Kindle Wireless Device User Review…
Answers to questions you can’t find anywhere else
By: M. Young
My Amazon Kindle Wireless Device (never owned the first one this is the second one)
I’d first like to write a little something about how I came to have a Kindle Wireless Device before I post the pros and cons. When I first saw the kindle on the Amazon.com website I knew I had to have it. I’m one of those people whos shoulder gets torn off from the amount of books I carry around in my purse. Back and forth trips to the library are a thing of my past. Think of all the money I’ll save on gas! 🙂 I just love this kindle its my new best friend and while I wont say I take it “everywhere” with me. It spends more time with me in a day then my purse does. It goes if I think I might even have the tiniest bit of down time in whatever I plan to do. Sometimes I go places I really dont want to so that I have an excuse to sit in the car and read. I named my Kindle Wireless Device Octopodes. So at the top instead of saying so-in-so’s kindle or a phone number it says “Octopodes the Kindle” and I love it. You can change that at anytime in the menu…
I’d like to address a few questions that I never found the answers to while trying to decide if I wanted a kindle or not. We’re not kidding around here folks this is alot of money.
1. You can put ebooks/notes/audio books on your Kindle Wireless Device and it won’t void your warrenty. I was worried about this. I have been getting books from websites for years and from the library I rarely buy a book unless i’m sure I already like it so I was concerned that putting my library of ebooks that amazon could tell that one of them was pirated or not. (I can’t) This isn’t the case though…they can’t tell. You can’t tell. No one can tell because when people pirate ebooks/anything else they usually delete the copyright info in the front…this isn’t an issue….yet. I took the chance. I love […] and I have tons of free ebooks from authors I love that have blogs…
2. What does the text-to-speech voice sound like? Well there are a mans voice and a womans voice…they are just as horrible as the ones we been subjected to all these years by computers. While I like the males voice a little better than the womans..its still hilariously horrible when it pronounces a name or word wrong. For example in the first line it read to me (from a book I had already on the Kindle Wireless Device by the time I got it) it was supposed to say “Reyes looked across the room and scowled”…instead it said “Ray has looked across the room and scow woold” So I dont know why anyone is worried….I mean COME ON I turned it off and only used it a couple more times for a laugh with friends. Not a big deal.
3. How long does it take to ship? Once I decided to buy it I was on pins and needles waiting for it. Well they use USPS which has a horrible tracking system…it said it left the place a couple days after I ordered it then nothing and I ended up getting it the day before it was supposed to arrive (sweeeeeet) then a couple days later the tracking updated online. Yeah. I’ve heard of people getting it two days before the day its supposed to arrive but no earlier then that so far.
4. Amazon deleting books. *sighs* Jeez…unless I had important “notes” on it. Which I can’t imagine people using it for that and if you do…BEWARE. lol. If you don’t…suck it up. Amazon made a mistake. They didn’t sneak into your house at night and steal a book off your shelf and leave a check. They didn’t. They didn’t even go into your personal kindle. When you turned on your kindles it refreshed! They put it into the system that those books would be deleted and when you turned on your kindle or refreshed the page all were deleted from kindle land. They gave you back your money and apologized so GET OVER IT! Go buy it if you want it that badly. I know people obsess over books but thats just what they are….you know? Amazon didn’t snatch away anyone soul…or a childs fond memory but alot of people are acting as if they did. READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS! If you dont like it..dont buy it. I’m okay with it…not a big deal.
5. The warrenty. Okay so…heres how it goes….if you dont buy the 65 dollar two year warrenty and you break your kindle..you send it back at your expense and they fix it and send it back at your expense. Understand? Read the warrenty! If the kindle stops working…(ie you not dropping it) it just stops then you can send it back and they will send you a referbished one at THEIR expense. ONE TIME. Thats it. If you DO buy the 65 dollar warranty then you get one “oops” where you drop it or whatever you send it in and they will send you a referbished one at their expense and if it ever just stops working any time during the two years they send you referbished ones…understand? At their expense. I bought the warrenty because even though they SAY you can drop it from blah blah blah height…out of the thousand or so reviews I read…you can’t. So instead of crossing my fingers and then paying 150 to have them fix it…I paid 65. Yay.
6. Glare. I’ve had the Kindle Wireless Device 2 for almost a month now and I’ve used it everywhere. In the car at night. In bed. In the livingroom. In the car during the day. At the computer desk. I haven’t bought or needed a light attachment. I haven’t needed to read it in the dark yet and I dont think I personally ever will. If I do I will have a good chuckle about how its just like a book. You can’t read books in the dark either. Also please make sure you take off the protective covering…thats clear. Yeah…I’ve heard about more than a few people complaining about glare who didn’t take it off.
7. People who complain about no backlight. I agree and disagree. If they could make a backlight I would say yeah do it..only if I could turn it on and off. If you want a back light…on eink technology then your an idiot. WHY oh WHY would they make something like this in the first place do you suppose to only make the point moot by adding a back light? They MADE this so that it would be like a book and not give you a headache after 30 minutes of reading like a computer does…plus it would lessen battery time back down to nothingness…but if they could make it turn on and off…wow that would be genius! I haven’t needed it yet but I could take it out at night and read in the car. My boyfriend doesn’t mind that I sleep with the light on (desk lamp) so this hasn’t been an issue.
