Kindle

[Norfolk Born]

i don't want or need a Kindle but is there such a thing as a paper-back page size magnifying glass? I find a small round glass makes it harder than ever to read. I need to enlarge a page at a time?

Amazon.co.uk sell a Full Page Magnifier Sheet for £3.30 new (s/hand even less). It looks as if it might be what you need.

[salymap]

Amazon.co.uk sell a Full Page Magnifier Sheet for £3.30 new (s/hand even less). It looks as if it might be what you need.

Thanks a lot, I'll get someone onto it for me.

[PatrickOD]

salymap, far be it from me to be pushing Kindles, when I'm looking for advice myself, but one of the advantages emerging seems to be the
facility for enlarging text. At the moment it's not a problem for me, but I imagine that being able to set text size is more satisfactory than using a hand held or page enlarger. It's something that I place on the plus side.

Many thanks for all the positive suggestions
.
Thinks..... must have another go at getting the thing working.

[Dave2002]

Salymap

Not sure how well some magnifiers work. There are some quite big ones, and some have a light built in. Some of the sheet thingies are made from plastic and probably don't work too well with fine detail font. The glass lens ones should have better optics but may be awkward to handle.

The fonts on the Kimdle can be made quite large, while the iPad fonts are almost continuously variable in size. However the iPad can be really infuriating for text entry. The **** thing seems to think it knows better than "you" do what you want to type. I quite like mine despite, not because of, this. The Kindle is really good value if you like reading, and there are loads of free books. Not sure if the Kindle will manage scores though, such as the PDFs which I download from places such as IMSLP for my iPad. Examples include DOG (Dream of Gerontius)' the manuscript of Brahms' violin concerto etc. You might still find that a Kindle helps you out, though the keyboard is a bit small and fiddly but it's not too bad.

PS: some public libraries sell magnifiers, including those plastic sheet ones.

[salymap]

Thanks Dave,I've just seen this. I don't buy on line but a cousin has ordered the whole page thing from Amazon for me. At £3.30,even if it doesn't help it's not too terrible.

I may think about a Kindle in time but want to read the particular books I have, long out of print,not their choices. bws

[PatrickOD]

salymap

I have just downloaded my first sample to my Kindle, having at last succeeded in getting it working. I am tickled quite pink.

I accepted the first suggestion it made to me, and I am reading it now. Coincidentally, the suggestion was in keeping with a recent topic* to which both you and I contributed.(clue)

For fun, can you identify the sample from this delightful sentence?

'He was smoking a cigarette with the seriousness of an idler.'

* a current topic

[salymap]

Morning PatrickOD. Not unless his initials are PGW.

[affenkopf]

For fun, can you identify the sample from this delightful sentence?

'He was smoking a cigarette with the seriousness of an idler.'

* a current topic

Only aftert googling :(

[Paul Sherratt]

>>I've just been given a Kindle.

I got socks !

[PatrickOD]

Near enough for Jazz, salymap. PGW, GKC .... wha'ever. :)

Good old Google, affenkopf. Well, I didn't recognise it myself and I read it before, about 1953.

Paul, socks are for Christmas; a Kindle is .......

[salymap]

Now my computer can't even Google for me. I asked about the quotation and it told me to give up smoking in 20 different sites. I haven't smoked for years but this computer might drive me to drink !!!

[amateur51]

Now my computer can't even Google for me. I asked about the quotation and it told me to give up smoking in 20 different sites. I haven't smoked for years but this computer might drive me to drink !!!

[salymap]

Am51,do you buy the Radio Times? I ask because the front cover says in large font 'Are they ready for
Simon'? It seems to be about a man called 'Cowell' though.

[amateur51]

Am51,do you buy the Radio Times? I ask because the front cover says in large font 'Are they ready for
Simon'? It seems to be about a man called 'Cowell' though.

I used to buy it but it gradually became more & more full of things I don't want/need and the BBC and other broadcaster websites meet my needs now.

I don't miss it, or all the additonal 'paperwork' that used to fall out of it each week

I suppose it's fallen victim to the 'Ex-Factor'

[Serial_Apologist]

And I thought this thread had something to do with starting fires... until I saw an ad on the back of a magazine!