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Kinder Kindle
Friday, November 4th, 2011 10:05 amHaving encountered the highlight / freeze / screen weirdness problem on three consecutive Kindles-with-keyboards, my last conversation with Amazon went roughly "DO NOT SEND ME A NEW ONE GIVE ME A REFUND". (At this point I should mention that my third Kindle-with-keyboard had taken four days to crash -- three of which I'd spent laboriously restoring content. I was not happy.)
So they gave me a refund.
And with my refund I bought a new Kindle.
This is the £89 model, no keyboard: so far (rather less than 24 hours) I like it a lot.
- the physical device feels more robust: it doesn't creak or flex like the old one
- I do not miss the keyboard at all. The point-and-click keyboard function is perfectly adequate for entering passwords and naming collections.
- the highlighting problem has not yet occurred, yay!
- paging is much faster.
- this Kindle is running version 4 of the Kindle software -- the highest my Kindle-with-keyboard(s) could aspire to was 3.3.
- the 'screensavers' are different: photos of writing-related thingies (pencil-points, typewriter keys) instead of frontispieces from old books. I do miss the old artwork.
Amazon need to work on their 'manage personal documents' app. I'm ever so pleased that I can access and reload documents I've created since the end of September: however, as there are nearly 500 of them, I'd like batch operations (delete, reload to Kindle) and maybe the option of renaming.
So they gave me a refund.
And with my refund I bought a new Kindle.
This is the £89 model, no keyboard: so far (rather less than 24 hours) I like it a lot.
- the physical device feels more robust: it doesn't creak or flex like the old one
- I do not miss the keyboard at all. The point-and-click keyboard function is perfectly adequate for entering passwords and naming collections.
- the highlighting problem has not yet occurred, yay!
- paging is much faster.
- this Kindle is running version 4 of the Kindle software -- the highest my Kindle-with-keyboard(s) could aspire to was 3.3.
- the 'screensavers' are different: photos of writing-related thingies (pencil-points, typewriter keys) instead of frontispieces from old books. I do miss the old artwork.
Amazon need to work on their 'manage personal documents' app. I'm ever so pleased that I can access and reload documents I've created since the end of September: however, as there are nearly 500 of them, I'd like batch operations (delete, reload to Kindle) and maybe the option of renaming.
