But, I wonder if I had come back the next day to the Oasis if would have been dead. Me too. Why can they put a book cover on the lockscreen for an ad but not for the book currently being read?
Of course they could; Amazon just prefers to push content relentlessly. They are surely aware that many readers would like the option to display covers of current reads on their Kindles, but having this option would prompt many readers to remove special offers. Even without covers I find the extra screen swipe annoying-and remove special offers.
That file is already there. Kobo had always done it. Once they started the Special Offers ad in , all I did was call customer support and complained that the advertising was interfering with my reading experience and each time they did remove the ad. It would be user controlled so you can limit what info you want to show! Good idea! When they were first releasing e-readers, people argued they were selling their devices so cheap because they wanted their profit to be in the content purchased, so the ad thing made a little more sense.
Since then, Amazon has released many generations and several versions of its popular e-reader. The 10th-generation Kindle , released in , is 6. It weighs 6. The largest model in the lineup, the Kindle Oasis , is 6. It weighs about 6. The software is the same in both and the ads are fairly unobtrusive. The Paperwhite 3G was released in October , and the Paperwhite itself is in its 10th generation as of it was released in It measures 6.
The central feature on all the Kindle models with the exception of the Kindle Fire tablets is the electronic paper screen. The Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite have 6-inch centimeter screens and the Kindle Oasis has a 7-inch centimeter screen. The Paperwhite gets its name from its display, which is whiter than the base Kindle display.
The lighter screen gives more contrast with the text, making it easier to read than the light gray color of the Kindle's screen. The Oasis also has more contrast than the base Kindle. There is a Kindle Kids Edition, but it is technologically identical to the regular Kindle.
Their screen resolution is pixels per inch ppi. The Paperwhite and Oasis have almost twice that, with ppi. All Kindle screens can display images in 16 levels of gray using electronic ink technology.
Unlike LCD screens, the Kindle e-reader's screens aren't backlit. The crispness of the electronic ink screens makes them much easier to read in direct sunlight than devices with color LCD screens. The earliest Kindles required you to use a flashlight if you wanted to read in the dark, but now all of Amazon's e-readers have front-lit screens.
A thin sheet of nano-imprinted flattened fiber optic cable distributes the light uniformly over the entire screen, giving the illusion that it is backlit. But since the light is directed toward the screen and not toward your eyes, the Kindle retains its electronic ink advantage of being easy to read. Despite the addition of light, which is usually a big power drain, Kindles keep battery usage at a minimum by using low-powered LEDs as the light source. Early Kindle models had physical keyboards, but Amazon's current Kindle models use virtual keyboards on their touch-sensitive screens.
In fact, the Oasis is the only current Kindle with physical buttons on its face, and it only has two — one to turn the page forward, the other to turn the page back. There is one button on all Kindle models — the power button. Without physical buttons, many of the devices' features are hidden while you read.
To find the controls, tap at the top of the touch-screen. From there you can go back to your library, change settings such as brightness and font size, and the book's table of contents.
Although Amazon has done away with headphone jacks on its Kindle readers, you can pair them with Bluetooth headphones and speakers.
That means if you want to use the Kindles' text-to-speech option or download audiobooks, you'll need to go wireless. With the loss of the headphone jack, the only open port on Amazon's e-readers is a USB port, which you use to charge the device. You can also use it to hook up to a computer. Although you don't technically require one to use your Kindle, you can use a computer to load books and audio files from other sources and to manage the Kindle's library.
The Kindles come with a USB cable and a power adapter. The original Kindle also came with a protective book cover, which has a padded section that protects the screen and an elastic band that holds it closed.
The Kindle Kids Edition is currently the only Kindle that comes with a cover, but Amazon also has a large selection of accessories for the Kindle, including leather covers and adapters for non-U. At its most basic level, the Kindle is just a specialized portable computer. It has many of the bits and pieces you'd expect to find in any computing system. It also has a couple of elements that set it apart from your average computer.
Most of the Kindle's components attach directly to a circuit board. The circuit board acts as the foundation for electronic circuits in the Kindle.
