Sentences with phrase «for old kindles»

It will also be a useful reference for those of us who sometimes shop for old Kindles on eBay.

I was impressed that it's selling for pretty much what I paid for my old kindle did new.

Amazon used to advertise this on screensaver images for older Kindles, like the Kindle Keyboard, but they don't seem to bring much attention to it anymore.

You need PNG files that are 758 x 1024 pixels instead of 600 x 800 pixels as for the older Kindles.

For the Fire, flipping the page is automatic, where for older Kindles, it has to be manually done, which some readers may consider a hassle.

There are workarounds using font hacks for older Kindles.

No mods for older Kindles will work as - is on the Touch.

Not exact matches

The season's shifting slightly; we admire new currencies of color, which provide exchange for wit and kindling for love's fire» artillery of age, old passion's pride.

Though he often joked that he'd been around the Olympics since the days of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Bud Greenspan kindled his love affair with the Games in 1948, when, as a 21 - year - old radio sports director, he filed dispatches on the competition for WHN in New York City.

Finding kindle books for my 6 year old grandson has been somewhat challenging.

Because of the constraints of MOBI7 styling, in Pressbooks, we swap out all the nice styling from our EPUB / KF8 formats for a generic «try your best not to look like total crap» output... which is all you can hope for on old eink Kindles.

The old kindle DX had this function and was superior for those visually impaired.

I really wanted to get the fire for my 9 yr old she loves reading books on my iphone (kindle app) Not to mention the games ans so on, ir keps her from getting into fights with her younger sister in the car, but now i am considering the nook just because the parental controls, i am worried i can not keep an eye on her while driving plus things can find her quicker than she can find things, lets face it shes an innocent 9 yr old so why risk it, i know she wont go looking for porn or whatever but when she was younger she was looking for a hello kitty web site and we were both horriefied what came on the screen, so i huess the debate is nook color or nook tablet

I checked the file on a number of other Kindles; quality was acceptable on most (though on several the inset image was miniscule), except for the Kindle for iOS app, and my old Kindle DX, which looked like this:

These aren't conversion problems, per se; old Kindles and Kindle for iOS display a version of the mobi file (MOBI7) that is based on old PalmPilot technology; it can't handle sophisticated formatting at all.

There are some things that you can do (involving media queries) that will allow you to format the same file differently for old (MOBI7) and new (KF8) Kindles; however you can't do that from Word.

You need the kindle app, and you can get that for just about everything: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Andoid smartphone, and even the humble old Mac and PC.

Even so, it should be obvious, and I tried this out on a 9 year old this week, new generations, those whose eyesight will not deteriorate for a long time to come, those people can read prints I can't even read with my reading glasses, thus they could care less about the size of the font available in a Kindle, leaving the Kindle sadly to the declining Boomers, who are spending $ 500 on the average when they buy a Kindle, while an entirely new computer generation is buying this new crop of Netbooks that are full computers in pretty much all senses, but are even smaller in size than the Kindles, and smaller in price.

Old Kindles will remain in substantial use for what will seem like an eternity.

Everything is working in this cyanogen mod 13 ROM except for Bluetooth (crashed when trying to activate in settings), DRM playback (google play movies), Amazon kindle app (old v4.24.0.27 works though) and mounting of SD card.

As counter-example, the Kindle paperwhite uses a capacitive touch screen with overlay (also reused for LED backlighting in the dark); hence it's reduced contrast vs. my other older kindles, despite higher DPI.

Now, it's pretty understandable that the official kindle technical support that is being offered from Amazon's end won't be the same for all the products; especially the older ones.

And the older Kindles have been open to hacks for years so why would they create a fix for a newer hack that's not even needed for them?

I haven't had a 1st gen H2O for a long time since it's over 3 years old now so I couldn't say which touchscreen is better at this point (there's not much difference either way), but Kindles definitely have the edge when it comes to smooth highlighting and general responsiveness overall.

10:43 AM ON FEB 9 2009: matt: The kid apparently still visits the local bookstore before turning to the amazon kindle, made by amazon, where he can download books from amazon, because the feels sorry for the dusty old bokstore.

However, Kindle Active Content is still available on the Kindle Paperwhite and older Kindles, and searching the Kindle store still shows these titles for download and purchase.

