When you love a Kindle sample, shouldn’t upgrading be easier?
By Joe Wikert
In an effort to stick by my previously-stated philosophy of limiting my dud purchases, I read the sample material for Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation. This book is a bit of an instant classic, so it was easy to pull the trigger on it.
Silly me, though. I thought that when I buy a Kindle book after reading the sample the full version will automatically open up to where the sample ended. Is that asking too much? Apparently so, because when the full book hit my Kindle it opened at the start, as if I’d never read the sample. I had to go back into the sample to see where I left off and find that spot in the full version.
Is this a horrible flaw? No, but it’s one of those "nice little touches" you find with pretty much every product from Apple; it just shows how much attention was paid to the details.
Amazon could fix this down the road, but it’s too bad they didn’t consider it before the initial Kindle roll out.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I agree. The newly acquired book should get the bookmark from the sample.
Also, the sample should get deleted.
Seems easy enough, but I suspect it’s not that simple to implement, as it assumes that the sample and the full book are connected or linked. I’m not sure that this association exists.