Got a Kindle Touch today

[gorcorps]

Everybody is going to have different tastes with e-ink vs. LCD for reading. Personally in my experience eye strain is merely a factor of focusing on a single depth for too long, regardless of what you're reading. If I read for much longer than an hour without taking a minute to stop and look around to readjust my eyes, I can feel what I would call "eye strain". It happens with real books, magazines, LCD screens at work, LCD screens on a tablet, and most recently my e-ink Nook Touch during a flight.

The ONLY reason I went back to e-ink vs. the Nook Touch or Fire was the weight difference. The Nook Color was pretty heavy in comparison to all the e-ink readers, which made a difference reading in bed. I miss having a backlight and it feels no different to me to read on a black screen w/ white text vs. "normal" colors on an eink display. Having to use an external light on my Nook Touch feels so stupid. It's 2012 and these things can't come with their own LEDs and a switch? How many generations of e-ink readers are we going to see before they figure out how to light the damn screen? Just put some LEDs around the perimeter of the screen if you want to be cheap, I don't care... I just would like to be able to read in the dark with a device that already has a battery in it.

 

[Onita]

I got a Kindle Touch for Christmas and like it pretty well. I don't either notice or mind the refresh. Sometimes the touch response is horrible though (but this has been my experience with ALL touch screen devices). I'll have to touch it multiple times to turn a page or get a menu option to work but then other times it seems too responsive, like i'll accidently bump the screen and it will change the page, etc.


Who the eff reads in the dark anyway? you couldn't read a physical book in the dark either.

I do, every night. I read a physical book in the dark last night with a flashlight, lol.

I have a kindle. Thinking about getting a Touch or something similar for magazines, etc.

 

[tokie]

I have a ad-supported Kindle 4 (no keyboard or touch) which I got for like $60 after using a coupon and it is absolutely fantastic. Feels like 1/2 the size of the original Nook that I had, super long battery life.

The only thing I wish it could do (and maybe it can) is sync pages w/ the Kindle app on my iPhone so I can keep reading the same book without having to remember exactly where I was. I sideloaded the book, so maybe thats why it wont work? Thats just 1 plus for using iBooks since it keeps it all synced pretty seamlessly for sideloaded books.

Uh, the most recent Kindle update and iPhone app allow this.

You send a personal document to your Kindle and your iPhone, and it keeps the pages in sync through Whispernet. I do this for 3rd party things all the time now.