By Chris Smith. Chris Smith. Andy Meek. Maren Estrada. This is a fabulous new addition that taps into crowd sourcing and gives you a massive list of central characters to any given book and how often they are referenced. It lists them from most referenced to least and gives you a small graph on how much they are talked about during the book. If you click on a particular character name you are greeted with a small biography of the character and then a chronological listing of a small paragraph of text citing the context in which all of these references were used.
Not only can you do this with characters, but also specific events or other tangibles that are mentioned throughout the book. X-Ray is quintessentially the most unique feature found in any e-reader I have ever reviewed and it really can do a ton of positive things.
Normally I sometimes juggle two or three books at once. Sometimes when you come back to a read you may forget some of the central characters or even the main plot. With X-Ray, you can instantly become familiar with the main story arc and the important characters. This may also lend assistance to people who belong to bookclubs and give you talking points during the meetings. Aside from X-Ray, the Touch gives you a very Kindle experience with the audio and internet. My impression is the company is attempting to port over Silk to its e-reader units, which relies on storing your most visited websites in their massive network of servers to instantly load web-pages.
This new web browser experience is found in their Kindle Fire. Typing on the virtual keyboard is a solid experience and I found it to be one of the most responsive ones found in any e-reader. When you are surfing the internet, the keyboard includes a.
This is very useful, and when you are searching your device for books or using internal search the keyboard is always bit different depending on what functions you need to perform. Reading on the Kindle Touch really sets the bar on your entire experience and should be used as a case study for new entrants to the market. You can easily purchase books from Amazon and have them instantly synced to your reader or load in your content using 3rd party programs like Calibre.
First lets talk about the PDF experience, since many of our readers always ask us how newspapers, magazines, technical documents, and game manuals look. First, this is no re-flow or any font options to change the physical layout. I was also shocked to not see any way to augment the linespacing or margins to change the layout.
One of the main benefits and something the Nook Simple Touch does not do is allow you to pinch and zoom any text or images on a PDF document. This process is almost a bit better because you can, on a case by case basis, change your experience and tailor it to your liking.
If you zoom in on a complex newspaper, you can read the article and then use your finger to scroll in any direction to continue reading or swipe the screen to move to the next page. This simple system means that the Kindle touch feels just like the Kindle to use, but you interact with the screen, rather than some buttons. We never had much of a problem with the controls on the original Kindle, but the touch interface does work well, and it's very simple to use.
Elsewhere in the device, the touch system is likeable, too. On the main page, tap the book you want to read, and it pops up straight away. You don't have to touch it hard, it's more than sensitive enough for just a gentle tap. The only place the touch system doesn't work is in the experimental web browser.
Here, you need to scroll around the page, and it's the same pain it is on any device that uses e-ink. But having said that, the browser on our Kindle was dreadful, wouldn't work half the time and was rubbish when it did. The Kindle's Whispersync wireless download and sync system is utterly brilliant. Click on "buy" on Amazon. Newspaper subscriptions can also be delivered to your device each morning, and we love this service too.
It's by far the best electronic newspaper service we've tried. We found 3G slow most of the time though, and although we like that you can buy a book on the way home from work, the number of times we've wanted to do that is so small that it's irrelevant. And if you were desperate, using your phone as a wireless hotspot is always a possibility.
Wi-Fi works brilliantly though, and the power drain from it is also less than on 3G. It is a seamless and brilliantly designed system though, and one that makes the closed system Amazon uses for books to be quite worthwhile. As with everything now, you can share your current books via Twitter and Facebook. Simple authorisation is needed, but once that's done you can tweet and send status updates about what you're reading anytime you like. Write a review.
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