Comments on: Kindle to get folders? Apparently http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/quick-note-kindle-to-get-folders/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: asphalt http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/quick-note-kindle-to-get-folders/comment-page-1/#comment-1149449 asphalt Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:53:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=32508#comment-1149449 I'd suggest that Amazon may be responding not so much to a gripe, as to the reality that without folders using the devices for educational purposes is just plain scary; and Amazon is pushing fairly seriously for adoption in educational settings. I loved using my Kindle for a graduate course spring semester of '09. Now that I'm taking another course in the same field spring semester of '10, I'm saying "hooooolyyyyy cr@p." Because all readings for both classes are journal articles. Because the upgrade might not even happen before the class ends, I will probably just move the old readings off of the device entirely, into a folder on my pc, and go from there. I did not used to care at all about folders. I do now. In fact, I'm looking forward to this improvement in a big way. Oh. And -- Jerry's question *is* an excellent one. Guess I'd better 'become a fan' of Kindle on Facebook. I’d suggest that Amazon may be responding not so much to a gripe, as to the reality that without folders using the devices for educational purposes is just plain scary; and Amazon is pushing fairly seriously for adoption in educational settings.

I loved using my Kindle for a graduate course spring semester of ’09. Now that I’m taking another course in the same field spring semester of ’10, I’m saying “hooooolyyyyy cr@p.” Because all readings for both classes are journal articles. Because the upgrade might not even happen before the class ends, I will probably just move the old readings off of the device entirely, into a folder on my pc, and go from there. I did not used to care at all about folders. I do now. In fact, I’m looking forward to this improvement in a big way.

Oh. And — Jerry’s question *is* an excellent one. Guess I’d better ‘become a fan’ of Kindle on Facebook.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/quick-note-kindle-to-get-folders/comment-page-1/#comment-1149447 David Rothman Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=32508#comment-1149447 Jerry: Excellent question, but, yes, this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle%20customer%20service%20q%20and%20a/forum/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread=Tx15AVUSLQD0EJT&displayType=tagsDetail" rel="nofollow">is legit</a>. Thanks, David Jerry: Excellent question, but, yes, this is legit.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: JerryEF http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/quick-note-kindle-to-get-folders/comment-page-1/#comment-1149436 JerryEF Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:35:53 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=32508#comment-1149436 Curious that they would announce something this significant on Facebook and not on their own blog site, web site or any other ‘official’ Amazon site. Curious that they would announce something this significant on Facebook and not on their own blog site, web site or any other ‘official’ Amazon site.

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