Most of the components are inseparable from the board. The various chips on the board include the processor, memory, USB connector and touch-screen interface. The Kindle draws its power from a rechargeable lithium-polymer battery. According to Amazon, the battery in the base Kindle can last up to four weeks without recharging, and the batteries in the Paperwhite and Oasis may last up to six weeks.
Actual battery life depends on how much you use the light, wireless and Bluetooth. All versions of the Kindle use a Linux -based operating system. Skochinsky experimented with a Kindle and discovered several interesting commands, shortcuts and hidden applications within the Kindle's OS. For example, he discovered that if you press the Alt key, Shift key and M key while in the Home menu, the original Kindle will open up a game of Minesweeper.
Above the circuit board on most Kindle models, you'll find the Kindle's electronic paper screen. We'll take a closer look at this screen in the next section. One complaint some people had about early e-book readers was that they found it difficult to read words on an LCD display. Some users complained that longer reading sessions put too much strain on their eyes. Amazon's solution to this problem was to use electronic ink technology.
The Kindle's electronic ink screen looks more like paper than an LCD screen. It reflects light in much the same way that paper does. A company called E Ink in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed the technology the Kindle relies upon to display text and images. Rather than use the liquid crystals you'd find in an LCD or the ionized gas you'd find in a plasma display , electronic ink actually uses millions of microcapsules, only a few microns wide. Each microcapsule contains a clear fluid and thousands of white and black particles.
The white particles carry a positive magnetic charge, and the black particles have a negative charge. It's these positively and negatively charged particles inside the microcapsules that make electronic ink displays possible. An array of thousands of tiny electrodes lies beneath the electronic ink display.
When an electrode emits a negative charge, it repels the negatively charged black balls, pushing them to the top of the microcapsule. At the same time, the negative charge attracts the positively charged white particles to the bottom of the microcapsule. When the electrode emits a positive charge, the white and black particles switch places and the screen appears to be blank. Working together, thousands of electrodes and millions of microcapsules generate the text and images you can see on an electronic ink display.
Through precise charges the Kindle can display a range of grays to provide shading in images. You can even adjust the Kindle's font settings to display text in a larger or smaller font size. The Kindles' electronic ink screens can also render images but having only 16 shades of gray limits the detail of any pictures. E Ink now makes color versions of its displays, but as of none of Amazon's readers use it. The Kindle uses less energy to generate a page view than a comparable LCD or plasma screen, because it pulls power from its battery only during the initial page generation.
Once the image is on the page it can stay there without requiring electricity. It doesn't require more power until the user changes the page view. This feature is what lets the Kindle's battery provide power for weeks at a time on a single charge. Amazon has released several different models of Kindle over the years, but as of the model lineup consists of the Kindle, the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Oasis.
The Kindle Kids Edition is very similar to the standard Kindle. It's a little bigger, at 6. My one quibble with the Kindle is the navigation through My Library, the place where you access all of your books. I have also been spoiled by drag-and-drop iPhone organization, so adding books to Collections, or organizational folders, feels a little clunky to me.
None of these things are a deal breaker, but they are helpful to be aware of. So how do I decide what to read where? I primarily use the Kindle to access the library. I also get daily emails with Kindle deals, and I occasionally take advantage of those, especially for popular books with long library wait times. I also buy a physical copy of the book if I know I will want to read it more than once. Those are the kinds of books I like to see on my shelves and actually hold in my hands.
That depends! I would highly recommend a Kindle if you fall in any of these camps:. If you buy the ad-supported option, ads for other books will appear on your home screen when your Kindle is asleep.
Ads will not interrupt your reading experience or appear anywhere in your displays once your Kindle is awake. I have it, and it does not bother me in the least. Both the Kindle and the Kindle Paperwhite work in pretty much identical ways. Their processing is the same, their screens look similar, and they both have backlighting to read anywhere. However, upgrading to a Paperwhite brings a few cosmetic and functional advantages. The Paperwhite is slightly slimmer, has a screen that sits flush with the casing, and boasts a brighter screen with crisper graphics.
Functionally, the Paperwhite also has more storage capacity, a longer battery life, waterproofing, and the option to upgrade to cellular capability.
I have not regretted spending the extra dollars. I have the 8 GB option, and I have never come anywhere close to running out of space.
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