|
koolmnbv
|
 |
« on: April 27, 2009, 11:03:18 PM » |
|
Ok this may be a very stupid question, and im sure someone smarter than me will have a smart short answer. But why doesnt the kindle make any noise? I dont mean TTS or button/prompt/click/beeps I mean that low hum that laptops and comps have. Ipods even have a very low sort of electronic hum/vibration to it but the kindle seems completely silent. What is powering it that stays so quiet? It seems to me that it the kindle should put off some sort of low level activity. Please feel free to enlighten me
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Scheherazade
|
|
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2009, 11:55:24 PM » |
|
I have no idea... but calculators don't hum either. Then again, calculators don't get on the internet. But computers are humming usually because of accessing the harddrive or fans cooling everything down. I imagine the Kindle just doesn't use enough power to get that hot so no need for fans and with technology like memory sticks to for storage instead of spinning discs... well you don't get the spinning hum of a drive either. Then there's no hum from the screen because it has no lights. Of course cell phones don't hum either... and they -do- get on the internet and have lit screens. So my guess is A) No real heat so no fans B) no spinning discs.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
DawnOfChaos
Status: Jane Austen
 Offline
Gender: 
Michigan
Posts: 425
Arkham: 5th floor, room 38
|
|
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2009, 12:37:47 AM » |
|
I don't know, but I'd LOVE to figure out a way to make my right next page button click a lot less. Or at least as quiet as my left next page button. I can't stand how loud it is.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Dawn Kindle2  |
|
|
|
koolmnbv
|
|
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2009, 01:05:22 AM » |
|
I don't know, but I'd LOVE to figure out a way to make my right next page button click a lot less. Or at least as quiet as my left next page button. I can't stand how loud it is.
Omg! I had never noticed it before you mentioned it but my right next page click is alot louder than my left side also! Thats very odd I wonder if that is intentional? Another bizarre kindle oddity |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
DawnOfChaos
Status: Jane Austen
Offline
Gender:
Michigan
Posts: 425
Arkham: 5th floor, room 38
|
|
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2009, 01:53:11 AM » |
|
Now you'll notice it too, whether you want to or not. clicky, clicky clicky. Like a freakin' cricket in my bedroom.
wow. I've got to get some sleep. I'm way too bitter. tee hee hee.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Dawn Kindle2 |
|
|
Ann in Arlington
Inmate # 65
Global Moderator
Status: Shakespeare
Offline
Gender:
Arlington, VA
Posts: 32231
Go Nats!
|
|
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2009, 05:16:33 AM » |
|
I like the click. . .or maybe it's the feel . . . of the next page button. (on K1) When I go back (prev page) it feels mushy and I'm never quite sure the page turn registered until I actually see the page change. Fortunately, I don't read in reverse very often!  I concur on the 'no cooling fans or spinning disks' theory of Kindle silence. Ann |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Ann Von Hagel Arlington, VA  |
|
|
|
Gregor
|
|
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2009, 05:20:09 AM » |
|
Ok this may be a very stupid question, and im sure someone smarter than me will have a smart short answer. But why doesnt the kindle make any noise? I dont mean TTS or button/prompt/click/beeps I mean that low hum that laptops and comps have. Ipods even have a very low sort of electronic hum/vibration to it but the kindle seems completely silent. What is powering it that stays so quiet? It seems to me that it the kindle should put off some sort of low level activity. Please feel free to enlighten me
My guess on the reason it doesn't hum, is because it already knows the words |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Betsy the Quilter
Woman in Charge
Global Moderator
Status: Shakespeare
Offline
Gender:
Alexandria, VA
Posts: 30866
I'm here to help. Really.
|
|
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2009, 05:27:56 AM » |
|
My guess on the reason it doesn't hum, is because it already knows the words LOL! Good one, Gregor!!  Betsy |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." -Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
"Oh come on! Stake through the heart. A little sunlight. It's like falling off a log" -Buffy, the Vampire Slayer |
|
|
|
Susan in VA
|
|
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2009, 05:28:47 AM » |
|
I like the click. . .or maybe it's the feel . . . of the next page button. (on K1) When I go back (prev page) it feels mushy and I'm never quite sure the page turn registered until I actually see the page change.
