Sentences with phrase «old kindles -lsb-»

Particularly Kindle Fire because that's much easier to browse the store than the old Kindles or even the phone.

Interestingly, now that we have gone through all that work of updating our old Kindles, Amazon is offering us another shot at trading - in and getting a coupon good towards an upgrade.

It seems odd that Amazon.com still shows all of the old Kindles and none of those announced today.

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.

This allows the old Kindles to take advantages of new features such as the improved web browser, better PDF support, page numbers, and more.

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;

Even after all this time, with so many old Kindles filling drawers and landfills, the touchscreen functions are not intuitive.

Even the old Kindles offer a great reading experience and there isn't any compelling reason to upgrade.

Otherwise, IPG could switch to Nook books (insisting that they be sold DRM - free) and advertise that readers are free to convert their old Kindle books to run on the Nook, or their new Nook books to run on their old Kindles.

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

There price of new Kindles just keeps on dropping, and the price of old Kindles is dropping even faster.

Many people have pinged Amazon tech support and the canned answer is «it is a matter of incompatible format; that is, none of the books will work on the old Kindles, the solution is to buy a new Kindle.»

Even if people upgrade to newer models, they will not abandon their old Kindles.

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

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

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.

One of their hallmarks has been their aim at the best possible typography on both newer and older Kindles.

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

But what I can do is trying to get it running on my old kindle fire hdx 7.

The PNGs with transparent background only work in some of the ePub readers and some of the older kindles.

I looked at the spyware loaded software inside my older Kindles and was very unhappy.

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

Dedicated page turning buttons on both sides (older kindle style).

I have an old kindle, and I eventually found to my surprise that the jailbroken perk of being able to choose my own was more valuable to me than than buying a new kindle and doing the work of jailbreaking it again.

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.

The old kindle with the D pad has some of the nicest page turn keys IMO.

I have wondered this myself because I liked the turn buttons on my old kindle.

KF8 files are a kind of Frankenstein monster with an ePub file to load onto newer Kindles and Kindle apps and an old mobi file to load onto older Kindles.

The big problem with the introduction of the KF8 format is that Amazon is doing a pretty hack job with this, I am very sorry to say, because, according to Amazon's announcement and FAQ, none of the older Kindles will be able to support this format.

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(2) Some of the new stuff just isn't going to be of much use on the older Kindles without color support, and some seems mostly aimed at future higher resolution or larger screen devices.

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.

Add $ 20 - $ 40 to the cost of the older Kindles in order to add in an attachable light and this price looks great.

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?

My daughter is inheriting my older kindle.

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.

And what a change the quality, size and weight had improved so much, so much so I bought a second one to replace my old kindle even though there was nothing wrong with it!

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

I own a Kindle Keyboard that still works really good, but recently was looking to upgrade only to discover that Kindle does not have an e reader that supports my ebooks and audible books like my old kindle.

So I can use my nearly 10 years old kindle (which probably does not support moderny DRM, but fortunately I don't have to care about it), or new Kobo / Pocketbook as well.

Actually I prefer my old kindle that I bought about 5 years ago.

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.

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.

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

Then, a) de-register the old kindle, and b) reset the old kindle to factory setting which will empty the kindle.

More interesting are the new PagePress controls, which mimic the physical controls of older Kindles but using pressure - sensitive «haptics» instead.

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.

Hi, I would like to give my old kindle to a friend.

I was told there is or will be a trade - in program with the Kindle FIre and our older Kindles.