Off-topic Kindle

[MadeyeTony]

My wife and I are avid readers. We moved into this brand new house and our entire collection of books were still in their boxes in the basement. The basement then floods destroying roughly 2000 books. Needless to say we were very bummed. So we decided to go digital.

We have both been using the Sony PRS-505 and absolutely loving it. I actually find it more convenient than reading analog books. I've always been a huge Trekkie and I love the fact that its like the Pads they are always reading.

 

[valentine92]

Does anyone know what the largest font size is you can use on the Kindle?

 

[River]

i want one of those so bad, plus any extra battery power that i can carry around with me is a plus since odds are you can find an adaptor for a passthrough that will fit it lol.

 

[Pugzley]

I got mine ordered, and my son bought me the leather case for it. Get yours all figured out pugsley, then I can come to you with all my questions, lol.

Now, why do you think I worked so hard to convince you to get a Kindle? I was going to come to you with MY questions. hahaha

 

[Pugzley]

Does anyone know what the largest font size is you can use on the Kindle?

I haven't found anything that says the size of the font, like it does on our computers, when we're choosing. But here's a video about font sizes. Also, there is supposed to be a 7th font size coming out that is double the size of the largest font they have now.

Here's the video link:


Kindle – Perfect Boomer Device? Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books

 

[Sheryl]

Now, why do you think I worked so hard to convince you to get a Kindle? I was going to come to you with MY questions. hahaha

It will be here Mon. or Tues. I had to laugh earlier. Hubby asked what he owed for it, I told him, thought he was going to have the big one. I guess the exact price didn't come up in conversation last night.

 

[Pugzley]

I hope he gets over his sticker shock quickly.

I got to use mine last night and it was really great, you're going to love it. So nice to be able to navigate with the buttons on the side for page turning. I'll read a lot more now that I have this.

 

[valentine92]

I haven't found anything that says the size of the font, like it does on our computers, when we're choosing. But here's a video about font sizes. Also, there is supposed to be a 7th font size coming out that is double the size of the largest font they have now.

Here's the video link:


Kindle – Perfect Boomer Device? Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books

Thank you much appreciated

 

[kristin]

I know my husband got one for me too. Haven't opened it yet, though, lol!

 

[Pugzley]

My wife and I are avid readers. We moved into this brand new house and our entire collection of books were still in their boxes in the basement. The basement then floods destroying roughly 2000 books. Needless to say we were very bummed. So we decided to go digital.

We have both been using the Sony PRS-505 and absolutely loving it. I actually find it more convenient than reading analog books. I've always been a huge Trekkie and I love the fact that its like the Pads they are always reading.

Oh no! Losing my book collection would make me absolutely ill, I'm sorry that happened to you guys. Glad you're recouping with digital though. Even so, there's nothing like a bunch of bookshelves lining the wall filled with books.

 

[kristin]

Leaford e-book reading since 1998?? where have I been all these years!?..

I was reading e-books back in 1998, too! But they didn't have dedicated devices back then, that I know of. I used my Palm Pilot PDA! I thought about getting a reader for my current Palm Smartphone, but the screen is so small on my Palm Centro - I wanted something easier to read! I did like the backlight option on my Palm device, though.

There are a lot of e-book readers on the market. Barnes & noble just released a device that looks slick, but they were out of stock the day after they came on the market! The Kindle is rated #1 by the review sites I found. I like that you can get newspapers and magazines, too.

I used to read a lot, but I just don't seem to make it to the bookstore these days and i'm running out of room for books! (I need to get them to the resale store...)

 

[Pugzley]

I know my husband got one for me too. Haven't opened it yet, though, lol!

Well, obviously you've got much more self control that I do. Congrat! I hope you like it, I'm liking mine a lot.

 

[kristin]

Well, obviously you've got much more self control that I do. Congrat! I hope you like it, I'm liking mine a lot.

Yeah, he's not too much of a techie, so I had to basically tell him how to order it and i was here when the box arrived from Amazon, lol! I guess it's silly to let him wrap it for christmas, but it was all he got me at first. I guess he got me some other things too, so maybe I could start using my Kindle now!

 

[kristin]

How good is the wireless coverage? I bought an aircard in Milwaukee for my laptop and it doesn't have coverage in my new town (small town in northern Wisconsin.) I'm worried that may be the case with the Kindle. Does it come with the PC softwarre or is that extra?

 

[Pugzley]

Here's a map for coverage, you can type in your zip and find out, hope this link works, click on the tab for North America:

Kindle with Global Wireless

You can get the PC software here for free, if this is what you are asking, I'm not that much of a techie at all:

Kindle for PC

 

[mergryphon]

How good is the wireless coverage? I bought an aircard in Milwaukee for my laptop and it doesn't have coverage in my new town (small town in northern Wisconsin.) I'm worried that may be the case with the Kindle. Does it come with the PC softwarre or is that extra?

You don't need special software, you can just attach it like a usb drive and drop things you download in the document folder.

If you want to be organized and get things from other places and convert them, get that Calibre library application I mentioned before. Its free.

 

[Pugzley]

I just checked out the calibre, I'll definitely be using that, looks like it's just what I need.

 

[rejoice]

I just now download the calibre. Did not know of this software. I had to pay Amazon to convert my files in the past. Thanks for the tip.

 

[rejoice]

Pugzley, I forgot to say that the SK book is available on preorder for 7.99.
You get it on Dec.24. It is my gift to myself Lol.

 

[kristin]

Here's a map for coverage, you can type in your zip and find out, hope this link works, click on the tab for North America:

Kindle with Global Wireless

You can get the PC software here for free, if this is what you are asking, I'm not that much of a techie at all:

Kindle for PC

Thanks, Pugzley! It doesn;t seem to have 3G coverage in my area yet. It says it has "EDGE/GPRS coverage (lower speed)" coverage.

Does anyone know what that means?