When I’m browsing for books on my Kindle and don’t have a direct rec from people with incredible taste in reading, I usually download a sample. Smart marketing which often works, so as a feature I give it a gold star. But when I get to the end and hit the “Buy this book from the Kindle Store” link, I get a duplicate cover in my Kindle library and the text is not synced to where I was reading in the sample.
I want a more seamless experience! Jeff Bezos, you promised! Kindles are magic!
This is what I want: Download the sample, buy the book, have it open to directly where I left off, and have the sample file overwritten. I’m always wary of “if they can do x, why can’t they do y” kinds of suggestions, because often x and y are very different sorts of things but for real, if I can have my book synced across four different devices, then it’s hard to imagine this is very hard.
Or maybe I’m just the first person in the world to complain about this problem! A quick search of the Kindle forums at Amazon proves this is not so, but I thought I’d post it here and maybe start a groundswell or occupy movement or something.
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