Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:57:38 +1300, Titus G <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 26/03/24 08:59, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> On 3/25/2024 12:11 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>snip
>>>
>>> I've lost one jailbroken 2011 Kindle Keyboard to some sort of
>>> hardware issue, but the other is still going strong.=A0 It is amusing
>>> how slow search gets when you have 1240 books loaded.=A0 Definitely
>>> don't want to "trade up" to one without the read-out-loud feature and
>>> a headphone jack.
>>=20
>> =A0I use the kindle app on ipad and an android phone, and haven't
>> noticed any ads beyond 'you might like this book'.
>>=20
>> ...but I don't get the text-to-voice, and I'd love to have it.
>>=20
>
>My first Kindle was bought in 2011 but my books are all stored in
>Calibre so I never would have had more than a hundred on it so never
>noticed speed of response to anything but the touch screen on later
>models is far superior for ease of use. I use the Amazon provided Kindle
>for PC and do not register the Kindle so do not receive any ads.
>I suspect you would be very disappointed with the quality of text to
>voice on this 2011 Kindle as the computer just produces words in a
>computer voice with no change in emotion, speed or volumne.

Actually, I found the mechanical Kindle (the Refurbished one) easier
to use overall. For one thing, the keyboard is set up alphabetically,
which makes sense since touch typing is not involved.

It also worked better with footnotes. A few novels have had footnotes
and some even implement them rather than just show the numbers and put
the text wherever it falls. With the mechanical Kindle, you can select
the number, go to the note, and then return. With the touch-screen
Kindle, I had to increase the font size/line spacing so that I could
reliable touch the footnote number (as opposed to anything else in its
vicinity), but I will say that things went more smoothly after I did.
Still, having to turn my book into a Large Print edition just to
follow the footnotes is a definite disadvantage, IMHO.

OTOH, the touch Kindles apparently list all the groups I form whether
they contain books on that Kindle or not.

The newest Kindles have a new USB socket and a shorter cable (solved
with an extension cable and the fact that both use the same USB
socket), and a new user interface with insists on showing (by default)
/all/ collections and /all/ Books on a scrolling display (instead of a
bunch of screens). The closest I can come to what I want (the
Paperwhite interface, which did not show books that were in
collections outside of the collections, at least when configured
properly), is to show only unread books. I have to remember to add
each new book to a collection when it is received, since it won't be
visible after it is read. But only if I view it in the Library, which
is /not/ the default view. The default view is the Store. Of course,
since I spend 99% of my time on the Kindle reading the books, I don't
have to deal with these annoyances very often.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"