A Portable Book Reader Is A Great Gift
I just ordered one electronic book reader, the Amazon Kindle portable ebook reader. I have been waiting a long time for the next generation device. It is not cheap, as I travel by air almost every other week. Don’t have much room for books – certainly not for more than one.I feel this is great for light reading (magazines, popular fiction etc). If the price is too high – don’t ever go buy it, library is a better choice.
As for button placement and all this other hoop-la, there is likely a good reason it is the way it and I believe they have tested it alot. I agree, you would think they could put design somthing that is more pleasing such as Apple?). But this ebook reader is a straight forward device that serve one simple purpose. You may not be able to have a touch screen with electronic ink with current technology, you need real estate to hold on to the device without smudging the screen etc. By the way, they likely want wireless phone connection so folks are more likely to make at the spur of the moment buying decisions (gotta have it now society). Its a big challenge for the manufacturers to try and cram all these things into one device. Just look at mobile phones, even the iphone and Blackberry are not near any perfection and they have been building it for sometime. iphone has lousy calendaring and Blackberry has lousy internet interface (both these things have been refined over the years). This will make the competitors busy churning out good products and all this is good for us.
I have a first-generation Kindle and I absolutely love the shit out of it. I don’t think I’ll jump on the upgrade bandwagon right away, however, since it doesn’t really seem like *that* big of an upgrade for *another* $400. The improved screen refresh and 16 shades of gray is tempting, though. Maybe if I can pawn my old one off on a friend for $150 or something… we shall see.
Kindle 1G is more than enough if you just wish to read books with it. Physically ugly, probably. But it is adequate for most of the time.
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