Topic: Amazon Kindle

[joe_m]

Right, 3g one it is....they better not fuckin release a colour e-ink one any time soon

Color e-ink is years away, they probably will release an LCD iPad like device this fall though.

[drpepe]

Last rumour I heard somewhere was September for a colour one.

 

[hope_valley_parker]

Just back from my first holiday using with a Kindle. Absolutely made up with it - only charged the battery once in 3 weeks, despite using it for 2-3 hours a day. Screen was crystal clear, even in the blazing sun.

For anyone wavering, 100% recommend!

[.adam]

Last rumour I heard somewhere was September for a colour one.

As someone else said, this will be for an Amazon iPad rival - not a colour Kindle.

[Livbes]

I fancy one of these. Go away quite a bit so thinking of getting the 3G version. Let me get this right. Its just the one off payment and you get unlimited 3G in most countries? Also any ideas where to find them cheapest? 

[.adam]

I fancy one of these. Go away quite a bit so thinking of getting the 3G version. Let me get this right. Its just the one off payment and you get unlimited 3G in most countries? Also any ideas where to find them cheapest? 

Correct. One off payment and access to 3G in a number of countries.

I don't think you'll really get them much cheaper than direct with Amazon. Probably worth paying it anyway due to the excellent Customer Service you get  from them as I, and a few others on this thread, can vouch for.

[hope_valley_parker]

I fancy one of these. Go away quite a bit so thinking of getting the 3G version. Let me get this right. Its just the one off payment and you get unlimited 3G in most countries? Also any ideas where to find them cheapest? 

I bought mine in Tesco. Same price as from Amazon, and obviously no delivery charge.

[Livbes]

Cheers guys.

[TheKid.]

Aye I got my missus' in BestBuy. Like the iPad they're pretty much identically priced everywhere

[RigBon1892]

I downloaded it for my PC recently, simply because I needed a reading fix and I've no books here.
If I was to get the Kindle in future, as I've decided I want one, is it easy to transfer between PC and device?

[TheKid.]

Drag and drop

[RigBon1892]

OK I'll bear that in mind for when I hopefully get one.

[PaulV]

If I was to get the Kindle in future, as I've decided I want one, is it easy to transfer between PC and device?

If the books on the PC Kindle are downloaded from Amazon, you should be able to get them directly from Amazon over WiFi or 3G on any new Kindle device as they will be in the archived files. Note that you can have multiple Kindles registered to the same amazon account, so you can share books that way.

[joe_m]

Drag and drop

It's easier than drag and drop, you can just go to "Archived Items" in the Kindle and redownload them and they'll sync the location of where you last read.

[TheKid.]

Never downloaded an 'official' book do didn't know that

[[new username under construction]]

i know this might seem daft but....

Can it handle Dir's? Seeing them on display they list the books by page on the main screen.....what happens when you have 3000 books on there :S....can you Dir them to Programming, Cars, Porn etc?

[hope_valley_parker]

i know this might seem daft but....

Can it handle Dir's? Seeing them on display they list the books by page on the main screen.....what happens when you have 3000 books on there :S....can you Dir them to Programming, Cars, Porn etc?

In the words of a TV dog:

'Oooooooooh yes.'

[[new username under construction]]

In the words of a TV dog:

'Oooooooooh yes.'

so can "calibre" do that before transfer or better to use the Kindle as a Mass Storage Device and create the Dirs in windows explorer?

[hope_valley_parker]

so can "calibre" do that before transfer or better to use the Kindle as a Mass Storage Device and create the Dirs in windows explorer?

I'm not sure if the folders are just represented on the Kindle or you can see them on the PC when you're hooked up on the USB.

[PaulV]

Can it handle Dir's? Seeing them on display they list the books by page on the main screen.....what happens when you have 3000 books on there :S....can you Dir them to Programming, Cars, Porn etc?

The handling of a large library on a Kindle is terrible, and is my biggest gripe with the device.
 
You can tag books as being part of a "Collection", but that is it. Books can be tagged in multiple collections but you cannot nest collections.

There is no straight forward way of listing all authors and then selecting one and then choosing one of their books to read. The only way seems to be to add a collection using the author's name, and then tagging his books. When you choose to display collections on the Kindle, they are not sorted alphabetically.

[SP]

There is no straight forward way of listing all authors and then selecting one and then choosing one of their books to read.

You could just sort the books by Author...

[PaulV]

You could just sort the books by Author...

Yes, but if you have 1000 books on it, that is 100 pages to potentially page through to get to a particular author as it doesn't collapse by author.

[SP]

Yes, but if you have 1000 books on it, that is 100 pages to potentially page through to get to a particular author as it doesn't collapse by author.

