Amazon Kindle

will they ever learn?

My Kindle completely froze on Tuesday. Tried all the tricks, no response. Phoned Mr Amazon and explained the situation. 'Sounds like your unit has a hardware fault. Would you like a new one?'.

Arrived yesterday.

Bloody good service.

Yep. Leaned

Did they go tag crazy as well?

Got one for my birthday last month, fantastic product.

Hi guys,

Just quickly, what are people using to convert PDF to Kindle Format?

Cheers

It does, but you cant exactly increase text sizes for one.

There is no reliable way of converting a PDF to something the Kindle could show. It may work for very simple texts, but anything that possibly includes other character sets, line drawings, graphs, diagrams, mathematical notation and the like will fail to convert.

Basically: eBooks have a subset of the functionality of a PDF.

Therefore: PDFs cannot be reliably converted into any eBook format.

You may be able to convert some very simple PDFs, but you'll get poor results on a lot of PDFs and absolutely terrible results with a fair few PDFs.

Either stay native, or get an eBook in the first place.

About the only thing you might be able to achieve is a PDF to PDF convertor that trims off white space around the text resulting in the displayed text being scaled larger.

Has anyone bought a kindle 3g recently? Horatio had one and could browse the web for free anywhere, but i read on a couple of sites that they have stopped this and you can only use the 3g to download books now.

I used my 3G kindle to check my emails in Germany 3 weeks ago, it worked fine then

just curious to see if its a hardware thing on newer models, when did you buy your kindle?

I bought it at the end of September. Just got a replacement for a faulty unit, so won't know if it still works until I go abroad in January

are Kindles fixed price or are there any deals about?

Thanks

Thank for the advice re: PDF.

I'll see how it handles it. Was hoping it could be easier for bookmarking and reading on various computers / devices.

I read PDF's all the time on mine, mainly text books - I find it easier to read them landscape, otherwise the text is too small to read.
It's certainly not ideal - but it's not a deal breaker. Beats having to carry about massively thick text books all the time.

Thinking about getting my mother a Kindle for Christmas, I got my Dad one for his birthday.

Is there any way they could share books, short of swapping devices?

Is there any way they could share books, short of swapping devices?

Why don't they share the same account?

Why don't they share the same account?

Communist...

Not seen you in a while!

Mrs Quinn is thinking about getting a Kindle.
She already has an iPad and reads books on that that she buys through the Kindle store.

Is there any point getting her a Kindle given that she already has a fondleslab? Apart from the ePaper screen does it offer anything? Is the 3g access and web browser worth it?

i have the 3g free web kindle and it's like browsing on a sega megadrive - if she has an ipad i say don't bother and just go for the £89 one

The web browsing is OK if you have no other access, but is very clunky - you wouldn't want to do it for long.

Question - can you run 2 android kindles on different phones from the same main account? And can those then read different books?

Question - can you run 2 android kindles on different phones from the same main account? And can those then read different books?

Yes.

Oooh, great.

Ta, bossman.

Does anyone fancy uploading that collection of books somewhere, and PM-ing me a link?

Would be much appreciated!