Sentences with phrase «old kindle»

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

Amazon brought back support for Audible audiobooks as well like on older Kindles, so they increased storage space to 8 GB with the option for 32 GB.

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

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

Back in January, I posted news on an Amazon Trade - in promotion that allowed you to trade in older Kindles in both working and non-working condition.

It supports audiobooks but battery life takes a hit and it doesn't support immersion reading and it doesn't have regular text - to - speech and can't play MP3 audio files like older Kindles.

I would point out that the bluetooth supports audible — it is likely it does NOT support the text - to - speech capability that older kindles offered.

(People using older Kindles and / or old firmware will be taken to this text - in - books by default.)

Amazon started pushing an over-the-air update to certain Kindle e-readers on Friday, which means that the new e-reading features Amazon touted when launching its Kindle Voyage will soon be available for older Kindles as well, as promised.

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.

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.

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.

Last year I traded in a couple of old Kindles -LSB-...]

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

When I google the multiple download problem I find a suggestion to use the amazon website to deregister old kindle devices, it seems that amazon has an interest on limiting the number of devices a book is currently installed on, not the number of total downloads

Sprint still powers older Kindles and the large - format, U.S. - only Kindle DX.

And the company has some numbers to back those claims too, marking this new «formulation» as offering a 50 percent improvement in contrast over older Kindles, and 20 percent boost to whiteness.

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.

Since there is a very slight delay in on - screen response to input (barely longer than the similar delay when using the physical keyboard on older Kindles) it can be slightly strange at first, but that fades quickly with continued use.

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

Now Amazon extends their Kindle Trade - In program to older Kindles as well as non-Kindle e-reader devices.

It's difficult to estimate the cost per chip at the scale that Amazon produces its devices, but again we do see TTS in the older Kindles and in the current line of Android tablets, like the Fire HD tablet that currently retails for US $ 100 [starting price of the line].

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.

I haven't looked at any of the non-book offerings for the older Kindles.

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

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.

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

However my old kindle has two tiny cracks in the front case.

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.

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.

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

I would also point out that their «ability to introduce new features» quite frequently renders their newer books incompatible with their older Kindles.

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

One, they say they'll push out updates to make the older Kindles compatible with HTML5 (but obviously not all of them, as you point out Guido).

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.

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

Sometimes you can take it a step farther by adding more fonts to an ebook reader in a few simple steps, as is the case with adding custom fonts to the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Touch, the basic Kindle and older Kindles, the Sony PRS - T1 and T2, and the Kobo ereaders.

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?

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.