Without a doubt and with all logic and honest human thinking, ANYTHING other than that fugly Kindle is a better device. I have never hated a designs in my life as much as I did for the Kindle.
So great job Logic, what a piece of art! Clean and a breath of fresh air AND super amazing features! I would pay anything for that thing. :)
Thanks ahdok, that's a great video. I love the shoe-smashing comparison. It's reassuring to know that, if necessary, I can perform tribal rain-dances on top of my e-reader. It's something that's always irked me about laptops.
The hardware is attractive (and it admittedly looks amazing), but content is king as far as non-business use is concerned, and PL admit they have no near-term plans to provide content for this. I'd love to read a novel on this in some kind of portrait mode, but the fact is that the only novels you can get are either out of copywrite/public-domain books or the limited selection the torrent community has transcribed.
Great video! You *can* see a screen glitch at 0:10 when they lay it flat again. But that's expected.
THIS is the one for textbooks. The fugly Kindle and (beautiful) Reader simply have too small of screens. They're both great for paperbacks -- they're paperback sized! -- but this is textbook sized. And you can zoom all you want but "hassle" and "I need to see ALL the math equations on the page" pretty much kill that idea.
Looking forward to this. Still a year or two before it hits Universities I suspect. But hack your math book DRM and you've payed for your $700.00 device in two semesters!
This is finally the product that students and academia have been waiting for. 8.5 X 11 is ideal for textbooks (although somewhat smallish for some textbooks) and it is also ideal for most research journals (although lack of color makes it less than ideal). I really hope they allow some sort of stylus input rather than the crude finger tapping for simple annotating.
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Without a doubt and with all logic and honest human thinking, ANYTHING other than that fugly Kindle is a better device. I have never hated a designs in my life as much as I did for the Kindle.
So great job Logic, what a piece of art! Clean and a breath of fresh air AND super amazing features! I would pay anything for that thing. :)
Yeh, the WiFi and Bluetooth are particularly amazing. How do they pack all that into such a thin body?
It's because the actual screen part of the device is so ridiculously thin.
Have a look at this youtube video, linked off their site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYc4dnVs4RM&feature=related
Thanks ahdok, that's a great video. I love the shoe-smashing comparison. It's reassuring to know that, if necessary, I can perform tribal rain-dances on top of my e-reader. It's something that's always irked me about laptops.
The hardware is attractive (and it admittedly looks amazing), but content is king as far as non-business use is concerned, and PL admit they have no near-term plans to provide content for this. I'd love to read a novel on this in some kind of portrait mode, but the fact is that the only novels you can get are either out of copywrite/public-domain books or the limited selection the torrent community has transcribed.
That shoe thing was so fake, they gently touch it with a shoe and it's OK, then they hammer a LCD and it's not OK, yeah thanks for that demonstration.
Great video! You *can* see a screen glitch at 0:10 when they lay it flat again. But that's expected.
THIS is the one for textbooks. The fugly Kindle and (beautiful) Reader simply have too small of screens. They're both great for paperbacks -- they're paperback sized! -- but this is textbook sized. And you can zoom all you want but "hassle" and "I need to see ALL the math equations on the page" pretty much kill that idea.
Looking forward to this. Still a year or two before it hits Universities I suspect. But hack your math book DRM and you've payed for your $700.00 device in two semesters!
-Pie
This is finally the product that students and academia have been waiting for.
8.5 X 11 is ideal for textbooks (although somewhat smallish for some textbooks) and it is also ideal for most research journals (although lack of color makes it less than ideal).
I really hope they allow some sort of stylus input rather than the crude finger tapping for simple annotating.