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My top three: 1) Give me back my physical pageturn buttons that I can tap without moving my fingers! Why, Amazon, why? 2) Make the LED whiter, maybe even y

by Eliezer 14y ago

My top three: 1) Give me back my physical pageturn buttons that I can tap without moving my fingers! Why, Amazon, why? 2) Make the LED whiter, maybe even yellower, instead of bluish. I'm not a color expert, I just know that this color looks wrong. 3) I'm not sure what's up with the font, but pick a font that doesn't look fragile, like some parts of thinner connectors are half-not-there.

xefer 14y ago
1. This is a funny one, and is the main reason why I'm getting my wife the new one. My wife loves her Kindle but when we're reading in bed together the sound of her clicking the button drives me up the wall. She likes that she can use a larger font so she doesn't need glasses, but that just means way more clicks-per-minute. I think she's pressed the button so many times it's worn out a bit because it makes a very distinct 'click'. After a while each one is like a gun shot in my ear.
- pwenzel 14y ago
  Little details like this drive me crazy as well. However, I'm always afraid of voicing complaints like this for fear of looking like a crazy person. Thanks for validating me. :-)
iterationx 14y ago
My Big 2: 1) Why page turn?, why not page down? English reads top to bottom. Seems like a big improvement would be a page down instead of a page across. 2) If I zoom into text I don't want to have to horizontally scroll, that's even more annoying that small text.
- GreenNight 14y ago
  1) Perhaps is because of what we are used to, but I read much better with page turn than with page down. I read a book in the computer, and I read it scrolling down. It didn't feel fulfilling. It was like reading a web-page. But having read a couple of books in my phone (with the kindle app) it felt natural again, I enjoyed much more the books that way. And no, the quality of the book was not the question. It was a free download (by the publisher) and a year or so later I've bought it on paper and read it again. It was much more fulfilling this way. Perhaps in half a generation or so people will feel more natural going down than sideways, right now I prefer the later.
gwern 14y ago
> instead of bluish But if it wasn't blue, it wouldn't suppress your melatonin secretion and make you stay up all night reading and buy more books!

by Eliezer 14y ago

xefer 14y ago

1. This is a funny one, and is the main reason why I'm getting my wife the new one. My wife loves her Kindle but when we're reading in bed together the sound of her clicking the button drives me up the wall. She likes that she can use a larger font so she doesn't need glasses, but that just means way more clicks-per-minute. I think she's pressed the button so many times it's worn out a bit because it makes a very distinct 'click'. After a while each one is like a gun shot in my ear.

pwenzel 14y ago
Little details like this drive me crazy as well. However, I'm always afraid of voicing complaints like this for fear of looking like a crazy person. Thanks for validating me. :-)

iterationx 14y ago

My Big 2: 1) Why page turn?, why not page down? English reads top to bottom. Seems like a big improvement would be a page down instead of a page across. 2) If I zoom into text I don't want to have to horizontally scroll, that's even more annoying that small text.

GreenNight 14y ago
1) Perhaps is because of what we are used to, but I read much better with page turn than with page down. I read a book in the computer, and I read it scrolling down. It didn't feel fulfilling. It was like reading a web-page. But having read a couple of books in my phone (with the kindle app) it felt natural again, I enjoyed much more the books that way. And no, the quality of the book was not the question. It was a free download (by the publisher) and a year or so later I've bought it on paper and read it again. It was much more fulfilling this way. Perhaps in half a generation or so people will feel more natural going down than sideways, right now I prefer the later.

gwern 14y ago

> instead of bluish But if it wasn't blue, it wouldn't suppress your melatonin secretion and make you stay up all night reading and buy more books!