1681

Got mine this week but not had a chance to really use it.

1682

Oh hell I took the K3 plunge (and a free month of Amazon Prime on top of that). Hope to get it before I head out to Hawaii next Thursday.

— Alan

1683

Nope, because I was in Tasmania without access to my PC when I bought & dl them…

1684

I just got my K3 wireless on Tuesday and it is a really nifty device. My favorite thing so far is getting the LA Times delivered daily. My ‘paper guy’ was always late in delivering the paper in the morning, so I had cancelled my subscription about a year ago. Now I can get my Sports and Calendar fix with no hassle. I also like this interface better than the website, so this is just great.

1685

You can use Calibre to automatically deliver any newspaper or website with a RSS feed wirelessly to your Kindle for free (over wifi) using the name@free.kindle.com email address. It works quite well.

1686

Dammit. I had a bunch of unread Analog and Analog issues and transferring them from my K2 to my K3, the DRM won’t let me read them. Older issues (pre Sept. 2009) weren’t DRMed and work fine.

And Amazon only lets you resend the last few issues.

F*ck DRM.

1687

You should consider getting Analog via Fictionwise, as it lets you download a multiformat file, and many of those formats don’t include DRM (or at least didn’t last I checked).

EDIT: Crap – you can’t subscribe there anymore. You can only buy single issues. Sorry.

1688

I broke down and ordered a DX2 to replace my DX today. Through the miracle of Local Express I should have it…tonight!

1689

I’ve been setting up my ebook infrastructure now that I’m committed to an ebook way of life. Calibre is super-awesome for library management and device syncing, and this “unswindle” script seems to work well for de-DRMing Amazon-bought Kindle files, so I think it’s going to work out well for that.

I wish I didn’t care about DRM, almost, because if I could actually just be okay with the whole “buy from Amazon and get DRMed book” model, it’d be so easy.

1690

I only ended up losing a few issues. Amazon used to only let you download 3 previous issues; I was able to download 6. So between the first couple years being unDRMed and getting the last 6 sent to my new kindle, I just lost two or three of each. (Might have to investigate if I can de-DRM those,er, next time I’m in international waters.)

The problem with Analog and Asimov’s is that they really should be treated like books, and not magazines, as they’re really monthly short story collections. Which is why I have issues dating back a couple of years I haven’t completely finished; obviously that’s not typical of more time-sensitive magazine material.

1691

Read something other than fiction. :)

1692

Got my DX2 today. Honestly, difference isn’t as dramatic as I was hoping. There’s a contrast difference, but half of it I think is just from having the graphite edges instead of white. It’s not quite the day/night I was expecting. Page flips are faster, definitely, but this was never a problem for me in the past. Otherwise it’s pretty much the same.

Irked that my samples on my old one didn’t transfer over, just archived purchases.

1693

Thanks for checking it out, confirms my suspicion that I didn’t need to get a new one.

1694

Yeah, in hindsight it’s probably not worth the money (depending on how much money is worth to you), but given that I read an 30-60 minutes/day I was willing to make the leap. Page turn speed has never been an issue for me. The higher contrast is nice, and I do admit that looking at my old DX it feels a little washed out to me now.

Maybe in a week I’ll wonder how I ever read anything on my old DX =)

1695

It may not be day/night, but to me it’s like there’s some qualitative threshold that was reached with the Pearl displays, where instead of it looking dark grey on light gray, it looks black on white.

Also, graphite is way nicer-looking than white all by itself.

1696

It’s also possible the DX isn’t as good as the normal sized Kindle, for some reason. Also, I had two Kindle 1’s at one point and the contrasts were pretty different. Weird.

1697

I recently got a promotion and I think I’m going to celebrate by getting a Kindle. I just want to know if the generic non-lit kindle cover is good enough or is there a 3rd party one that blows it away.

thx!

1698

For cases, I am strongly of the belief that you don’t want a case on it when you use it. It’s almost the perfect weight right now for convenient one-hand holding and operation right now, and adding bulk and weight with a case would ruin that.

For travel purposes, this slipcase looks good – it’s got screen protection, but is otherwise lightweight and minimalist, like you’d want. I don’t have any direct experience with it, but it’s what I plan to buy, so if someone else here has a better recommendation for a travel-only case, I’m all ears.

1699

I am really fond of Oberon Design covers. I had one for my K2, and I just got one for my K3. They’re pricey, but very high quality.

http://www.oberondesign.com/Kindle.php

1700

I’m very happy with the lit version of the cover Eric P linked. I’ve read two books now since getting my K3 (first e-reader for me) and whatever additional weight it adds to the device has been a non-issue, even when holding it in one hand.

Edit: Needless to say if I’d started off with a coverless Kindle, I’m sure I’d be more aware of the cover weight.