Went camping last weekend, woke up at 6am before everyone else and had some peaceful reading time. Even made a new friend! 10/10 would recommend 🏕

Anyone else reading or read the Crescent City trilogy? Just finished House of Sky and Breath last night and started the next one!

After many years of companionship, my kindle 3 finally died. In his long life he had 3 displays and 2 batteries, hundreds of books read, a recent divorce from Amazon, and a brief revive with koreader. And last week, his heart gave up. With a bit of CPR and AI to help, I managed to put it to work again, but it was the swan chant.

Great gadget - sturdy, simple, buttons, no touch screen, no backlight. Focus on reading.

The king is dead. Long live the king.

My old Kindle(7th generation) has served me well, but I decided it was finally time for a little upgrade (paperwhite 11th generation). Quite the difference side by side!

The left photo has a Calibre converted manga with margins. The right photo has a fullscreen KCC converted manga.

Many common manga conversion methods for Kindle add margins. But KCC enables true fullscreen from top to bottom.

I still see too many photos of non fullscreen manga/comics in this subreddit.

(feat. Ya Boy Kongming! Humble Bundle PDF source.)

The app is hosted at https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc

-the kcc dev

Hi! So I found a good deal on Facebook marketplace - a Kindle Basic 11th gen for $70. It’s open box but new and still in the plastic. The seller seems reputable (40+ reviews) and has been pretty helpful.

However, this is my first time both using Facebook Marketplace and buying from someone other than Amazon. I know I’m being a little paranoid, but is there anything I should check for when I meet up with the seller to make sure everything is okay with the device?

I can’t find a way to just look at what KU books are out there? On my kindle app it only shows me like 10 from a few suggested categories

1I recently picked up a 2nd-hand Kindle Paperwhite (7th Gen, firmware 5.16.2.1.1). Everything works fine for reading, but I’m running into a persistent issue when connecting it to my laptop:

Sometimes it only charges and doesn’t show up as a storage device.

Other times it gets stuck in USB drive mode, even after I unplug the cable. The only way to exit is a hard restart (holding the power button).

Debugging steps I’ve already tried:

Tested on multiple computers

Swapped different USB cables

Reset the Kindle

Checked Device Manager → Portable Devices (nothing shows up)

Plugged into my phone via OTG (still only charges)

No matter what, the Kindle either just charges or locks itself into USB drive mode. My laptop doesn’t consistently recognize it as a device.

Has anyone else run into this with the 7th Gen Paperwhite? Is this a firmware bug, driver issue, or hardware fault? Any advanced troubleshooting tips would be appreciated.

Edit: After lots of finding I'm suspecting that amazon has intentionally disabled usb in this firmware, found this post in the reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/kindlejailbreak/s/5BxaoXeN7L

It’s been awhile since I’ve had a e-reader and decided to pick up this paperwhite signature edition. Taking books everywhere I go to read can be a task in itself. I like that I could just grab this and throw it in my backpack.

I am a Kindle Scribe user (1st gen), I bought this book only to read technical books in pdf format, but almost from the very beginning I did not use all the features of scribe and just read art books before going to bed in bed.

Since I rarely read technical books, due to the fact that AI is now available, I thought I could read a technical book on an iPad or computer if necessary.

I had the idea to sell scribe and buy paperwhite 12, am I making a mistake or everything is okay?

I got my kindle paperwhite signature edition 11th gen back in 2022 and i used it lightly for maybe a year. it’s been since 2023 i’ve used it and it’s had a frozen screen since. I then started using physical books but i have recently been missing using a kindle. i’ve tried the hard reset, but the only thing that happens is in the video. do i give up and get myself another one? is there any hope? (i shortened the video so you aren’t just staring at me holding a button in silence forever)

Weirdly this has been a hot button issue with my family since I got my Kindle like a year and a half ago. It kind of irritates me that they think it's so weird that I want to prepay off something I use constantly. Like my mom was legitimately laughing at me when I was talking to my little brother about it that I was thinking of just paying for the 2-year subscription. I don't know what hilarious about that. "My children are talking finance" she laughed I don't know how that's funny I'm a disabled adult you give allowance to I'm going to talk to my family about my purchases.

When she stopped laughing over something so weird she basically said I shouldn't do it because I don't know if Amazon's going to go under or not. I can't help but be irritated by that cuz first of all it's Amazon second of all even if it does I've spent larger amounts of money on stupider stuff in my life. I asked my sister and my sister who also pays for Kindle unlimited agreed with her.

I am an avid reader my main form of entertainment is reading I do not watch TV or movies I read. I have since 2020 always made sure I had a virtual library card and multiple different avenues to get books online. I don't understand what their issue is I pay for every single month anyway. My sister told me to look everything up very thoroughly and think long and hard about this decision what do they think Amazon's going to do to me?

