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It looks very nice and fluid on the xoom. I like the new lay out it has for Honeycomb. The new store front UI is very nice as well. I like the scrollable Recommended For You across the top, and layout in general. I do like how in the settings it now shows which device name it is labeled as so you can change it on the amazon website to correctly reflect which device is which. I think my only gripe is that you can't change the background to a sepia effect so its more comfortable to read on.
My xoom updated automatically. I went to my apps on my Nexus s and it wasn't showing it as available for update, I had to search for it manually to perform the update. So for anyone not seeing the update on possible other devices do try the manual search in the market.
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Nice, millions times better than before but it would be nice if they added page turning animation and soother scrolling.
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yeah, i played around with it for a while. its a little buggy still, but a definite improvement. at least there is negative space around text. it would be nice to have better animations, two column support, and better overall horizontal screen responsiveness. the store in particular is borderline useless in horizontal orientation. about 30% of the way there
APK please?
mobilehavoc said:
Nice, millions times better than before but it would be nice if they added page turning animation and soother scrolling.
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diaa08 said:
yeah, i played around with it for a while. its a little buggy still, but a definite improvement. at least there is negative space around text. it would be nice to have better animations, two column support, and better overall horizontal screen responsiveness. the store in particular is borderline useless in horizontal orientation. about 30% of the way there
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I do tend to agree with both of you, while one of my main loves for Honeycomb is its drive to be very functional in landscape it does leave much to be desired in any apps as far as portrait goes.
Animations would be nice as would the two pages per screen, I guess owning a kindle myself it seems like they try to keep the app geared more like the device itself. I'm still surprised there aren't color options to increase ease of readability and provide longer battery options, two things the device itself captures but while Amazon designs the app to be more device like not just software like, fails to capture here.
I'm guessing the lack of these features leads to desire to want a kindle. Wouldn't want all the creature comforts and selling points in an app that could potentially steal your devices thunder.
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It looks very nice and fluid on the xoom. I like the new lay out it has for Honeycomb. The new store front UI is very nice as well. I like the scrollable Recommended For You across the top, and layout in general. I do like how in the settings it now shows which device name it is labeled as so you can change it on the amazon website to correctly reflect which device is which. I think my only gripe is that you can't change the background to a sepia effect so its more comfortable to read on.
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There are option in setting for you to set your background colour (white / sepia / black).
Great app, got me to finally purchase kindle books!
dj_ghosie said:
There are option in setting for you to set your background colour (white / sepia / black).
Great app, got me to finally purchase kindle books!
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Under my settings all I see is Deregister This Device.
Device Name
And the option to use the volume buttons to change pages
No color controls. If I'm missing something please show me. I'd love to change this. I know some of the other readers in the market have this option.
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sirius b said:
Under my settings all I see is Deregister This Device.
Device Name
And the option to use the volume buttons to change pages
No color controls. If I'm missing something please show me. I'd love to change this. I know some of the other readers in the market have this option.
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You should have a brightness icon in the action bar, fourth from the right. Color options are there.
Can you sideload books into the Kindle app? I tried copying a mobi file to the kindle directory but it doesn't work..
Yes I have sideloaded books to kindle. Specifically some mobi files on android development from commonsware. I just dropped them in the kindle folder and they showed up.
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I'm not a huge fan of the layout now with the size of the gap around the text, there is a huge ammount of real estate wasted.
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Kcarpenter said:
I'm not a huge fan of the layout now with the size of the gap around the text, there is a huge ammount of real estate wasted.
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Me neither! So I wrote a quick email to Amazon and here's their reply:
Hello,
I'm sorry, currently the option to display 2 pages with adequate font size is not available in Kindle for Android.
I’ve forwarded your concern and suggestions to our development team and we'll consider your feedback as we plan further improvements. We regularly update our Kindle and Kindle application software with added features. I've let the Kindle team know you're interested in this feature.
