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I'm surprised he would say that there's no joy in the Kindle experience. Perhaps on an iPad the Kindle app isn't stellar for magazines, etc. -- but that's becau

by zmitri 16y ago

I'm surprised he would say that there's no joy in the Kindle experience. Perhaps on an iPad the Kindle app isn't stellar for magazines, etc. -- but that's because the iPad is much more suited for consuming media than reading actual books...You can't hold/control it with one hand like a Kindle and the backlight wears you out quickly. Maybe I'm being hard headed, but for books that aren't related to programming, I don't think I'd want any multimedia being dropped in to the pages... Right now I would say the reading experience on an actual Kindle is unmatched, and the other apps are just there to support the hardware and add convenience.

foljs 16y ago
> Maybe I'm being hard headed, but for books that aren't related to programming, I don't think I'd want any multimedia being dropped in to the pages... = Really? Like say, children's books, comics, illustrated encyclopedias, anatomy books, science books...
6ren 16y ago
As a kindle user, how do you find textbooks with diagrams in them? I heard they lack the resolution to display diagrams crisply.
- zmitri 16y ago
  I generally buy a hardcopy, or do pdf. I use the kindle to read books primarily (not textbooks, news, periodicals, etc), but I definitely agree that some of the conversions with images aren't great and diagrams aren't always crisp. Does anyone have any input using actual textbooks on a kindle, or kindle dx? The iPad is great for diagrams/textbooks so long as you aren't reading pages upon pages at at time.
arethuza 16y ago
I've bought maybe 15 titles through Kindle (on the iPad) and I don't have a problem with the Kindle app but I really do have a problem with the quality of lots of the conversions - these seem to vary between acceptable through to downright shoddy. So while I don't think there is a problem with the quality of Kindle itself some of the content has been converted in a way that really hurts the experience for me.
tdoggette 16y ago
> the reading experience on an actual Kindle is unmatched The reading experience for books made of text, yeah. This isn't that.

by zmitri 16y ago

foljs 16y ago

> Maybe I'm being hard headed, but for books that aren't related to programming, I don't think I'd want any multimedia being dropped in to the pages... = Really? Like say, children's books, comics, illustrated encyclopedias, anatomy books, science books...

6ren 16y ago

As a kindle user, how do you find textbooks with diagrams in them? I heard they lack the resolution to display diagrams crisply.

zmitri 16y ago
I generally buy a hardcopy, or do pdf. I use the kindle to read books primarily (not textbooks, news, periodicals, etc), but I definitely agree that some of the conversions with images aren't great and diagrams aren't always crisp. Does anyone have any input using actual textbooks on a kindle, or kindle dx? The iPad is great for diagrams/textbooks so long as you aren't reading pages upon pages at at time.

arethuza 16y ago

I've bought maybe 15 titles through Kindle (on the iPad) and I don't have a problem with the Kindle app but I really do have a problem with the quality of lots of the conversions - these seem to vary between acceptable through to downright shoddy. So while I don't think there is a problem with the quality of Kindle itself some of the content has been converted in a way that really hurts the experience for me.

tdoggette 16y ago

> the reading experience on an actual Kindle is unmatched The reading experience for books made of text, yeah. This isn't that.