CBRetriever’s Comments (group member since Oct 03, 2017)

CBRetriever’s comments from the Amazon Kindle group.

Fabio wrote: "Did they give a reason?"

this isn't Amazon and he needs to work with them to re-instate it.

Tiffany wrote: "I’m hoping to find some book friends who would be up for doing a buddy read. The more the better imo.
I’m open to most genres.
Some of my favorite recent reads include ACOTAR, Manacled, Fourth Wing..."

you're better off looking for Buddy Read forums on Goodreads. This forum seems to have degenerated into a place where all the posts are spam/self-promotion threads (note the hijacker on your thread).

also check out SciFi and/or Fantasy forums as those often have Buddy Reads section

here's a search of communities that comes back when I search on buddy reads

https://www.goodreads.com/group/searc...

Let me tell you where this post should go: in the Author's Corner section of this forum and not in the Book Banter where we discuss books by authors other than ourselves

you might want to ask in the Amazon forum here: https://www.amazonforum.com/s/

I read the self-promotional post and the author who posted it has immediately gone on my "do not purchase anything they've written" list.

Kellie wrote: "I had a kindle keyboard second generation but that went extinct because it was 3G and everything 3G was eliminated. I could still read books on it just couldn't download new ones. But then the batt..."

you could have downloaded them and transferred them via usb. I still do that with mine

How to Transfer books to a Kindle via usb

go to the Amazon website
select Content and Devices from the upper right menu there
log in
find the book
click on the More button to the right of the title
Select Download & transfer via usb and select the target device

then

Locate the file either on your desktop or within the file browser - it's usually in the Downloads folder
Turn on your Kindle and put in a pincode if you have one
Connect the Kindle to your computer via USB cable.
Open File Explorer
Locate the “Documents” folder within the Kindle.
Copy the file from the original location to the Kindle “Documents” folder.

Lisa wrote: "C. wrote: "Is there any way you can engage with your readers and ask them why? Or maybe invite a few select readers who have reviewed you in the past to get an early edition in exchange for a review."

As I'm not an author, no there's no way I can do that.

Anne wrote: "I have the latest (I think) Paperwhite. I love the longer battery life but have not been able to get library books on it."

you have to get them using a computer because Kindles cannot run apps

Anne wrote: "I’m not technically adept enough to do the switching I read about.."

it doesn't always work or it will only work for one or two books as Amazon can tell where you're physically located

current models:

Fire tablet
Oasis (buttons)
Scribe (can write on and create notebooks)
Paperwhite
Basic Kindle

Kindles = best for reading
Fires = best for other things and there are some books that can only be downloaded to Fires and the other Reading Apps

neither is the best

Fire = shorter battery life, difficult to read in bright sunlight
Kindle = no colors, no apps

I don't really think much about it - I'm one of those people who seldom leave reviews (it takes away from my time to read)

Omar wrote: ""

and a lot of people feel the ame way. The proper place to post in this forum is here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

see the first post in this forum titled "Enough with the Spam"

Omar wrote: "Please Kill Me: The Unforgettable Drama Mystery Thriller book by Omar Alwareh"

I won't purchase any book that is self-promoted and the post hijacks the thread

Brian wrote: ""To Be With You Again" would be a good choice for a recently-released choice - tinyurl.com/ToBeWithYouAgain - on Kindle Unlimited, eBook, and Paperback! It's $5.99 on Kindle and $7.99 on paperback!..."

I won't purchase any book that is self-promoted and the post hijacks the thread

Liz wrote: "Thank you! I downloaded the Send to Kindle app. I tried sending the AZ W3 files with it and they were rejected by the app. When I removed the file ending, i.e. the .azw3, they went through just fin..."

you're welcome - glad it worked

the Send to Kindle methods still work

Send to Kindle email = correct author name and uses file name as title like this: pg62495 if the file is named pg62495.epub
https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindl...
Send to Kindle app = uses your name as author if you don't fill it in and file name as/above
https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindl...
or
https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindl...
Send to Kindle website link = correct author name and uses file name as/above
https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle

and some methods will work for azw format (mightbwork for azw3?):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...

Patricia wrote: "I have a Paperwhite (11th generation) & the page numbers have disappeared from all my books while reading. Is this a new thing? Is there a way to get them back? Thanks!"

simply tap in the lower left corner and cycle through the option or tap on the Display icon (Aa) and select More -> Reading Progress

it takes both - if the writing takes me out of the story, I usually won't continue. And for Kindle books, you need to grab them withing the first few pages due to the Look Inside/Read a Sample feature or people won't buy them. Ditto for hardcopy books listed on Amazon as they also have the same feature.

well, the initial stages of both ebooks and hardcopy books cost the same; it's just the later stages that cost a bit different. This is from an article published in

Hardcover: These books retail for around $25, yet cost about 1/10th that amount — about $2.50 to print.
Trade Paperback: Retail for about $14, cost about $1.
Mass-Market Paperback: Retail about $8, cost about $0.75.
E-Books: Retail anywhere from $0.99 to $14.99, but most new releases from large publishers are $12.99. No printing costs, although they share the editing, cover design, and other costs of print books, and do have some formatting costs as well.

to me it's the Hardcopy books that are far more overpriced. However, for those of you who remember the old days before digital books and Amazon, the Hardcover came out first and no one discounted the prices anywhere. You then had to wait 9-12 months until the Paperback came out. When digital books were first sold, the price was the same as the Hardcover and wasn't discounted until the Paperback came out.

Because nowadays, the prices for most ebooks are set and controlled by the publishers (you may recollect seeing something like this on Amazon books: Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC) Amazon and other booksellers cannot discount the price of these books, but since physical books are sold at a significant discount to book sellers, especially the major sellers (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, etc) those book sellers can then discount the physical books.

However, on Amazon, I see, for The Last Crown: A Novel by Elzbieta Cherezinska, published in 2023, I see

Hardcover = $21.37 (as low as $15.25 new from third party sellers of which some charged $3.99 shipping)
Paperback = $20.99 (as low as $13.86 from third party sellers with $3.99 shipping)
Kindle = $12.99

this is one sold by Amazon, not by a publisher and is cheaper than the normal $14.99 that the major publishers charge for their Kindle book.