Kindle feature request: Seamless transition from sample to book

Posted: March 16th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Kindle | No Comments »

At the end of a book sample, you’ll see something like the following:

End of this sample Kindle book.
Enjoyed the sample?
Buy Now
or
See details for this book in the Kindle Store

If I have read the sample, reached this page and enjoyed it enough to purchase the book, I typically find myself going through the following steps in some order:

  1. Purchase book, either using Buy Now or the book’s detail page.
  2. Navigate back to the Home Screen.
  3. Now I really have no use for the sample anymore. I go ahead and delete it using the Kindle’s Content Manager.
  4. I open the acquired book and find myself using the table of contents, repeatedly pressing Next Page or some other means of navigation to find the spot where I left off in the sample. Depending on the size of the sample and the book’s organization, this process can take some time (and clicking).

Here is what I would prefer:

I come to the end of a book sample and decide to purchase the book, using Buy Now. The book gets downloaded and once it has arrived, it is automatically opened at the position, where I left off in the sample. The book sample is automatically removed from the device. My reading experience is only briefly interrupted by the purchase/download, but is otherwise seamless.

That would seem like a pretty user friendly process to me. I wonder if that is possible with the Kindle 2.



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