BS: advice about kindles

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Jun 15 - 07:37 PM

Useful information. Thanks chaps.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 28 Jun 15 - 10:38 PM

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have been using computerized stuff since 1983. I know the ropes. For example, I tapped the top to get the menu many times, and most of the time it didn't appear.

No, it wasn't a used Kindle.

Why did I want to delete books I had read? Because there was no down arrow on the list of downloaded books, so I could not access all I had loaded.

It may be something about my fingers - too cold, too small, too dry, not salty enough? I generally have a hard time with touch screens.   

The DH wants to try it, so I haven't sent it back. As for me, I will head to the library.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: GUEST,giovanni
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 01:10 AM

With respect, you make it sound like you were against it from the start.

I have friends with a similar approach, determined to prove Kindles are no good despite the overwhelming evidence of people who have been converted.

I used to love the physical book and all of my books were kept pristine - which was much appreciated by the charity shop when I took them all there.

I'm a complete convert to Kindle and as I generally only read classics they're mainly free. I'm currently re-reading Steinbeck (at a cost) but keep the complete works of Kipling, Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde on there just for when I'm between books.

g

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 09:22 AM

I still do love the 'physical book', and I stil buy and read them, but the Kindle has a convenience and an invaluability (word??) when travelling, for instance.

In truth, I'm favouring the IPad Kindle app nowadays, for its improved readability, and especially when I travel (as I am doing in British Columbia at the moment) - my books and my internet connectivity all in one easily-carried device.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 12:05 PM

No, Giovanni, I'm not that stupid. I wouldn't pay $95 plus shipping for something I didn't think would work.

And what do you mean by "With respect"? With respect, I'm an idiot?

About fingers - my husband had a co-worker who had the opposite problem from me. Her hands were so warm that if she held a finger an inch above her smartphone, it started doing unpredictable things.    I seem to have the opposite problem - I touch it and it does nothing.

Sometimes we just have to admit that there's natural variation in this world.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: Greg F.
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 01:22 PM

As for me, I will head to the library.

And good for you! Just say no to techno-addiction.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: Greg F.
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 01:26 PM

the overwhelming evidence of people who have been converted.

"Converted"? Yup - very much like Scientologists.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: Thompson
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 01:54 PM

Leenia, you can remove books. This is how you do it on the iPad's Kindle app; I assume it's the same on the Kindle itself: Select a book with a finger-tap, but hold the tip of your finger on the selected icon. A menu then comes up with "Remove from device".
I have the same problem with occasionally mutinous fingers. Give the finger a wee lick and you may find it works better.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 08:26 PM

There is any number of really boring books that will send you to sleep, there's your problem solved.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 11:26 PM

perhaps you've got a faulty kindle. if the menu doesn't come up - you're in the shit really.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: Thompson
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 03:08 AM

It does sound a bit like the Kindle might be faulty. Might be an idea to get a more salty-fingered friend to try it out; if it doesn't work then, take it back to Amazon or the shop you bought it from.

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: GUEST,giovanni
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 02:06 AM

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And what do you mean by "With respect"? With respect, I'm an idiot?
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There's clearly a clash of language here. Often a problem when English is not one's first language.

g

Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles
From: Rumncoke
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 01:37 PM

My Kindle is touch screen - the one I didn't buy had buttons and I couldn't work out how to make it go.
With the touch screen I managed to sort out the controls very quickly and I even have books sorted into different categories, I use the sync thing for Amazon and down the wire from Calibre for stuff I hoover up off the internet.
the first one I had went do-lally tap shortly after I got it, and would not reset, but I took it back to the shop and they gave me another. It has been fine ever since.

A lot of stuff easily found on the internet is not worth inconveniencing the electrons to take a copy and stuff it into the memory of the device, but with a bit of searching quite a bit of interesting reading surfaces. I particularly like the old sci-fi stories. I had them in paperback but they disintegrated, after turning yellow then brown. I hope to live long enough for the really classic stories to be available free, or to have enough money to buy all of the books I'd like, and then to live long enough to read them all.