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Successful doesn't necessarily mean good. the UI is slow. It crashes with large books. The hardware is seemingly under-powered. The OS degrades in usabilit
by tonymet 2y ago
Successful doesn't necessarily mean good. the UI is slow. It crashes with large books. The hardware is seemingly under-powered. The OS degrades in usability over time. Search indexing is poor. The lack of responsiveness makes the keyboard unusable.
I've heard similar pitfalls about Kindle Scribe, the write-able Kindle.
- pnw 2y agoI use a Kindle Scribe almost every day, have read dozens and dozens of books and documents on it. Maybe we have different expectations but I love mine and take it everywhere. It's never crashed. When I am trying to focus on reading a book, I appreciate that the Kindle doesn't have too many bells and whistles. I don't want notifications popping off and the distraction of fast Internet access.
- Qwertious 2y agoThe Kindle Scribe is way more expensive than normal kindles (and has to handle the more computationally demanding task of vector graphics), so it would have a faster processor, and would be able to handle ebooks way easier than a cheap Kindle. Not saying you're wrong, just that your anecdote doesn't mean much about $100/$50 Kindles.
- tonymet 2y agoI looked into Scribe and it sounds like they upgraded the hardware to making writing more responsive. that's good news.
- boobsbr 2y agoSounds like my Kobo Glo from 2013.