Kindle fire vs paperwhite8/20/2023 ![]() ![]() I made a copy (so now there are two instances of the same file, with one file name as “Copy of xyz,”) and now the file shows up. When connected, the files show up in the directory, but won’t display on screen. Then, once I transfered some ebook files to the Fire, some of them didn’t show up once I disconnected. I swapped the USB cord I normally use (and works for all other micro USB devices) for a different one, and the fire mounted just fine. I couldn’t get the fire to mount, and when I googled for answers, I couldn’t believe what I was reading until I tried it. The fire only mounts to my computer as a drive if I use one particular USB cord. The non tapered edges on the Fire are surely cheaper to make, and help keep the price fairly inexpensive, but this thing is kind of a brick. The paperwhite is a pleasure to hold, and doesn’t cause fatigue during marathon reading sessions. I like having internet access, and use this quite a bit. + Full color screen is great for everything besides reading books, and is not bad at all for reading I probably won’t use most of it anyway, so for my purposes, here are the ups and downs so far with regard to how I actually have been using it: It does quite a bit more than that as well, but the internet has done a great job of listing all the things the Kindle Fire can do, so there’s no point in trying to cover that much information here. I find that I use it to browse and look things up on the internet quite a bit, but it also plays media (music, movies, audiobooks, etc.) as well. Thus, its major advantage is that you can do a lot more than just read books. It is a limited tablet pc that runs on a modified Android OS, and has a full color screen (that’s pretty nice). The Kindle fire is more than just an Ereader. So which Ereader is better? Here’s my 2 cents: (Also, Goodreads has helped fuel my reading binge enormously, and keeps my to-read list full.) I’ve read more books this year (and we’re only half way through) than the last five years combined (I’m really, really lazy about going to the library, and not willing to buy physical copies of everything I want to read, so we used to just not have new reading material available). Now, we’re both consuming books as fast as we can read them. My parents took pity on us, and bought us a Kindle Fire as a gift. We bought a Kindle Paperwhite (with the frontlit screen), and liked it so much, we ended up aggravated at having to take turns to read at night before bed. Kevin agrees with me, as we ended up with two ereaders. I’ll still do it, but the convenience and ease-of-use of the Ereader has completely won me over. After just a few books on an ereader, I find it’s slightly aggravating to go back and read a physical book. I still love my shelves full of books, but the actual reading experience of an Ereader is fantastic. Having hundreds of books on a handheld device surely would not be as satisfying. Sitting down near a window or outside in the hammock with a printed book just holds a certain appeal. I love wall spaces lined with bookshelves full of books. Despite a several year slump of hardly reading novels at all (while still consuming online content and magazines voraciously), I haven’t lost my appreciation. I love books I love to read, I love having books around, and what they represent. I was skeptical, sure that the digital format would take something away from the experience, and reduce the joy of reading. Not having an Ereader until recently, it took me a long time to get around to giving it a shot. ![]()
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