Comments | seperis: yeah, I think so.

seperis

yeah, I think so.

Sep 06, 2012 23:06

Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G Tablet

Whoo-boy.

Adding: Kindle ebook reader also upgrading, though I wonder about the white background. I am kind of partial to the grey.

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seperis September 7 2012, 04:23:58 UTC

I think they're saying to wait and buy the new stuff instead of anything currently available.

mary_alice September 7 2012, 06:02:59 UTC

According to the review that I found, the Paperwhite only looks white when its light is turned on. When the light's off, the screen is apparently grey, just like the old Kindle.

seperis September 9 2012, 05:00:51 UTC

What you said actualy flipped me to preorder (and even so, the backlog says delivery will be October 17th!). I think I'll probably like the backlight when I get used to it, but I need the nice grey that's easy on my eyes otherwise.

I am almost happy my Kindle keyboard broke now, hate to say it, because I love it like a lot, but God, the backlight, if it's not irritating, seems like such a great idea.

moojja September 7 2012, 06:33:54 UTC

I'm so tempted by both. I already own a kindle, but the new one sounds so good.
An kindle fire looks so good, can you get BBC shows on there? or download pirated shows?

seperis September 9 2012, 04:56:42 UTC

I don't know? I use my Amazon Prime membership a lot mroe than I thought I would, though, since Farscape is free and now Thor and Captain America are. Plus, I can access the movies I buy on it Amazon servers as well.

sorchasilver September 7 2012, 09:31:53 UTC

UK is FINALLY getting the Fire (HD, 7"). I already pre-ordered. *facepalm*

seperis September 9 2012, 04:56:50 UTC

DUDE YES. YES YES YES.

mremre September 7 2012, 10:24:56 UTC

I very foolishly watched the liveblogs and i am SO TEMPTED by the Paperwhite screen, even though i am married to hardware page turn buttons (Sony don't fail me now! Make the T3 good; too late for the T1 now)

And the fire hd WANTSSSSSS. I 'm sticking to the 7 inch though as the weight really bugs me.

seperis September 9 2012, 04:58:42 UTC

...that is my only compliant. I wans't tempted by the Kindle Touch because I love my Kindle keyboard and manual turning from both sides of the screen (that does irritate me, actually, that with the touches, you can't do it all with one finger from either hand and weirdly, I prefer reading while holding it in my left hand. I really wish they'd left the manual controls at least for page turning.

mremre September 9 2012, 11:57:59 UTC

I hear you get used to the swipey-page-turniness of the KTouch quickly; I admit I didn't give it much of a chance when I bought one. I haaaated the lack of buttons and mourned the loss of my 78 ebook categories. I returned it the next day and bought the Sony T1.

Whenever I see the brilliant Paperwhite screen, I just have to remind myself that my T1 has:
- page turn buttons right where a thumb can reach (one handed reading, yay subway)
- category support, both in calibre AND bulk edit on device, which is frankly a miracle
- format support (and thank you calibre / apprenticealf for the awz3 -> epub conversion)
- page numbers (::eyerolling forever:: Really AMZ? really?)
- SD card (for my headphones/reading music)
- my own screensaver images (my dog, yes I am shallow)

I can live with a slight delay to my reading gratification since any AMZ books need to be de-DRMed for my T1, but eh, there is also a million fanfics so yay!