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06 May 15 - 05:59 PM (#3706986) Subject: BS: advice about Kindles From: GUEST,leeneia I have a trip across the pond coming, and I will need a number of books to read at night and in the middle of the night. My usual method is to go to the paperback mysteries in the public library and look for silly books. You know, the kind where the cover is hot pink, bright yellow or turquoise and the detective owns a Chihuahua. The deal is, I don't find these books by author or title. I scan the shelves looking for the bright covers. Such books are diverting without being upsetting. This will be a two-week trip, so I figure I need ten books. My sister-in-law has shown me her Kindle, and it seemed comfortable to use and would weigh less than the ten books. But when I tried to find mysteries to download, all I could find was grim bestsellers that cost $8.99 each. Does anybody know how I can use a Kindle to read the kind of books I want? |
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06 May 15 - 06:42 PM (#3706995) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: wysiwyg Yup! Visit librivox.com and browse genres and authors, then look for the titles in the Kindle store. They will usually be free, since they originated at Gutenberg. All Public Domain. ~S~ |
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06 May 15 - 07:01 PM (#3706999) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,# Susan, librivox.com has gone t/u I think. Seems the site's for sale, or domain--whatever it's called. |
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06 May 15 - 07:17 PM (#3707001) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: wysiwyg .org, sorry! |
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06 May 15 - 08:16 PM (#3707010) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,# Thanks, S. Here's the link. https://librivox.org/ |
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07 May 15 - 02:08 AM (#3707053) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: JennieG Leeneia, I download free mystery books from Omnimystery News who send out a daily newsletter with the day's freebies and bargains.....and yes, some of them have been similar to the books you describe! Omnimystery News On the right hand side of the page is "Subscribe to Omnimystery News", just follow the links. You can unsubscribe whenever you wish, too. |
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07 May 15 - 03:19 AM (#3707066) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: peregrina book suggestion: The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks (herdyshepherd1) about sheepherding in the Lake District, Herdwicks and Swaledales just out last month, available for kindle on amazon.co.uk but not yet amazon.com |
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07 May 15 - 03:52 AM (#3707072) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Mr Red beware reading from any led-lit device too near sleep. Flourescent, energy saving or LED lighting contains more blue light than tungsten. Blue light is more prevalent at mid-day. You can't buck evolution. We are not nocturnal mammals. Jet-lag can be eased by getting a dose of mid-day sun. If you have trouble sleeping correlate it to times reading from your Kindle (eg). PC's are no different in this respect. Some devices have soft light settings. For good reason. But it is only a partial solution. |
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07 May 15 - 04:08 AM (#3707076) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Joe Offer leeneia, your local library may have books you can read on Kindle or other reading devices. Check your library's Website. I travel with my Kindle Fire all the time, and really like it. I download a lot of documents, magazines, and whatnot in PDF format, and they work well on my Kindle. Can't say I've bought many books in Kindle format because so much is available for free. I did get a nice desert wildflower guide, though. -Joe- |
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07 May 15 - 06:46 AM (#3707111) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Thompson There are zillions of cheap books for Kindle. You don't have to have a Kindle; the app is available for iPhones and iPads and Macs and PCs, and I assume for non-i smartphones. Most smartphones now are big enough that you can read comfortably on them. If you set up a Kindle account with Amazon, you can email yourself ebooks, for instance those you download from archive.org, which has many wonderful out-of-copyright books from the 18th and 19th and early 20th centuries. (You get a special Kindle email to do this; the book then appears automatically on your device through Whispernet.) If you do this, the books will be listed in the Kindle library on your device under 'Docs'. They'll also turn up on a search of its library. Some of the books I love and would buy on the Kindle, for instance Florence King's Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, bafflingly are listed (though sometimes hidden) on Amazon's Kindle store, but not available for purchase. |
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07 May 15 - 09:51 AM (#3707165) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks, everyone for the information. Unfortunately, Mr. Red's warning sounds all too correct for me. The device is going to wake me up more than ever, and that's the last thing I need. I have noticed that using my computer before bedtime wakes me up, and I fear a Kindle will do the same, even though the page looks like a nice, soft gray. I get serious jet lag. Ah, the flight across the Atlantic with not a wink of sleep! Ah, waking up in a silent hotel at 2 am with nothing to do! I think I better stick with the paperbacks. Maybe seven will be enough.... But of course I can use all your suggestions for when I'm not travelling abroad, so thanks. |
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07 May 15 - 10:06 AM (#3707171) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Always plenty of paperbacks in charity shops, leeneia. Don't bring any - pay 50p or less for some and then give them away before you go back. |
