Do you get annoyed by the "Special Offers" ads on your Kindle?

[Zell]

I currently have a Keyboard K3 Kindle that does not have the special offers feature which I'm glad that it's not on there.  I even jail-broke my Kindle to get rid of all the dead authors showing up on the screen every time I turned it on.

Do you get used to the ads on your Kindle?  Also, is there a way to turn them off?

Thanks!

[kisala9906]

You can pay the difference in the price and it turns them off. As far as them being annoying the only ones really annoying me are the local ones.

[DYB]

They don't bother me in the least.  I guess because I spend about zero time looking at the Kindle when it's not activated to be read.  And spend about 1 collective minute a week looking at the Home screen.

[Sandpiper]

I've just had SOs on my K Touch which, of course, I got just recently.  Not being a girlie girl, I don't care for offers (therefore graphics that go with) for make-up and related.  One ad for massages had flowers for the graphic.  I like that.  An Amazon offer showed a stack of books.  That's good.  And an ad for AT&T was a graphic of a cell phone.  That's OK.  Generally the SO ads don't bother me.

[MoyJoy]

I had em for a few hours and was TOO happy to get em off.  I'm still trying to explain to my friends why I had a Twilight screensaver but they can't hear me over their own laughter.  They've been teasing me for days.

[Zell]

Is there some way to get rid of them -- any way?

[fuschiahedgehog]

I had em for a few hours and was TOO happy to get em off.  I'm still trying to explain to my friends why I had a Twilight screensaver but they can't hear me over their own laughter.  They've been teasing me for days.

OMG the Twilight screensaver is the worst!  Yuck!

I wish the 'special offers' were more customized to users' interests, or at the very least give me the option to say "No more ads from this vendor."

[kisala9906]

Is there some way to get rid of them -- any way?

 As I said the first time you asked, yes pay to have them removed. I think it's $40.

[MariaESchneider]

They did annoy me at first, but only the one that runs at the bottom of the home screen.  That was my real estate!!!  DANG IT!

But I got used to it being there.

The most annoying thing for me is that in two months there hasn't been a single thing I've felt was worth taking advantage of.  There were some okay deals (1 dollar books) but no books in the list that I just had to have.  There were some good deals on Kindle covers, but I already had a Kindle cover. 

I'm lukewarm to them.  They don't annoy me much anymore, but I'm not what you'd call super impressed with them either.  All it would take to impress me is ONE Spend 10 dollars and get an Amazon gift card for...any amount.  Just sayin' 

[bluesplayer]

My first  Kindle was last years  K3 3G (until ten minutes ago I was on 3.1 firmware as well).  it is in an Amazon lighted cover that I don't go anywhere without (except some work locations that don't allow electronic devices, or thumb drives, or...)

I've dropped it, chipped it, have the little hairline cracks in the corners (I'm sure I am the one who stressed the frame and caused the cracks so I'm not complaining) -it's like a Timex and it's still ticking.  

However, on Sunday I saw that Best Buy had the Kindle Keyboard 3G w SO for $89 - I HAD to have it (at that price the "free" 3G was worth it) so I bought one last night! I find the ads amusing and at $100 off what I paid for my original Kindle it is such a great price the ads can stay!  

FYI: no I did not want a new touch screen or a color Kindle (still don't).  So since the keyboard Kindle's look like they are on the way out - I've already got my "backup" Kindle.

[LauraB]

I had em for a few hours and was TOO happy to get em off.  I'm still trying to explain to my friends why I had a Twilight screensaver but they can't hear me over their own laughter.  They've been teasing me for days.

Those really annoyed me too!

[Ann in Arlington]

 I basically agree with DYB. . . . I hardly ever look at 'em.  Notice when they change and decide if I want an email sent and then move on.  

With the basic Kindle it's $30 to buy out and with the Touch it's $40 to buy out.

The guy that has developed the alternate screensaver software update ("hack") has said he'll not do one to remove them since you agreed to them on the condition of getting a discount on the price.

If you have a non SO Kindle, Touch, or Keyboard, you can now subscribe to them. . .go to "manage devices" on MYK.  You can switch back and forth as you wish.

[CoffeeCat]

When the kindles with special offers came out, I thought the discount was nice, but that I'd never want it. I liked the way my K3 was without it.

