Amazon Kindle: meet Amazon's e-book reader
By Ryan Block 
posted September 11th 2006 11:57AM
posted September 11th 2006 11:57AM
posted September 11th 2006 11:57AM
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This reader uses e-ink which means that it does not have light in the screen; you will need external light to see it. It uses power only when it writes on the screen then the image stay on the screen without consuming any power. This is great because the battery will last long and it feels like real paper than a computer screen. Good for your eye.
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if the kindle is so hot why dosent amazon digital have any to ship out to consumers
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wow, what a product! i bought myself one early this year from http://www.getamazonkindle.com and I have read more books in 4 months than I have in the past year!
This would be great for students with the textbooks, they are big, heavy and expensive. I am a student in college and am a math major, which means the books are very expensive and heavy. If we students could get books on this it would be very nice, even if the device itself is expensive, it would lower the cost of the books and the weight. There would be no more, "I left my book in the car" or trying to figure out which book to bring to class on which day because they are all so heavy.
The Kindle's limited graphics ability really bothered me when I got my Kindle and moved some photos to it. I had flashbacks to the days of 2 bit graphics, which looked about as good as newspaper photos (older newspaper photos, for over 20 years even those are better than this).
I thought about it and remembered a lot of the things I used to do to prepare graphics for 2 bit, and had some limited success with photos, and GREAT success with others. I also figured out some great ways to prepare graphics for inclusion in an ebook. Lots of posting about this in the Kindle support pages, mainly about graphics being resized.
I did a lot of experimenting and was so happy with the results, I wrote a small ebook on how to prepare graphics for the Kindle using Photoshop (or another graphic editing application.
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I kept the price cheap. If I make enough for a trip for 2 to the movies I'd be happy.
I do hope to pull the book one day because of improvements to e-ink!
Now the generation begins for ebook, a very easy way to drag out the information you want any time, the way you want, and feed it in our brain. Ebook reading is one of them, we can convert any files format to kindle, kindle conversion, with a high resolution quality...
After still not seeing anyone use one (any eBook reader for that matter, except ONE--my friend's Sony), I decided to foot the bill and get it myself.
I found one called a BeBook, looks much better, twice the memory, not proprietary. Cost the same. Wifi coming but not available just yet.
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Prototypes often lack the final "fit and finish" of a cool industrial design with top-notch materials, colors and styling, and there's surely a separate team working on how to make this product look sexy. When they put it all together you'll likely see something that makes your privates hum.
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I just got my Amazon Kindle from www.getamazonkindle.com and all I want to say is goodbye to paper!
Good device It is functional and practical, recommend it. And it fits into your suitcase easily. http://www.bestbuycp.com and http://www.bestbuycp.com/amazon-kindle/ Reading Review and Buy Guide.
I think it looks incredibly functionally beautiful. Scooter you comments suggest someone who knows little about what actually is ergonomic versus what looks ergonomic. Hands actually create right angles and flat surfaces -- ever thought why it's easy to hold a book as opposed to a football? I think it suggests a folded book form, and depending on choice of materials, I would guess the photos are probably very deceiving
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The KINDLE is now sold out and is out of stock. There is a waiting list for those wanting to buy.
The consumers have spoken...they don't care what the KINDLE looks like.
I have enjoyed the heck out of mine.
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The consumers are the ones that matter. They will be the ones buying tablets and eReaders. Tech people don't know crap about consumers likes and dislikes. Tech-heads think everyone needs to live up to their high-tech standards. Make eReaders simple to use and easy to get media on it and it should be a pleasant experience. It's time for eReaders to start kicking paper's ass.
I bought my Amazon Kindle at rollbackcentral.com when Amazon was sold out.
Her eis a decent review:
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A while ago, I helped my son with a reading presentation for school. We found several surprising statistics:
1. about 60% of high school graduates never read another book in their lifetime.
2. about 40% of college graduates never read another book in their lifetime.
3. Most US families have not been in a bookstore in the last 5 years.
4. The average book purchased is never read beyond page 17.
What chance is there that the Kindle will be a commercial success when it can't even produce color pictures? At least magazines have color and might be a good use for a Kindle like device.
Yea, leave it to the &*^%%$# to only have something that can only read Amazon products. What about a reader that can access free books?
The photo does not give the next generation Kindle justice. The new kindle is very slim and extremely easy to read. Many people do not want it as small as an iPhone. The whole idea is that it gives you the feel of reading an actual book http://www.bookbender.com
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This thing looks like its from the 80's and should have Texas Instruments on it.
That is insulting to Texas Instruments and my TI-83 calculator.
I just hope it works with content that is not from Amazon. Most of these have been crippled with DRM. I'm OK if it supports DRM, but I'd want it to also support non-DRM stuff.
It doesn't. It only reads DRM signed content from amazon
If Amazon began offering all of their books for this reader at a significant discount (say 3 to 5 dollars - no manufacturing costs, no shipping costs) I'd buy one (or a compatible reader) as soon as they offer it.
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Yeah, but can it play Pong?
Too bad Amazon doesn't have books (except for the same public domain titles everyone has)..They have publishers books. Only the smallest part of any book is the printing and binding, the same real costs of overhead and royalties (for author and agent) will still drive ebooks prices too high.
Does it come with a deal on a dot matrix printer?
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I think this product qualifies as "Engadget's Most Laughable Product Of The Year", it looks like something my high schools science lab would have owned about fifteen years ago. I would be embarrassed to be seen in public with this joke...........
The device looks ugly as hell, but it does have a lot of appeal...getting digital content should not be a big problem if Amazon is involved...
Ditto on ugly as hell. Yuk. I'll be waiting for something a little slicker looking but it is potentially a good idea. It depends on how unlimited the ebook selection is, and the pricing of the service.
This is proof that someone at amazon had a camera that could take pictures from the future in the 80's, but it 80fieded whatever it saw...
Is this proof of Amazon trying to help the environment? It looks like they've recycled the plastic from ancient PCs. Then again, even if that's the case, there's still no excuse for this thing being so dang hideous.
Youse guys are just judging a ebook reader by its cover.
shenanigans.
there's no way anybody could release anything as fugly as that in this decade...
Looks like something out of Buck Rodgers (TV) or Dr. Who...
I can't remember ever having seen such an ugly device. I like the idea of ebooks and hence just hope that this is not the final design.
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Amazon owns Mobipocket so they're probably looking to protect that business. There are some books on there that look to be self-published or at least from non-mainstream publishers. I'm sure part of their future plans involve becoming a publisher.
I'm guessing they make the same amount whether they sell the item electronic or physical. Since Sony's reader will lock you into their drm format Amazon need to do this to sell their drm format.
Wanna bet that Apple will unveil their own eBook a few days after Amazon releases theirs. Apple's will be all screen, no buttons, thin and integrate with iTunes eBook store. Apple's device will display any PDF, text or image file.