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For the Avid Readers: Amazon Kindle
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| The Highroller |
| quote: | Product Overview
Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.
Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.
Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
More than 88,000 books available, including 100 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers.
New York Times® Best Sellers and all New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.
Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times.
More than 250 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN's Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post.
Lighter and thinner than a typical paperback; weighs only 10.3 ounces.
Holds over 200 titles.
Long battery life. Leave wireless on and recharge approximately every other day. Turn wireless off and read for a week or more before recharging. Fully recharges in 2 hours.
Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot.
No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments—we take care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read.
Includes free wireless access to the planet's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org.
Email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to
Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing. |
What do you guys think of this new product?
Amazon is one of many who have already tried this electronic book idea. The difference is, that you're actually able to easily download books/newspapers onto this. The problem with other devices like PDAs is that it was too annoying to download books and newspapers onto it, and there wasn't much support from publishers. However, if Amazon can get support from publishers with this thing (which I have faith that they can), this could be something big.
HOWEVER, I would have to read reviews from many avid readers before buying this product. As you notice in Amazon's promotion, they heavily emphasize the fact that they have tried to develop a product that doesn't get in the way of you and your reading. Probably the most major complaint that consumers have had about e-books is that it's just not the same as reading a physical book. Books have had a place in society for a very long time, so it would be quite the feat indeed to create a product that made things so much easier, that the "experience" of reading an actual book was no longer an issue. |
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| FunkyCrew |
I still prefer the old fashioned paper-book format
I absolutely despise reading off a computer/digital screen, for some reason I can't concentrate on the text as much as I can while holding the actual book in my hands
and I also get silly excited about picking up the latest book by any of my fave authors at Chapters or ordering it on Amazon :) |
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| Orko |
I want to see the unit. A couple years back, a new technology was developed to allow electronic printing on 'paper'. Looked, and read like paper, but refreshed like a computer.
I don't think this tech is good enough to be mass produced yet, but lets see where this leads us. |
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| VolumE_TO |
| i'm sure an actual book is much better for your eyes |
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| Elendil |
| As someone who reads probably 3000 pages per month, I won't be switching to electronic any time soon. I simply enjoy the feel and look of the pages. |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by VolumE_TO
i'm sure an actual book is much better for your eyes |
Yup, no refresh rate! |
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| patpicos |
| quote: | Originally posted by Elendil
As someone who reads probably 3000 pages per month, I won't be switching to electronic any time soon. I simply enjoy the feel and look of the pages. |
+1 |
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| Irishaddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
I want to see the unit. |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Irishaddict
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Wireless features most likely will not work in Canada since they are tied to Sprint's mobile network. |
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| English Rachel |
Oooh I would definitely embrace this!
Although I adore books, they get dusty and I have thousands of them (I left my whole collection in England yet I still have 2 bookshelves full) and aside from nicely bound classics, the girly trash would be fabulous on a handheld pda (as long as it was sturdy enough to be rolled onto when I have fallen asleep reading....) |
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