I'll bet you like IBM keyboards, too. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Vivete con gioia e semplicità
State buoni se potete
Tutto il resto è vanità.
|
|
|
Ann in Arlington
Inmate # 65
Global Moderator
Status: Shakespeare
Offline
Gender:
Arlington, VA
Posts: 32231
Go Nats!
|
|
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2009, 05:51:08 AM » |
|
I'll bet you like IBM keyboards, too. I do like a keyboard that doesn't feel mushy. During HS I worked 2 or 3 nights a week and every other Saturday at a law office. My job was just to answer the phones if anyone called and take messages for the lawyers for the next day. Wasn't a criminal firm so there weren't a lot of calls. Seriously. I'd be there from 5 to 9 and would always get all my homework done plus read 3 or 4 novels a week. Anyway, there was an IBM Selectric typewriter that I was allowed to use to type up papers. It was a nice machine. I was taking a typing class one semester and it was torture to have class on the school's manual machines. I could barely do 40 wpm but could do well over 60 on the one at work. Ann |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Ann Von Hagel Arlington, VA |
|
|
Betsy the Quilter
Woman in Charge
Global Moderator
Status: Shakespeare
Offline
Gender:
Alexandria, VA
Posts: 30866
I'm here to help. Really.
|
|
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2009, 05:52:32 AM » |
|
I wonder if there's a correlation between people who learned to type on manual typewriters (me) and those who like a "clicky" non-mushy keyboard (me).
Betsy
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." -Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
"Oh come on! Stake through the heart. A little sunlight. It's like falling off a log" -Buffy, the Vampire Slayer |
|
|
|
intinst
|
|
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2009, 07:11:31 AM » |
|
I wonder if there's a correlation between people who learned to type on manual typewriters (me) and those who like a "clicky" non-mushy keyboard (me).
Betsy
Count me in as a manual typewriter/non mushy keyboard person. Of course many of our younger members are thinking,"What's a typewriter?." Let alone a manual one.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. Edith Sitwell  Located just outside Little Rock, Arkansas Goal for 2012 = 100 books read, read so far = 60 Now reading = Maggie Get Your Gun - Kate Danley |
|
|
|
meljackson
|
|
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2009, 08:52:04 AM » |
|
My next page button is pretty loud. I click and the dog's ear twitches. Every single time. EVERY time. click, twitch, click, twitch.
Melissa
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
holmfritz
Status: Dr. Seuss
Offline
Posts: 10
|
|
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2009, 09:04:28 AM » |
|
My K1 is total silent - including any of the Next Page buttons.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Susan in VA
|
|
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2009, 09:29:58 AM » |
|
I wonder if there's a correlation between people who learned to type on manual typewriters (me) and those who like a "clicky" non-mushy keyboard (me).
Betsy
Quite possibly. My grandfather was a writer and used manual typewriters. He liked a particular model, a portable Olivetti, but it wasn't the sturdiest model built. He'd pound away at it for about a year and then it would start showing signs of wear, a key would stick or something, and it would get passed along to someone else in the family and he'd buy a new one, the same model every time. When everyone (maybe eight people) had a used Olivetti, he'd start over again with the eldest family member, so we each went through two or three of the things. When I finally bought my first NEW typewriter of course it had to be the same kind. And when, years later, someone in my office tried to replace my IBM keyboard with a generic one I complained for a week until they changed it back. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Vivete con gioia e semplicità
State buoni se potete
Tutto il resto è vanità.
|
|
|
DawnOfChaos
Status: Jane Austen
Offline
Gender:
Michigan
Posts: 425
Arkham: 5th floor, room 38
|
|
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2009, 10:27:52 AM » |
|
My K1 is total silent - including any of the Next Page buttons.
I'm jealous. clicky clicky clicky. argh. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Dawn Kindle2 |
|
|
|
intinst
|
|
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2009, 10:43:23 AM » |
|
My Klassic Kindle isn't silent, if I hold it up close to my ear I can hear a click on key presses. Of course, can't really read with it there. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. Edith Sitwell Located just outside Little Rock, Arkansas Goal for 2012 = 100 books read, read so far = 60 Now reading = Maggie Get Your Gun - Kate Danley |
|
|
|
chevauchee
|
|
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2009, 07:00:07 PM » |
|
Hazarding a guess, but I'd say the storage is the difference. Older iPods (Classic/Mini) and most laptops have traditional hard drives with moving parts which click/hum when the drive is being accessed. However, Kindle (and iPod Touch/Nano/Shuffle) use flash memory which have nothing moving to hum at you.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
stormhawk
|
|
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2009, 07:12:26 PM » |
|
The Kindle doesn't need a fan to stay at operating temperatures, thus, no hum.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
[Spiritalists and Shamans] do the same job psychiatrists and psychologists do, using the same tools and obtaining about the same results. --- E. Fuller Torrey, MD Mind Games |
|
|
|
B-Kay 1325
|
|
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2009, 08:35:34 PM » |
|
My KK makes such a slight sound that I had never really heard it before reading this thread. When reading today I tried to pay attention to the page turns and only then did I hear them, didn't bother me at all. I'm sorry that your page turns are so annoying to you and your little dog too.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Kind
|
|
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2009, 09:36:16 PM » |
|
Probably because there are less moving parts in the Kindle?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Kindleholic - Addicted since Summer 2008. Original Kindle x 2 Woot Woot |
|
|
|
Anju No. 469
|
|
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2009, 10:30:52 AM » |
|
I listened too for the page changes for the first time yesterday and actually heard a click, but then forgot about it as I was totally engrossed in my book and did not hear it again.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Dona on the shores of Lake Chapala, Mexico  |
|
|
LaraAmber
Status: Jane Austen
Offline
Gender:
Colorado
Posts: 382
|
|
« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2009, 10:42:39 AM » |
|
My Kindle makes noise. If I listen carefully I hear it say, "I love you."
