{"id":464,"date":"2015-03-07T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2015-03-07T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T07:56:00","slug":"thoughts-on-kindle-paperwhite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/07\/thoughts-on-kindle-paperwhite\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Kindle Paperwhite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a kindle paperwhite. Here are some things I&#8217;ve noticed:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I buy a fair amount of books from places other than Amazon (often from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humblebundle.com\/books\">Humble Bundle<\/a> instead), for which you have to either &#8220;side load&#8221; via USB, or email to a kindle.com address\n<ul>\n<li>If you email the book to your kindle, then you&#8217;re limited to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html\/ref=hp_pdoc_main_short_us?nodeId=200767340\">50MB and 15 attachments per email<\/a>. Which doesn&#8217;t sound to bad, but with my yahoo.com email address, I&#8217;m limited to 12MB per email, and I have some ebooks with lots of pictures that easily exceed that limit.<\/li>\n<li>If you side load, via USB, then the ebook is <strong>not<\/strong> synced to your other devices, which is total crap. It also doesn&#8217;t show up on your Amazon cloud drive.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t use Amazon&#8217;s cloud drive to upload documents to your kindle. I think at one point in time this might have been possible. Seems like useful feature to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The organization methods suck. Collections are available on the kindle, but they can only be managed on the kindle. Let&#8217;s face it, the kindle has a crap UI, primarily because the e-ink is slow. So, Amazon should provide a web interface to manage the device &#8211; similar to the way Apple and Google let you manage apps on your phone\/tablet. But not only allow loading and deleting books from a device, but also organizing books into collections\/categories. Ideally, Amazon would automatically organize device documents by genre, the same way they do with their website when buying books.<\/li>\n<li>I had hoped to be able to use the paperwhite for maps. Nope. The zooming for pdf\/jpg just sucks too bad. Maybe if someone released an ebook with the appropriate links for scrolling\/zooming it would work better? At any rate, I didn&#8217;t find anything readily available with\u00a0 quick Amazon and Google searches. To me, maps for remote areas where you don&#8217;t have WiFi or cell coverage seems like an ideal use for an e-ink device. If I tried to just use my phone\/tablet to look at maps all the time while on a long hike, I&#8217;d end up draining the batteries before too long. But a kindle with its approximately 1 month battery life should fit the bill, even if it is only grayscale. I&#8217;ve made some progress (after 6+ hours) at an experimental bash script to convert individual USGS quad PDFs into ePub\/Mobi formats, with the maps split into multiple images. But honestly, why hasn&#8217;t this been done already?<\/li>\n<li>The experimental browser sucks. It especially seems to choke on javascript (maybe 70% of the sites I tried). Nor does it handle rss\/atom\/rdf feeds, like most modern browsers do.<\/li>\n<li>RSS support is nonexistant. This seems like a no-brainer to me. I use RSS feeds for almost all my news. I can tell from looking at the Amazon kindle store, that they believe they should get a revenue stream for providing other people&#8217;s (free RSS) content to my device, but that is utter BS.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a kindle paperwhite. Here are some things I&#8217;ve noticed: I buy a fair amount of books from places other than Amazon (often from Humble Bundle instead), for which you have to either &#8220;side load&#8221; via USB, or email to a kindle.com address If you email the book to your kindle, then you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3p6ZE-7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}