Do you normally make notes in your physical books?

> AFAIK, pagination depends on you display, so bookmarks may change place among Kindle readers on different devices.

The start of the page you bookmarked will still be the start of the page you jump to, whatever display layout you use. The pages might be different length.

Bookmarks work as you say, which is counterintuitive is one is used to how bookmarks use in real books, i.e. generally one or two points are of interest on a page. On the Kindle, with different pagination, a sentence you like may not be on the bookmarked page anymore. There's no easy solution to this problem, I guess.

  What you want here is to get back to a sentence.  I'd highlight it instead.

  At the beginning of a sentence, press the 5-way center down and 

  That creates a highlight (underlined) and is faster for me than 

  When you want to find your highlight (or note), press the Menu 

  That's a pretty good solution.  You'll also find a personal 

  If you don't want your annotations backed up to your area on their 

APOLOGIES. I have no idea how to edit on this. The first one I did w/normal word wrapping while writing didn't wrap when I was reading and most of it was off the screen. This final result is very odd. :-)

Not to convenient, but I still love my Kindle for pure reading.

My criticisms of the Kindle are for its page transitions and poor interface. The Kindle is really like the Blackberry of of digital readers. The interface is beyond clunky compared to simple taps and swipes that much more closely emulate the act of reading a physical book.

My best hope is that Mirasol comes to the Nook Color sooner rather than later as I highly doubt the iPad will come with a non-backlit display for several generations.

I've often felt that the "need" to emulate something in the real world on new devices and new interfaces has held back significant innovation. Despite that "the desktop metaphor" is supposed to be familiar, people still can't manage their files effectively. And now new interfaces are rare/difficult to gain traction because people are used to the desktop metaphor despite that it becomes less and less a good metaphor.

The Kindle hardware is usable with one hand. I don't find reading books using the kindle app on my android phone to be as easy to do with one hand as with the hardware, mostly because since the kindle page turning buttons are physical and have decent resistance, I don't need to hold the device in an awkward way to avoid activating an action I don't want to.

The kindle is actually much better than a book because it's easier to operate with one hand than a physical paperback is.