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posted November 21st 2007 1:01PM
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I came up with the design and idea years ago, but my programmers had been working on the prototype interface. One should somewhat finish the product before you get a patent, so you don't have to amend every little thing that you change. They are a large ocmpany, and they can bring products to market a lot faster than I can. I know they stole my design, it's exactly like my drawing from years ago. Button placement, every thing, the concept, I can give on that. It's not fair, but what can you do? Thanks for the comment.
whats the difference between this and a grayscale e-book reader?
It looks like Amazon may make a go of it. The cheap books pay for the Kindle and there are enough other nice features, like the wireless, to make people patient enough to wait for the discounts to absorb the price of the Kindle. If it were only $200!
Does this thing have a Qualcomm chipset?
If this was priced at $199 I would so buy it. At $399, it's just to much for me. It doesn't look the best, but it's functional and easy to use. When you watch the video it makes a whole lot more since.
For me content is king. If amazon can use its muscle to bring ebooks down to a price in line with what customers think they should sell for they are on the right track. Most ebooks give what a dollar or three off. Big deal! They don't have to print or ship a heavy item and yet they charge nearly the store price.
Part two is my wish list: it be nice if the kindle's body could be available in colors.
Web surfing might be nice.
And if they could get Marvel comics to share content...we'd be on to something.
Too big. Who's going to haul this goofy thing around? Gotta be pocketable or it won't get used regularly enough to be worth it.
I prefer ebooks to paper and read them on my Treo all the time, having formerly read them on non-phone palms and handsprings. People ask me how I can stand to read on such a small screen and I tell them that once I'm reading, the medium becomes transparent. Only the words are important. But the reason I love them so much is that I always have my Treo with me all the time anyway, so I always have all my reading material with me, a mini library in my pocket. I read at lunch, in waiting rooms, on planes, at home, wherever. I wouldn't do that if my device was something I had to carry around in a bag or backpack all the time. This thing is smallish and light, but you won't carry it around everywhere.
Okay the e-ink screen is nice. I'll give it that. Battery life sounds good too.
More like the Kin'tdle!
I ordered mine at 11AM on the day it came out and it arrived on Wednesday about the same time. I said it would be delayed until next week, but came anyway. I have been playing with it for the past 24 hours. All I can say is that I am blown away. I read a science fiction series that is distributed by webscriptions.net in a DRM-less Mobi format. I just loaded it onto the Kindle with a 1GB SD card and have been reading ever since. I purchased a NY Times paper just to try out the store. The web function is also great. It is not a laptop though and should not be compared as such. It is a really awesome e-reader. Probably the best tech purchase I have made in several years.
The school textbook thing is kind of a problem waiting to happen. What happens when you've bought the semester's texts (all in crappy b&w), then you lose/break/have stolen the reader? Up the creek until you pay another $400. Good for the backpack scoliosis, if you can afford it.
Can one read purchased texts on a home computer that they own/register with amazon, or when logged into amazon website?
early adopters make me laugh...lol...then they whine when the price goes down.
Two big mistakes to the Kindle: It should be color, not black & white. Color won't consume too much power than black & white. Secondly, it should accept PDF & MS WORD format. That way people can download technical paper (most technical paper are in PDF format) and read on the Kindle.
There seem to be few comments about what is to me the most compelling reason to buy this device: economics. As a serious business traveler (150+ work nights a year in hotels), I read a lot of books. Perusing Amazon shows you that the Kindle price for books is nearly always less than the paper price. As one person comments, you can make up the purchase price pretty quickly. Add that to the idea of immediately getting nearly any title, plus newspapers and magazines, plus search/wikipedia/dictionary, and you have a highly attractive device. And the size is about perfect for an airplane ride.