Comments on: Eee PC in ‘Kindle’ Mode

By: Kindle Fun

Kindle Fun — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:20:37 +0000

Hello. Great job. This is a great post. Thanks!

By: Chris Kindle

Chris Kindle — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:23:42 +0000

Just came across your blog on Google. Interesting post, you bring up a few good things to think about. Good luck with the blog.

By: icetea

icetea — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:57:52 +0000

me too…In my eee 4G there’s nothing named fbreader. I searched it in synaptic and didn’t find it. I typed it in terminal…didn’t find it too. huks huks….I had so many chm file…. how am I supposed to do? I’m newbie in linux, so desperated… (

By: Jonathan Badger

Jonathan Badger — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:21:07 +0000

FBReader doesn’t seem to be installed on my new EEE 900 — I wonder why Asus dropped it — they certainly have the space!

By: Auto Account Creator

Auto Account Creator — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:23:06 +0000

Anyone ever use this email account program before? Just curious, I’m looking for software that will mass create email accounts.

By: ArsenalForever

ArsenalForever — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:38:15 +0000

HI,

Thanks for your help – Ifound FB Reader via the Terminal. Is there anyway of putting the icon onto the internet tab?

ArsenalForever

By: Joel Healy

Joel Healy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:48:25 +0000

Mr. Wilkes–you are amazing! Thank you so much for your comments. I will order the 8 GB SDHC memory card and will make sure that it is the Ultra II high speed version. I am particularly pleased that you were able to buy it from Amazon as I had thought they only offered a 4 GB version. I can’t wait to start “expanding” my library and more importantly dazzling my friends with this amazing product.
It will be interesting to see if Kindle will be able to accomodate the proposed 16 GB version. This would create a capacity of 17486 books based on Kindle’s formula of 200 books for their current model. This would truly bring “show and tell” to the top of the shelf!
Thank you again for your extremely valuable input.

By: Charles Wilkes

Charles Wilkes — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:26:59 +0000

Even the Kindle support group didn’t know it, but the Kindle is built with a high capacity memory card compatability, and took my 8 GB SDHC card just fine — I actually bought this card from Amazon.com — cost = under $100.00. But be sure and get the Ultra II high speed version — one user bought a cheapie and it just didn’t work. And the manufacturer SanDisk announced in Los Vegas that there would be a 16 GB version out by mid year, and a 32 GB version by year end — which would reach the maximum size that this technology supports.

Incidentally, I currently have 39 pages in my directory, with roughly 450 books included. But this has taken just 0.3 GB of my memory card, after moving literallhy everthing from the Kindle Memory to the SD memory card. This makes theoretically a capacity of 11,450 books shown on 950 directory pages, which is just plain too big for one 81 year old human being like me to read during the rest of my hopefully 100 year life (my aunt died at 101 reciently).

I originally bought the memory card since Kindle said that audio books take much more memory than do text formatted books. But now that I have it, I see the need for it just to hold regular books. Many of my books were free out-of-copyright books including all the older classical authors, whose works I really love.

Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.

By: Joel Healy

Joel Healy — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:42:03 +0000

I note from a previous post that you have a 8 GB SDHC memory card. Is there any problem with the Kindle accepting this card as I had thought they were limited to 4 GB on their memory cards? I would love to get the 8 GB simply to dazzle my friends with the tremendous potential of the Kindle. Assuming a person only downloaded novels with an average of 200 books per 183 MB this would produce a capacity level of 8,743 books for the Kindle. Mind boggling. I recently broke my right shoulder and the Kindle could not have come at a better time. I also use it to transfer numerous .doc & .pdf files from my computer. I am 77 and have spent much time with tne iPhone since they upgraded their software to 1.3. I have to say however that Kindle is my absolute favorite gadget and Amazon’s potential with this product is unlimited particularly since they bought Audio Books. I hope this email is appropriate since I have much respect for your previous posts and had wanted to write you.
Regards,
Joel Healy

By: Charlcs Wilkes

Charlcs Wilkes — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:42:35 +0000

I couldn’t disagree more re the Sony 505 vs. the Kindle. I have had my Kindle since Dec. 4th, and have bought many books from the Kindle Store automatically downloded in roughly one minute each. This is a fantastic capability. Anyway, I love my Kindle as does everyone I have ever heard of who REALLY has their own Kindle, and are not just theoretical.

Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.