The arrow keys are very narrow, and occasionally caused us to accidentally hit the Menu and Back buttons, which have moved down to the keyboard area along with Home. Reading books is clearly the Kindle's main purpose. The 6-inch E Ink Pearl display, with a x pixel resolution at ppi, is comparable to what's found on the Nook. Side by side, the devices' screens looked identical.
Just as with a paperback book, outdoor reading was a delight, and direct sunlight didn't distract us from reading Dead Reckoning by Charlene Harris. While still only black and white, images appeared clear and crisp.
As before, there are eight font sizes and three typefaces regular, condensed, and sans serif. Users can also fit more text on a page by shortening the space between words, as well as condensing the amount of space between the lines.
There's no built-in accelerometer, but you can manually change the screen orientation in all four directions. The electronic page turns took just a second and exhibited minimal flickering. We couldn't detect any difference in page-turn speeds between the Kindle and the Nook. On thousands of bestsellers, Amazon has conveniently added the ability to tell you what page you're reading in the physical book, which will come in handy for book clubs and school reading assignments. To find your book's "real" page number, click the menu button and the numbers appear at the bottom of the screen.
This feature worked on eight out of 11 books from our library. To help keep the price competitive, the Kindle Keyboard 3G doesn't show book covers as a screensaver. Instead, you'll see special offers after your device has been inactive for 10 minutes, and ads line the bottom of the home screen at all times.
However, they weren't distracting or intrusive to our actual reading experience. Whispernet--but also includes Whispernet works globally, so users can download content even if they're travelling abroad.
By default, the device uses its 3G connection, but once users connect to a wireless hotspot, the Kindle will automatically switch whenever it's in range. On our wireless tests, the Kindle Keyboard 3G proved faster than the Kindle 2. Overall, the Kindle Keyboard averaged a speed of With 4GB of internal storage, the Kindle can hold up to 3, books--and with more than 1 million options, Amazon certainly offers enough content to max out that space.
To help avoid reader's remorse, Amazon lets you download and read the first chapters of a book for free. Amazon also offers a daily discount on a specific book. Students can rent Kindle textbooks for 30 to days. Eligible titles say Rent This Book on the product detail page. When you select the end date, the price is displayed. Buying the book later only costs the difference between the purchase price and rental cost. If your book rental expires, you can still access your notes and highlights from your Kindle account online.
TED Talk transcripts can be found here as well. Amazon added a helpful organizational feature called Collections, which effectively creates folders of content. This could be useful for separating books by topic, as you would do for a college course or your personal bookshelf.
We easily created a Collection for our Sookie Stackhouse books, and then added three from our library by checking them off and clicking Add. Eligible books--those marked as Lending Enabled on the product details page--can be lent for up to 14 days. Recipients have 7 days to accept, or the book is returned to your archives.
You can attempt to re-loan it out later. Right now, publishers determine which titles are eligible for this feature. Most are available for free as a day free trial. Our copy of The New York Times downloaded automatically.
It can also be configured so that keys that are used only rarely may be assigned to other outputs. The designers of the keyboard say that it comes with a 12 month battery life and measurements of it are It was said that this devices keyboard would change based on what program you were using, Photoshop would give you shortcuts, Microsoft Word, would give you a ton of advanced elements. This project ended up being a scam. Redditors have uncovered that Jaasta may be the creation of the scammers behind the too-good-to-be-true Scribblepen — with many backers losing money through crowdfunding site CrowdTilt.
The project raised about a hundred thousand, before they shut down their website and fled with the backers money.. Michael Kozlowski has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past twelve years.
Michael Kozlowski Editor in Chief. Share 7. Tweet 7. Vote 1. MobileRead users have also done Hardware Reviews of many of this devices. These are larger screen devices 9" and more that support the emerging larger E-Paper screens. See also: EBook reading for children. This list is primarily for historic purposes however some of these devices can still be found on eBay or other places as used or refurbished units, perhaps even new or near new. They are no longer being manufactured.
Jump to: navigation , search. Comparison matrix with specs of the E-paper based devices.
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