Comments on: The Kindle abroad

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:38:55 +0000

Would you tell me what version of the Kindle you took on your travels? Many thank!

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:16:34 +0000

Even though Amazon’s new kindle lineup seems poised to crush B&N, here’s a quick plug for the eInk Nook. They have really continued to make improvements to the firmware since I got mine close to the original release date. Last time I did side-by-side page turns against a Kindle 2 (~1yr ago) the Nook was slightly faster.

On eReaders for travel, one last perk is that an old school 1D bar code scanner can read a 1D bar code off an eInk screen (as long as the resolution is high enough), whereas off an LCD screen only 2D readers will work (for 2D or 1D codes).

By: RANGER

RANGER — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:32:31 +0000

If I give a kindle to my friend in Mongolia, will she be able to download books from Amazon there?

By: Andrys

Andrys — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:03:47 +0000

B&N did not bother with a web browser at all in the new Nook, not even for WiFi use, even though the first Nook had a decent one, for eInk.

They also are not including the music player. A few other things that are important to me are not included, and I list them at
http://bit.ly/kwksmall

That touchscreen technology must be expensive for them.

By: Hristo Velev

Hristo Velev — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:13:27 +0000

It also saved me once in Greece :)

By: Andrys

Andrys — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:40:05 +0000

I like sendtokindle but tend to use firefox, and a very good tool that’s useable with most browsers is sendtoreader. See http://bit.ly/str-comments for feedback on how that one has worked for Kindle users.

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:16:17 +0000

Yeah, but no 3G on the new Nook. So no free global internet.

By: Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:48:23 +0000

And the new Nook announced today — with a touchscreen, lighter — might be it.

By: Aquarion

Aquarion — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:40:24 +0000

(Oddly, this is the one part of international service that’s not free, but the price is negligible: $0.99 per megabyte for documents delivered this way.)

If you send the email to yourname@free.kindle.com instead of yourname@kindle.com, it will only download it next time you pass a wifi point, which is free.

By: Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:22:01 +0000

I’d say better input is the big improvement I’m looking for — both for typing and pointing. The keyboard is still a horror show for typing anything more than a word or two, and navigating around the page (like in the web browser, or in a book’s TOC) is still very clunky. But yeah, it’s quite an advance over the first gen.