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07 May 15 - 10:21 AM (#3707174) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Thompson I often have a read on the iPad before sleep, and it doesn't bother me; your mileage (of course kilometres if you're coming to Europe) may vary. For jet lag, try getting as much daylight into your eyes as possible when you arrive, to reset some gland or other; in some parts of Ireland you can buy Lullaby Milk, produced by Ardrahan Dairy in Cork (Supervalu usually has it), which is especially high in melatonin because they milk their cows at midnight for this purpose. Counsel of perfection is to fast the day before you travel and not eat on the plane; I've never managed that. When you're looking for Kindle books, don't take Amazon's advice, just ask friends what's good and see is it available as a Kindle book and it usually is. Your kindly friends can also buy you presents, and it doesn't matter which Amazon jurisdiction you're in; I recently bought a friend Bel Canto and another Haunts of the Black Masseur, and they transferred happily from amazon.com into their amazon.co.uk and amazon.fr accounts. |
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07 May 15 - 01:48 PM (#3707249) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Will Fly I read from my Kindle every single night - for about half an hour - and it's never had the slightest effect on my sleeping. And, if you go for classic authors, there's lots of good stuff for free or for pennies. |
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07 May 15 - 02:15 PM (#3707252) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST I Kindled on my tiny fone at night in he nursing home (and still do it now when I can't sleep), and I always end up as sleepy as I want to be. ~S~ |
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07 May 15 - 02:51 PM (#3707258) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: MartinRyan Haven't used Fire version but find iPad a strain to read for any time. Paperwhite version most comfortable and adjustable IMHO. Not good for PDF or colour - for both of which i use iPad when necessary. Incidentally, I find the availability of free/very cheap books in Kindle form has me doing much more reading than has been the case for many years. regards |
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08 May 15 - 12:07 AM (#3707394) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,leeneia I'll keep the encouraging remarks in mind. There seems to be no doubt that LED lights wake a person up, but some people think the Kindle is not a problem. However, I say to myself that there must be a light of some kind in it. But let me ask - if you have a Kindle in a dark room, can you still read it? Or does a light have to shine ON it to make it visible? I do the things everyone advises in order to avoid jet lag. I go out in the sun, I try to stay up till a reasonable bed time the first day, etc. The worst time was when somebody suggested I have a beer at bedtime. Bad advice! That's when I found out that I am one of those people who awaken five hours after having alcohol. Since the DH retired, we are following a new method, the Time & Money Method. We fly from the Midwest to Montreal or Toronto, thus going further east and further north. We stay overnight, then we hop the pond on a somewhat shorter flight. It only cuts an hour or so off the flight, but when my legs hurt and my back hurts, and I'm very tired, an hour is a long time. If there's a next time, I may stop in Iceland. I like Iceland. By the way, Montreal seemed to be an unfriendly place. For one thing, I was at a cafe and was being snubbed by the nineteen-year-old staffers. I started talking German, and they suddenly became as friendly as can be. Odd, that. Don't forget. Can one read a Kindle in the dark? |
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08 May 15 - 12:09 AM (#3707395) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: ChanteyLass I think this link could help you now or in the future. It seems that you want "cozy" not "hard-boiled" mysteries. These are available for free on Kindle or for people like me who have a NOOK tablet with the Kindle app. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_ime_i_2_6?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=cozy+mysteries+kindle+free&sprefix=cozy+m%2Cundefined%2C970 |
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08 May 15 - 12:23 AM (#3707397) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Joe Offer Hi, Leeneia - my Kindle Fire is more-or-less a tablet computer, and it has a backlighted color display - with adjustable brightness. Some of the other Kindles do not have backlights, so you need a lamp to read in the dark. -Joe- |
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08 May 15 - 12:31 AM (#3707398) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: ChanteyLass Hmm! I realized I hadn't used a clicky for my link and was about to do that, but someone (Joe Offer?) beat me to it! Thanks! Also, look closely at the books at that link. Many are free, but a few have a small price. |
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08 May 15 - 12:32 AM (#3707399) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: ChanteyLass Uh-oh Let me try to make a clicky. Also, the free books are mingled with others that are not free but have low prices, so be careful. |
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08 May 15 - 02:35 AM (#3707406) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Backwoodsman I have a cover on my kindle which has a built-in light - it pops out to light the screen, and works from the Kindle's battery. Like Will and others, I read my Kindle in bed until I start falling asleep - in my case usually five to ten minutes. I find the Kindle extremely soporific, but then TV is very soporific too, for me. I never sleep on flights, even the long overnights I used to take from Houston TX to Amsterdam or London - too much going on - I read my Kindle the whole time. |
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08 May 15 - 02:40 AM (#3707407) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Backwoodsman When I travel to Canada (AB/BC) in a few weeks, I'll download my unread Kindle books to my iPad and read them there. Saves taking two devices, and saves weight/bulk in my hand-luggage. |
