Monday, April 11, 2011

Kindle for Mac: Quick Complaints

1. Using B&W mode, the "I" cursor I use to highlight sections is almost invisible.  Perhaps it could switch to white or have a shadow behind it during B&W mode.

2. Full Screen mode - Nice rectangular button bar, but do you ever notice how it covers up the text?  (which is an especially a problem for an Infinite Jest reader (this is the book that all electronic readers should be tested on), trying to click the "back to text" button in the footnotes and having it covered up by a button bar.  Sure I can move the bar, but why not think outside the box?  Why not a vertical button bar that sits in the margins and never covers up the text?

3. Still annoyed at not being able to cut and paste quotations from the Book as well as not being able to share quotations via Twitter/Facebook.  Basically the Kindle Software has less features than the Kindle Device.  This makes no sense.  Highlighting is also difficult to start and end because it seems to highlight based upon the word rather than based upon the character.

4.  Still has location numbers, when I'd heard page numbers were on the way.  Also it shows a different % of the book complete than my Kindle, causing me great confusion.

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