Technology
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 […]
Font Size Trade-Off
Monday, December 17th, 2007I’ve been following a discussion on the Kindle Korner Yahoo! group about the trade-off a small font size forces on the Kindle. It seems that some Kindle owners like to minimize the font size in order to minimize the frequency with which they have to turn the page. I suppose minimizing the paging frequency might […]
Kindle 2.0
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Since the first reviews came out, people have been talking about what would make the Kindle better. Among the suggestions:
Add WiFi connectivity in addition to the already present EVDO connectivity
Smaller and better placement of page turn buttons to prevent accidental page turns
Better positioning of the on/off button
Native PDF support
A better web browser
It will be interesting […]
Kindle Dictionary
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Another advantage to using a Kindle over a traditional dead-tree book: a built in dictionary! When I first perused Amazon’s feature list for the Kindle, I saw that it included The New Oxford American Dictionary but didn’t think anything of it. I use digital and online dictionaries all the time, but almost exclusively for when […]