TIPS FOR TODAY Before I note a few things I saw on the Kindle forums yesterday, here are a few more Kindle 3 (UK K3) tips. Whenever you see ghosting or faint remnants from a previous page Press the Alt-key and the 'G' key to do an Alt-G combo to refresh screen. As with the Shift key for capital letters, you can do this in fast-sequence style instead, with one hand. This does a redistribution of black and white and can also leave your screen a bit lighter at times, for awhile. For faster Google website features...

The v3.01 update is now final and ready for download from Amazon servers, for all Kindle 3's.  Apparently, their private feedback was as good as feedback seen on the Amazon forums. See yesterday's original report of the v3.01 update for the details that were in that. At the linked page (above), Amazon also states: ' We're excited to announce that a new, free software update is available for the latest generation Kindle 6" device.  This software update adds the ability to create a new Amazon.com account directly from your Kindle, as well as additional performance...

Amazon wants feedback on an "early preview of the next software update" for Kindle 3 and refers to this update-preview as software update version 3.01. They stress this is offered so that "Customers who want to try this early release of the software and provide feedback can download the update from their servers." Amazon explains that this update will add ' the ability to create a new Amazon.com account directly from your Kindle, as well as additional performance improvements. After installing this update, please share your feedback with us at kindle-response@amazon.com.  We look forward to hearing about...

Within the last 60 days there has been a bevy of announcements of new ereading devices. Amazon announced what is popularly called the Kindle 3 and Sony has announced 3 new models — the 350, 650, and 950. How far behind other makers will be is hard to tell, but the upcoming holiday season should be a good one for device buyers. So the question is this: Is this the time to take the plunge and buy a dedicated ereading device if you don’t already own one? The companion question, of course, is if you own one that is more than...

 Be sure to read the first Kindle 3 Tips and Cautions blog article here. The picture on the left is of my white-bezeled 6" Kindle 3 next to the Graphite 9.7" Kindle DX. The Graphite DX does have a slightly greener tint under certain lighting, but a touch of green can make an image look brighter. Here's the larger image.  Following the larger version is a second, closer shot of the text of both. Further on down the page, I have a tip to get the Kindle text to a closer match with the DX...

 The photo at the left is by "legendarypoet" and I was struck by what a beautiful b&w shot it is, of a b&w e-reader.  Click on the image to see his original, or click on screen name to see his photo page. I spent time yesterday, by request, taking more comparison photos of font and text differences between the Kindle 3 and Kindle 2, and I'll get some up later on. I'll touch instead this morning on some subjects that have come up in comment-areas here and in topics being discussed on the various Kindle ...

iReader Review has an article on the Kindle 3 and Manga. They have lots of screen shots and also go into great detail about how to get Mangle up and running on the K3. The Kindle 3 handles images really well – But can Kindle 3 handle Manga? K and 4rc wanted to find out about Kindle 3′s Manga capabilities and also how well Mangle, the Manga Program for Kindle, works with Kindle 3. Well, this post has some photos to show you that Kindle 3 does fine – The Kindle 3 Manga photos are after the jump (second part of...

A New York Examiner blog post looks at the continuing order backlog on the Kindle 3, quoting a post from Amazon’s Kindle Community Forum in regard to shipping schedules: Orders placed before 8 p.m. Pacific Time on August 1st will still ship by the August 27th release date. Orders placed before 10 p.m. Pacific Time on August 5th will ship on or before September 4th. Orders placed before 12 p.m. Pacific Time on August 12th will ship on or before September 8th. Orders placed after 12...

Here are a couple more reviews that are worth your time. I've selected excerpts that deal with the browser. The first is from The EBook Reader. Among other things the reviewer says: I opted for the WiFi only model because I couldn't foresee needing to use the 3G all that often—but now I'm regretting that choice because the new WebKit browser actually works better than I'd expected, at least with WiFi. It's not blazing fast and is somewhat limited but is useful for checking email, getting news updates, downloading free ebooks from Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg, Baen, etc., and the article...

The pictures speak for themselves. Kindle 1 Kindle 2 Kindle 3 ...

Both Kindles are set to the same page of text and both are using the default font. Kindle 2 Kindle 3 ...

Using my recently revived Intel Play microscope here are 4 shots of the Kindle 2 and 3. The first two are at 10X and the second 2 at 60X. Kindle 2 10x Kindle 3 10x Kindle 2 60x Kindle 3 60x ...