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Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279 (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (34 children)

I'd recommend everyone to buy a Kobo over these, its much easier to read your own .pdf and .epub files than on a Kindle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Got a very old kindle for free, from someone getting rid of it. No touch, no backlight, most basic thing ever. I only got my account on it to download a dictionary.

I am never buying anything from Amazon to read on it, but I've been using it quite a bit, only on calibre converted stuff. It was not too hard to set up, and once it's done it's just drag n drop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Until it decides to delete every single side loaded book you have on there, which they like to do from time to time. The only way to completely avoid it is to load all your content via email, which unfortunately only supports limited formats.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The type of person to rock Calibre would probably have airplane mode on constantly. Mine's been that way and I still have epubs sideloaded on my Kindle from when I first got mine all those years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Second this. Airplane mode is on and books are sideloaded. However, if it hadn’t been a present, I‘d probably have gotten a Tolino (German/European e-reader brand that is identical with kobo) because they support epub directly (and yes I know the Kindle technically does that, too, now but wordwise n stuff only works if you convert them to kfx)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah same. Until I accidentally turned it off 1,000 miles away from my computer. That was a sad day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Same on my still works fine Kindle Keyboard.

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