Tag: Kindle
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Another (final) episode in the @AmazonKindle farce
In August I bought this book – Information and Coding Theory. As I was then in rural Norfolk I bought it for the Kindle. That was a mistake. The book is a good one – I would recommend it for those seeking to get to grips with the maths of information theory – an increasingly…
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Another reason to steer clear of @AmazonKindle
As I have reported before, the Amazon Kindle is a lousy product. What is more, I have repeatedly asked Amazon for an explanation as to why they are selling e-books which are plainly not fit for purpose, but I have had no reply at all. Now, according to the Guardian, we read that Amazon are…
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With zero thanks to @AmazonKindle
Thanks to the SCONUL inter-library agreement between British universities I was able to join Imperial College‘s university library today and went on to borrow a copy of Information and Coding Theory: the book I bought about six weeks ago for the Kindle and subsequently discovered to be all-but-unreadble on that device. Immediately I can see…
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@AmazonKindle have broken their Cloud Reader too
Having checked out the alternatives to the Kindle that are provided by Amazon the current state of play is: Linux: no native alternative offered Windows: Kindle app crashes on 64 bit wine, so cannot tell you what that’s like Mac OSX: seems to render pages perfectly as broken as the Kindle Android: app is as…
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Don’t buy a Kindle to read maths or computer science books
In the last twenty-four hours I have been forced to completely reassess my view of the Kindle. I have been reading a book (I won’t say what as I want to make the comments below anonymous) on a Kindle (the device, not an application – see below), and was resigned to the usual second class Kindle…
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Surrendered to the Kindle
I wrote a piece a while back about why I wasn’t looking to buy a Kindle. Well, now I have got one. To be fair to myself I did not buy it – it was a present. I quite like it – especially when faced with a long haul jet journey (as later today). But…
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Still not buying a Kindle
Amazon have a new version of the Kindle. I still have no plans to buy one.
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