Kindle lies!

[Paul_C]

It probably doesn't, really.

However, I find that it takes much longer to get from 0 - 50% than it does to get from 50 - 100%.

So it feels like a lie, even though I'm sure it isn't.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Nah.... I have exactly the same feeling with dead-wood books. Reading the second half always seem to take less time as the first half.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Well some books can't be finished soon enough. Others, you wish would never end.

 

[tinkerdan]

I've never seen this.
I always have the percentage on because they rarely if ever have page numbers; so its the only way to tell where you are. The percentage seems pretty accurate.

On the other hand I don't think their estimated times for finishing chapters are very realistic.

I haven't had a whole lot of trouble with books I couldn't finish or couldn't wait to finish. I like to pace myself.
In fact some of the worst, I've read twice; to figure out what went wrong with them.

I used to have that trouble with not wanting the book to end--because I love the character so much--since publishing my own I seem to have had a change of heart in that respect. Now I pace myself and savor the whole story to the end.

The best books are the ones you can't put down and you plow through them from front to back and then sit and marvel over it for a while, while rolling it from cover to cover in your hands...wait you can't do that with a kindle.

Yeah, I still like paper books so I can do that.

 

[-K2-]

The best books are the ones you can't put down and you plow through them from front to back and then sit and marvel over it for a while, while rolling it from cover to cover in your hands...wait you can't do that with a kindle.

Yeah, I still like paper books so I can do that.

That's what happened to me when I read Swan Song. Three days later I finished. Recently, I went back to try and sort out exactly what about the writing compelled me to do that. I'm still not sure.

K2

 

[J Riff]

Kindle 3, battery on way from China, it better work. 35$, the most spent on tech in a decade, pretty sure it will fire up and I can reload it with good good stuff, and not leave it on a bus this time, thank you.

 

[soulsinging]

On the other hand I don't think their estimated times for finishing chapters are very realistic.

This gets me into trouble all the time at home as I tell my wife "only 3 more minutes left in this chapter, then I'll come to bed!"

 

[Venusian Broon]

Nah.... I have exactly the same feeling with dead-wood books. Reading the second half always seem to take less time as the first half.

It's because you are going downhill.

The week past Wednesday noon always goes quicker than the first half, for example. Uphill is always harder.

 

[tinkerdan]

Then Friday the 13th shows up...

The week past Wednesday noon always goes quicker than the first half, for example. Uphill is always harder.

...and it's like, when will this day end.

 

[biodroid]

I noticed that if you have the page counter on and you read 2 pages, it only says you have read 1. And what is it with location numbers? How do you understand those compared to page numbers and time left in the chapter?

 

[Foxbat]

I bought a kindle simply because I was running out of room for books. I was a reluctant user but I grew to like it. Now I like it even more and thought I'd explain why. Happy as I was with the original, I then bought a kindle Fire HD a few years back and it's been of great benefit to me. As I get older and my eyesight gets worse, I find it difficult to read under artificial light (I find energy saving bulbs just don't have the oomph of the old tungsten ones) but the Fire with its backlit screen has been a great help. I find it's the best way to read at night.

So, for all its faults, and although I still prefer print in the daytime, I couldn't do without my Fire now.

 

[Wyrmlord]

With all the hate people give eBooks, I am a staunch supporter for the Kindle Paperwhite. It's seriously the best in the line. Compact, with a great backlight, it can't be beat.

 

[Overread]

With all the hate people give eBooks, I am a staunch supporter for the Kindle Paperwhite. It's seriously the best in the line. Compact, with a great backlight, it can't be beat.

I've yet to talk to anyone who reads novels who has yet to hate a Kindle. Even those who were dead against them still end up loving them.

The e-readers are simple in what they do, they let you read books. The Paperwhite with the backlight are just fantastic. Even in modest lighting where its not "bad" but not great they take strain off the eyes. No more clip on lights that only light half a page and flop around; no more contorting your back to get the light in the right place; no more annoying others in the room etc... Just turn it on and read. The ability to boost the text size and carry hundreds of books in less space than the average paperback are further great boons!

Plus I rather like being free to choose to buy special editions and really great print books, whilst buying all the regular reading books on the Kindle. Plus you can read a special edition or picture edition once for the differences it offers and the leave it nice and safe on the shelf. The kindle version can be the "dog eared" version that gets read a dozen times - and its spine will never break nor its text wear thin.



Also I find many who hate ebooks often talk about not wanting to read on their computer or with the glaring light from an LCD screen - the soft light from an e-reader is a world away.

 

[Elckerlyc]

<Kindle Paperwhite owner>

 

[Foxbat]

I often come across books that I'd like to read but hesitate at paying £30 or £40 for (usually history books etc.). Often, I can get them on sale for the kindle for under a tenner. The Fire HD is great for all the colour plates and photos that often appear in these publications.

 

[Pyan]

I've yet to talk to anyone who reads novels who has yet to hate a Kindle. Even those who were dead against them still end up loving them.
The e-readers are simple in what they do, they let you read books. The Paperwhite with the backlight are just fantastic. Even in modest lighting where its not "bad" but not great they take strain off the eyes. No more clip on lights that only light half a page and flop around; no more contorting your back to get the light in the right place; no more annoying others in the room etc... Just turn it on and read. The ability to boost the text size and carry hundreds of books in less space than the average paperback are further great boons!
Plus I rather like being free to choose to buy special editions and really great print books, whilst buying all the regular reading books on the Kindle. Plus you can read a special edition or picture edition once for the differences it offers and the leave it nice and safe on the shelf. The kindle version can be the "dog eared" version that gets read a dozen times - and its spine will never break nor its text wear thin.
Also I find many who hate ebooks often talk about not wanting to read on their computer or with the glaring light from an LCD screen - the soft light from an e-reader is a world away.

Plus if you forget your reading glasses, you can enlarge the text until it's readable without them....

The only bad point on my Paperwhites (I've had three) has been the fragility of the micro-USB charging socket. Hopefully, they'll eventually change it to USB-C.

 

[Foxbat]

The only bad point on my Paperwhites (I've had three) has been the fragility of the micro-USB charging socket. Hopefully, they'll eventually change it to USB-C.

Agreed. I've got to (as we say up here) shoogle the plug aboot a bit until I see the charge icon. And to use another phrase, if it weren't so good to read from, my kindle's coat would be on a shoogly peg

 

[Pyan]

Agreed. I've got to (as we say up here) shoogle the plug aboot a bit until I see the charge icon. And to use another phrase, if it weren't so good to read from, my kindle's coat would be on a shoogly peg

And when it got to the point that charging it involved two elastic bands, several paperclips, a Klippit, a copy of The Complete Works of the Brothers Grimm and an absolutely vibration-free surface, then I gave up...

 

[Overread]

Charging connection points are weak on so many modern appliances. I know that my old laptop went for over a decade without issue, but more modern machines my siblings have had, have ALL had problems where the charge connection point breaks inside the laptop.

Though I have to admit that my Kindle hasn't had issue with the charging port (touch wood)

 

[Parson]

I love my Kindles. I don't put too much stock into the x amount left statements. For one reason, often that statement includes the tease from the next book which I almost never read!

I've not had a problem with the charging port, but I've two young 5 + 7 grandsons who have ruined more than a few kid's versions of the Kindle Fire. For the first time (maybe ever?) the insurance I bought for them has paid off handsomely.