How can the Kindle be improved?

[Carl Ashmore]

I know we all love our Kindles. Infact, it's pretty much my fav gadget in the house. But how do we think they can be improved? If, at all ....

[Nebula7]

I'd like to see a clock on the bottom of the screen.

[QuantumIguana]

More rugged, a less fragile screen.

Lower cost, as the cost of the e-ink displays decrease, the cost of the reader should decrease as well.

Make a solar powered case: I would suggest that the Kindle itself be solar, but since most people put them into a case, the solar panels would be covered up, so it's better to have it on the case.

Faster refresh times, so there isn't a pause when turning a page.

Perhaps the web browser could be more like a cell phone browser, it might be more useful on the small screen.

And one more thing, I'd like my locations back. I find that locations are more meaningful than pages on an ebook, and just the percentage alone doesn't tell me how much I have to go. I realize you can still see the location by clicking menu, but I would like the option of seeing it by default.

[valleycat1]

Easier navigation on the web interface.

[Carl Ashmore]

A solar powered case. Great idea

[mooshie78]

Speed of page turns and menus and dictionary lookups can still be improved a lot.

E-ink can continue to improve in terms of contrast--blacker text and whiter background.

Better organization system.  Sub-folders, ability to specify order of things in collections without having to rename books, etc.

Bring back the number keys and the inward pressing buttons (harder to bump accidentally) of the K2.

[Labrynth]

Better organization and a better way to import things from another Kindle.  having just had to replace my K3 because of a power switch, I will now spend a week trying to put everything on the new one.  What a PITA.

[beckyj20]

The only thing I really want is to be able to put the books in the order you want. I read a lot of series and I would like to be able to order them. It could probably be faster, but that really doesnt bother me to much.

[jmiked]

Better keyboard (bring back the number keys)
Control of hyphenation and paragraph spacing/indents
Removal of social media features 
Change 5-way controller to be like the one on the K2
Better handling of revised books



Mike

[pomtroll]

Please this is just my opinion ...don't pick on me    I'd like a touch screen & a smaller screen. I love the touchscreen on my Sony 350. If Kindle had had something like that, I probably wouldn't have gotten the Sony.

[kindlegrl81]

Well for me, I would like the size and buttons of the K2 with the screen of the K3.  I would also like to have sub-folders and a way to reset the "last page read" on the Kindle itself rather than calling Kindle CS.

[teralpar]

1.  Bring back number keys on K3.
2.  Sub-folders for collections.
3.  Transfer collection folders from one Kindle to another.

[GrouchoKindle]

Parental controls (turn off 1-click access, limit what books a device can access, etc).

[grizedale]

Have an option for fullscreen display to remove the percentage bar, I just want a screen full of readableness...

[Cardinal]

1) Mandatory chapter indexes on every Kindle book so the five way controller can jump to the start of a chapter.

2) When looking at my highlights and bookmarks I want to be able to jump to a page by typing the number, the same way we are able to jump to a page when we are on the homepage.

3 I want to be able to edit the metadata without a third party program, or better yet have Amazon insist on a standard for author's names (so all the book's by an author sort together in author view) and the published year is when the DTB was published, not the Kindle version, and to be able to sort by year ascending and descending.

4) Sub Collections.

5) I wish we could have books in our archives organized into Collections in the archives.

6) I'd like the option of having the page number and or location visible on the book's page rather than hitting the menu button.  A setting would allow the reader to choose what they want displayed.

7) Being able to lock a collection(s).  And to have the option to have the Kindle only receive downloads, but not make purchases from it.

Include cover art in the book.

[dpinmd]

Parental controls (turn off 1-click access, limit what books a device can access, etc).

^^^^^^^^^This.^^^^^^^^^

[Me and My Kindle]

I'm probably more of a power user, but I think there's room for improvement in the way the Kindle handles special files like PDFs and .mp3 music files.

I'd also like to see them improve the web browser -- though I understand why Amazon doesn't want to do that. If they make the web browser too attractive, everybody will want to use it -- and then Amazon will have to pay a lot more for the cost of all the bandwidth we're using!

[Dara England]

I know we all love our Kindles. Infact, it's pretty much my fav gadget in the house. But how do we think they can be improved? If, at all ....

The only improvement I can think of is that I'd like it to be in color, so I can see book covers without the boring grayscale. Also, if I could check my email on my Kindle that'd be pretty cool.

[mooshie78]

I'd also like to see them improve the web browser -- though I understand why Amazon doesn't want to do that. If they make the web browser too attractive, everybody will want to use it -- and then Amazon will have to pay a lot more for the cost of all the bandwidth we're using!

They could add a better browser and make it only work on wifi I suppose.

[jmiked]

and the published year is when the DTB was published, not the Kindle version,

+1


Mike

[RobertK]

The only thing I really ache for, other than it just becoming better over time: sorting / archiving / managing libraries is tedious. Drag & drop functionality through the desktop would be FANTASTIC!

[N. Gemini Sasson]

E-ink can continue to improve in terms of contrast--blacker text and whiter background.

Yes, whiter background so it looks more like paper.

And the up/down/right/left/enter (5-way controller?) button needs to be enlarged or separated.  I don't know how many times I hit enter when I meant to just go in a direction when highlighting.

[TLH]

I would love to have a digital clock at the top so I don't have stop reading to go check what time it is.

[Carl Ashmore]

Oooh, agreed, Robert

[violingal13]

Am I the only one who misses being able to read a summary of the book without needing wifi? I download so many promotional freebies that I can't keep track of them; if they look remotely interesting, I grab them, figuring I can always delete them later. I would love to be able to read the equivalent of the back cover of the book without having to go into the kindle store.

And yes, backup/transfer-ability of collections!