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Paper? That's like a baby's toy! [eReaders]
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK.
Of course this has to happen just as I was starting to think that I'll never go back to pleasure reading on a backlit screen again.
The next price drop/hardware refresh can't come fast enough.
This right here. I don't think Amazon can lock it down entirely, perhaps from their store but you'll never be able to stop them from using it to read books from say, Project Gutenberg or stolen books.
(This is what makes it so infuriating, why would you want to steal it? Its resell value can't be that good if no one's ever heard of it.)
Anyway, a friend of mine said that he could lend me his Kindle for about a month while he's away somewhere he won't be able to use it. It... should be possible for him to deregister it from his account, and then have me register it to mine, right? I'm guessing that the machine will be wiped when I register it to a new account? Or is there some vile Amazon trickery that would prevent this from happening?
(Seriously there better not be any vile Amazon trickery)
E: Did Gizmodo forget that the Kobo supports goddamn ePubs, so you aren't restricted to the Kobo store?
Yeah, as said above, its wide format support means its limited store doesn't matter that much. And the crashing is lame, but probably a result of rushing it to make that critical beating-the-others-by-a-week release date. I strongly suspect they'll be worked out in a few months with a firmware update, or something.
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I picked my first edition nook up today, the e-ink version, not color, and there's a horrible mark on the bottom left of the screen. It looks like a triangle with vertical lines going through it, and it's always there. According to the B&N forums, this implies a cracked screen - furthermore, a lot of people have this problem, in the exact same location, and they're claiming it's a manufacturer's defect.
So I have to call Customer Service tomorrow and ask them about it. Problem is, I don't have the receipt or anything for it. It was a Christmas present. Does anyone know what I'll need to provide them for a replacement? Anyone have any experience with this?
does it?
I think that if you give them the serial number (accessible from the Settings menu or by taking the back off), they should be able to verify that it's covered by the free warranty.
She's pregnant and not so agile and accidentally rolled on it with an elbow in bed. Half the screen is toast.
I used amazon's "call me" feature on the website and they called me within 5 seconds and I was talking to someone in less than 30. They are mailing me a new kindle with pre-paid return postage and it should be here Friday or Monday.
I have to say, Costco, Shaw and Amazon have the right idea for customer service. I full intend to buy another kindle and more books from the amazon store as a result of this experience.
I sell cameras and such at Best Buy but I have from time to time helped customers and while I know pretty much the basics, most people use their ereaders to buy books off of the proprietary store. I am not most people so I am looking to see what might be the better option for me.
A Kindle DX might work, or maybe the Kobo Touch. I haven't really heard reports of anyone happy with PDFs on ereaders, though. Sadly.
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That said, it's impressive that Calibre can even do conversions as well as it does given how much worse some commercial software is at the same thing.
I hope this hasn't been discussed already, but a straight answer from someone in the know is a lot easier than searching through 99 pages of thread.
I've been working my way through the Millennium Trilogy over the past half year or so, taking a break between each book. I read the first one pre-Kindle, the second one on my Kindle, and just attempted to purchase the final one to read on my Kindle. I know the Kindle Store had these before. And yet, when I searched through it this morning, there was nothing to be found. None of the three books in the trilogy are listed in the Kindle store anymore. Any ideas what the problem is? Is this a a by-product of the spat between Penguin and Amazon? Or is this yet another case of Canadian Kindle users getting screwed out of content?
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Blargh. So it is Canada getting screwed out of content again.
Edit: I just had a look through some more items I've been wanting or previously bought. William Gibson's entire catalog has been removed from the Kindle store (I have his three latest novels on my Kindle, and they too are gone). Turns out Penguin is also his publisher. I can only conclude that Penguin suddenly hates Canada. Dicks.
Let's move it on over there people.