We'll consider your feedback as we plan further improvements. It is always important for us to hear how customers react to all aspects. Your valuable feedback will help us to improve the selection and service we provide and we're glad you took time to write to us.
We do value the feedback of our customers and make every attempt to integrate their comments or suggestions into our stores and procedures.
As always, please feel free to contact us should you have future suggestions, questions or comments. We have team of experts who takes into consideration each and every feedback of our customers and brings them into practice.
Thank you for using Kindle.
Best regards,
Kaliraja M.
Amazon.com
Your feedback is helping us build Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company.
I can almost see the Xerox marks on that email response.
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JanetPanic said:
Yes I have sideloaded books to kindle. Specifically some mobi files on android development from commonsware. I just dropped them in the kindle folder and they showed up.
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Ok finally got it working. I had to force stop the kindle app first and restarted it before it could see the new books.
Are you sure the kindle app automatically detects the books once you copy them over to the kindle folder?
nice app but I like more to read ebooks on my Kindle. better for my eyes
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Ok finally got it working. I had to force stop the kindle app first and restarted it before it could see the new books.
Are you sure the kindle app automatically detects the books once you copy them over to the kindle folder?
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No I am not sure of that. I may have not had the Kindle app running or I may have hit "sync and check for new items." I have a few books I need to add to my xoom so I will try again today and pay attention.
On a different note is anyone else having problems with text select? It used to be the kindle app had a magnification of the text so I could tell what was being selected. They did away with that but kept the crappy handles. If they shift to the honeycomb text select I am fine without the magnification but using the small (kindle specific) handles I can not tell where I am which makes it difficult to grab a precise section of text.
Edit: I should mention I am at the smallest font size. I read mostly technical books and the more text I can get on the screen at once the easier it is to follow. Particularly sample code. On large font sizes text selection is not as much of a problem.
Does anyone know if text to speech will come to the Android Kindle??
What Ver do you have? im on 3.2.0.35
I haven't seen a lot of good Screensaver sets out there for the nook touch, most don't even properly fit the screen, and I don't care for the two that come with it. I'd like to have this thread be a place where people can post theirs and get lots of awesome ones. The only rule I can think of is all pictures should be .jpg and have to be at 600x800 res.
Installing screensavers is as easy as follows:
Plug nook into computer via usb.
In the internal flash storage go into a folder call screensavers.
Make a new folder in here. Note: the name of the folder will also be the name of the screensaver/set.
Whatever pictures you put in the new folder will be added to that screensaver/set.
I'll start off with a clean version from one of my favorite mangas Elfen Lied! If you would like the non-clean (just 5 extra pictures) pm me.
I gathered a bunch on high resolution personal photos (family, pets, vacations), opened them in gimp, cropped them so that they were the correct ratio than scaled them down to 800x600. Lastly i converted them to grayscale. Some were landscape, some were portrait. If they were landscape i had to rotate them clockwise. The hardest part was trying to get the right ratio without cutting too much out.
They fill the whole screen and look great!
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Well, don't forget about these sites for your NST Screensaver pleasure:
The Nook Wallpapers Pool
The Kindle Backgrounds Pool (these work just fine as they are all in exactly the same res as the NST backgrounds)
...and, of course, the ever-popular Nook-Look.com (with screensavers for both color Nooks and e-ink versions)
Lots to choose from.
This sounds stupid, but I'm still looking for other "dead author" pics of famous people... even living authors. I know that the B&N brick and mortar store has one of Stephen King that looks pretty cool. I think that style of portrait is pretty neat. Maybe someone can come up with a Photoshop filter or something to do that...
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Well, don't forget about these sites for your NST Screensaver pleasure:
The Nook Wallpapers Pool
The Kindle Backgrounds Pool (these work just fine as they are all in exactly the same res as the NST backgrounds)
...and, of course, the ever-popular Nook-Look.com (with screensavers for both color Nooks and e-ink versions)
Lots to choose from.
