Requesting user feedback: Send to Kindle feature

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Development is considering implementing a 'Send to Kindle' feature for resources in your Logos library.  

 

Before investing a significant amount of time on this item, we would like to assess user interest based on the fact that this feature would not support sending notes/highlights to or receiving notes/highlights from Kindle devices/apps (which is mentioned in the UserVoice request for this item).

 

Please let us know if you would still be interested in seeing this feature.

+1 [Y] for 'Send to Kindle' feature.

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Hoping for Huge Half million forum post celebration.

I would probably purchase a cheap kindle paperwhite just for reading if you created this feature.

Absolutely!

Any updates on this good idea? 

Apologies if someone already posted this and I missed it, but there is a guide on the Wiki on how to export a Logos book to Kindle format and maintain footnotes, section makers, and the table of contents. Obviously native support would be easier, but this is the best workaround I've found for now. Here's the link:

http://wiki.logos.com/Export_a_Logos_Resource_to_an_eReader_format_$28Kindle,_Nook,_etc.$29

Another Yes vote here.

Yes! This would be beneficial to me.[:)]

I still have to buy a kindle though, lol.

If you do buy a Kindle Fire as this feature is already present for that version. You can select the Kindle Fire just as you can an iPhone or iPad. The only difference is that you will need to reboot the Kindle Fire for the books to load there.

And of course, since I just clicked confirm on an order for a kindle paperwhite, I'm eager to see this come to pass.

Save to Kindle? Yes - I'd like that. 

After some consideration I don't support/want the idea of Send to Kindle.

I think the Barnes n' Noble Nook HD 16 GB (or 8 GB if You have a small library on it) is a much better option. It costs a little more but has equally good battery life and more Logos functionality. Additionally the advantage of not supporting Logos's biggest competitor!

There's discussion going on right now in: Logos for Nook HD and HD+; It works!!. The news consists of that Barnes n' Noble has recently enabled installation of Logos on Nook, and someone tested it and it works very well!

So IMO Logos could save all the programming effort! Are You with me?

Are You with me?

No, and you are still confused. This has nothing to do with the Kindle Fire. It is about the Kindle e-Ink readers, which have MUCH better battery life than does the Nook. Furthermore, the sale on the nook is one week only. 

How on earth is it possible that a Send to Kindle feature would not support Amazon - wouldn't it for example encourage Logos users to buy Kindle books too?:

No, and you are still confused. This has nothing to do with the Kindle Fire. It is about the Kindle e-Ink readers, :

Are You with me?

Fair enough, but would the battery cost for a Nook (battery life 10½ hours) really be a big cost? I would finance the battery cost and partially the device cost by not paying for an internet connection:

which have MUCH better battery life than does the Nook. Furthermore, the sale on the nook is one week only:

How on earth is it possible that a Send to Kindle feature would not support Amazon - wouldn't it for example encourage Logos users to buy Kindle books too?

Not really. People who buy Kindle books are going to buy Kindle books. I do. (But if I have a choice, I get the Logos edition). 

Fair enough, but would the battery cost for a Nook (battery life 10½ hours) really be a big cost?

What are you talking about? Who said anything about "battery cost"? The point about battery life is that you can keep reading your book after the Nook would have died!

I would finance the battery cost and partially the device cost by not paying for an internet connection

In the other thread, Android users made it clear (but you weren't listening) that you are going to have to have a wifi connection at some point… the same as with the Kindle.

This would definitely be a useful feature for me even without the notes aspect. Please please follow through with this! 

Anything which makes owning Kindle books easier will be an additional incentive for people to buy them. I'm perplexed that not more people at Logos User Forums are talking about this!

Well, if it's not a big cost I don't see charging the Nook battery every day as an actual problem at all. There are no advantages with e-ink> it doesn't have functionality:

What are you talking about? Who said anything about "battery cost"? The point about battery life is that you can keep reading your book after the Nook would have died!:

Fair enough, but would the battery cost for a Nook (battery life 10½ hours) really be a big cost?

I'll do fine without the functionality that requires internet. Besides needing internet sometimes for a very limited range of things such as downloading new purches, certainly doesn't equal needing to pay for an internet connection:

In the other thread, Android users made it clear (but you weren't listening) that you are going to have to have a wifi connection at some point… the same as with the Kindle.

I would finance the battery cost and partially the device cost by not paying for an internet connection

And another advantage with the Nook HD is that it's available now. I wouldn't start investing in Kindle books, how do You know which ones of them will eventually make it to Logos?! And printed matter is also an alternative. Also, Logos has made no promise (yet?) whether to program the functionality or when it will be done.

Hey Logos - how about throwing us a bone on this? Any info at all would be appreciated.

This has been my number one request for more than 2 years. Send to Kindle! Please?

Jerry

I would absolutely use this feature. Yes, indeed.

Any update on this?

Anything which makes owning Kindle books easier will be an additional incentive for people to buy them. I'm perplexed that not more people at Logos User Forums are talking about this!

