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> (Incidentally, my Kindle crashed three times while reading this book.) I don't know which Kindle the author is talking about, but it seems weird to me, I nev
by gbog 15y ago
> (Incidentally, my Kindle crashed three times while reading this book.)
I don't know which Kindle the author is talking about, but it seems weird to me, I never heard of a Kindle crash and I have 4/5 around, not counting colleagues'.
And, maybe it is off-topic, but maybe it is not. Why would the author add this parenthesis if it was not a necessary adjunction to his point? Maybe it was a way to underline how non-Apple products have the bad habit of crashing randomly just for the purpose of annoying their owners?
It is the same with "I’ve yet to encounter a businesswoman, on any level, who treats people in an unpleasant way". This is a way to say, "I am a very gentle guy, I don't want to discriminate against women, love me please", but this apparently innocent statement is 1) pure and simple sexism 2) plain wrong.
Then the main point, Job being a "detestable human being", well, it seems obvious. Let's just hope no too many people idealize him for too long a time.
- polyfractal 15y agoThe closest I've ever come to a "Kindle Crash" was a multi-second delay on page turn, which has only happened once. I've been using mine every day on my commute for the last year. No idea what the author was referring too. Maybe the new Kindle Fire?
- jonhendry 15y agoI've owned a kindle 2, a kindle DX, a kindle 3, and a black kindle DX. I've had a few crashes. Spontaneous reboots, actually. The most recent ones I think happened when I was looking at a PDF, so presumably something about the PDF did it. Nothing major.
- larsberg 15y agoAgreed. I use Calibre to download all of my news subscriptions to it and between that and a several books per week, I've never seen my kindle 3 crash in the many months that I've been using it. As opposed to my iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and iPad2, all of which I've taken down rather horribly with just the normal apps (typically frozen, sometimes insta-reboot), not even counting things that bad programs _I_ wrote were doing.
- masterj 15y agoMine does occasionally crash / freeze, but it's because of a known issue: http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/kindle/Tx348MMDYTQ4AFC?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3IRFCNF3E5K2W http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/kindle/Tx348MMDYTQ4AFC?_encodi... I've just been too lazy to change the cover, and it's not been overly inconvenient yet. Amazon, to their credit, offers a refund. Perhaps this blogger is using a non-lit cover and is unaware of the issues with it?
- icarus_drowning 15y agoI've owned almost every kindle up to the current and experienced one crash- while using the "experimental" web browser. Not one of my 3 kindles has ever crashed while reading a book.
- xyzzyz 15y agoMine did crash one or two times, when I used it to read PDFs.
- jamescridland 15y agoAs the author... It's a Kindle Keyboard. I just found it ironic that a competing product to the iPad was crashing when reading the biography of the person responsible for the iPad. That's all. I think mine has an issue with the battery level sensor, and that it was actually very low on power. I do not have any cover for it. In terms of my businesswoman comment, it is based on my experience, as is very clear, and accordingly is neither 'wrong' nor 'sexist'. Your experiences may differ.
- gbog 15y agoKindle crash: then maybe you could have removed this line, because it sounds like a software issue. Businesswomen: if your experience doesn't involve hundreds of women of power, it is incomplete and you must get the experience of others in the game, eg read books.