Archive for December, 2007
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Monday, December 31st, 2007Another advantage to Amazon’s Kindle struck me late last night as I stood in the cold, pulling to no avail on the locked doors of my local chain book store: Kindle owners don’t have to worry about getting to their favorite book store before 10:00 p.m. on a Sunday night. Now if only I could […]
Early Kindle Adopters
Sunday, December 30th, 2007So far it seems that early adopters of the Kindle have not been plagued with the types of software bugs and hardware troubles that often accompany new products. Watching the forums and blogs, the complaints by actual Kindle owners seem to be very limited. User reviews at Amazon have improved over time as well; after […]
Additional Kindle Functionality
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Igor Skochinsky’s Reversing Everything blog has announced some undocumented functionality located in the Kindle that is pretty exciting to say the least. Well I should say, Google Maps functionality via the built in CDMA network is exciting, Minesweeper, less so. A picture viewer, screenshot capability, and slideshows are also revealed.
E-Books Forever
Friday, December 28th, 2007With technology ever changing and document formats and storage media evolving in lockstep, is there a concern that e-books will become unreadable in the perhaps not-too-distant future? Does the addition of digital rights management (DRM) impact the expected life of an electronic document?
While we don’t know the answers to those questions with any precision, I’m […]
Book Poundage
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007There’s a humorous video at Cracked.com that purports to introduce us to the Kindle’s target audience - hypothetical readers who lug around great quantities of books everywhere they go, including reference works and “The Complete Works of Shakespeare”.
Amazon.com’s Kindle allows you to carry up to 200 books with you at all times. It’s like a […]
Kindle Economics
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Amidst the gripes about Kindle’s $399 price tag, stop to consider the efficiencies built in that over time will end up saving users money. For example, although Sony’s ebook reader is priced $120 less, Sony’s ebooks are often more expensive than Amazon’s. To illustrate, Sue Grafton’s bestseller, T is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries), is […]
Kindle Pricing
Thursday, December 20th, 2007One of the chief complaints about Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader is the $399 price tag. While it’s true that the Kindle comes with some conveniences that other ebook readers don’t have (most specifically, free wireless and downloads from the Amazon Kindle Store), it’s also true that a low-end laptop can be had for not much […]
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