For me, the reverse would occur.  If I have a choice to buy a book in Logos vs Amazon and I don't care about highlighting/notes, then I'll buy it in Amazon.  Reason is 1. Cost and 2. e-Reader.  If the cost is close and I could buy it in Logos to have it searchable/notes/highlights (if needed), then i would buy it in Logos and read it on my e-ink (Amazon Kindle).  I would probably end up buying more in Logos.

jason

I don't follow how that happens, but I just ignore whatever Amazon puts out. I mostly buy from Logos and abebooks.co.uk, very little elsewhere. Abebooks is usually cheaper than Kindle books from what I've noticed, not necessarily for the exact same title but an equally good one, that's why I'm saying printed matter is an option. Sometimes abebooks is much more expensive for an equivalent, not the same, title, but when I buy in those cases the abebooks title is also much better! At abebooks the sellers can set the postage which gives them more freedom which often lowers the overall price.
What is the need for BEING ABLE TO buy everything?:

If the cost is close and I could buy it in Logos to have it searchable/notes/highlights (if needed), then i would buy it in Logos and read it on my e-ink (Amazon Kindle). I would probably end up buying more in Logos:

Anything which makes owning Kindle books easier will be an additional incentive for people to buy them. I'm perplexed that not more people at Logos User Forums are talking about this!

This feature would be huge. 

While it is currently possible to do this, the process is hugely time consuming.  This also applies to books that I purchase on Vyrso.

Reading on an iPad or computer screen is too hard on the eyes to read for any extended length of time, so the Kindle is my reader of choice.

Do any beta testers on this thread have such a feature? Or could a Logos staff person perhaps give an update? I'd be eager to see and use an easy Send to Kindle feature in Logos.

Do any beta testers on this thread have such a feature?

This isn't currently in beta, and up to this point, Logos is just feeling out interest. They haven't committed to actually doing it. 

Or could a Logos staff person perhaps give an update?

I doubt we will get much until they make a decision to pull the trigger. (There won't be a play by play). 

Thanks for the reply!

I would really like to see this feature, I prefer Kindle Fire and WANT IT NOW or whenever you can. thank you.

Kent- this is completely unrelated to the Kindle Fire, which already runs the Andoid app. This is about the eInk kindle devices. 

This is mostly true - but I prefer the Kindle Reader over the LOGOS App on the Fire.  

I for one would be very interested in the Kindle features. I often have my Kindle with me when no computer is available.

Yours and His

Dan

Would love to see this feature.  I often export sections of a resource to Word and then send that Word document to my Kindle.  Bring it on...the sooner, the better!!  [:D]

yes, please

Dear Logos,what are you waiting for?

I would get myself a e-ink kindle if this happens.

This is the biggest negative when it comes to Logos, but this feature would overcome this hurdle.

Absolutely

Theoretically, if Logos decided to incorporate a "Send to Kindle" feature how long would it take before it was available?

Theoretically, if Logos decided to incorporate a "Send to Kindle" feature how long would it take before it was available?

No idea… but beta testers would know first. [;)]

One thing that hasn't been mentioned… Logos may need to get publisher permission first, and they generally don't ever talk about those sort of things. 

Theoretically, if Logos decided to incorporate a "Send to Kindle" feature how long would it take before it was available?

No idea… but beta testers would know first. 

One thing that hasn't been mentioned… Logos may need to get publisher permission first, and they generally don't ever talk about those sort of things. 

I too was thinking that both of those would be part of the process (beta-testing and publisher permission).

Logos may need to get publisher permission first

I would be fairly confident that the 'new' publisher agreements that include iPhone/Android use are sufficiently broad to cover Kindle use as well.

I would be fairly confident that the 'new' publisher agreements that include iPhone/Android use are sufficiently broad to cover Kindle use as well.

I'm not confident one way or the other. I know that some resources are mobile enabled, but not biblia.com enabled. I don't think the publishers want to give away any more than they have to. It wouldn't surprise me either way.

Would love to read Logos books on my Kindle Paperwhite!

Yes, I would. I could still highlight in the Kindle app and have reference to them that way.

It would be a tremendous benefit if the highlights made on the Kindle could be transferred back into the Logos resource. 

It would be a tremendous benefit if the highlights made on the Kindle could be transferred back into the Logos resource.

It really isn't possible and it won't happen. 

It really isn't possible and it won't happen. 

Clippings might work... Which is a good idea... But you could not generate attached "notes" or "highlights" within Logos from the Kindle app. 

Clippings might work

123941 is not referring to Logos' clippings, but the fact that Kindles (except Kindle Fire) store their highlights in a file called MyClippings.txt, It would be theoretically possible for Logos to process that file, and apply that highlighting to the books in Logos. However, that file is specific to each Kindle device, and it doesn't contain highlighting that has been synced from other Kindle devices. But even more importantly, the MyClippings.txt file only records positition numbers, not the actual text highlighted. So it would be almost impossible for Logos to know for sure what part of the Kindle book was actually highlighted (which means I agree with you, alabama24, it wouldn't be possible to sync highlighting back to Logos).

Here's a sample MyClippings.txt file (not mine): http://www.mobileread.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=97944&d=1355946838

Clippings might work

Which is a good idea

This is Kevin Maples BTW, I'm working to regain my Logos identity. [:)]

Good to interact with you this morning Alabama24!