My Kindle DX came on Monday. It's my first e-reader thing. I bought it because I can't deal with all the dead trees appearing as daily issues of the WSJ, floating around my place.
My initial thoughts: Negroponte - when he said that computers would never replace printed documents because of poor [screen vs. print] resolution - has finally been proven wrong! The reading of this thing is a joy. No glare, great (not tremendous) resolution and good enough contrast.
But: 1. When reading a paper or magazine - you can't look at a list of contents. You can see a listing of sections and the number of articles in each section, but not the article titles themselves.
2. You can't interact with the articles - bookmark them in delicious (for example) or email them to your friends (an article - or even link - to my friends from my @kindle.com address would be good marketing - methinks).
3. I haven't figured out how to click a link and have it open the browser. I think that , perhaps, that can't be done.
I'd rather be reading on the Kindle than on the iPhone - or my WinMob phone - because of the easy on the eyes display. But it sure would be nice to have a little more in the way of connectivity...
...and a $2.00 monthly charge for Engadget or Autoblog is asinine - especially when I can't manually force and update and the RSS feeds are free to my Fuze.
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My Kindle DX came on Monday. It's my first e-reader thing. I bought it because I can't deal with all the dead trees appearing as daily issues of the WSJ, floating around my place.
My initial thoughts: Negroponte - when he said that computers would never replace printed documents because of poor [screen vs. print] resolution - has finally been proven wrong! The reading of this thing is a joy. No glare, great (not tremendous) resolution and good enough contrast.
But:
1. When reading a paper or magazine - you can't look at a list of contents. You can see a listing of sections and the number of articles in each section, but not the article titles themselves.
2. You can't interact with the articles - bookmark them in delicious (for example) or email them to your friends (an article - or even link - to my friends from my @kindle.com address would be good marketing - methinks).
3. I haven't figured out how to click a link and have it open the browser. I think that , perhaps, that can't be done.
I'd rather be reading on the Kindle than on the iPhone - or my WinMob phone - because of the easy on the eyes display. But it sure would be nice to have a little more in the way of connectivity...
...and a $2.00 monthly charge for Engadget or Autoblog is asinine - especially when I can't manually force and update and the RSS feeds are free to my Fuze.