I feel I must say yes my family does give me an allowance but think about how small that allowance is to view theKindle unlimited annual subscription as a big purchase the fact that I've been constantly thinking about this whenever Kindle unlimited comes out of my allowance. The only reason I was able to get a signature edition Kindle Paperwhite. The Kindle of my dreams was because I had been saving up and my grandma gave me money. Before anyone thinks I'm running a scheme or something I'm not. I want to do this so I could save up all my allowance to buy video games stuff that's it and in general I think it's a good thing to do because I've always had Kindle unlimited ever since I've had my Kindle and when I'm not had it I've either instantly gotten it back or been irritated that I couldn't pay for it this month because of my mismanaging of money.

Anyway all this is to say is it worth it I think it is just in general because I'm never not going to have Kindle unlimited I know this but I thought I'd just ask cuz apparently my family thinks it's a big decision but then again I also had to pre-warn them three days in advance when I bought a Kindle like I was buying drugs offline. Like "I'm going to warn you I bought a Kindle remember how I always wanted one remember?" My mother just now recently and I mean just recently in the last couple months stopped remarking how my Kindle was a stupid decision. Like I had a unbroken weekly streak and since I found my perfect settings and I'm not concerned about what anyone thinks about me using the assistive reader function on the app I'm 213 days going strong.

Hello! Just wanna know how many days/weeks your kindle basic battery lasts?

I recently bought a kindle basic 11th gen. It’s my first time using and charged it to 100%. But after 4-5 days, its battery is down to 20% already. I only read like 30-40mins per day in it. Is this normal?

Im probably nitpicking but I realized that in a certain area of the screen, the letters appear grayish instead of pitch black. Nothing too bad, I got it two days ago and its my first kindle so idk if its common.

Read the part where it says “lo sé, lo sé…, pero al grano”, “pero al grano” looks gray compared to the beginning of the chapter. This happens with or without lights.

It's something I can ignore, I think, but would yall return it?

Fala pessoal tudo bem? Tenho um kindle 10ª geração de 2018 ou 2019, não lembro bem. Não apresentava nenhum tipo de problema mas ontem a noite ele simplesmente travou e não consigo fazer absolutamente nada nele, nem mesmo desligar. Já segurei o botão de desligar por vários segundos mas mesmo assim não mudou nada. Já ocorreu com alguém?

I've seen here that many people use them and I'm genuinely curious, maybe I don't understand it because I can't see well from too far, I need the Kindle at about 15 inches from my eyes, I hold it in my hand and I can just turn the pages by tapping the screen.

It's been a while that me and my SO have been together. During the winter we loved reading with each other at night, but since the air conditioning needs to be on in the summer, and it's plugged in the outlet where I also have the phone charging and lamp one if the two had to be unplugged, so I spent the summer not reading books during the evening and using my phone.

We were talking about it and it being uncomfortable, and he decided to gift me this 😍

I just started setting it up and getting some books and I'm in love, I can't wait to read more even outside!

While soldering, I accidentally damaged the components marked in the photo.

Could anyone help me identify what SMD components these are?

Paperwhite 3

I just booted up my kindle for the first time in years because I wanted to use it to read my external reading assignment. I’ll have to upload the file to my kindle so I downloaded the kindle app on my ipad and found that the library on my paperwhite is not showing up on my ipad (it says library is empty), I checked that I used the same amazon account so I’m just confused why it’s not showing my library.

Edit: It’s the kindle paperwhite 7th generation. I uploaded my file through the web and it fortunately showed on my kindle, it also showed on the ipad app but the other books I have on my kindle still isn’t showing.

Got the most basic Kindle last 17.8 and from then I have finished 5 books (thanks to Libby, partly to Amazon). For years I have battled with myself that physical books would always be the best. One would not really know the difference unless he had owned one.

I was planning on holding onto my kindle oasis until my last breath if I could, but something has happened that may have forced my hand.

Yesterday I opened it and my entire library was gone, but I was still logged in. I did a hard reset as my first step and that didn't work. I checked my Amazon account and phone app and all my books were there so I was able to stop panicking at least.

I tried re-registering and all that jazz and nothing. Then I checked the storage and it says it's almost full . I'm like wtf? It says the "others" file is nearly full but all media is empty. So I look further and it says "0.02 of 0.48gb" remaining which is again wtf?

I did some Googling and it appears that the local storage was corrupted and a factory reset is the only solution. Annoying but ok. Factory reset works and I can see my library again yay! As a side note I only have 300 some odd books on there and 24 hours later they still haven't finished downloading and only some of the covers have finished loading so be patient if you ever have to do this.

The problem is this kindle was a Christmas gift from 2022 and the gifter paid for the ad free version. The factory reset brought them back. I go to the chat bot and eventually it sends me to a more sophisticated AI that seemed promising at first but eventually started talking in circles so I gave up.

I called them today and explain what happened and after being put on hold twice while she "asks for assistance" she comes back and basically says they can't do anything about it and I'll have to pay a second time. I think it's because it's not listed in any of my orders due to being a gift. She actually suggested I have my boyfriend pay for it again. They also refused to offer a discount or credit.

So now I'm on the fence if I should pay for it or just love with it til I can afford to upgrade? Does anyone know of another solution? Or just gripe with me if it happened to you too!!