Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

jaq, did you have to go to amazon or did you do it through your city's library system? maybe CPL just doesn't have it set up.

I haven't seen any page on the NYPL website or the QBPL website where you can return an ebook or even tell anything about the ebooks you have out, other than the number.

When you do the checkout from SPL, Overdrive kicks you over to the Amazon system to finalize the checkout. You can turn the books back in by either removing them from your Kindle (and being online) or you can go to the Manage Your Kindle link on your Amazon account and choose "Return to the Library" on the title.

I finally broke down and bought the basic Kindle. Was thinking about the Kindle Fire but will probably just get an I-Pad when the 3rd edition comes out. Quick question: Does the Kindle really not come with a freaking power adapter? When I purchased the device yesterday Amazon was recommending I but a separate adapter. Not the end of the world but quite annoying if that's the case.

"I buy" not "I but"

I don't have the latest model, but mine came with a power adapter.

yeah the older models definitely came with adapters.

Comes with a USB cable, but no adapter.

If you've got any old USB power adapter lying around (from a cellphone or some other gadget), it's probably compatible though, so I wouldn't necessarily run out and buy one.

I charge mine off my laptop. With the wifi/3g off, it lasts for a couple weeks.

Works with Apple adapters, USB ports on PCs, and pretty much any USB adapter (other than maybe those high-voltage old-school BlackBerry adapters)...

I think the idea (in Europe, especially) is to cut down on the number of USB power adapters ending up in landfills. And, of course, it saves money...

Great, thanks all. I'll just test it with some old USB adapters.

It's protected against overvoltage, so if something nasty is plugged in, it shouldn't damage the unit, but the Kindle won't charge...

Checking out library ebooks... seriously?! Old people are SO weird.

I'm talking about the people who thought that that was a good enough idea to spend a lot of money implementing. Not you all who are reading books for free.

Probably wrong thread but

http://liliputing.com/2011/11/barnes-noble-unveils-nook-tablet-drops-nook-color-nook-touch-prices.html

http://liliputing.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/nook-tablet_01.jpg

My first question is about the stupid keyring thing in the corner

ew

expecting "the nook with a hook" tag line any minute now

The color nook has always had the hook.

Oh god so it has. What are they thinking??

They're probably thinking they can't get sued for violating the patent on rectangular devices with screens.

It's a sort of protective rim over where you insert extra memory cards, too

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/personaltech/the-fire-aside-amazons-lower-priced-kindles-also-shine.html?_r=2&ref=technology

http://electronicbook-readers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Kindle-Fire.jpg

^^ pictures of people who have figured out how to smug

ceos without ties

The built-in Web browser is supposed to accelerate delivery of Web pages by handing off some of the processing tasks to Amazon’s own online computers.
In practice, it’s not clear what all of that gains you: nytimes.com takes 10 seconds to load, eBay.com takes 17 seconds, Amazon.com takes 8 seconds. The iPad took about half as long each time.

New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Kindle Fire ;)

― schwantz, Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:58 PM

it’s not clear what all of that gains you

a cheaper Kindle, probably

Only recently realised that more than half the people I see reading on trains and trams are reading Kindles or tablets, probably because most of our book shops died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7rAwluPfa8

http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/kindleburning.jpg

THATS what it should have looked like

p sure it does when u turn it on

i have been very happy with my not-on-fire, keyboard-having kindle.

The annoying white-black-white flash when turning an E Ink page now occurs only once every six page turns.

did not know this! i understand amazon downplaying it though, sort of like how nintendo never mentioned the lack of motion blur when the gameboy pocket was released.

how long does it flash? does it get annoying?

Nah. Impact of brief black flash on screen is equivalent to brief flash you get when turning the page of a book. I stopped noticing it really quickly, and even forget there's a flash at all now.

i feel like it might be weird to NOT have that flash now!

the new e-ink kindles look amazing BUT... i really really would miss the hardware page-turning buttons. i don't want to accidentally turn the page every time my finger grazes the screen, or get it all greasy from poking at it. something very satisfying about the page-turn buttons!

Me too. Thinking of a Nook for that reason.

they still make like three kindles with the page-turn buttons, only one is touch

ie the kindle touch is the only kindle without the hardware buttons

ya but it seems like touch-only is the wave of the fyootch tho right?

not if people keep buying the other ones. i think touch is a pretty dumb/inessential feature for an e-reader personally, doesn't really add anything other than amazon getting to say they have a touch-screen e-reader.

ya me too. dont get it. would much prefer a better controller arrow-key thing.

http://theadhocproject.blogspot.com/2009/02/wordological-wordism-fyootch.html

fight the fyootching

u know the kindle fire seems like a desirable object, until i remember that i don't wanna read entire books on a LCD screen, and that i dont like watching movies on small screens (even ipads). and the magazine function seems a little pointless, considering how cramped the layouts look at 7".

so what is the good of this thing?