Comments on: First impressions of Kindle

By: barbel

barbel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:07:09 +0000

thank you kevin,since I am a newby to the kindle,I can see that the so called internal storage of 1500 books are out of the question,…NOW..I have another question you might know the answer too…how or what format for me to use ,to get the audio books I already have on my computer,down to the 1Mb ,???
same goes for my music,
there is no way ,that I even could get 2 books into the kindle, since everything is around 3-800 mb ,even the mp3 or the Pdf would take up alot of memory.I already have checked evrywhere,went through all of the kindle help ..blogs.. etc cannot realy get a straight answer to my problem,
can you help?? thanks barb

By: marlene

marlene — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:46:51 +0000

I do not know where the space bar is on my Kindle One & I misplaced the instructions.

By: John Baker

John Baker — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:08:30 +0000

Ed,
I remember you inviting me to an authors conference in NYC way back around 1985. You had Jerry Pournelle (which was why I came since I am a big fan) and some geeky guy from Xerox PARC who spoke about the future of books being digital media. If I remember correctly the issue of protecting copyright was the hot topic. AND if you go to the Kindle discussion forum it is the hot topic today… what is the fair way to allow sharing a digital book while allowing the author to make a decent living. Comments?
Oh, and it seems that when you use Amazon’s Digital Text Platform you are automatically added to the Kindle library. So are you going to start moving Yourdon content to this channel?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:56:31 +0000

One simple, perhaps mindless question – can one tell how much battery power is still available … before needing a recharge? The MacBook has an 84% on the toolbar telling me I’ve used 16% of the current charge.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:45:07 +0000

Here are some of your answers:

a) How much memory?

I own a Kindle and the cool thing here, is I used my Kindle’s NowNow feature to ask this question. Here is the answer I received back within seconds:

Your Question:
How much memory comes preinstalled inside Amazon’s Kindle?

Answer from NowNow:
The Kindle comes with 256MB internal storage, approximately 180MB available to the user

Product Specifications
Display — 6″ diagonal electrophoretic display, 600 x 800 pixel resolution, 167 pixels per inch, 4-level gray scale.
Size — 5.3 inches by 7.5 inches by 0.7 inches (134.5mm x 190mm x 19mm).
Weight — 10.3 ounces (295g).
Storage — 256MB internal storage, approximately 180MB available to the user.
Expansion — SD memory card slot for additional user storage.
Audio — 3.5mm stereo headphone jack, built-in speaker.
Power — AC power adapter and replaceable, rechargeable lithium polymer battery.
Connectivity — USB 2.0 (mini-B connector) EVDO/CDMA wireless modem.
Operating temperature — 32°F to 95°F (0°C to 35°C).
Storage temperature — 14°F to 113°F (-10°C to 45°C).

b) How much memory does a typical book take?

They say you can hold about 200 books with the internal memory, so if there is 180MB’s of available, internal memory, it looks like the average book must take slightly less than 1 MB (.9 MB).

c) How much unused memory do yo have?

Easy, on your Kindle go to Home > Menu > Settings. At the bottom of that screen you will see a graph showing you how much total and available memory you have both internally and on any memory card.

d) Additional memory.

If you visit Amazon and go to the section for Kindle accessories, you’ll see they show 1GB and 2GB SD cards. You can, at Amazon, also purchase 4GB and 8GB SD cards, which I would assume would also work. So, using the 200 books to 180MB ratio, expansion would look like this:

1GB – 1,100 books
2GB – 2,200 books
4GB – 4,400 books
8GB – 8,800 books

Wow.

e) I don’t have a memory card installed on my Kindle yet so I can’t test this, but I believe you just use the Content Manager option on the Kindle to move files between the card and internal memory.

Kevin