tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post324453527839425649..comments2024-03-18T22:39:50.137-07:00Comments on A Kindle World blog: Kindle for iOS - Update v4.2 and reactions to it. Other Kindle-apps available. Personal Documents feature gets updates and enhancements Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-9244712520164838772014-04-25T01:31:29.331-07:002014-04-25T01:31:29.331-07:00One other thought, Tom. Maybe not offering the pl...One other thought, Tom. Maybe not offering the place-alignment in the new left-panel TOC's in apps for competing device (Amazon surely is coming out with its own phone at some point) has to do with<br /> . a special or convenient feature available only on its own devices, for competitive reasons<br /> or<br /> . maybe keeping track and aligning positions makes app code fatter and action a bit more sluggish,<br /><br />It makes some sense that best features are programmed by them mainly for their own devices while allowing their books to be at least readable with -some- convenient features on almost anyone's preferred devices, but that's only my speculation.<br /><br />We know Apple makes no iBook reading app available at all on competing manufacturer devices (at least I don't remember reading of any).,Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-89852233890044224522014-04-25T00:53:55.129-07:002014-04-25T00:53:55.129-07:00Hi, Gary, yes, I think it's just file handling...Hi, Gary, yes, I think it's just file handling. No editing on the Cloud. They are sync'g like crazy every device under the sun, so I think allowing editing would not be wise... Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-91681444035964460012014-04-25T00:47:51.782-07:002014-04-25T00:47:51.782-07:00Well, Tom, it's good to see anything you find...Well, Tom, it's good to see anything you find. I don't have an iOS device (though I have a 60gig iPod dinosaur that is audio only but I sure enjoyed it at one time). That's so odd about there being no 'you are here' type of indicator ! And yet I didn't notice that lack on my Android devices with the same lack, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or my Samsung Galaxy S2. (I'm now on Windows phone, if you can believe it -- because the Nokia lumia 1020 has such a great camera but it is soooo behind in apps, and the Kindle app seems barebones on that).<br /><br /> Being able to share and download docs from the Cloud is a real plus. In my case, the only way I've sent docs to the Cloud has been via the email for a specific Kindle or Kindle-compatible device (or using sendtoreader.com. But then I can see it, via the web, from my Kindle tablets if I use the URL for personal docs area. I've deleted and downloaded files that way but I remember having to have Adobe Flash at one point to do that, oddly enough, way back with the original Kindle Fire, if you can believe it (when people reported being unable to work on files in the Cloud that way).. Have not tried it recently.<br /><br /> Photos can be backed up to the Cloud easily now via the features specifically for that, and I can view them from my other tablet devices -- am always surprised how fast the display is that way. <br /><br /> Have never looked for personal docs on the 'Cloud' with the Paperwhite, expecting to see those only if I send one to the specific device -- but that's because I mostly use the HDX 8.9" now and am not exploring much..<br /><br /> Looking forward to what you do find as you look further. Thanks for your input.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-16893732095730296482014-04-24T20:49:24.268-07:002014-04-24T20:49:24.268-07:00Managing my personal documents in the Cloud Drive ...Managing my personal documents in the Cloud Drive is MUCH easier. I guess when I say "managing" I mean deleting, since it's not super useful for much more (as far as I can tell). I've got a few things I'm always wanting to delete and it's way easier this new way. Gary LaPointehttp://garysaid.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-91769734556297069322014-04-24T19:54:06.401-07:002014-04-24T19:54:06.401-07:00I do like the TOC (NCX) navigator, which was a lon...I do like the TOC (NCX) navigator, which was a long time coming. But it is baffling how they failed to carry forward refinements found in Kindle Touch/PW and Fire (and most ePub reading apps), where this a visual difference indicating the current chapter/reading position (bold text on the former, different color and info about current position on the latter). Without this 'you are here' indicator, it makes the 'map' less useful, particularly when chapters just have numeric titles. The same deficiency applies to the Android app, which got the navigator several weeks ago. <br /><br />The new cloud.amazon.com feature is welcome for several reasons: 1) the combined storage is the same, but unpartitioned storage is more flexible, and 2) you can share your documents and can download them (before it was like roach motel, you could not download from MYK or share. I plan to do more experimentation but I was hoping you could upload to cloud and have things show up in MYK (for download to Kindle). But that is not the case: if you want your Kindle to see it, you have to 'send to kindle'. I'm also not even sure deleting from cloud is equivalent to deleting from MYK. I think it is only a one way thing (send to kindle -> MYK -> cloud). But I need to do some tests. Surprising there isn't more interest or discovery reported at mobileread.<br />Tom Semplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05127272649086914117noreply@blogger.com