I had a few purchases from years ago, so my library certainly isn’t as big as what it is on Kindle (I still think there should be a ‘ Books Anywhere’ service). I hadn’t spent a lot of time with the new interface that Apple released with iOS 12, but I was quickly blown away. As I opened it, it felt like a breath of fresh air. Getting back to my original point, I closed out the mobile version of the Kindle website, and I reinstalled Apple Books. There is something to the e-ink display, but it needs a fresh approach. I argued last summer that Apple should build a competitor to the Kindle as well. It feels like the current Kindle hardware is still running the original software. While I love the idea of the Kindle hardware, the software hasn’t advanced very much. As I sat and looked at the mobile interface for purchasing Kindle Books, I started thinking about how slow and dated the overall Kindle interface has become. Over the past few years, I’ve picked up countless books as I built up my library. They offer low-cost hardware and run frequent specials on popular books. Apple Books vs Kindle: what’s the best way to read books and listen to audiobooks?Īmazon is undoubtedly the top e-book seller in the world, and there are plenty of reasons why. I started thinking about if the Kindle (and the Kindle apps) were still the best place for me to purchase books. As I was looking at some upcoming books a few weeks back, I realized that I was not too fond of the purchasing process on iOS for Kindle. Most recently, I was using a Kindle Oasis as my primary book reader. We need to bear this in mind all the more as more of these aggregators pop up and become the go-to sources for online news reading.I have been using a Kindle for many years now. So it’s worth remembering that when we place our trust in completely automatic news aggregators, we open the door for false positives. I have blogged old stories from Zite as new in the past, in fact, not knowing they were old-not so much because they were from content farms, but because they were posted on their original source a bit more than one, two, or more years ago but without the year in their dateline: for example, a post dated “August 21” instead of “August 21, 2011”-so Zite assumed they were recent.Ī human might have caught these glitches, or noticed that “vergleich” article’s source had very little credibility. If I hadn’t known about this story being old, I might have been tempted to believe it was new, and blog it accordingly. And whatever algorithms Zite uses for assigning relevance and importance to articles twigged onto this one. The dateline at the bottom specifically says August 21st, 2012. (Which is why I’m not linking directly to the site here.) In this case, it snagged a six-month-old Associated Press article-but is presenting it as new news. The reason, of course, is that this ebook-reader-vergleich blog is simply a plagiarist content farm, scooping up articles and using them as search-engine optimization link fodder. But here is Zite, presenting it as new news. (“Vergleich” is German for “comparison”.) The story talked about Amazon pulling thousands of independently-published books from the Independent Publishing Group over a contract dispute-something that, since I was watching when it happened, I know actually took place months ago, and was resolved a couple of months later. Today I ran across a story entitled “Amazon Pulls Thousands of E-Books in Dispute”, from a blog entitled “”. But there’s a danger in this app that’s not always obvious. I use Zite from time to time myself when I’m in need of stories to blog. News aggregators like Zite are very useful.
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