In past few weeks as the device I own has begin to age, I encountered some tiny glitches while reading books on my Kindle. May be it is the last update (5.8.1) that I recently got, which sucks and due that the device is a bit of unstable. Irrespective of the cause, there are some problems you are going to encounter if you own and use the Kindle device for reading books.

Cannot Connect to WiFi

Yes, yes. It happens. But you cannot leave your device always on WIFI mode. It will suck out the battery. Keep device on the airplane mode for proper battery output. Use WiFi, when necessary.

What if doesn’t work? You can’t see a WiFi network in the network list, or you can’t connect to a WiFI that you can see on the network list. In this case, consider restarting your kindle.

If you cannot solve the problem of WiFi even after you have restart the device, there is a trick. create a new file in the root path of Kindle from you laptop/Desktop and set the file name as “WIFI_NO_NET_PROBLE”. Don’t give this file any extension and then restart the device. Voila!

Cannot Delete eBooks

Came across this glitch last week when I was cleaning out the books I have read by deleting them. Cannot find it in the storage either. What to do?

Make sure that book is not a part of an collection. If it is, then uncheck the book from that collection and restart the device.

Slow Reaction

The most common problem of a Kindle device that almost every kindle user faces in their lifetime and device’s. When deeply engaged with a book, all we hate is a slow flip of the page.

Again, restart you device and it will be gone. If you use your Kindle device daily and carry a lot of books, make it a habit of at least restarting it at least once in three to four weeks to avoid this glitch.

Happy glitch-free Reading

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Reading Graphic Novels on a computer is awesome but you can read them on a eye-friendly-screen such as your Kindle. In some steps you can make it happen.

The process of converting a graphic novel to be able to read it on a Kindle is simple. Graphic novel files are either in CBZ or CBR format and you use Calibre (an ebook manager), and convert them to MOBI format and then copy the file to your Kindle.

Image, or the graphic novel is ready to read. However, since Kindle does not support colours apart from black and white, your graphic novel pages will be in those two colours only. If you are an occasional graphic novel reader and does not mind the colours, (and a Kindle freak, like me) then go ahead and enjoy your G-novel. If the graphic novel you are reading is already and in black and white, then you just got lucky.

I recently, read Maus which is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman which share experiences of a Polish Jew and a Holocaust survivor. Take a look at some images I clicked while reading:

Side-note: Kindles are very suitable for Manga, since most of them are in black & white format. 

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There are a lot of free ebooks available on websites like Project Gutenberg. Then there is an option for NetGalley lovers, to send the books they have been approved of, directly to their Kindle(s). Having multiple dictionaries on the go is a good option. Battery life is good, haven’t really tested it. The testing part is still in progress but I have read five books on it since the day I have bought it and got it fully charged before doing any reading and the battery bar is still there, hanging around 20 to 25 percent.

Another feature that fascinate me is the “Reading Time”. The device calculates the reading speed, taking into account, how many words you read in a minute which may vary depending on the complexity of the text, (like reading Milton’s Lost Paradise or Dante’s The Divine Comedy) but there is an average that it will continue to do so. If the book is in Kindle Format, that is azw/azw3 or DRM free like mobi, it will show the time remaining in completing the chapter and the book separately along with amount of book you have read in percentage. 

If one is not satisfied with the device’s calculation and want to reset the reading time, one should type the following, without quotes:

“;ReadingTimeReset”

in the search bar and thus, the reading time will reset itself. On opening a book now you will notice in the bottom left corner, it is saying ‘Learning Reading Time’. You cannot put off this thing permanently by default. Even if you choose to display only the location, it will continue to calculate the reading time.

There is an also an option of what is called the “Experimental Browser” and is an ‘okay’ utility for times when you have WiFi connection and in need of urgency. Maybe your boss is angry-calling you since you have forgotten to email him but you promised him the previous day that you are going take a leave as you are not feeling well but will do emailing from home, and all you took the day off for reading a book written by your favourite author recently published. But I would suggest against using or accessing websites with heavy graphics.

Overall, I think my reading is back on track since I have been struggling with distraction and eye strain with my previous reading device. I can store the words that I am interested in on the same device as I am storing the books to be read or currently reading. One can read in dark, at night, without light. I think having an E-Reader is a good utility, both for technophiles and bibliophiles or both. It is handy, you can carry anywhere around, just have to take care that it does not come in contact with water. Having an e-reader doesn’t mean you can completely forget about buying physical books, instead it is an asset.

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