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added by Otavio Macedo Oct 15 '12 at 22:54

Please don't vote for this question any more - some of the questions below do not have 10 votes yet and we can't advance to the next stage until we have 40 questions with 10+ votes. – Nathan Osman Oct 23 '12 at 8:16

There are better questions below, in my opinion. While this is on-topic, it's also likely to be addressed in the [ebook-reader] documentation. A more interesting question might be how to change the typeface to a font that is not installed by default. The Kindle fonts, for instance, are less than ideal. – Jon Ericson Nov 15 '12 at 20:06

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added by dangowans, edited by Mark Booth Oct 16 '12 at 14:48

Questions which can trivially be answered Yes are less useful than questions which ask how it can be achieved. Whilst Can I questions are usually answered as How can I questions, when we are trying to define the scope of a site it is better to be specific about the sort of questions we want. – Mark Booth Oct 16 '12 at 14:52

Please remember that votes above 10 do not help a proposal definition, so don't waste votes by voting up questions which already have 10 votes. It is far more useful to use your vote to approve of a question with fewer than 10 votes. Also, if a question you have already voted on now has more than 10 votes, remember that you can remove your up vote and put it on another suitable question, to help us get through the definition phase more quickly. – Mark Booth Jan 4 '13 at 11:42

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added by Nathan Osman Oct 15 '12 at 19:46

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added by Nathan Osman Oct 15 '12 at 19:50

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added by Paola Oct 15 '12 at 20:15

Although this is the highest-voted question so far, I don't think it's a particularly great question. The problem isn't that the question is off-topic (it's not) but that the answer is too obvious. I don't think we want to duplicate the Amazon FAQ. – Jon Ericson Nov 15 '12 at 20:03

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added by dangowans Oct 15 '12 at 20:19

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added by dangowans Oct 15 '12 at 20:23

As George said, please don't waste votes by voting up questions which already have 10 votes. It is far more useful to use your 5 votes to approve of questions with fewer than 10 votes. Also, if a question you have already voted on now has more than 10 votes, remember that you can remove your up vote and put it on another suitable question, to help us get through the definition phase more quickly. – Mark Booth Oct 22 '12 at 10:13

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added by Nathan Osman Oct 15 '12 at 20:31

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added by Nathan Osman Oct 16 '12 at 5:22

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added by Nathan Osman Oct 16 '12 at 5:24

Please don't vote for this question any more - some of the questions below do not have 10 votes yet and we can't advance to the next stage until we have 40 questions with 10+ votes. – Jon Ericson Nov 15 '12 at 20:07

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added by Mark Booth Oct 16 '12 at 14:09

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added by Mark Booth Oct 16 '12 at 14:16

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added by Otavio Macedo Oct 20 '12 at 20:10

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added by Jon Ericson, edited by Flimzy Dec 28 '12 at 5:58

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added by Jon Ericson Oct 22 '12 at 20:21

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added by liz Oct 22 '12 at 21:45

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added by Donaudampfschifffreizeitfahrt, edited by Blorgbeard Dec 11 '12 at 1:09

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added by Jon Ericson Oct 23 '12 at 16:34

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added by Donaudampfschifffreizeitfahrt, edited by Flimzy Dec 28 '12 at 6:01

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added by Jon Ericson Oct 24 '12 at 21:41

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added by Jon Ericson Oct 30 '12 at 19:05

Please don't vote for this question any more - some of the questions below do not have 10 votes yet and we can't advance to the next stage until we have 40 questions with 10+ votes. – user98085 Jan 2 '13 at 17:35

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added by SashaZd Oct 31 '12 at 6:59

There is a free app called Retain. It appears to work on android 1.0 and up. It is at play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.retain – ir-g Jan 23 '13 at 9:43

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added by SashaZd, edited by Flimzy Dec 28 '12 at 6:19

<comments removed> Please do not use comments to answer these questions. Comments are here to help improve the questions. This proposal is not part of the Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define a future site. Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Jan 1 '13 at 21:14

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added by Liam W Nov 21 '12 at 23:48

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added by Joe Golton Dec 4 '12 at 23:04

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added by Tim Dec 9 '12 at 23:09

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added by Tim Dec 10 '12 at 6:49

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added by Tim Dec 12 '12 at 7:18

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added by Ben Brocka Dec 12 '12 at 14:36

closed as duplicate of Is there a measurable difference in terms of eye strain reading on an E Ink device compared to an LCD screen? by Robert Cartaino Feb 13 '13 at 14:12

This question covers exactly the same ground as another question in this proposal.

@Robert: On the actual site, I would hope these questions would be separate since they compare slightly different displays. But for the sake of defining the site, it seems the consensus is that this sort of question is ontopic; they are pretty much the same. (Now that I think of it, a better question would probably along the lines of how such a thing might be measured.) – Jon Ericson Feb 15 '13 at 0:09

Agreed, eInk displays are extremely different from LCD screens, the two comparisons are largely irrelevant to each other – Ben Brocka Feb 15 '13 at 0:32

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added by Ben Brocka Dec 12 '12 at 14:47

	@GeorgeEdison This illustrates the problem with commenting on every definition question at 10 votes, and telling people not to vote anymore: someone, not myself, has downvoted this question, bringing it to 9 votes. Votes above 10 do count. – Beofett Jan 24 '13 at 20:58
	@Beofett: I have to agree. The problem was that earlier on, some of the questions had far more than 11 votes because new users were simply upvoting the top questions. – Nathan Osman Jan 25 '13 at 4:46
	I think this question got some vote in a rush to get things moving to the next level. Since that's taking more time than anticipated, there are perhaps better questions (and we only get 5 votes!). I've still got this one voted up; but I have to confess I'm shopping around. :) – luser droog Jan 25 '13 at 7:44

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added by Ben Brocka Dec 12 '12 at 14:47

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added by Tim Dec 20 '12 at 11:20

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added by luser droog Jan 2 '13 at 13:42

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added by Ben Brocka Jan 2 '13 at 15:28

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added by Tim Jan 8 '13 at 6:48

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added by luser droog Jan 25 '13 at 7:46

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added by Nicolás Jan 25 '13 at 19:04

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added by forums Jan 28 '13 at 1:19

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added by Mark Booth Oct 18 '12 at 16:36

I suspect that this question would be more appropriate to Android Enthusiasts but might not even be on topic there. However I'm struggling to think of a rooting question which might be appropriate here (see Will questions about rooting e-readers be apropriate?) – Mark Booth Oct 18 '12 at 16:39

I'd go with having this question on-topic - Whether or not it is legal is a different topic than the technical results of it. Of course, any answer to this should contain a note about the legal issues as well. – user98085 Jan 5 '13 at 23:38

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added by Nicolás Dec 18 '12 at 12:37

bad question, whispernet is already free to use. – jwenting Jan 9 '13 at 8:08

Whispersync is free only if you use it with wifi (you have to pay if using 3G or roaming) and if you have an amazon kindle device. – Nicolás Jan 9 '13 at 18:32

Are you talking exclusively about for kindle, or Kobo, Sony, Nook and PC etc. ? – ir-g Jan 23 '13 at 9:40

The idea of this question is talk about all devices. But I think it should be difficult to have the same service running on all of them, for hardware and software reasons. So, any solution per each device is also desirable. – Nicolás Jan 23 '13 at 14:22