Comments on: Round up #120: Booker infographics, AZW[1] http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/round-up-120-booker-infographics-azw1/ Fun and information about the Kindle and the world of e-books Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bufo Calvin http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/round-up-120-booker-infographics-azw1/#comment-36096 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:48:10 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=9694#comment-36096 Thanks for writing, Edward!

You are (again) right, I’m sure. They have to retrofit the Fulfillment Centers. Maybe next year they’ll only hire 5,000 seasonal workers instead of 50,000…

That’s one of the interesting things about the Baxter robot: it doesn’t really need retrofitting (or safety cages, or programming…)

http://measuredcircle.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/a-robot-with-common-sense-what-could-go-wrong/

]]> By: Bufo Calvin http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/round-up-120-booker-infographics-azw1/#comment-36094 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:41:13 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=9694#comment-36094 Thanks for writing, Edward!

I was probably imprecise to say “unreliable or unavailable wireless”. :) I meant to suggest slow as well by “unreliable”. Looking back on it, that wasn’t a good denotation…something can be reliably slow. :)

I think you’ve given good advice on how to do it. The only problem I’ve ever had people express is Windows not showing the Kindle as a drive consistently. Usually, refreshing the Windows Explorer screen with F5 will fix that.

]]> By: Edward Boyhan http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/round-up-120-booker-infographics-azw1/#comment-36033 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:09:31 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=9694#comment-36033 The kiva approach requires all new warehouse shelving and fixtures — as well as a radically different floorplan layout (it looks kind of triangular). I’m guessing only a very few Amazon fulfillment centers have (at this point) been reworked to accommodate Kiva.

Amazon took a $65MM charge in the second quarter to cover the Kiva acquisition. I would expect that in the years ahead they will recoup that and more as their fulfillment centers get “kivaized”. Kiva warehouses require very few people to run.

]]> By: Edward Boyhan http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/round-up-120-booker-infographics-azw1/#comment-36031 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:01:51 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=9694#comment-36031 A reason to use a USB cable to put content on a kindle could be 3G slowness. If I have a large pdf file, I will often download it directly to my kindle DX rather than use whispernet — in this case the USB approach is much faster.

I hardly ever use USB when I’m buying in the Amazon store — as I can deliver the purchase directly to the kindle of my choice at purchase time (I do most of my buying from Amazon on the computer rather than from a kindle — as the experience is richer/easier to use). Even after purchase, anything bought from Amazon can be “pushed” to any of your kindles from the “manage my kindle” page.

The USB cable approach makes more sense if you are buying content from a non-Amazon source which typically doesn’t support whispernet. The process for this that Amazon recommends (and you provided the link for) will work, but is overly complex. I prefer to first connect my kindle using a USB cable to my computer. It then appears as a Windows drive (in my case the I: drive) I then download all my non-Amazon purchases directly to I:\documents.

Doing it this way will pop up any duplicate file names on the kindle in a dialog box — giving you the option to rename, cancel, or overwrite the duplicate. The bracketed file names you mentioned are the result (as you suggested) of a windows explorer automatic mechanism that attaches bracketed numbers to duplicated file names when copying which will happen if you use the Amazon suggested method.

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