Amazing how capitalism works.
Not an Apple Fanboy, but I think an app for the iPhone or iPod Touch would be more accepted than the Kindle.
And Apple already has the digital rights issues handled.
Best Buy just started carrying the Sony Reader, both Touch and Pocket models. Competition is a wonderful thing.
I have a Kindle 2 and generally like it. However, there are two definite improvements Amazon could make in it, one farily expensive and the oher quite easy. The expensive one would be to enable it to reproduce color materials, without which it is mainly restricted to books without color illustrations. The other is to add a contrast control. Right now reading something like a battle map, for example, can be very difficult because there’s not enough contrast in the diagram.
The e-tailing behemoth cut prices only on the main Kindle, not the Kindle DX, by $40 to $259.
I see a need for a “government option” to “encourage choice and competition!” Of course, you can’t buy one out of state, all the current models must be changed to meet the new “minimum” standards (which are the only allowed options (in other words the “maximum” standards as well - DUH)) and those that can’t afford one will get one provided at the cost of those that “can” afford it (at which point they will too broke to buy their own - see how hope and change works?)!!!
We need to get on top of this before Sony, Amazon, iPhone and all these other EeeeeVIL companies can take us to the bank!
Who is with me! Hello?!? Is this thing on?
Recommendations? Anyone?
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I bought my first Kindle last December, then upgraded to the new one a couple of months ago. I also have an iphone with the Kindle reader. For a while I had a couple of friends wonder why I’d buy the Kindle when I could just read off my iphone - one of them ended up buying my old Kindle from me...
I chose the Kindle because I could download books anywhere Sprint network is available (trying to read off the iphone screen would be miserable - I’d spend all my time turning pages). I made the decision when I ran out of book one morning when I needed to kill some time, and I really wished I could just get one on the spot at the restaurant I was at. The Kindle is the only one available (so far) that you don’t need to plug into a computer, which is wonderful when you’re out and about. And yes, you can back up your books on your computer, and I think download them that way. I’ve never bothered to learn how, since that’s not important to me. But if it’s important to you, you can do it.
As to not being able to do color: that’s a limitation of the “electronic paper” technology the Kindle uses (I think that’s what it’s called). The screen is supposed to simulate paper, and isn’t backlit. So you can read it in bright sunlight, but need a booklight in low light (easily available - I have one that fits in my Kindle cover). I’d love to have color, but this particular technology hasn’t caught up yet.
Sorry for the long post, but thought I’d share my experience for those that are considering an ereader. To be honest, even though I still get teased for spending the money, I wouldn’t part with my Kindle. You’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands, right after you get my guns. :-)