Anyone get a Kindle yet?

mkozlows · 2010-09-02T10:36:49.000Z

The DX already got the revision to the K3 tech. The graphite one has the same generation of screen.

steve · 2010-09-02T12:56:18.000Z

Alex Hopkinson:

It came out of the box with the “getting started” instructions on screen and I spent the first couple of minutes wondering where the edge of the bit of plastic it must be printed on was…

Crazy magics.

Hah, I did the exact same thing when I got mine on Monday.

BaconTastesGood · 2010-09-02T14:12:47.000Z

mkozlows:

The DX already got the revision to the K3 tech. The graphite one has the same generation of screen.

Oh hell, you’re right, I forgot about that. I remember going “I’m not going to pay $370 for better contrast” but that was without a flurry of “OMG NEW SCREEN SO AWESOME” posts.

Maybe the NEXT DX will be worth upgrading for…

stusser · 2010-09-02T14:45:29.000Z

steve:

Hah, I did the exact same thing when I got mine on Monday.

I think everybody did.

Oghier · 2010-09-02T20:19:34.000Z

A moment of Kindle-based awesome today!

I am sitting in an airport, watching a 3-hour layover turn into a 5-hour marathon, as my flight got delayed. My current book bored me. This was Detroit, so watching hot chicks walk by was not a solution. Remembering all the great things I had heard (here) about KJ Parker’s Escapement trilogy and Cronin’s The Passage, I bought both. It took 60 seconds.

I’m freaking boredom-proof. Damn, I love this toy :)

Hans_Lauring · 2010-09-03T01:21:32.000Z

Alex Hopkinson:

My Wifi Kindle3 just arrived at work. Holy shit, this e-ink stuff is crazy magics!

It came out of the box with the “getting started” instructions on screen and I spent the first couple of minutes wondering where the edge of the bit of plastic it must be printed on was…

Crazy magics.

Heh, I did the exact same with my K2. I must have looked like a moron sitting in a café in Vegas pulling at imaginary plastic for minutes…

Bahimiron · 2010-09-03T06:40:11.000Z

Is there a way to get the Kindle to display the cover of the book you’re reading fullscreen?

Reldan · 2010-09-03T07:51:59.000Z

Alex Hopkinson:

My Wifi Kindle3 just arrived at work. Holy shit, this e-ink stuff is crazy magics!

It came out of the box with the “getting started” instructions on screen and I spent the first couple of minutes wondering where the edge of the bit of plastic it must be printed on was…

Crazy magics.

Good thing you didn’t peel it off!

OrfBC · 2010-09-03T08:25:02.000Z

Bahimiron:

Is there a way to get the Kindle to display the cover of the book you’re reading fullscreen?

I’d like this as well. Specifically I’d like it to show the cover of the book I’m reading as the “screensaver” when it goes to sleep. I like the random assortment of pictures it shows by default, but it’d be neat if it could be more like I’m closing the book I’m actually reading.

stusser · 2010-09-03T11:58:48.000Z

That would be a pretty cool enhancement, agreed.

forgeforsaken · 2010-09-03T12:01:49.000Z

Bahimiron:

Is there a way to get the Kindle to display the cover of the book you’re reading fullscreen?

I think there is a go to cover option in the menu. As noted though it would be much cooler if it used it as the sleep screen.

stusser · 2010-09-03T12:10:31.000Z

Now that you mention it, it’s such an obvious feature that I’m astonished it doesn’t already work that way.

Mark_Asher · 2010-09-04T16:15:41.000Z

stusser:

Now that you mention it, it’s such an obvious feature that I’m astonished it doesn’t already work that way.

Yeah, the cover of the current book you are reading is the screen of choice. Makes sense. Or else a user can specify a specific screen to always be used.

Athryn · 2010-09-04T20:41:52.000Z

Using the screensave hack, you could, hbut you’d have to change it every time you changed books.

JeffL · 2010-09-05T13:57:26.000Z

Just got a nice surprise, my 3G Kindle, ordered August 16, is being sent earlier than expected - predicted delivery is September 8.

bago · 2010-09-07T03:26:39.000Z

With a nook, you can just drop a bunch of images into a folder and point your screensaver at it.

mkozlows · 2010-09-07T18:40:28.000Z

Just got my Kindle today. The hardware is great, but the software seems flaky. It crashed and rebooted on me once, when I was trying to adjust font size; and it’s repeatedly done that “garbage collection” thing where it pauses for 10-15 seconds, and then responds to all the queued up commands instantly.

Mostly, though, I’m baffled about how navigation works. When I start up a book, it doesn’t start at the beginning, it starts at like “Chapter One”. And if I page back to look at what it skipped over, to make sure there’s not some kind of prologue or whatever, it is a) super-slow, and b) inconsistent, in that paging back and then forward doesn’t always take me to where I was.

I feel like this must make sense if I think about it right, but I don’t know how to think about it.

After reading with it for 20 minutes or so, I’m pretty sure it’s going to go into the same drawer as my MP3 player – something that I like having when I travel, but can’t imagine ever using at home.

stusser · 2010-09-07T19:10:28.000Z

When you first get it, it indexes all the books on the device, which can take a little while. If you plug it in and walk away for an hour the flakyness should subside. If not, amazon is testing a firmware update to fix it; contact support and they’ll flag your kindle for the update.

Gav · 2010-09-08T05:56:00.000Z

mkozlows:

Mostly, though, I’m baffled about how navigation works. When I start up a book, it doesn’t start at the beginning, it starts at like “Chapter One”. And if I page back to look at what it skipped over, to make sure there’s not some kind of prologue or whatever, it is a) super-slow, and b) inconsistent, in that paging back and then forward doesn’t always take me to where I was.

There’s a marking for the “beginning” of the book; I think it’s set by the publisher. It’s also just about always wrong – I just go to the cover and go forward. (I’m starting to think publishers think nobody cares about the prologue, opening quotes, map, etc).

I haven’t had the super-slow issue you’re seeing, though.

BaconTastesGood · 2010-09-08T08:43:41.000Z

So the plastic underneath one of the hinge inserts on my DX is bulging and cracked. I’m guessing at some point the Amazon leather case snaps were torqued against the slots when I kept grabbing the cover from the wrong side and trying to open it. Bah.