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08 May 15 - 03:28 AM (#3707414) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Thompson Warning: my first Kindle met a sad end within a week when I got up on my elbow to sit up in bed… There was a horrible crackkk and when I sank back and investigated I found that the Kindle screen was cracked and the Kindle was utterly broken. Amazon, bless them, sent me a brand-new replacement even though it was my fault and I told them so. I didn't find the Kindle that useful, though, and ended up selling it and buying an iPad, which I find much handier because you can do more on it; I also like its presentation of books in the Kindle app better. |
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08 May 15 - 05:22 AM (#3707426) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Will Fly I have one of the older, original Kindles - it needs light on it to be read - just like the paper that the screen is simulating. Modern ones may have a newer technology. |
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08 May 15 - 08:28 AM (#3707478) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Backwoodsman Mine's one of those too, Will. I agree with Thompson above, the iPad Kindle app presents the pages in a much nicer way. |
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08 May 15 - 11:02 AM (#3707534) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for the info about the older Kindles. Thompson, I'll remember that about the elbow. |
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08 May 15 - 11:31 AM (#3707545) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Musket I loved my Kindle so much that I splashed out and got the paper white with built in backlighting. It makes a huge difference to clipping a light and jakes it easier "drop on the pillow." The battery seems to last as long as my old one too, funnily enough. What I like best is Whispersynch. It means if I don't have it with me but killing a bit of time, I can open the Kindle app on my iPhone or iPad and carry on from where I left off and vice versa. Train etc. |
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08 May 15 - 11:33 AM (#3707546) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Musket Of course, the bloody iPad lives to auto correct to make posts illegible, even when I turn auto correct off! Sorry about the jakes. I'm taking pills for it. |
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08 May 15 - 07:41 PM (#3707651) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,leeneia Chanteylass, thank you for the link and for your information. I'm going to save it in a document. "Cozies" is a good term to remember. I draw the line at mysteries where the cat solves the crime, however. That's going too far. |
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08 May 15 - 08:21 PM (#3707664) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: ChanteyLass I draw the line there, too! When I'm at home I prefer hard-boiled mysteries featuring women detectives. Series about Anna Pigeon, Kinsey Milhone, and V. I. Warshawsky are among my favorites. I also like historical myseries like those with Maisie Dobbs. When I travel, though, I prefer cozies because I am usually reading while tired and don't concentrate well. |
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09 May 15 - 12:02 PM (#3707787) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: EBarnacle My problem with Kindles began when I won a Paperwhite in a raffle. I discovered that they are locked to Amazon. Perhaps I have been spoiled by my netbook which has both Amazon and Nook applications on it and can go all over. Most models of the Nook are "other provider capable" which is a big selling point in my book. If the seller does not have enough confidence in their product to allow other inputs, I don't patronize them. |
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26 Jun 15 - 10:59 AM (#3719063) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,leeneia Update: I ordered an old-fashioned Kindle and the clip-on light. It was a bust. First of all, the unit hardly functioned as a device. It might take 14 taps or swipes to turn the page. When I wanted to make the print smaller, it made it bigger. When I got to the end of my first book, I could not figure out how to get off the last page and start another. (The web site was no help.) I could not find how to delete a book I had finished. and so on and so on I thought it would be fun to read about the geology of the Rocky Mountains, but all I found in their vaunted 800,000 books was a series called the 'Rocky Mountain Six-pack Series,' whose cover featured a shirtless stud in a Stetson with his nipples pressed into a low-cut bodice. They want $9 to $11 for an old Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery. I thought it might be fun to re-read Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King,' but it was Not Found. They said it would run for a month, but in less than a week, I had the low battery signal. I was ready to ship it back, but my husband thinks he can use it. Granted, it does not shine a light in one's eyes, and so it's nice for reading one's self to sleep. This is the old model, remember. For my travels, I am going back to paperbacks. |
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26 Jun 15 - 12:03 PM (#3719087) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,DaveRo I thought it might be fun to re-read Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King,' but it was Not Found.Idylls_of_the_King You can load it over a USB wire - the Calibre application is useful to do that. Or you can email it to the kindle - each kindle account has an email address. |
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26 Jun 15 - 02:53 PM (#3719141) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Roger the Skiffler Classic out of print books are free via Project Gutenberg and can be sent to your Kindle. http://www.gutenberg.org RtS |
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26 Jun 15 - 08:27 PM (#3719196) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: ChanteyLass I'm sorry your Kindle was a bust and hope the two posts above will help you in the future. |
