http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
Wait til you see the next big thing, the iPad Nano!

http://www.vimeo.com/9033039]]>Jan 28th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Wouldn't that just be an ipod touch? lmao]]>Jan 28th 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
OMG, you're talking craziness! The Kindle has no camera, no flash support, no multi-tasking.

Amazon has ruined my life.]]>Jan 28th 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
There's nothing revolutionary about it!

I can already read books with the Windows Mobile phone I've had for years!

I hear that Google is going to do an eBook reader at the end of the year and all their books are going to be free!

No eBook subscriptions? Lame!

I can read books with my convertible tablet PC from 2003! Why would anybody need this?

I can't write notes in my eBooks with a stylus? Where's the freaking stylus? What good is this?]]>Jan 28th 2010 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/The battery lasts about a week.
Very thin and portable.
Not a jack of all trades but does one thing very well.
Does not strain my eyes.
And has the best selection of digital books out there. (currently)]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/The iPad doesn't support flash either you idiot.]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
Back to Sarcasm 101 for you.]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
Still, I plan to get an iPad for my mother since it will fit her needs. She only does light browsing, email, occassional reading and movies.]]>Jan 29th 2010 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Yes, I understand that e-ink allows the reader to function efficiently, but I will wait for a color screen reader. (someday)]]>Jan 29th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Feb 23rd 2010 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
Like I said, I've never played with a Kindle, so I have no knowledge on the device outside what i've read, but it still makes for a biased awards, does it not?]]>Feb 25th 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/It's not them, it's 'him'
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/02/09/2008725901.jpg
founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

And no I think he won't drop price too much.

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iPad Vs Kindle - Comparison: Apples Vs Oranges

Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display) $259 - Battery Life: 1 Week.
Functions: Read at home and on the train.

iPad (10" Display) $500 - Battery Life: 1/2 Day.
Functions: Read at home only.]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
Yeah, lame color screen and lame appstore.. bleh... technological progress... bah humbug..]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 29th 2010 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/]]>Jan 28th 2010 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 29th 2010 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
Most people I have seen with them would be the 50+ crowd. They seem to appreciate the e-ink over a LCD display for reading. At least that is my experience. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/They have disposable income, time to read if retired, and a single-use device is very easy to understand.

It must be really easy to use anyway, my Grandad's never called me about his Sony Reader.]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/I would assume that most people who have one probably use it where they normally read - at home. (that's where I use mine)]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
Looking back 30 years, a market needs Steve Jobs to anoint it before it can be successful.

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I live in New York City and I see them quite a lot, mostly young women, cute young women. ;) It's definitely not limited to the 50+ crowd in NYC. A lot of people carry them around because you lug everything with you in a city like NYC, so lots of books is not so pleasant.

I was gifted a Kindle for Christmas but I returned it to Amazon in exchange for an HTC Touch Pro2 on Sprint... same cost for the device. I returned it because I don't want an e-reader, I want a tablet PC, so I bought the Viliv X70 and threw XP Pro and Ubuntu on there. I use it to read and write, to draw, to make music, etc. It serves my needs relatively well.

I'd say NYC has many of the Kindle's Amazon has sold. I thought Sprint serviced Kindle downloads, so what's with the ATT reference in the blog entry?]]>Jan 28th 2010 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 29th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
Hey, it was not at all easy... actually took months of part time tinkering to get the touch screen, wireless, ad something else I'm forgetting to work. I was thinking of writing a how to, but I did so much tinkering I can't be sure I'd get it all covered properly.

I do not have the 3G version so no work on getting 3G to work.

Ubuntu loads fine by itself, but the wireless will fail if you use network manager... you have to disable it and use a manual method, entering all wireless connection info into a couple of files (wpa_supplicant / interfaces / resolv.conf) and starting the connection when you want (ifup / ifdown)... but once you do, it's easy, just make a shortcut on the desktop and it works flawlessly. Touch screen, there are tricks but the number of places where you have to enter little bits of code to make it all work is miraculous. I think it needs adjustment of maybe 8 files / folders or more. But once done, it works very well.

I was thinking of posting a complete image of the Ubuntu Studio 9.10 install somewhere if people are interested in using Ubuntu on the X70, but the problem is, I need to figure out how to edit out my password / security info.

It's real dual boot with Grub as the boot loader. I made a couple of Primary partitions and just load Windows from Grub when I want to work in Windows. I loaded XP Pro and Ubuntu Studio 9.10 on there and both work well. Only thing i'm trying to resolve is sleep / suspend for both. They work, but the virtual keyboard is missing for logon. I did something because that used to work but then disappeared.

All the info to get this working is on the web... I just read like 400 pages to get the settings right. I wish I could pick out just the 20 pages that were correct, but it is so much to go through to do that.]]>Jan 29th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Thats the day when I lose my faith in humanity.]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
So people are going to pay 400.00 for a device, to read comic books?]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/
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In Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia is in you.]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/millions-of-people-now-own-kindles-says-amazon-in-its-most-no/Jan 28th 2010 8:26PM