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Paper? That's like a baby's toy! [eReaders]
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old phone? well those displays have good battery life already.
Display isn't such an issue with smartphones anyways (display used up 5% since last I unplugged). The things you use much battery power on aren't feasible with e-ink anyways so you might as well view less video.
Re: E-Ink on phones. LG, I think, did release a dumbphone with e-ink a while back. It had something insane like a four to six week batttery life.
amazon customer service in 5 minutes on the phone was like here's a new kindle replacement
that's nice
If anyone would go ahead and buy a Kindle, that would be great, because as soon as you buy it the price will go down and then I can grab one for even cheaper!
Now I am going to have to replace my Nook with the new Nook.
The long and short of it is, the "special offers" Kindle was apparently such a hit, that they're releasing a 3G version of it that will retail for $164.
PhD students and Postdocs would just be issued them on arrival.
It would be bliss.
The device itself looks pretty slick, too...
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Of course, that number is completely meaningless without some measure of how much reading you can do per day in those two months. Which, of course, is also dependent on stuff like font size (in that you'll be causing more or less page turns). It's a big, worthless number.
On the other hand, if they've managed to match (or even exceed) roughly what the Kindle is capable of I can't imagine anyone really complaining that it isn't actually two months.
Which is disappointing if it's really a fuck all improvement.
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Apparently I wasn't the only one to notice this.
Amazon didn't change the battery, they just changed how they rate the battery life. To the same way Nook rates it.
That's.... kinda shady of the Nook people to list double the battery life when you're actually getting the exact same life out of it.
I'm not sure if the Kobo two weeks includes reading PDFs, but if it does, it's pretty good considering the PDF zooming and panning features.
The other insane thing, and I know I'm not the first one to pick up on this, is the frankly stupid Kindle pricing. I know it's the publishers being dumb and not Amazon but it's still mind numbingly ridiculous that I'm pay the same price (often times even more!) for a 800KB file compared to a factory build and binded paper book that is shipped to me across the country.
I suppose the logic comes down to book publishers reacting the same way to digital distribution that the music industry did at the beginning of the internet and MP3's. Which was equally as ridiculous. Who knows though, maybe we'll get e-books to the point that albums on vinyl are at where when you buy an LP you get a code for a free MP3 download included.
I'm definitely not going to hold my breath on that though.
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I'm curious about your 4 day battery life problem. Was this with wifi/3G on or a mixture of both? 'Cause mine doesn't seem to be last as long as I expected the battery to last. But I am using it a lot so I don't know. It is definitely not lasting 2 months.
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This was with wifi/3G off, no books being indexed, no faulty cover and reading for 1-2 hours a day. If I left wifi/3G on the battery would be dead in about a day. Even if I never took the device out of standby the battery would still discharge in about 5-6 days.
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BN is now claiming that in side by side tests, they're getting 2-3x as many page turns as the Kindle 3 (both w/o wireless).
Once you get beyond two weeks per charge, does it really matter? I charge my phone every 1-2 days, and my nookColor every 2-3 days, and I've learned to live with it.
I have a question about the new Kobo. Which stores does it support? I see on their website that there is their own store, but does it also support the B&N Store, or do the ePub books transfer over?
I got a bonus from work, and instead of giving us actual cash they gave us a credit for this lame ass catalog. A Borders gift card is one of the options, and I was considering getting it and cashing in for the Kobo. I don't really NEED a Kobo considering my Kindle 3 is only 5 months old, but it would be free, and I don't need anything else on this stupid catalog.
Am I crazy, or did I hear wrong?
So if i read you correctly, a DRMed ePub book purchased from Google, or B&N, or Borders will play on the Kobo? I suppose that goes for the Nook as well? I am sure all of this info is in the thread somewhere, but I am lazy.
pre-edit: not that Lazy. Went looking into it a bit at the Google Bookstore, and they link to the Adobe Digital Editions page about supported devices.
I don't know why I couldn't find this story when I was googling earlier, but here is a link to what seems to be the source of the Kindle ePub story. I haven't really been able to find any other sources.
http://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/amazon-to-allow-epub-ebooks-on-the-kindle-e-reader/
Yeah, pretty much anything protected with ADEPT (Adobe's DRM system for e-books) will work on the Kobo. It's great, because it makes it easier to shop around on price.
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Are there any deal sites I should be watching for ebooks?
I found some ongoing thread on the official Amazon boards but that's about it so far.
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But I may be stupid.
It's pretty nice, and quite small/light. The touch controls felt really responsive, and the UI mimics that of the NookColor in most ways, so it was super easy to get around. It doesn't have a removeable back, and there's a little hatch on the side for an optional microSD card.
Page turns are very fast, and it only seemed to do the black-flash thing every 4-5 turns. The demo device that I tried had the top page-turn buttons set to go forward, so I was confused for a second, but there are settings that allow you to switch that back to the usual top = back, bottom = forward.
My only complaint is that the color of the background didn't seem as white as I was expecting. You could tell that the display is improved over that of the first Nook, but I didn't have a Kindle 3 handy to compare. And I'm a little surprised that the PDF reader is basically the same as that of the first Nook: (adjustable font size and reflowing text, but no panning/zooming within images)
I'm going to stick with my NookColor for the time being, since it's perfectly fine for subway-readin', but I might end up getting one of these when I go on vacation at the end of the year.
I got it for my birthday May of last year, so it's undoubtedly out of warranty (unless the warranty is longer than a year). I can't call customer service now, but I'll do it tomorrow. Can any of you tell me what options are available to me in regards to getting this thing fixed? How much will amazon charge me?
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