I don't like my web on to listen to books, but I do like to listen to them on my audio cd player. But haven't rented one from library in a long time. We listen to radio at night to go to sleep. I'm usually out after about 10 to 20 minutes. So far, it's usually Ben Shapero but lately I listen to the only other one we can pick up which is woke libs, politics can be depressing, but they talk about silly stuff, and I'm not exposed but a few minutes before I'm asleep. We have a timer on the radio, so it turns itself off when we're asleep.
Yes, the audiobooks are a whole different thing than reading on the Kindle, but Amazon Kindle does also have Audible, which is for books that are being read for people to listen to. It costs more than just getting the regular Kindle book, and I think that we probably have a thread here on the forum for people who listen to books instead of reading with the Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Fire.
I've had my Kindle Paperwhite for a few months now, and I absolutely despise it. It's easy enough to read; that's not the problem. However, in more than three months, I have read only one book on the Paperwhite because once I finish a book, or if I decide that I'd rather open a different book, instead, there is no intuitive or discernable way to do that. There are no controls. There are no buttons that can be used to shut the damned thing off, unlike every other Kindle I have. Closing the cover puts it to sleep, but it's not off. I could live with that, although it's annoying, because it does hold a charge for a long time. What I can't live with is that it's damned near impossible to find my way back to my Library or to Home. Once I open up a book, I'm pretty much stuck there. If I poke around at the bottom part of the screen for a half hour or more, sometimes another screen will come up that gives me the option to return to Home, from which I can find the Library. By the time I am able to do this, though, I've been poking around at the screen for a long time, and I have no idea which movements brought it about, so it's not something that I can duplicate the next time around. Since most of my reading is done after I have gone to bed, I usually give up and go to sleep, and then I'm so mad at it that I won't open it up again for a week or so. When I do, I find that it's still stuck where it was when I left it. Since there's no way to shut it off, there is no way to reset it. I don't know why they took a perfectly good product and made it impossible to use.
I have several Kindles that I have bought over the years, and the Paperwhite is the only one I have that I can't shut off. The others all have a button that can be used to shut them off.
I don't know what version you have, but when I google Kindle Paperwhite power button it says it's on the bottom edge to the right of center.
I am pretty sure that mine had a button for on and off, too. I was not happy with mine either, and when my daughter said that she had accidentally lost her Oasis Kindle, I gave her my Paperwhite. With both that one and the Kindle Fire, it was difficult for me to add books and return them (I have Kindle Unlimited and love it !) , and I ended up doing that with my ipad Mini instead. A lot of the time , I just read on the Mini because everything was simple with that and no problems when I finished a book. Now, I gave away my Kindle Fire as well, and I just use my ipad Mini for all of my reading. It is heavier than the kindles, but not that much, and does everything so much easier. I finally found a youtube video that explains how to do everything with the Paperwhite, and I watched the video in bits and pieces with the Paperwhite in my hands, so I could do each thing as he explained how it worked. After that, I was able to close a book and open a new one; but it still never seemed like a workable program to me, and I do not miss it a bit.
My wife and I use the Kindle app, and iBooks, on our iPads. Seems fine for both of us and saved us some dollars since we already have the iPads. I don’t read that type of material much any more but my wife reads just huge amounts of novels.
I read novels on the kindles but little else. I have tried technical stuff and magazines, but can't get into it except for a brief scan of technical info. I find them great for novels of all kinds though.
Well, Today my internet email server is out. I only use my gmail for a couple of things. The rest is there. I could freak out and worry about ransomware although my emails are pretty uninteresting for anyone looking for info. But it does make one think. I can't download a paper from my chiro or EMAIL ANYBODY. I guess it is no more freak worthy than a power outage and they happened even before the internet. Next week a power outage will be bad. We might be heading into single digits. The propane guy was in our driveway this morning as I was unloading the little wood stove from the farm. I told him it was just in case he didn't show up or if there was a power outage. He said that I needed a way to vent it, right? Everyone is trying to take care of Mary.
If you download Thunderbird, or similar, you can have it archive all your emails to your local hard disk. That way if your service is out, you can at least access and work on emails you’ve already received since your last email log in.
By way of an update, I have gotten used to my Paperwhite and like it well enough. Except for the fact that it's lighter, I don't see it as being better as a book reader than my Kindle Fires, but it is the one that I usually use when reading in bed, where the weight makes a difference.
Your comments made me log onto Amazon to look at the Kindles (I am not a Prime member), and when I saw the Paperwhites, I recall your lack of enthusiasm (the same as I had with the original paperwhite monitors over 30 years ago.) I'm debating getting a membership to get the Kindle discount, but have not done the math. Wasn't there a thread here where you and Yvonne both expressed a preference for the regular Kindle over the Fire?
The only problem I had with the Paperwhite was that the navigation was not intuitive. Once I finished a book, I didn't think I'd ever be able to open another one because I couldn't close the one I was reading. Being a guy, or at least the kind of a guy that I am, I refused to look up any help sections. If I tapped my fingers all over the screen, eventually, I came across something that gave me that option, but then I couldn't find it again the next time I needed it. Once I figured that out, the Paperwhite is pretty good. It's quite a bit lighter than any of my other Kindles, which is nice while reading in bed, and has a backlight. I think adjusting the backlight is possible so that it will read more like a regular Kindle, but I've never tried that. However, the Kindle Fires are just as easy to read, in my opinion, so if I want to read while traveling or sitting in a restaurant, I'll opt for one of the Kindle Fires, particularly the Kindle Fire 10, because it has a larger screen. When I want to have a book open as a reference while working on something on my computer, rather than having a Virtual Kindle open in a tab, I'll opt for one of my Kindle Fire 10s, and although I rarely use it, I have a keyboard connected to one of my Kindle Fire 10s, so if I did want to go online with it, I could. But, with a MacBook Pro and a Mac Mini here, I rarely need to use the Kindle Fire as a computer. I don't think I ever had to, but I've tried it a couple of times. I like the regular (non-Fire) Kindles if I read in good light during the day. Since they are not backlit, they are more like reading a regular book. I don't use them often, though. A few years ago, I preferred them to the backlit options, but oddly enough, my eyes have grown older, and I can more easily read the Kindle Fires or the Paperwhite now, at least unless the lighting is perfect. If I could have only one Kindle, it would be a Kindle Fire, though.
Thanks. So do you download books to a PC/laptop and then transfer them to the Kindle, or is Kindle storage a consideration?