Day 1 of my seven-night Disney Cruise, and my trusty Kindle Keyboard died :( I had to pay for a day of wifi just so i could download the app and use my phone instead.
Sad, I've had it for a decade now. I fully charged it two days ago but now it's stuck on the screensaver.. Tried every reset procedure i could find. I didn't bring the microusb cable to try jumpstarting it either.
I've also decided I'm going to skip the rest of Dark Tower book 4(Wizards and Glass). It's a very tedious read and I'm not on vacation to punish myself. King is a frustrating author anyway with his made up terms and fantasy language.
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I got one of those in 2010 I think from my gf and it was really cool
Bought a Paperwhite a few years later though and never looked back
Upgrade, it's a world of difference
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I still want e-ink because it's best in direct sunlight. I'm not aware of any difference between my Keyboard and a Paperwhite e-ink besides the background color.
What sucks is we have a Fire tablet at home, it was under the Kindles. I didn't bring it because it's not ideal in sunlight. Now i have to use my phone with the exact same drawbacks.
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Yeah if I ever go back to ereaders (I am an analog book chad now) I can't imagine using something that isn't a Kindle; the e-ink shit is incredible.
The (optional) backlight on the Paperwhite is a game changer though. I was worried it would feel like reading on a phone etc but no, it's just like a trad Kindle.
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The Paperwhite is great, I was gifted one on my birthday back in 2017 and it still works fine. I too prefer regular printed books but I use the Kindle to read books in English or those which are hard to find printed in Brazil/Argentina (much cheaper to buy the ebooks than ordering the printed ones due to import taxes and books are cheaper in Argentina so I always buy a bunch every time I go to Buenos Aires, gonna be there again in January).
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Ohhh ok thanks, i never considered a backlight -- that alone would be a good reason for early flights or on the verandah
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My paperwhite was pickpocketed in Greensboro NC further cementing my grudge against that city
I enjoy my kobo reader quite a bit more and it's better so it's fine
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Heck yeah
Analog books never crash
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Do you have to read books from the amazon store on it, or can you just put whatever on there?
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Well I was broke as shit at the time so I mostly just pirated hundreds of books
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my physical book collection is getting out of hand.
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It's a serious problem
I'm running out of places to put my books
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Program called Calibre will let you put any book you want on your kindle
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You can put whatever on it. I have some pirated King books, an rtf of some stories I found online, etc.
Each device has an email you can use to send books to the device
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