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I cleaned out a drawer in my kitchen today and found about a hundred bucks in Indigo Chapters gift cards (Canadian) which was a great surprise. However, I have a Kindle Paperwhite. I already use Calibre to load on the free books I download, but have no idea where to get started getting Kobo ebooks onto my Kindle. Anyone know where to point me to get me started? Or, does anyone want to buy me kindle books and I'll send you my chapters gc numbers? I'd give you a good deal.
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Doppelganger posted:I have a Kindle Paperwhite, any recommendations for the best way to disinfect the screen without damaging it? I bought a ScreenDr kit today, and it says it has an antibacterial cloth, but no idea what that actually means. Nope. I use my screen cleaner on my Kindle all the time.
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Nov 8, 2013 15:05
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hotsauce posted:Had the original PW. The light was a cold blue tint and horribly uneven. Traded it in on Amazon before the PW2 launched (got $95 for it). Upgraded to the PW2 and the light tint is much warmer and natural, not to mention no splotchiness. This irritation with the original PW is baffling to me. I have one - I've never seen a blue tint, and the lighting seems fairly even to me, except for a very small section near the bottom.
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Nov 8, 2013 15:42
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Nihiliste posted:This irritation with the original PW is baffling to me. I have one - I've never seen a blue tint, and the lighting seems fairly even to me, except for a very small section near the bottom. Some people are more OCD than you, it seems.
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Nov 8, 2013 16:14
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Endless Mike posted:Some people are more OCD than you, it seems. OCD doesn't kick in until you have a PW1 and PW2 side by side. I'm not sperging. The difference is apparent. But hey if you never see a PW2 you're good to go.
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Nov 8, 2013 16:40
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Pympede posted:I cleaned out a drawer in my kitchen today and found about a hundred bucks in Indigo Chapters gift cards (Canadian) which was a great surprise. However, I have a Kindle Paperwhite. I already use Calibre to load on the free books I download, but have no idea where to get started getting Kobo ebooks onto my Kindle. There is a solution for you involving  .
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Nov 8, 2013 16:54
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Pympede posted:I cleaned out a drawer in my kitchen today and found about a hundred bucks in Indigo Chapters gift cards (Canadian) which was a great surprise. However, I have a Kindle Paperwhite. I already use Calibre to load on the free books I download, but have no idea where to get started getting Kobo ebooks onto my Kindle. Google "kobo drm calibre" for some possibilities.
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Nov 8, 2013 17:56
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Nihiliste posted:This irritation with the original PW is baffling to me. I have one - I've never seen a blue tint, and the lighting seems fairly even to me, except for a very small section near the bottom. The original PW also varied a lot in quality. The original one I received was terrible, very noticeable blue and pink splotches, a big unlit area in the center, etc. I asked them for a replacement, and the second one still had some uneven lighting, and some blue splotches that were really only noticeable when reading in the dark, but overall was much better. However, next to the paperwhite 2, it still looks horribly discolored and uneven. And this has nothing to do with the four light spots on the bottom. I’m aware they’re unavoidable due to the original PW design. The issues I was seeing were in the middle/upper right area of the screen.
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Nov 8, 2013 20:16
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I went through 4(?) Paperwhites before getting a really good one. This thread mocked me at the time, but there really seemed to be a lot of QC issues, and the differences between the initial ones and the one I ended up with were very noticeable. I'm sure the Paperwhite 2 looks even better, but the difference between it and my current one will inevitably be much less than the difference between it and some of the lesser-quality models out there.
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Nov 8, 2013 21:22
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Seems like I lucked out, then. I was happy with mine on the first try, but then I did wait a little past launch before I got one.
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Nov 8, 2013 21:51
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I ordered a paperwhite back in January, and it has worked perfectly for me, then and now. (I like how you can set the lighting to the lowest setting, and you can read it in just about any type of light.) Is the new paperwhite a must-have, or is it more like the difference between the iPhone 5c and the iPhone 5s? I just use this thing to read books. Jakcson fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Nov 10, 2013 |
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Nov 10, 2013 03:29
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Jakcson posted:I ordered a paperwhite back in January, and it has worked perfectly for me, then and now. (I like how you can set the lighting to the lowest setting, and you can read it in just about any type of light.)
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Nov 10, 2013 04:13
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It's a very incremental upgrade. The only reason I upgraded was that I didn't do very well in the frontlight lottery for the original paperwhite and still noticed blotches under some circumstances, which I heard was fixed in the new paperwhite. If you don't have any issues with your screen/light, it's definitely not worth upgrading.
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Nov 10, 2013 04:56
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Jakcson posted:I ordered a paperwhite back in January, and it has worked perfectly for me, then and now. (I like how you can set the lighting to the lowest setting, and you can read it in just about any type of light.) A more apt comparison is it's more like the difference between the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5c.
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Nov 10, 2013 05:33
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I'd really love to buy a PW but I just can't justify it when my Keyboard/lighted cover are still kicking along just fine. Only issue I have is the traditional bottom corner cracks in the plastic. I almost wish it would break so I'd be forced to update.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:03
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Did Staples, the last Kindle bastion in Canada, finally give up the good fight and switch to Kobo? I didn't see any Kindles last time I was there 
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Nov 10, 2013 19:30
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Martytoof posted:Did Staples, the last Kindle bastion in Canada, finally give up the good fight and switch to Kobo? I didn't see any Kindles last time I was there Doesn't Best Buy/Futureshop have Kindles up there?
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Nov 10, 2013 19:44
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:Doesn't Best Buy/Futureshop have Kindles up there? I don't know about FS but BestBuy was Kobo.
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Nov 10, 2013 19:48
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At least Kobos are worth a drat these days!