Lara Amber
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Susan in VA
|
|
« Reply #23 on: April 29, 2009, 10:48:30 AM » |
|
Awwwww. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Vivete con gioia e semplicità
State buoni se potete
Tutto il resto è vanità.
|
|
|
|
Edward C. Patterson
|
|
« Reply #24 on: April 29, 2009, 11:28:47 AM » |
|
The Kindle uses FLASH drive technology, which has not mechanical parts, thus defying Newton's laws of friction(it's a good thing, not like gravity, which may keep up grounded on the earth, but also is the reason for aging and belly overhang). I like a quiet Kindle. Just think you can read it in the Library without any Marion the Librarian susurrating a "shhhh." The librarians of the world have formed a long serpentine conga line and dancing to the silent Kindle.
Edward C. Patterson
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
bookfiend
Status: Jane Austen
Offline
Gender:
LA, CA ish
Posts: 427
|
|
« Reply #26 on: April 30, 2009, 04:44:29 PM » |
|
Omg! I had never noticed it before you mentioned it but my right next page click is alot louder than my left side also! Thats very odd I wonder if that is intentional? Another bizarre kindle oddity
My left Next page button clicks, and it has more wiggle than my other buttons. And yes it is annoying! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Rhiathame
|
|
« Reply #27 on: May 01, 2009, 10:00:28 AM » |
|
My left Next page button clicks, and it has more wiggle than my other buttons. And yes it is annoying!
I noticed the same thing, and I end up playing with that button a lot while I am reading because I am a fidgity person. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Alli aka The Chicken ~currently reading lots of books!  |
|
|
NitroStitch
Status: Lewis Carroll
Offline
Gender:
Florida
Posts: 182
|
|
« Reply #28 on: May 01, 2009, 06:31:01 PM » |
|
I like a quiet Kindle. Just think you can read it in the Library without any Marion the Librarian susurrating a "shhhh." The librarians of the world have formed a long serpentine conga line and dancing to the silent Kindle.
Edward C. Patterson
I can read it quietly in the library if I'm not reading a Stephanie Plum novel, that is! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Why does life interfere with reading?! :0)
|
|
|
|
Scheherazade
|
|
« Reply #29 on: May 02, 2009, 12:10:49 AM » |
|
I heard some of the early Kindle prototypes were pretty loud. We should be thankful that all we have to deal with are loud page clicks!  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
jesspark
|
|
« Reply #30 on: May 02, 2009, 02:24:38 AM » |
|
ROTFLMAO, Scheherazade! Nicely done! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
intinst
|
|
« Reply #31 on: May 02, 2009, 07:58:33 AM » |
|
I heard some of the early Kindle prototypes were pretty loud. We should be thankful that all we have to deal with are loud page clicks!  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. Edith Sitwell Located just outside Little Rock, Arkansas Goal for 2012 = 100 books read, read so far = 60 Now reading = Maggie Get Your Gun - Kate Danley |
|
|
|
drenee
|
|
« Reply #32 on: May 02, 2009, 08:04:59 AM » |
|
I can read it quietly in the library if I'm not reading a Stephanie Plum novel, that is! Isn't that the truth!! I was reading Three to Get Deadly at my mom's when I went to bed and had to stop because I couldn't hold the laughs in and I didn't want to wake anyone. Just discovered these books because of the board here, and I love them. deb |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life. Books read in 2012 - 20 Audiobooks - 10 WwF and HwF - DRA60 Miss you, Dona. |
|
|
|
|
|
Dilber MC Theme by HarzeM