8. Color. Please…just go buy a freaking notebook or something..a laptop if you want backlights and color…this is supposed to be BOOK LIKE…books as in ones you read…not childrens books or magazines (even though yes they offer them…get over it) Do you not realize what you hold in your HANDS? I think the pictures are beautiful. I read a review once that the woman doesn’t understand why it has to be SOOO grey…uh book like…pages of novels are not bleached heaven white…and she’s an idiot for complaining about that because its beautiful…BUT on that note..I read in another review that its actually not THAT grey…its just the fact that the actual device is SO white that it appears to be really dark. So the solution to this? GET A SKIN! Thats what I did and its wonderful! I did notice once the skin was on that it doesn’t appear as dark as it did without one.
9. Text size. Holy Moly! If you can’t read the largest size then I’m sorry….because its larger then anything I’ve ever seen before. I can hardly follow what I’m reading its so large. I mean COME ON…if you can’t read that I dont know why you expect Amazon to help you…they didn’t promise “anyone even the blind can read this”
10. I like the screensavers. Yes the old author pictures I think are wonderful. Plus the new ones they just added are awesome. So ancient and beautiful looking…but I’m with you on this…amazon should let us put our own pictures up.
11. Its not THAT light…I read that it was so light from everyone soooo much that I was expecting a veritable FEATHER in the mail. I mean its exactly what they said…about 10 ounces. Which isn’t THAT light. Its lighter then any book I own or have held. I would much rather hold one of these then a book which hurt my fingers. I also crochet and type alot lol so my fingers are busy little creatures. This takes a huge load off. What I’m saying though is that you can’t hold it with your thumb and index finger by the corner or anything…its too heavy for that.
I hold it with three fingers behind the back my index finger in front above the keys and my thumb below. That is a perfectly comfortable way for me to hold it for hours. If i’m sitting up. You can’t hold it like that and lay down the top will hit you in the face. (I have hit myself in the face with it before lol) When I’m laying down I just move my hand up. Three fingers behind the back my index finger above the prev page button on the left and my thumb above the keys…easy. I do have a case for it that I usually just lay aside and put it back in when I’m done or if I’m going to step out of the room.
a. I read in a review that the guy had gone to answer the door and when he set the Kindle Wireless Device down he had set his little earbuds on the screen. When he got back from answering the door the earbuds had ruined the screen. So I’m not going to set anything on it. lol Just in case. I think its because there are magnets in headphones…
b. I also read in the user guide that comes on the kindle (I read it all the way through before doing anything else) that while the wireless is on the kindle should never be set against your skin and should remain 3 inches away from your body. This freaked me out so I only hold it with my fingers while wireless is turned off and if its on I just hold it in the case which isn’t hard at all and I kind of like it because I got a nice case that has memory foam and I like to press it in while reading…
12. I suggest reading the user guide before you go exploring the store because my first time searching through I accidently bought a book with it. It was a book I meant to “save for later” which is an option but accidently bought somehow. Now I wasn’t too upset about this because I wanted the book and was happy to see that I’d bought it but I’m sure not everyone would be lol. An excellent way to avoid this is to not get to rushy with pushing the buttons. Thats how I did it. I thought I knew how to save a book for later and I just rushed through it clicking buy (which is right above save) and skipping completly over the option “are you sure you want to buy this”.
13. I love all the free books. I’ve already read Little Women.
14. (you can change the order in which they are listed)When you read something and then go somewhere else like the Kindle Wireless Device store and then come back your books are in the order you last were reading them so for example if you have
jungle book,little women,user guide,and wizard of oz on your Kindle Wireless Device and you read the user guide then figure out what you needed and read a little bit of wizard of oz and decide you liked the movie better and move on to little women and think golly this doesn’t make any sense then start reading jungle book and during that it gives you an idea for a book you want to buy and you head off to the store and buy devil wears prada the book then they’ll display like this
Devil Wears Prada
Jungle Book
Little Women
The Wizard of Oz
Users Guide
understand? It works perfectly for me and some people seem to get the impression that you have to scroll down with the toggle button through 1,000 books but that is not the case they are displayed 10 a page and you just hit the next page for the next 10 books you have on your Kindle Wireless Device I think this is perfect. If you have a 100 books it only takes 10 clicks.
a. Keep in mind. If you highlight,leave a note,bookmark or whatever a book dont try and go into My Clippings to look for it. Huge waste of time you cant tell whats going on in there at ALL. That is only for transfering your clippings to a computer. To see all your bookmarks,notes,highlights and whatnot in a sensible and lovely order go to the book and open it. Once open click menu and go down to “my notes and marks” everything you’ve left for that book will be in there and in a lovely order too.
b. To change the order in which they are listed (super easy) go to the home page scroll up to the top with the toggle button and at the very top when you have showing all (Number of items) highlighted as well as (most recent) just click to the right and voila you have three options
most recent first
title
author
problem solved!
If you have hundreds of books you can skip through them alphabetically when they are sorted by title or author. For example in Sort by author when looking for an author that begins with the letter P just click the letter to go to the authors that all start with the letter P. Or type in the page number and click the toggle button to jump to that page number.
You can also sort by All items,Books,Subscriptions,and Personal Documents by going up to all items and whatever you have them sorted by and instead of clicking right…click left and you get those options.
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15. I dont have any trouble reading my Kindle Wireless Device in direct sunlight….it doesn’t change at all. I haven’t gotten any fading at all…
16. Listening to music….I like the option but I hate that I can’t skip to the next one or skip back yet…
Also I just remembered something I forgot…This Kindle Wireless Device is a BACK SAVER! My purse usually cuts into my shoulder carrying books around. To people who say “who needs more than one book?” I DO! Sometimes I dont FEEL like reading something and now this has solved so many problems…no more library fines…no more searching through piles of books to take with me just in case I dont like where the story is going….no more. My book (and back) problems have been solved HALLELUJAH!!
In conclusion I love my Kindle Wireless Device!
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