stoolpigeon's Journal: More Nexus 7 stuff

So last night it worked perfectly on my wi-fi at home. Go figure.

Something I kept meaning to say but kept forgetting. It charges by using micro usb. This is nice because I have lots of these cords and power supplies as it is also what powers my phones, raspberry pi, other tablets, etc. The one drawback is it is on "upside down". Now - it really ticks me off that Apple always has to use their own connectors - but making one that is indifferent to orientation is pretty much genius. So - on pretty much everything I own the "up" on the port is the side with the screen. On the Nexus 7 it is the side away from the screen. Stupid.

And here's another bit of stupidity. It hit me yesterday - hey this thing has a 7 inch screen - it might be good for reading comic books. Well as I mentioned earlier - getting files on their from my linux machines is a total pain. I decided to try using google drive as a means of transfer. This has not worked well with some comic book files I have. Drive puts them in a strange location and either I've picked a reader that doesn't function correctly or something damaged the file in the process of moving it via drive. I'll try other methods when I get a chance.

But I thought hey - how about the amazon kindle app? So I went on there and grabbed a comic book. I can't zoom in enough to read the text. This is a huge amount of interface fail on the part of Amazon. I can double tap a panel and it sort of pops out but it doesn't zoom in enough to make a difference. The pictures look nice, but I can't read the text. I ought to be able to do the normal pinch to zoom stuff. The comic book I got was a free preview and I'm glad I didn't pay for one. On the Nexus 10 it would probably be perfect but they need to get it to work well on the 7 inch tablet. I wonder if they do something to make it better on a Kindle Fire. If not I'd be ticked off if I owned one.