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26 Jun 15 - 08:40 PM (#3719199) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Joe Offer I have two Kindle Fire tablets. They're very versatile, and I like them very much (and they cost much less than iPads). They're lighted, and I understand you don't want a lighted display. But the display can be adjusted way down, so it's not too bright for you. I use my Kindle Fire tablets mostly to display PDF files, and they do the job very well. I load all sorts of need-to-read things on my Kindle Fire for travel. -Joe- |
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26 Jun 15 - 10:12 PM (#3719216) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Ross Campbell You might like M C Beaton's "Agatha Raisin" stories, or her "Hamish Macbeth" series. She is very prolific, and many UK charity shops will have a few in stock. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/m-c-beaton/ The Fantastic Fiction website is great for finding other titles by your favourite authors. Good luck with your trip. Ross |
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26 Jun 15 - 10:20 PM (#3719217) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: LadyJean I have a friend who always travels with a kindle. She says it's the best way to carry as many books she wants. They'll let you have all kinds of books for free. That having been said, my book, "The First Class" and "These Vampires Still Don't Sparkle" an anthology with my short story Miss Transylvania in it, are both available on Kindle, very cheap. |
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27 Jun 15 - 10:53 AM (#3719306) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,leeneia I'm familiar with M.C. Beaton's books. Thanks, Ross. Thanks for all the tips, but I'm giving up on the Kindle. I had taken the Kindle to a workshop in Texas. There I was, in the middle of the night in a dorm room whose air-conditioning didn't work. I couldn't sleep, and the stupid Kindle wouldn't bring up a new book to help me pass the time. Plus, every move wasted battery, battery that wasn't supposed to have gone down the way it had. To me, it isn't worth the hassle. |
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27 Jun 15 - 02:51 PM (#3719365) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST I feel the same way. I like my old wall phone. I don't see how people can stand to use a phone that needs to be recharged all the time and may stop working while you're in the middle of a call. You can't even put a new battery in and get it working again. |
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27 Jun 15 - 03:03 PM (#3719369) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Joe Offer As I often say to my Boss the Nun, leeneia, perhaps could it have been operator error? ;-) If you want to sell your Kindle cheap.... Ross, that's the second time this week that somebody has recommended Hamish MacBeth. I think it was Micca who recommended the TV series to me, and I see it's available at Amazon in the US. Guess I'd better look into it. Micca says that the TV series was filmed in Plockton, which may well be the prettiest town on Scotland. I was privileged to spend three nights there last week. -Joe- |
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27 Jun 15 - 03:45 PM (#3719381) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Noreen Leenia, did you buy your "old-fashioned Kindle" second-hand? Batteries get less efficient with use and age. |
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28 Jun 15 - 12:55 AM (#3719448) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Backwoodsman Leenia, why do you want to 'delete' books you've finished reading? Just leave them there. The 'Old Kindle' (I have the original Kindle, it's now over five years old and works perfectly) can hold over 3,000 books - at a rate of one per week, it would take over 60 years to read that number, so you're never going to 'fill it up'. Each time I finish a book, I add it to the 'Archive' folder, so that my 'Home' page contains only un-read books, plus the one I'm currently reading. Then, if I want to re-read a book, I just move it back from the Archive into my Home folder. No need to 'delete' read books, no reason to either, IMHO. |
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28 Jun 15 - 02:37 AM (#3719452) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Thompson Leenia, if I or someone else hasn't said this before, you can get an @kindle.com address from Amazon for sending 'documents' - which includes books you haven't bought from them - to your Kindle. You attach the .mobi file (.mobi being the format the Kindle uses) and send the email to your @kindle.com address with no subject or content, and it will be automatically zoomed to your Kindle, where you'll find it in the Docs folder of your Library. A couple of suggestions: do you know archive.org? This is a non-profit library of millions of out-of-copyright books. I don't find its search very good since they changed the format in the last month, so I find it easier to find books with a search term like this in Google: "john buchan" greenmantle archive.org (the quotes are to make Google search for the phrase "John Buchan", the lower-case is so that it'll search for both upper- and lower-case variants, the archive.org is to direct it first to that site; if you want to limit the search to the archive.org site you change that bit to site:archive.org and it'll do that. Archive.org includes a lot of Gutenberg books; it's better (often) than Gutenberg because its books tend to be formatted better. Now, a few recommendations - my own tastes in softie detective novels, I hope you like them! Do you know Alexander McCall's No 1 Detective Agency series? Sweet books about a lady running a detective agency in Botswana. Colin Cotterill's series of books about Dr Siri, set in Laois, are lovely. You probably know Donna Leon's series set in Venice. And not detective but kind of political satire disguised as soft-edged fantasy, Terry Pratchett's books are very funny (to me, anyway); I'm currently reading Guard! Guard! which is an anti-royalist satire. |
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28 Jun 15 - 05:36 AM (#3719482) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Big Al Whittle the kindle fire will do talking books, but its battery doesn't last as long as the paperwhite. you have to have it constantly on charge and it really every two three days. the paperwhite will go for weeks without a recharge, |
