Kindle

[susie_flo]

Oh Amazon... you give with one hand and you take away with the other.

I got a Kindle Paperwhite for my birthday.  This was mere whimsy really as there's nothing especially wrong with my old first-generation Kindle - but I do rather like the touch-screen, the size and the general usability of the Paperwhite.

One thing I spotted fairly quickly is that that they have made vast improvements to the usability of the homicide-inducing  'experimental' web browser. I realise this was never intended to be a primary use for the gadget, but my old Kindle got me out of quite a few sticky fixes in the past, thanks to its endless battery life and free roaming 3G all over Europe.  There were times when I was abroad with no wifi or stuck on the tube with a dead phone and needing to send an email and was able to do it on the Kindle - albeit in a state of Tuckeresque fury at the horror of the interface, but lets not be picky.

So - this morning I found myself in precisely such a situation: on the train, dead phone, desire to send an email.  "Hooray!" I thought - "I can try out the new and improved Kindle browser"  ...until - feh - I discovered that the new Kindle models only allow you to use the web browser on Wifi.  No 3G browsing any more. Damn ye, Amazon! I NEED my black and white newsprint version of the internet.

Oh, alright, I don't.  But y'know...

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[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Black and white version of the internet sounds very like the old unix browser Lynx, which I have a bit of a soft spot for still. I didn't know about the 3g kindle thing - must look up how to do it on mine!