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View Poll Results: Will you be upgrading to the Paperwhite II proposed below? | |||
Yes. Upgrading from Paperwhite. | 17 | 22.67% | |
Yes. Upgrading from and old reader, or different brand. | 7 | 9.33% | |
No. Have Paperwhite already. Not enough improvement. | 44 | 58.67% | |
No. I haven't got a PW, but will wait until my reader breaks. | 7 | 9.33% | |
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07-07-2013, 10:22 AM | #76 |
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I think you've misunderstood the previous conversation. All Kindles have a USB port, and the file system mounts as a drive on the PC. You can simply copy books to the appropriate folder on that mounted drive.
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07-07-2013, 10:26 AM | #77 |
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Thanks Harry.
I'm thinking of a Paperwhite but have always used a Sony and I have a ton of books on my laptop. Anyway, I saw this thread and thought this would be a good place to pose the question. |
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07-07-2013, 10:32 AM | #78 |
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Just put your books into Calibre, and upload them to the Kindle from there. Calibre will noiselessly convert them to AZW3 before uploading (and will of course keep your EPUB too).
Make sure you set Calibre to use AZW3. IIRC, it defaults to MOBI, which restricts the possibilities to make the book look like the way it looked as an EPUB. |
07-07-2013, 12:26 PM | #79 |
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Thanks Katsunami. That should prove to be very useful advice.
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07-07-2013, 03:06 PM | #80 |
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As is customary for me, I will upgrade to the new Paperwhite even if the only difference is that its called the Paperwhite 2. Then my original Paperwhite will go to my mom.
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07-07-2013, 03:35 PM | #81 | |
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Of course, you could ALSO email them, but that is a whole nother story, and only useful for multiple devices, sync and cloud storage, so lets not go there. (Unless you really want to.) By the way, a workaround to put books on your iPad with calibre: in calibre, click on Connect/Share and select on the dropdown "Connect to iTunes" which will allow you to send your books to device where device=iTunes. Once calibre puts them into iTunes, you should be able to use iTunes sync to save them to your iPad/iThingy. Much faster than mail, although it would be better if Apple just let you save stuff through the file explorer... |
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07-31-2013, 07:16 PM | #82 | |
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Back to the original question? I've had (and have) several earlier models and a Fire HD, but the Paperwhite is still the best fit for me. The problems I have aren't in the hardware, but in the software. I really miss being able to move forward a chapter at a time, and maintaining collections is still a nightmare. Still, just about everything else is great. No Paperwhite II for me thanks... unless I get one really really cheap. Then I'll get one and add it to the collection. |
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08-01-2013, 08:34 AM | #84 |
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Things that would get me to buy a PW2 would be -- speaker or headphone jack for readback as with K2 and K3, bigger screen, more storage. Better lighting doesn't do it for me since my PW looks fine.
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08-01-2013, 02:24 PM | #85 |
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deleting, duplicate post.
Last edited by susan_cassidy; 08-01-2013 at 02:32 PM. |
08-01-2013, 04:28 PM | #86 |
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08-01-2013, 05:17 PM | #87 | |
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What I mean is that I don't need any other options beside sideloading books, and setting reading preferences such as font sizes and types (and lots of that), so I can read books. I don't care for integrated Twitter, Facebook, GoodReads, LinkedIn (so your boss can see what you read in your spare time too). I also don't care for TTS, MP3 playback, or audiobooks on an e-reader. My phone is smaller, and can do these things (much) better if I want it to. The only thing I can see being useful is the integrated store, if you are ready to (or want) to trust Amazon to provide every book you want to read. (And besides that, keep their cloud up, and provide it forever for every future e-reader they release.) Last edited by Katsunami; 08-01-2013 at 05:19 PM. |
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08-03-2013, 01:15 AM | #88 |
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And don't forget their ability to "upgrade" the books after you've downloaded them. I'm SURE the new editions are much much better than the ones I originally had, but I didn't notice anything wrong with them the first time.
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08-03-2013, 09:31 AM | #89 |
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I love my Paperwhite but honestly I do not see a reason to upgrade to the next generation. This one does all I need it to do. Now the latest generation Kindle Fire, that is a whole different story...
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08-04-2013, 07:50 AM | #90 |
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nevermind.
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