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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Thanks Brenda.


Yeah.... Still wrapping things up here and there just because transfers take so long and I'm trying to find other things to do in between.

In the process of making a few cool tech things to give away to some friends and family right now. Can't remember if I mentioned what I'm ultimately doing with those Kindles, but instead of just giving a used kindle to my friend that he'd take and just put it on top of a stack of his own crap and probably forget he even had it 2 weeks later, I'm putting some really cool stuff on there.

Got his favorite book along with a few other's we've talked about over the years, and some of my favorites as well. I know several of his favorite bands and I've got some cool things related to them like old magazines where they were interviewed back in the 80's and 90's. I even found a coffee table book with tons of photos of his favorite band, but unfortunately that one is a little too much for the kindle.

I'm going to give him that separate as something he can open on his computer if I have to, but first I'm going to see what I can't do about ripping the images out of that, downsizing them by quite a bit, and then having a much smaller document on the Kindle for him to look at. I think the images inside must be huge, and the file is about 50 times larger than any other book I've got.

If I can do that, he's not going to notice the difference on that kindle. You do have the ability to double-tap and zoom in on pages, but it's really not a device meant for that. So I'll probably make sure he gets the full sized one too in case we ever get his computer situation set up and he can read it from his bigscreen TV if he wanted to.





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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
That will be a great present for your friend.

I didn't know that kindles couldn't do that, so that makes them useless to me. Using one without my computer glasses on would be a waste. I need the zoom feature for my eyes.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
That will be a great present for your friend.

I didn't know that kindles couldn't do that, so that makes them useless to me. Using one without my computer glasses on would be a waste. I need the zoom feature for my eyes.

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Oh.. You can do it, but it's not something I'd want to be doing on a device as small as a kindle, especially if you had to do it for every page of every book. It would take forever to read and constantly pull you out of the action.

Properly scanned books, or books that are recreated by scratch professionally to be displayed on them look as clear as the real books and the screen is big enough where you should be able to read it fine. And the professional books, I believe my dad said, you can actually make the text larger (and end up with more pages to read in the process).

This was just a scanned book in PDF format, and it's got a ton of black and white and color pictures in it. Kind of like a coffee table book. It may have been a coffee table book. Even at the full size scan it's not the easiest thing to read, especially when text is printed over one of the colored images. When I shrunk it, that made the text even a little more blurry. But it was the only way I could get the book to load up without crashing. And when the pictures are just scans, they're essentially photographs. So zooming in on them is like zooming in on a photograph. It doesn't realign the text to stay on a single page as you zoom in and make the text bigger like the professionally done books.


I'll bet a newer kindle wouldn't struggle with that full-sized book at all, but the one I'm giving away was either one that I bought refurbed about 8 years ago, or was a hand-me-down sometime shortly thereafter, so these things are probably at least 10 years old now.

I'm still keeping it in there though. I think he'll appreciate the pictures and the handwritten notes that are all over the book and are quite readable compared to the tiny text. At least the magazines I found for him are a lot more readable.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay, I get it. I've never used a kindle so I have no idea what the print on them looks like.

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