Here is the fourth version of the Kindle object, this object has been stripped of everything superfluous (including coverage, although essential in transport) to concentrate on one goal: to sell books and read them in the best conditions.
I must admit that this goal was achieved, disappeared on the Kindle keyboard 3, disappeared on mp3 player, no 3G connection, the Kindle 4 shall only be used to read, we have many other much more effective iBidule do the rest!screen, most important, is quite nice, although the contrast is still below that of a page of paper (if you're lucky enough not to read the front at the same time the back!) as limited to displaying 16 shades of gray, making it also the integrated web browser completely impassable. Available options layout are quite satisfactory, although I would have appreciated more choice of fonts, but it may come later, because you see the Kindle is an object scalable operating system (nolens volens), just like your favorite smartphones.
aware that in order to get the most 4 out of your Kindle, you'll want to connect to your Wi-Fi, since your book purchases will be delivered from the act of purchase on the Amazon site.Fabulous is not it? Better yet, you can shop directly on the Kindle, not huge? The Boeotian objected that to enter it each time his credit card number or username / password on the Amazon virtual keyboard may be faster boring ...Fortunately Amazon has thought of everything, and if the purchase on its website simply protected by a password you had pleased, you'll love the Kindle purchase method, in a word: free. All your Kindle reader may wish to make purchases on your account ... Glups, of course it is possible to protect the device password but we lose in simplicity and usability.It is also possible to cancel purchases dishonest or wrong, I do not know how long.
Otherwise the service has always been very accommodating with me so far (~ 15 years of practice). By cons, although the buying interface and browsing in the virtual shelves of the mega-bookstore is nicer than the browser, the cover images in 16 million colors become unrecognizable and I even had a little too much hassle before she managed to get a list of books committed by the author of the novel in progress, which remains, in my view, the navigation mode the most effective. Similarly the organization by list of available books on your Kindle, and another, do not talk to me.
But here I am afraid there is nothing to do as the screen will not be 2 meters high with shelves on which are comfortably installed the images of the cover of your books. Moreover, by dint of accumulate books, you'll soon find yourself with a list to Prévert in which it will be difficult to find you. A solution, however, remove the device, knowing that Amazon has registered and will allow you to download them again at will ... in the absence of bugs, of course! Turning now to the real criticism that can be made to this object.
Remember that the goal of Amazon is not to please you dear reader but to make the dough and that the best way to do this is to establish a monopoly (yes, yes, this is real capitalism ). For this competition booksellers, books and other sites of vendors of readers e-reader must be eliminated. This is why Amazon has not included support for the most popular format and most popular ebook: the epub.
The Boeotian will not have the technical possibility to read an ebook on Amazon also bought ... The following measure-cons dear reader: install the software Caliber (free) and convert to your mobi epub format which is the name the current format used by the Kindle. The second criticism relates to the state of the ebook offers in French and is very far from being as economical as the Anglo-Saxon current offers.Recognize that the Kindle is not there for nothing. The last criticism concerns the presence of computer locks (DRM) on the ebooks you buy. You can not do as before: give your best books to your friends (well not once, only for fifteen days and only through another account Kindle).
It is true that an electronic format totally free can lend a single book all your friends at once, which is of course beyond the scope of a physical book lending. So why not allow this loan without limit but to one person at a time to regain some of the possibilities of the subject book? And what about resale opportunities?The history of reading cloud is still young, many changes are likely to happen, but overall I'm satisfied with this object in that I'm using it for access to books in which Anglo-Saxon it must be recognized that the supply is plentiful and cheaper than in France currently.
