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This extension is better than Instapaper's wireless delivery because it treats each article as a separate "book". Instapaper, on the other hand, groups all the unread articles in a single book with each article as a different chapter. This means that if you read halfway through one article you can't start another article without losing your place.
The extension also works better for me than Wordcycler because Wordcycler doesn't download the article from Instapaper. In order not to hammer Instapaper's servers, it grabs the URLs when you connect your Kindle, then downloads and formats the articles itself. By the time I connect my Kindle to my computer many of the articles are only available as previews, so Wordcycler doesn't get the full article.
Other than this, the author already received a comment pointing out the existence of readability, i hope he'll update his code soon.
As an aside, I just traveled with my Kindle to Europe and was ecstatic by the ability to load up on (free, from Gutenberg) books, and easily switch between them on the long flight.
However, those who herald the end of books is here are very wrong. Except from the "many books on long trip" or "Netflix-like instant book delivery" (and a few other, like reading long web pages) use cases, I wouldn't event think about switching to Kindle full-time. Gripes are:
* All books appear almost the same, little or no typesetting
* The note taking interface is shockingly primitive, e.g. just to get a questions mark requires several clicks
* AFAIK, pagination depends on you display, so bookmarks may change place among Kindle readers on different devices.
Of course, all of these are easily addressable. The question is: can the device that does these and other cool stuff (e.g. color) be sold around ~ $150.
Do you normally make notes in your physical books?
> AFAIK, pagination depends on you display, so bookmarks may change place among Kindle readers on different devices.
The start of the page you bookmarked will still be the start of the page you jump to, whatever display layout you use. The pages might be different length.
Bookmarks work as you say, which is counterintuitive is one is used to how bookmarks use in real books, i.e. generally one or two points are of interest on a page. On the Kindle, with different pagination, a sentence you like may not be on the bookmarked page anymore. There's no easy solution to this problem, I guess.
What you want here is to get back to a sentence. I'd highlight it instead.
At the beginning of a sentence, press the 5-way center down and That creates a highlight (underlined) and is faster for me than When you want to find your highlight (or note), press the Menu That's a pretty good solution. You'll also find a personal If you don't want your annotations backed up to your area on their APOLOGIES. I have no idea how to edit on this. The first one I did w/normal word wrapping while writing didn't wrap when I was reading and most of it was off the screen. This final result is very odd. :-)
Not to convenient, but I still love my Kindle for pure reading.
My criticisms of the Kindle are for its page transitions and poor interface. The Kindle is really like the Blackberry of of digital readers. The interface is beyond clunky compared to simple taps and swipes that much more closely emulate the act of reading a physical book.
My best hope is that Mirasol comes to the Nook Color sooner rather than later as I highly doubt the iPad will come with a non-backlit display for several generations.
I've often felt that the "need" to emulate something in the real world on new devices and new interfaces has held back significant innovation. Despite that "the desktop metaphor" is supposed to be familiar, people still can't manage their files effectively. And now new interfaces are rare/difficult to gain traction because people are used to the desktop metaphor despite that it becomes less and less a good metaphor.
The Kindle hardware is usable with one hand. I don't find reading books using the kindle app on my android phone to be as easy to do with one hand as with the hardware, mostly because since the kindle page turning buttons are physical and have decent resistance, I don't need to hold the device in an awkward way to avoid activating an action I don't want to.
The kindle is actually much better than a book because it's easier to operate with one hand than a physical paperback is.
I guess this is done for pages that are not being parsed correctly (the user then select the text manually, and the url+tag path is sent to the server and it will be added to the list in the next release), he should have used readability. I'd prefer something that doesn't log in any way the urls i'm sending to the kindle (even if only to fix some issue with the text extraction algorithm).
Edit: The contained urls have query parameters too, not good.
I love my kindle, no more piles of heavy coding books that I buy and never read (because I can only read them at home due to their size). I love the ecosystem, I bought ASP.NET Pro MVC 2, and for the walkthrough bits I can read it on Kindle for PC whilst doing the tutorials in Visual studio (I have a 24" monitor rotaed 90 degrees - perfect for reading short instructions). Then when it got into chapters where it is just explaining how things work, I could continue them on my kindle with its awesome screen anywhere I wanted, or on my phone while waiting in line somewhere. Brilliant.
Anyone else feel this way?
Ipad: Pro: The screensize is great and bookmarking pages is intuitive. Also, for technical books, I can get them in pdf form and use GoodReader.
Con: Battery life--for international flights, if you don't have power, you can survive, but the kindle wins with battery life hands down.
These are just my thoughts and as always ymmv.
Amazon wins both ways.
I'm hoping iPad 2 is a little lighter, and does have the 2x linear resolution bump. Then it will be quite a good experience.