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Anyone want to pack the kindle ones up into screensaver sets(as their already black and white)? And I know someones got to have made their own that they want to show off! Like ones' of their favorite authors or the covers of their favorite books? Drizzit anyone?
I throw some of them together myself
All credit goes to The Kindle Backgrounds Pool for the following files!
These were taken around the net, I can't remeber exactly where .
EDIT: Probably some where taken from nook-look.com...
Pair of Nook Simple Touch Screensavers
Bought my Mom a Simple Touch for Xmas; she likes flowers so I put together a 5-picture flower screensaver for her that includes the "press Nook button" graphic on the bottom. Also, made a light & dark version of the B&N Nook logos for screensavers. Hope somebody can use them.
I'm not really into all that screensavers, cause i dont let my nook rest xD
i like ukiyo-e pictures cause they tend to have high contrast
also check my current desktop, unfortunately my screenshot app takes screens in color ;D
Few of mine screensavers.
This one is awesome... to prank a nook owner.
Also my compilation of Eschers graphics. They look really cool on my nook
That's pretty sweet
Dagon.Alex said:
This one is awesome... to prank a nook owner.
Also my compilation of Eschers graphics. They look really cool on my nook
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I like the cracked one . Any chance you can share it?
He did. Just click on the image..twice.
For the German-speaking Heinrich Heine fanboy crowd.
Brodsky and Utkin
One of my favorite artists - and the prints are almost perfect for Nook/Kindle: B&W and same dimension as a regular piece of paper.
This person scanned them in: http://thenonist.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/the_paper_architecture_of_brodsky_utkin
Attached are just the 10 JPGs grabbed from that site.
Scary Stories to tell in the dark
I quickly threw something together in FW, the floaty vectorthing was a royalty free IIRC (or at least I hope so...)
AcoQ said:
I quickly threw something together in FW, the floaty vectorthing was a royalty free IIRC (or at least I hope so...)
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love it, but how do i change the "power off" screen?
Soea said:
love it, but how do i change the "power off" screen?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20069276&postcount=8
From the manual tutos on my sig.
Can I use the Asus day-scene live wallpaper for the Tab 2 7?
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Can I use the Asus day-scene live wallpaper for the Tab 2 7?
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No. The tablet will melt into a kindle fire if you try.
(This tab runs most any lwp)
scottx . said:
No. The tablet will melt into a kindle fire if you try.
(This tab runs most any lwp)
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I just melted my good old Tab 2
I did a quick search of the Nook HD forums but didn't find anything about hiding the dock so started this thread. If there is another, please point me to it. Thanks.
Setting up a couple HD's with CM10.1 and lots of games & such kids, for Christmas. Kids are 6-10 years old. I'd like to hide the Dock. I don't think CM10.1 allows it to be hidden but I'm not sure. Anyone have any insight? How about a good alternate Launcher app that would allow it. Suggestions?
So I went back to stock OS to play around for a bit. I've realized how used to I am to the Softkey bar in CM10.x/CM11 ROMs. Is ther anyway to replace the stupid Amazon softkey bar with Google's stock Android softkey bar?
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Maybe play around with the systemui.apk, would be kinda interesting because while I prefer cm, I do like the way Amazon's soft key bar hides itself in full screen mode, reclaims a bit more space for playing a video.
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stunts513 said:
Maybe play around with the systemui.apk, would be kinda interesting because while I prefer cm, I do like the way Amazon's soft key bar hides itself in full screen mode, reclaims a bit more space for playing a video.
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Yeah, it's nice to for videos and gaming. But still, I prefer to have my home button in the center. I'll play around with the SystemUI.apk a bit. I'm guessing I'll have to disable Amazon's SoftKeyBar.apk as well. It would also be nice to enable recent apps as well, but maybe that's biting off more than I can chew for right now. Anyways, I think I'll play around with it.