http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/ Engadget Comments for Many details about the Kindle http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 21st 2007 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 29th 2007 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
....never? OK Ta vrymuch

*cries]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
What about cross border roaming?]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
the problem with roaming in Europe is even worse than across the 49th parallel as the carriers (even the same carriers) will charge you roaming in each EU country. I was told the other day that just logging onto GPRS in France will cost me 12 Euros (about 18 CDN or a Brazilion USD) As for EVDO, I've no idea where europe is with this but whatever the answer is, it won't be consistent across the EU.]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
That's a great feature.

Except then everyone in the family needs to buy a Kindle... family of 4... almost $1600... right...]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
Uh... you mean, a gadget? Yeah, what a shocker that engadget's going to be writing about it...]]>Nov 19th 2007 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
]]>Nov 19th 2007 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 20th 2007 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematic#Nematic_phase). But the bigger question is - didn't you mean Polymer Network LCD (http://www.dic.co.jp/eng/rd/topics/pnlcd.html)?]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
Engadget, I think Amazon should be paying you. You've done a great job advertising for them. I want one!]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
When will someone come out with a e-ink ebook reader that actually displays PDFs nicely? The scientific community would KILL for a way to store and read articles that doesn't require a giant stack of papers or a full-fledged computer.]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/The most awful file format to curse the interweb, why oh why do people use it?]]>Nov 20th 2007 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/- NOT proprietary,
- easy reading of ANY pdf, just like on computers, easy transfer,
- touch screen interface would be nice, I love my iPhone on this respect, no buttons...
- sleek design, BLACK, that does not make you look like a nerd when you take it out in public.
- ideally, backlit, wifi included as well as a simple web browser]]>Nov 19th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/]]>Nov 19th 2007 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Sounds to me like what you want is the iRex iLiad:
http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad

Linux-based OS, native PDF support, touch screen (though it does still have buttons, I'm afraid), looks pretty good, Wi-Fi & a web browser.

No back-light though, as that is physically impossible with e-ink. Might as well ask for a back-lit book.

You can expect to pay an iPhone like price for it too...]]>Nov 19th 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
Displaying a PDF on anything other than a full size sheet of paper is unwieldy. It just doesn't work properly. What most of you want is just a damn tablet PC, which this is not intended to be. Plus, if you really wanted one, you would own one already, and thus outside of the market, but I digress.

PDF's need to be converted into some more manageable form before they can be displayed at this size, and it appears to me that through MOBI support or the email program, that is exactly what Amazon is doing. This is merely a solution so elegant that most users would never know there was a problem. Sure, we would all love to drag and pdf's in a useable fashion, but it ain't happening in this form factor. Live with some solutions.]]>Nov 20th 2007 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
* Engineering/IT for refrence material
* School where one device an replace N number of 10 lb. books (where N is the number of classes you are overloading your self with this semester).

]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
OK, I'll amend my original statement. It *might* happen, but you will still pay $80+ for a textbook and it will still be obsolete in 2 years.

]]>Nov 19th 2007 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/I like that it carries 200 books. I often read multiple bks at the same time and flit from book to book depending on my mood or if I reach a doldrum and want a change of pace. I'm not saying I read 200 at the same time but it would be excellent to be able to refer to a previous book in an anthology to clarify something -or when I'm reading non fiction which I read often -to be able to compare authors points at my fingertips. Who cares about the increased portability of several books? Me! I have a 6 month old infant who breastfeeds, many appointments and a first grader..I'm a stay at home mom and my only down time is when my daughter nurses, I am cooking and something is baking, or I'm in a waiting room of the doctor or dentist...sooooo this ebook is a miracle for someone like me who already totes around an infant and all her accesories. I can read one handed w/ this and switch books while my infant sleeps on me. That is a miracle for an avid reader who has to settle with reading blogs and websites on a laptop while the baby sleeps instead of a long form book.
Plus-when I vacation I regularly mow through 5-15 books depending on the density of topic and downtime alloted on the beach..this is a god save! I'm the kind of person who waxes wistfullly of my library filled childhood and inhaling the scent of books but more than ever I care about content. The Kindle just happens to deliver it in a way that allows me to keep on reading at the pace that I prefer and lust after since I have very little time. For all of you who can afford to read whenever want maybe this isn't such a luxury or worth it.
The issue I have is not wanting to buy the first version when they release the even better one later on or reduce price significantly. And the fact that I read some more obscure books and I wonder how easy or hard it will be to obtain the book on Kindle or if ever. I've already perused the Kindle book store and I would rate it so so. There need to be more books. I would love to know how quickly Amazon will be adding more.
The issues with format don't apply to me as I don't have a vested interest in any since I don't have a store of ebook in other formats like a lot of ppl are complaining about. I'm more worried about the library...how quickly can Amazon get more titles? This is one of the main concerns for readers I imagine? No one seems to be talking about that. Everyone seems to be bitching about what the Kindle doesn't do..I just wanna read more and more easily now that I'm a busy parent.
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Converting files then sending them to your computer, then uploading them to the Kindle will be free.

No mention of PDF conversion in the user's manual.]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/
The other problem I have is the lack of wi-fi (over simplification of device to cut support cost) and lack of a front or back light. Yes I know a paperback book doesn't have a built in light either but I am buying something electronic likely for convenience, not being able to read in the dark without buying another light is a poor decision. ]]>Nov 19th 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Nov 19th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/Are there any zoom options for pdf. Not just font sizes, but actual zoom, including graphics?
when in the UK?
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All we really need though is a third party app that can handle the conversions. That and a zoom option in the kindle for images/pdfs.]]>Nov 19th 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/many-details-about-the-kindle/

Surely they're joking?
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