So KDP makes 1 for MOBI (older kindles and apps) and 1 for KF8.

I already have a hudl2, as well as the old style kindle fire hd7, but am looking to replace my e reader, would you think the hd6 may be suitable to replace this, as it would then be small enough to take on my commute also, and posibly using it for other stuff on the train apart from reading??

I have an old Kindle keyboard that has two speakers on the bottom and a headphone jack on top, never used it myself except once to see hear what it did, but don't remember how to make it work; I think it had something to do with certain keys pressed on the keyboard to make it function... so Amazon started out selling the kindle with the ability for sound and then they taketh it away and now they're selling that ability for $ 20... simply amazing

I now use both Smashwords and Kindle, as a lot of my followers say they prefer a kindle book.Not to worry though.I will post yet more to Smashwords, as soon as my old brain remembers your rules for the TOC.

Because the devices are durable, one challenge has been compelling readers to buy upgraded versions, according to people familiar with the matter, though Amazon says it is content to make money off e-book sales even for older model Kindles.

Amazon has decided to drop support for Active Content on newer Kindles, so only the Kindle Paperwhite and older Kindles can display Kindle games and apps.

Last year I traded in a couple of old Kindles for a pretty good stack of cash (well, Amazon store credit anyway).

I wonder if all the existing Kindles will get firmware updates, or if this is a sneaky way to push 1st - gen Kindlers — who are on the older Whispernet provider — to updgrade their devices, so Amazon doesn't have to keep paying for two types of wireless service.

Being old school & in my 50's lol; >) I am thankful for you making yourself available by phone and for answering my questions related to kindle publishing for my daughter who wishes to write and publish her 1st ebook on the kindle and also for revealing a few, valuable free insider tips which saved me time in researching it online, and for your recommendation for your product «Plr To Publish» which will also save my daughter time and me...

Honestly give me paperwhite guts in a package the size of an oasis without the funky form factor or requiring the case for decent battery life, keep the page press buttons like the oasis or my old kindle keyboard and I would run out and buy one today.

It's trivially easy to get the same effect using a 1 - cell table, and that does work on older Kindles, but the Kindle formatting guidelines emphatically say to «use tables for tabular data only,» and not for formatting purposes of any kind.

I had an older gray Kindle Touch that I didn't like that much for how bulky it was mostly and prefer kindle touch with buttons over it.

I own two Kindles, an older manual model and a new PaperWhite bought for the backlit screen.

Amazon will also be adding the feature to older Kindles that have wireless connectivity for accessibility reasons, but the new Oasis is getting it first.

The new firmware version is 5.9.4 and it's available for all current Kindles and older models back to the Kindle Paperwhite 2 (6th generation).

This stylesheet will work for both MOBI (older e-ink Kindles and Kindle apps) as well as the new KF8 format.

This is because the MOBI7 format (for older e-ink Kindles and Kindle for iOS) and the KF8 format (for Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire) are in the same file.

This new policy mostly applies to older Kindles like the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle DX since Amazon removed the ability to browse the web over 3G on the Kindle Touch, and there's no 3G option for the Kindle 4 at all.

I once tried out the first paperwhite and got frustrated with how it wouldn't recognize any of my inputs, so I was going to get the older kindle with buttons, but they stopped production once I saved up enough; was holding out on getting the newer model, so thank you once more for the great review!

The books sold by amazon are designed for the low - resolution kindles; so, with paperwhite and other high resolution devices, the maximum size appears much smaller than the old kindles;

As of today (3/22/2012) only the Kindle Fire is utlizing HTML5 full capabilities: the older Kindles and the Kindle Apps (ie for iPad and iPhone) are lagging behind.)

Because what I'm looking for is the high resolution and if I turn down the background illumination and contrast is not worst than my old kindle touch, I can live with it.

Other popular prizes for giveaways have been bookmarks designed like a book cover, book - style jewelry, copies of older books in a catalog, and even Kindles and other eBook readers.

I predict it will do very well this xmas, as there are a lot of old Kindles in drawers that need to be replaced, but beyond that — I expect it will fall into the same problem as Android tablets generally (ie, no money for devs) and development will dry up.