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28 Jun 15 - 09:59 AM (#3719524) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Backwoodsman My 'original' Kindle needs a charge about once a month ( I read maybe an hour or so a day). |
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28 Jun 15 - 12:35 PM (#3719545) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Big Al Whittle just downloaded idylls of the king for free onto my kindle. are you sure you have the routine - you tapp the top of the screen - the little house for home then tap the pram -shopping basket then search then type in idylls of the king then then tap the picture of the little book then buy, even if its for free and its delivered then you tap the little house for home slide your finger through your books till you find the one you want tap the one you want start reading should take you about a minute. ask for the kindle back. yes you can read a paperwhite in the dark without waking anyone up. with a pair of headphones and a kindle fire you can often have it read to you i'm a fan! |
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28 Jun 15 - 02:22 PM (#3719563) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,MikeL2 Hi I have a Kindle Paperwhite and have used it every single day since I bought it. I find it very easy to read in any light conditions including outdoors in bright sunshine. I also find that my eyes don't get as tired as they do when reading a paper book. I have had no problems whatsoever in reading before going to sleep in fact several times I have fallen asleep and found the Kindle on the bed beside me in the morning. The Kindle switches itself off after a short time to prevent battery waste. Whilst on about the battery as I said, I use it for at least half an hour every day, usually more. I only need to re-charge about every 3 weeks. Withe regard to finding books again I have no problem. As is advised above there is a very useful search mode where many books and genres can be found. Kindle does do a sample of books if you wish to try before buying. I can understand your problem of trying to alter text size etcetera, you do have to be VERY accurate with your pointer. In fact I discarded mine and use my finger. You still need to be accurate but that comes with use. I don't know about your Kindle but my one opens automatically at the last point at which I was reading. I have 1594 books on my Kindle. A kind friend downloaded them for me for free. There are many obscure ones among them. So I do have to organise them in some way to be able to get what I want quickly. I find that Collections work for me although it is a bit of a chore setting them set up. But now I have I can find any book rapidly. I wouldn't be without me Kindle. Although I do miss going to the library a Little. regards MikeL2 |
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28 Jun 15 - 07:07 PM (#3719613) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Backwoodsman A big "Amen" to everything Mike said. When you use a Kindle for its intended purpose, it's a doddle. Trouble only happens when you try to do something outside the envelope, IME. In which circumstances, you're asking for it. IMHO, YMMV. |
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28 Jun 15 - 07:37 PM (#3719620) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Noreen Useful information. Thanks chaps. |
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28 Jun 15 - 10:38 PM (#3719647) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,leeneia 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. |
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29 Jun 15 - 01:10 AM (#3719659) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,giovanni 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 |
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29 Jun 15 - 09:22 AM (#3719725) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Backwoodsman 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. |
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29 Jun 15 - 12:05 PM (#3719790) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,leeneia 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. |
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29 Jun 15 - 01:22 PM (#3719826) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Greg F. As for me, I will head to the library. And good for you! Just say no to techno-addiction. |
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29 Jun 15 - 01:26 PM (#3719827) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Greg F. the overwhelming evidence of people who have been converted. "Converted"? Yup - very much like Scientologists. |
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29 Jun 15 - 01:54 PM (#3719838) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Thompson 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. |
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29 Jun 15 - 08:26 PM (#3719929) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: McGrath of Harlow There is any number of really boring books that will send you to sleep, there's your problem solved. |
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29 Jun 15 - 11:26 PM (#3719937) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Big Al Whittle perhaps you've got a faulty kindle. if the menu doesn't come up - you're in the shit really. |
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30 Jun 15 - 03:08 AM (#3719958) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Thompson 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. |
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01 Jul 15 - 02:06 AM (#3720164) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: GUEST,giovanni quote And what do you mean by "With respect"? With respect, I'm an idiot? un quote There's clearly a clash of language here. Often a problem when English is not one's first language. g |
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01 Jul 15 - 01:37 PM (#3720302) Subject: RE: BS: advice about kindles From: Rumncoke 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. |