Comments on: Mobile Tech Minutes: Kindle for Tablets on Video

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:08:14 +0000

Holy cow! You’re right! I Mostly use eReader or the Barnes and Noble reader. That’s disappointing. Thanks for pointing that out.

By: JH

JH — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:37:09 +0000

You can VIEW highlights etc but you cannot CREATE them. Only bookmarks

By: Joe T.

Joe T. — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:53:08 +0000

Ya shoulda kept your Sony U750P. Better 5″ form factor. Also works great with Calibre’s viewer (ePub output to get you nice touch buttons on the side). I think it may be possible to change Calibre’s background and text colors with CSS tweaks, in order to lessen eyestrain.

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:37:55 +0000

James, I agree with Whispersync is cool.

I’m using my Samsung Q1UP (with Windows 7, and loving this device) with eReader, Barnes and Noble Desktop Reader, as well as Kindle for PC. The seven inch screen is bright, and I get many hours on a battery.

I spend most of my life looking at one screen or another, and end up with eye strain by the end of the day, but I do even with paper books, and all the student papers I read. The pleasure of doing it on a computer is that I can make the font larger and adjust the screen brightness.

When I get tired of holding two pounds of Samsung, I switch to an iPod Touch or Palm Pre (thanks to Homebrew PReader!), and again, adjust font and brightness for comfort.

JH, my Kindle for PC program indeed does support highlighting, annotation, and bookmarking. Look in the upper right hand corner. You can open a side view that lists them.

By: JH

JH — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:54:36 +0000

The biggest drawback to the kindle for pc is that you cannot highlight or annotate the text which you can do on the kindle itself. I hope this comes along quickly. Also, looking forward to the kindle for mac as well.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:52:43 +0000

I have used regular screens for hours-long sessions for years and it never bothers me. If I read e-Ink in low lighting for any time at all I get eyestrain quickly. May be just me.

By: Lugus

Lugus — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:23:10 +0000

James and others, how do you tweak the screen to avoid eye strain? I find eInk easier on the eyes for longer reading but there the limited functionality of an ereader doesnt justify its high price. Do you think reading of a regular screen is just a matter of habit or there are some changes one can do to make it more comfortable? I have an LS800 that would be a fine form factor for reading. Any tips where one could get an extended battery for those any more?

By: HG

HG — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:33:30 +0000

It also works great on my Kohjinsha SC3. Small enough to not be big, but yet nice size screen at 7″. Hope to see a release for the Android. This would be perfect on the Arcos 5 IT. :) I have a couple eReaders on the A5 IT and works great for the size. Just throw it in your back pocket, and like James said I think you get more out of a PC, or something that you can also use as email, web, and read your ebooks.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:16:30 +0000

I went the K2 route rather than a tablet or my existing IBM x60s, because I value the e-ink screen and the overall ergonomics of the K2. Reading for hours is now way too comfortable.

By: Michael Huneycutt Sr

Michael Huneycutt Sr — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:47:19 +0000

I use Kindle for PC on my Asus EEE T91MT as well. Though I think the e-book readers are pretty cool and have a good form factor they fall short for me. I want a device that let’s me read web content such as my safaribooksonline, read pdf and word documents as well as electronic books and magazines. At the $250 price point I could spend $100 more and get all the content I need and surf the web in the same form factor. All in color.