Robert L Cochran wrote: > I do own a Kindle and I have connected it to my Fedora 7 machine (yeah, > I know Fedora 7 is way out of date, I hope to finally upgrade later this > year.) The Kindle just appears to be another hard drive. I also happen > to have a 4 Gb flash card installed in mine, and I can see that, too, as > another hard drive. > > I can't remember if my Kindle can read a PDF file directly or if the pdf > has to be converted to *.azw format. It reads HTML and I have added PDF > books but I think I first converted those to *.azw.) I do not like my > Kindle. > > The Kindle has been available for more than a year now, I believe, but > there hasn't been one single firmware update made available to improve > its numerous failings. > > It does not handle pdf's, even converted ones, correctly. > > It shows images only in grayscale. Not having a color Kindle when you > can get a color netbook for close to the same price is a waste of money. > If I had a choice (with hindsight) I'd now buy a netbook. They do more > and are still very portable. > > A similar device is the iRex iLiad. It costs more than the Kindle. I > don't know if it is still being marketed. > > The Kindle forums on Amazon had one guy who claimed to be a medical > doctor and I don't understand how he was able to use his Kindle for > study. The Kindle simply does not do text, images, or HTML tables very > well. Doctors are expected to study books which are of extremely complex > nature. > > Please note: I am saying all the above after having downloaded only one > free sample chapter of a Kindle-ized book, and I have never bought a > Kindle Store book from Amazon. > > My impression of the Kindle is that its total purpose is to give you, > the buyer, an extremely limited experience. And give Amazon a broad, > rewarding bottom-line experience. > > Maybe I really should order that netbook.... > > Bob Cochran > <snip> FWIW, I own a Kindle and, for reading the Kindle'ized ebooks it rocks AFAIC. I was given one for Christmas (along with a gift card for Amazon) and, to be frank, have read probably a dozen books on it since then. For just reading books it's great...very easy on the eyes. I wish it had a few more features than it has (like displaying time, maybe being able to check weather) but that's not really what it's for in the first place. I read alot (can you tell?) and have found it to be remarkable...the only complaint (hah!) that I might have is in how easy it is to search for a book that I want and, if they have it, download it (takes about 10 seconds typically)...but maybe that's not really a fault of the Kindle but my own inability to go for more than a couple of hours without a new book to read. Haven't tried anything as far as with F10 yet...did try to connect it to a VirtualBox "usb" port with no success. Kevin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
