Kindle 2 shipping now
By Nilay Patel 
posted February 22nd 2009 3:32PM
posted February 22nd 2009 3:32PM
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Amazon is really hitting off with this thing..I bet they will have a 3d version in the future..
3D on the Kindle would be completely and utterly useless.
Yuck. Such a horrible price for something so limited. That's the cost of like 36 books! I'll stick with my UMPC which isn't a one-trick pony
Yes! Seriously looking forward to this doodad.
same here. Still no email tho'...
Kindle bores the crap out of me.
I comment, however.
Will you please pour me some tea dear?
certainly sir/madam
A dull gadget is always made more fun with a nice cup of Assam, Darjeeling or Lapsang Souchong if one's feeling adventurous!
Thank you love.
@ Tohe & Oli
get a room you 2 love birds.
/me hold out a cup.
Please sir, a little tea for the poor?
@Ellianth:
Get back in your cage!
So, is the Kindle 2 like a pop-up book with pretty pictures and sound effects?
Just checked - not shipped yet. "Shipping soon, expected deliver date: Feb 25"
Patience is one of the more difficult virtues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nuXlW0ZbA
'All you need is just a little patience'
Come on people $360 for a book reader? Whatever happened to EYES? Call me old fashioned if I want to just OPEN a book and read it and when I finish it to open ANOTHER book.
Well, if you're traveling, this is a simple solution to having to carry hundreds of books with you. Sometimes, practicality is better than the real thing, friend.
But the way I see it is there are two types of trips : tourism and business. Both suggest that you wouldn't need hundreds of books to carry around. Just 2 or 3 maybe.
Weight of average Book: ~3 lbs.
Weight of Kindle: 10.3 oz.
Storage Capacity of Kindle: ~200 books.
Weight of 200 books: ~600 lbs
Weight of Kindle and 200 e-books: 10.3 oz.
Explain the problem with this device to me again, please.
Think about the Internet, then think about all the blogs, forum posts and your engadget comment. Then think about reading all that everywhere. That's basically what a device like the Kindle enables you to do in a much more usable way than LCD-backlit devices such as laptops and smartphones.
If you don't even try a Kindle screen to read text to experience text on a sunlight readable e-ink screen, then you can have no idea what it's about. It's basically an Internet-connected piece of paper.
Kindle 2 requires EYES 1.0
the kindle must be popular with the middle-aged, middle class lame-ohs. if i walked around with that on campus as opposed to my tablet pc people would look at me weird. seriously, this product is dumb.
You care about being looked at weird? I'll second Farris' post above.
Your campus is dumb.
At least if people at your campus can't understand that carrying one touchscreen E-ink reader would be tons of times better than carrying hundreds of books on all your subjects, and that correcting, proof-reading, commenting, finding stuff for your dissertation using a touch-screen wacom E-ink device and collaborating with other students all over the world like that is tons of times better than carrying a stupid iphone which basically is an oversized mobile phone with crappy applications that nobody uses and a locked down itunes store for crappy expensive commercial music.
...and people don't 'look at you weird' for carrying around 'tablet PC'?
I'm sixteen and I ordered one. Been waiting for the Kindle 2 for a good year. I'm hardly middle-aged by that definition, and I wouldn't consider myself lame, nor would the majority of my classmates (I'm trying to be as humble as possible here).
why the heck would i want to learn anatomy in black and white?! and art history?! tell me that!
It's for recreational reading, not for reading of textbooks. Novels and non-fiction.
If you walked around with this device on campus, you'd be declared king of the nerds. Really, why is it called a Kindle, anyway. It definitely sounds nerdy. You can't view photos, play video, play games or listen to any decent music. All you can do with it is READ. This is the new millenium. This Kindle device is for the wannabe pseudo-intellectuals. Oh, look at me, I'm actually reading on a paper-free device. Really, who cares. Everyone else will be grooving and reading with their iPhones or iPod Touchs.
Needless to say, this a niche of a niche product. Amazon will be lucky to sell a few hundred thousand units at $360. Netbook PC or Kindle? I'm almost certain people would go for the netbook.
But maybe you could get yourself more clever friends and girls.
Why is there such a fuss over a large, ugly, white block that reads black and white text.
Who cares? This thing looks like it's from 1980. You wouldn't think that there would be such a hype over a thing that reads e-books. Am I the only one who isn't exactly "wowed" by this brick?
I don't understand how so many people can seriously think that design is important. I care about features, usabillity about 10000x more than I care about looks of a piece of plastic consumer electronics.
And if you think an E-Ink screen is ugly, then that is obviously cause you have never seen one. E-Ink is like the Ferrari of electronic screens, it is sublimely awesome to look at.
couldn't agree more Charbax,
but your forgetting that many readers of Engadget are slaves of that certain fruit company which puts design over functionality, thus the lame comments.
Amir, I thought that most of the users on this website dedicate themselves to bashing that certain fruit company.
iQueedfed, we just have a natural tendency towards controversy- logic hardly plays a role.
I suppose this "fruit" company you are all referring to would be Apple. I don't own a single Apple product so I guess that theory is out the window.
Oh! Your tablet PC is so cool!
And since when is being nerdy on a college campus a BAD thing?
I have had a Kindle 1 for over a year now, and it is a great device.
I use it daily to read. For those who would disdain this, the Internet is not a place to boast of your Ludditery. You might as well argue that you should give up your cell phone, after all, a good old twisted pair phone is reliable and if you want to make a call, it is right there.
I was simply stating that you would think they would make it look a little better. I guess I am the only one who thinks that the kindle falls a little short of something that could be considered "breakthrough" technology.
I just got an email that mine shipped as well.
lucky, still waiting for mine to ship but I don't have the Kindle 1 priority.
Since when does Amazon ship USPS?
Under the standard shipping method you have the option to ship to a PO Box.
the thing is useful and awesome.... the only downside being the price... it would be a sellout if its priced around $175-$200.. might have to wait it out... damn!
it did sell out before.
Kindle 1s will be well within that price range in a couple of weeks on Ebay as Kindle 2 buyers pass along their original Kindles.
ur not the only one. needs a color screen
Sweet my order is locked in, not shipped, but about to since I can't change it.
Due on the 26th.
I should have Kindle 1 (no idea how one confirms it), and I ordered on launch day. My shipping date is March 2.
Charged the card and changed to shipping soon!
Can't wait til Tuesday!
agreed. the device's usefulness and appeal is undeniable but, at $360, it's overpriced.
it's simply too limited to justify it's exorbitant cost which is compounded by all the books you'll be adding to it. as much as i love to read there's a practical, smarter side of me that just knows better. for what they're asking you might as well throw in an extra hundred towards an entire desktop/laptop. (at least that pays for itself in less than a year.)