Kindle Voyage review
Nov. 11th, 2014 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI just read two novels on it (see previous reviews), so I now have a sense of how I feel about the origami case (meh) and the page turn buttons (a definitely improvement over the Paperwhite's lack thereof). Initially, I had a habit of hitting the back button whenever I put the reader down. I had to consciously hold it in a slightly different place to avoid that. Then I kept getting sucked into left/right expectations and paging forward repeatedly when I meant to go back. There is a period of adaptation, but it does not feel onerous, and the experience gives me hope that when I am adapted it will do what I want it to without me having to think about it, which is more than I can say about the Paperwhite with the whole footnote problem whenever trying to page forward in non-fiction.
I checked it against my existing (I think original) Paperwhite (I didn't see a compelling reason to get a later generation). In case, it is lighter by slightly more than an ounce. While the screen size appears to be identical, the overall dimensions are noticeably smaller.
Charges well. Holds a charge fine. Does what I expect it to. Has a crazy crisp screen. I mean, really amazingly crisp.
It's always hard to know whether a given upgrade is worth the money ahead of time, but I sure don't regret this upgrade one teeny tiny little bit. I am overjoyed.
I checked it against my existing (I think original) Paperwhite (I didn't see a compelling reason to get a later generation). In case, it is lighter by slightly more than an ounce. While the screen size appears to be identical, the overall dimensions are noticeably smaller.
Charges well. Holds a charge fine. Does what I expect it to. Has a crazy crisp screen. I mean, really amazingly crisp.
It's always hard to know whether a given upgrade is worth the money ahead of time, but I sure don't regret this upgrade one teeny tiny little bit. I am overjoyed.
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Date: 2014-11-12 01:46 pm (UTC)(Also: hi! Courtney Milan linked your fascinating and level-headed discussion of Amazon book strategy on Twitter, and I said 'ooh, someone on Livejournal saying interesting things, who also reads and reviews books I am interested in!' So here I am. :) )
Heyer is available through kindle unlimited?
Date: 2014-11-13 01:10 am (UTC)I've been reading Liaden universe stuff, which the authors explicitly describe (at least Local Custom and the next one in Dragon Variation) as Heyer-style Regency Romance in Space. I started reading Heyer some time in the early or mid 1990s, and have been rereading her ever since. Lately, I've stopped thinking of them as Regency-era, and started thinking of them as coded 1920s era books, but that's probably because my brain is a little broken.
RE: Heyer is available through kindle unlimited?
Date: 2014-11-13 01:13 am (UTC)I think I read one Liaden book, but it was a long time ago and now there are so many I don't know where to start. :/
Re: Heyer is available through kindle unlimited?
Date: 2014-11-13 02:25 am (UTC)