one with a keyboard? Is it worth the extra money? Is the Fire pretty cool, or not worth it? | ||
Bosu
United States3247 Posts
The fire is cool, but to me it isn't what I want in an Ebook reader. The reason I wanted a kindle is because of the eink. I don't want to read on an LCD display. Also the battery life on an eink reader is much better. | ||
susySquark
United States1692 Posts
I have an older kindle, and I love it.. wouldn't have read nearly as much in the past year if I hadn't bought it. | ||
Dalguno
United States2446 Posts
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7mk
Germany10156 Posts
If you dont intend on using the browser much then theres really no need for the keyboard, you dont need it for searching books since a) you can do that on pc and b) even if you always do it on the kindle, you dont do it near often enough to require a keyboard | ||
RoyalCheese
Czech Republic745 Posts
On October 28 2011 06:47 Dalguno wrote: Is the keyboard just for searching for books then? I think you can also use it for writing notes etc | ||
Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
I really love the Kindle with keyboard, and I'm glad I bought it. | ||
idonthinksobro
3138 Posts
There are tons of legal free books on the web i trippled the amount of books i read basically. | ||
paralleluniverse
4065 Posts
I bought the Kindle specifically to read a backlog of math PDF textbooks and papers I've developed over my years at uni, on a screen that doesn't fire electrons into my eyes. For the most part it does a very good job. PDFs are best read on landscape mode. However, it's possible to read them on portrait mode as a entire page if your OK with small writing. The zoom feature for PDFs is tacky, limited, and time consuming to adjust. The good news is that you don't need to zoom when reading PDFs on landscape. Formulas and formatting is preserved when reading a PDF file, it's as if it were on a computer, but with a screen that is comfortable for the eyes. White margins are also automatically cropped which is helpful. | ||
Daigomi
South Africa4316 Posts
On October 28 2011 06:37 Dalguno wrote: I'm considering buying a Kindle. Actually, I'm going to get one. I want to decide which I want. What are the advantages of buying one with a keyboard? Is it worth the extra money? Is the Fire pretty cool, or not worth it? It depends on what you plan to use the keyboard for. Every person in my family has a kindle, and none of us use the keyboard (which is why I got myself the Kindle without a keyboard). On the other hand, if you're like 7mk then you might want a keyboard. The Fire should be pretty cool, but since it's a tablet I'd wait for the reviews to come out a week or so before it's released. Also, it's more like the iPad than it is like the classic Kindle, so it's once again about what you want from it. If you want an eInk kindle, your best option right now is probably to waita week or two for the Kindle Touch. It's got slightly better specs at only a marginal increase in price. | ||
7mk
Germany10156 Posts
On October 29 2011 01:18 paralleluniverse wrote: There seem to be a few posts in the previous pages about reading PDFs on the Kindle. Allow me to give my review. I bought the Kindle specifically to read a backlog of math PDF textbooks and papers I've developed over my years at uni, on a screen that doesn't fire electrons into my eyes. For the most part it does a very good job. PDFs are best read on landscape mode. However, it's possible to read them on portrait mode as a entire page if your OK with small writing. The zoom feature for PDFs is tacky, limited, and time consuming to adjust. The good news is that you don't need to zoom when reading PDFs on landscape. Formulas and formatting is preserved when reading a PDF file, it's as if it were on a computer, but with a screen that is comfortable for the eyes. White margins are also automatically cropped which is helpful. Afaik the Sony readers are much better at dealing with pdfs, thats why im still unsure about replacing my kindle 4 with something else entirely. I mean it does an ok job with pdfs but it could be much better. Yesterday I tried converting pdfs to .mobi format. If you put a lot of effort into it you can make any pdf into a perfect mobi but obviously noone wants to waste that much time, I only tried the very simple way of just importing and converting to mobi without any further editing and on some of my pdfs i had decent results, with no huge flaws, other than the paragraph spacing being a bit messy. A lot of the files however were pretty screwed, id say about 50/50. Other than the price the kindle store is a big plus though and I generally like amazon as a firm, im still pretty unsure about what to do, I'll probably have to wait for the kindle touch reviews to make a decision prs-t1 does look good tho | ||
paralleluniverse
4065 Posts
On October 29 2011 02:51 7mk wrote: Afaik the Sony readers are much better at dealing with pdfs, thats why im still unsure about replacing my kindle 4 with something else entirely. I mean it does an ok job with pdfs but it could be much better. Yesterday I tried converting pdfs to .mobi format. If you put a lot of effort into it you can make any pdf into a perfect mobi but obviously noone wants to waste that much time, I only tried the very simple way of just importing and converting to mobi without any further editing and on some of my pdfs i had decent results, with no huge flaws, other than the paragraph spacing being a bit messy. A lot of the files however were pretty screwed, id say about 50/50. Other than the price the kindle store is a big plus though and I generally like amazon as a firm, im still pretty unsure about what to do, I'll probably have to wait for the kindle touch reviews to make a decision prs-t1 does look good tho The only PDFs that can be converted to MOBI successfully are those with no sophisticated formatting such as columns, formulas, text boxes, etc. Kindle can readily and comfortably read plain text documents like those shown in the screenshot. | ||
qeMix
Germany71 Posts
i'm currently leaning towards kindle but 4gig storage just seems too small. also can anyone here confirm the problem with kobo? or did they already fix it somehow? heard that they are quite quick in updating their eReader and adjusting it to customers demands. | ||
paralleluniverse
4065 Posts
On October 29 2011 17:04 qeMix wrote: i'm also thinking of buying an eReader right now but i can't decide between kindle touch / prs-t1 / kobo touch.
i'm currently leaning towards kindle but 4gig storage just seems too small. also can anyone here confirm the problem with kobo? or did they already fix it somehow? heard that they are quite quick in updating their eReader and adjusting it to customers demands. An ebook takes about 400 KB, and a 100 page PDF are about 1 MB, so 4 GB is probably enough books to last over 10 years of reading. | ||
RoyalCheese
Czech Republic745 Posts
On October 29 2011 17:04 qeMix wrote: i'm also thinking of buying an eReader right now but i can't decide between kindle touch / prs-t1 / kobo touch.
i'm currently leaning towards kindle but 4gig storage just seems too small. also can anyone here confirm the problem with kobo? or did they already fix it somehow? heard that they are quite quick in updating their eReader and adjusting it to customers demands. 4 gigs should be plenty unless you read something with a lot of pictures or use it as mp3 player. What i would worry about in kindle case is very little support to formats like epub. But that's just me, you may be ok with just using amazon store. | ||
qeMix
Germany71 Posts
On October 29 2011 17:46 RoyalCheese wrote: 4 gigs should be plenty unless you read something with a lot of pictures or use it as mp3 player. What i would worry about in kindle case is very little support to formats like epub. But that's just me, you may be ok with just using amazon store. hm then i guess 4gig should be enough. i don't think epub would be a problem since i can just convert it to mobi with calibre. | ||
Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
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TheLOLas
United States646 Posts
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32250 Posts
On October 29 2011 17:46 RoyalCheese wrote: 4 gigs should be plenty unless you read something with a lot of pictures or use it as mp3 player. What i would worry about in kindle case is very little support to formats like epub. But that's just me, you may be ok with just using amazon store. You can read epub on a kindle if you install another OS like Duokan on it! (which it's really easy to do ) | ||
voy
Poland348 Posts
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