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Nov 11, 2013 14:51
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Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) 5.3.9 update:Amazon posted:Hide Reading Progress Option Source.
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Nov 12, 2013 23:45
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Nihiliste posted:At least Kobos are worth a drat these days! Yeah I love my Kobo Aura HD. I dunno why more people don't look into it!
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Nov 13, 2013 01:53
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Guitarchitect posted:Yeah I love my Kobo Aura HD. I dunno why more people don't look into it! Because Kobo has nowhere near the name recognition of Amazon, and Kobo also was known to associate with several brick & mortar bookstores that collapsed in recent years. Also Kobo did this weird thing where apparently they're going to stop selling it by 2014? I don't know why but that was in the announcements they made when it launched.
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Nov 13, 2013 02:41
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Guitarchitect posted:Yeah I love my Kobo Aura HD. I dunno why more people don't look into it! Yeah, with the demise of Borders, Kobo seems to have largely pulled out of the US market outside of independent bookstores. Granted they seem to be the go-to reader in Canada and Japan. Also, I'm not sure what the purpose of the Aura HD really was. If anything their e-readers seem to overlap with the needs of their userbase. I do love my Glo though!
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Nov 13, 2013 02:54
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) 5.3.9 update: Bison_yes.gif I can't believe they added this. The progress bar was so distracting and really, useless to me. I submitted it as a complaint somewhere, do you think Amazon listened to me? 
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Nov 13, 2013 03:25
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hope and vaseline posted:
It's a modern larger screen ereader, since the Kindle DX still hasn't been updated since 2010. Though it's only 6.8 inch instead of 9.7 inch, so it's not quite the same level of bigger screen.
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Nov 13, 2013 03:57
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Install Windows posted:It's a modern larger screen ereader, since the Kindle DX still hasn't been updated since 2010. Though it's only 6.8 inch instead of 9.7 inch, so it's not quite the same level of bigger screen. it also has a higher pixel density, i think it's borderline retina-level? it's certainly a lot nicer to read than their other offerings...
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Nov 13, 2013 05:31
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Guitarchitect posted:it also has a higher pixel density, i think it's borderline retina-level? it's certainly a lot nicer to read than their other offerings... Retina isn't a real thing, anything high density is "retina level". It's slightly higher pixel density then the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kobo Glo, which are themselves a good deal higher pixel density then older ereaders.
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Nov 13, 2013 05:40
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) 5.3.9 update: Nice! Always wanted to get rid of that.
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Nov 13, 2013 09:25
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Two similar questions about problems I just started having with my Nook. I have the Simple Touch with GL and recently started using it again after not picking it up for about 2 months. Obviously it was dead so I charged it up and put some books on it and all was good. Until I noticed the time was seriously off. I had it set for Eastern and the time was off by an hour, I figured it was a DST issue and just switched the time zone to Atlantic because I don't really care about that, but is this something known or is mine freaking out? Also with time, it's now off by ~10 minutes, which I do care about, same questions as above, is this known/how do I fix it? Thanks.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:21
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Did you turn on the wi-fi and let it connect to the internet? The time is supposed to be synced automatically online. Try setting your time zone then connecting to the internet again and seeing if that fixes it. If not, try erasing and deregistering, shutting it down completely, then re-registering it. And if that doesn't work, I'd get them to exchange it.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:56
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Did you turn on the wi-fi and let it connect to the internet? The time is supposed to be synced automatically online. Try setting your time zone then connecting to the internet again and seeing if that fixes it. If not, try erasing and deregistering, shutting it down completely, then re-registering it. And if that doesn't work, I'd get them to exchange it. Connecting to Wifi fixed it right away, even corrected my time zone, thanks.
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Nov 14, 2013 03:56
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ilysespieces posted:Connecting to Wifi fixed it right away, even corrected my time zone, thanks.
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Nov 14, 2013 04:54
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Is anybody else having any issues with kobobooks.com charging incorrect taxes? Tried to buy a book the other day and I was being charged GST and HST, problem being my province doesn't have HST. I contacted support and was told to clear my cookies but it didn't work Kobo support said they'll look into it but I was wondering if anyone here had any ideas. Edit: Found a way around it for now!  Using the Kobo desktop app let me purchase my books at the correct tax rate but their website is still wrong for whatever reason. Guess I'll actually use the app now.
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Nov 14, 2013 06:38
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Nihiliste posted:At least Kobos are worth a drat these days! Man, have you seen the new Kobo Aura? The thing is like a tiny ipad with an eink screen. Capacitive touch screen completely flush with the bezel and it still has the glow feature. Light as a feather too. I was impressed, I assume amazon will be playing catchup next year. Strange times we live in where Kobo is making more advanced ereaders than amazon. It was only a few years ago that Kobo was constantly playing catchup.
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Nov 15, 2013 00:51
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Remember how awkward these things were?
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Nov 15, 2013 01:55
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What I would love at this point is an eink ereader that integrated in with Google Books.
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Nov 15, 2013 01:56
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bull3964 posted:What I would love at this point is an eink ereader that integrated in with Google Books. There's the iRiver Story HD but it's not particularly good: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/19/iriver-story-hd-review/ Take note that the higher res screen referred to is only the 1024x768 res in most modern readers.
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Nov 15, 2013 02:06
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OK, a correction, a GOOD eReader that integrates with Play Books.
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Nov 15, 2013 02:17
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hope and vaseline posted:Remember how awkward these things were? Nope! What is it and why are they bad?
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the littlest prince posted:Nope! What is it and why are they bad? The original kobo. Ugh. See that huge button? That's how you turn pages. It's really stiff and clicky and just generally awkward. The whole thing was awkward to use. It's the OG kobo's awfulness that drove me to get a kindle instead.
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