I just got my KT today and I am seriously amazed at how little I notice the ad on the bottom of the home screen. The screen saver ones are pretty and the deals are good. I am quite happy with the SO kindle thus far.

[Hoosiermama]

I don't mind the ads. In fact DS#2 wants a fire for Christmas, so I got the Amazon Visa with a $50 gift card to get it.

Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk

[kisala9906]

I don't mind the ads. In fact DS#2 wants a fire for Christmas, so I got the Amazon Visa with a $50 gift card to get it.

Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk

The fire does not have ads

[Evenshade]

I actually bought the KT thinking that the ads would be a great thing, but I ended up "buying out" the very next day.  I got the feeling that "my" kindle "property" was being trespassed.  ha!

[Ann in Arlington]

The fire does not have ads

But she used a discount that she was offered on her SO kindle to help pay for the Fire for the son's Christmas gift. . . .

[MoyJoy]

I did email CS to ask them if there could be somewhere for non-offers Kindle Owners to see the Offers.  I saw the one for the 50% off covers and $1 comedy books thanks to a poster here and I had to go turn on offers to see them and email them and turn them back off after.  It would be awesome if in the menu there was a "show Kindle Offers" as there is when you have the subscription turned on.  I know it's a perk of having an Offers version (even though a perk is paying $40 less) but if they could make it so we could see it as well that would be great.  And the vendors offering the offers would win as well.  Doesn't hurt to ask.  

[DreamWeaver]

When I bought my K3 Kindle Keyboard 3G one year ago, there wasn't a model that had special offers. Just recently, the option to have special offers became available for my model, and I decided to give it a try. The ads don't bother me because I only glance at them briefly and then get into reading. I've only had the ads for a few days, but so far I haven't seen any great offers. I'll continue with special offers at least through the holiday season and then decide whether to keep them.

[SamIam]

I used a friends, and honestly I wasn't that bothered with the ads at all. A bit obtrusive, but for the price i'd definitely live with it

[NYCKindleFan]

They don't bother me at all. The ad at the bottom is tiny and I never see the screensavers since I keep it in a sleeve when I'm not using it. The deals I've gotten so far as awesome.

[BTackitt]

The only ones I took advantage of so far were to get a couple of books for a buck each. DD doesn't like horror, so she let me pick the horror book, and I found one of the books that is on the recommended reading list for my Criminal Psyche class, whatever the other category was, she picked that book, as it is her babyKSO.. She doesn't care about the SO advertising because she keeps it in a cover and never sees the full size ones, and is too busy reading to pay attention to the tiny ones on the bottom of the home screen.

[KindleGirl]

I don't look at the screensavers for more than a few seconds either and I like most of them. The only ones that kind of annoy me are the phone ones...because they are ugly ads with no creativity and they seem to come up on mine all the time. I'd rather see the other stuff.

[Mips]

I have the K3Kybd wifi without special offers which I have loved for over a year.  There were some things I didn't love about it but overall I loved it enough to want to get a spare with 3G.  

 I am test driving the Touch 3G w special offers.  There are more things I don't like with it than like.  One of those things is the annoying ad thing.  The few special offers I might have been interested in, I would have had to turn on the wifi or 3G or had it constantly on (depleting battery/reading time) to have accessed them.  I was all fumbly fingers about that with a touch screen that has variable sensitivities and not remembering where something was located in the menu options.  Blech.  I'm sure some of my dissatisfaction is just a learning curve of getting used to something different but some of it is not.

Right now I'm leaning towards returning the Touch, trading it in for another K3Kyb but with 3G.  I have to decide if I can learn to ignore the special offers or suck up the higher price.  I do enjoy not having a commercial on my reading device: I have an ereader to read, to escape shopping.

[sebat]

I did email CS to ask them if there could be somewhere for non-offers Kindle Owners to see the Offers.  I saw the one for the 50% off covers and $1 comedy books thanks to a poster here and I had to go turn on offers to see them and email them and turn them back off after.  It would be awesome if in the menu there was a "show Kindle Offers" as there is when you have the subscription turned on.  I know it's a perk of having an Offers version (even though a perk is paying $40 less) but if they could make it so we could see it as well that would be great.  And the vendors offering the offers would win as well.  Doesn't hurt to ask.  

You don't have to ask.  It's already possible to get them without a SOK.  Go to "manage my kindle" and turn on "subscriptions".  If you have a K without SOs you can turn it off and on whenever you want.