If you press a letter key, you can jump to authors starting with that letter. I have about 3,000 books on my Kindle, and Author Searches are one of the less frustrating bits. I would love to be able to convert tags in calibre to collections. So I could set up all of the collections in Calibre. I have given up on collections - I lost all the collections data when I got a warranty replacement.

[[new username under construction]]

Adding directories wouldn't be that hard in a software update. They really should do it....the lack of it really lets it down :/

[Rusty Oysterburger]

Got mine today, absolutely brilliant so far, the screen is a thing of beauty

I've been hunting for books online but not getting much joy, anyone recommend any sites that have a good selection? ta.

[[new username under construction]]

Got mine today, absolutely brilliant so far, the screen is a thing of beauty

I've been hunting for books online but not getting much joy, anyone recommend any sites that have a good selection? ta.

legal or not so much legal?

[Rusty Oysterburger]

legal or not so much legal?

Well, I prefer "free"...

[joe_m]

The handling of a large library on a Kindle is terrible, and is my biggest gripe with the device.
 
You can tag books as being part of a "Collection", but that is it. Books can be tagged in multiple collections but you cannot nest collections.

There is no straight forward way of listing all authors and then selecting one and then choosing one of their books to read. The only way seems to be to add a collection using the author's name, and then tagging his books. When you choose to display collections on the Kindle, they are not sorted alphabetically.

I just use collections as folders, then when I'm done with a book I'll just archive it.

[hope_valley_parker]

Got mine today, absolutely brilliant so far, the screen is a thing of beauty

I've been hunting for books online but not getting much joy, anyone recommend any sites that have a good selection? ta.

Google the name of your book plus the word 'mobi'.

[MindGuerrillas]

I've been hunting for books online but not getting much joy, anyone recommend any sites that have a good selection? ta.

Take a look at this forum http://bolt.cd/board/19/ebooks

There's quite a lot on there in various formats. Use Calibre to convert them to whatever other format you want.

[[new username under construction]]

Well, I prefer "free"...

if you have experience of torrents then there are thousands to be had on those sites...of course this is very bad, don't do it

[SP]

if you have experience of torrents then there are thousands to be had on those sites...of course this is very bad, don't do it

It is very bad indeed. Peer to peer sharing is very public. Usenet is far more discreet.

[keithcun]

I bought mine in Tesco. Same price as from Amazon, and obviously no delivery charge.

Me too, double points as well, which go towards triple points on Redspottedhanky. 

[[new username under construction]]

It is very bad indeed. Peer to peer sharing is very public. Usenet is far more discreet.

used to use them myself and they are great and very fast but a hell of a lot of ISP's are now ...or have dropped their news groups :/ and i aint paying...unless you know some decent free fast ones

[hope_valley_parker]

used to use them myself and they are great and very fast but a hell of a lot of ISP's are now ...or have dropped their news groups :/ and i aint paying...unless you know some decent free fast ones

If you aren't prepared to pay, you won't get high speed Usenet.

[[new username under construction]]

If you aren't prepared to pay, you won't get high speed Usenet.

which is why torrents exist

[hope_valley_parker]

which is why torrents exist

I'd pay a lot more than my £8 a month to ensure that I never have to fart about with torrents again

[[new username under construction]]

I'd pay a lot more than my £8 a month to ensure that I never have to fart about with torrents again

aww they aint that bad....at least it isn't Kazaa or limewire

[PaulV]

If you press a letter key, you can jump to authors starting with that letter. I have about 3,000 books on my Kindle, and Author Searches are one of the less frustrating bits. I would love to be able to convert tags in calibre to collections. So I could set up all of the collections in Calibre. I have given up on collections - I lost all the collections data when I got a warranty replacement.

I've recently been removing books from my kindle as I was finding it difficult to locate the book I wanted to read.

Thanks. It looks as if pressing a letter only works if you are displaying by Author, and not Collections or most recent first. In those cases, it ends up just doing a search on the Kindle which can take an age with lots of books.

My other big issue is not being able to specify the order of books in series', so I have been changing the title in Calibre to identify the order

I have been using the Kindle Collection manager on PC (http://www.colegate.net/KindleCollectionManager/), but there appears to be a new Collection Plugin for Calibre. To install, go to Calibre->Preferences->Plugins->Get New Plugins and select Kindle Collections. Full instructions on how to use it are on http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118635

This new plugin seems to work quite well. I have deleted all my collections and got the Calibre plugin to create collections based on Author Sort. Unfortunately, the collections, while they start off in alphabetical order, reorder as you read books from a particular collection.

[[new username under construction]]

can't we all just email Amazon (kindle part) about requesting a DIR structure in a new update? I have i'm a dork