Electronic Book Reader Is A Great Gift Idea
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I just ordered one electronic book reader, the Amazon Kindle portable ebook reader. I have been waiting for the next generation device. It is very expensive, however, I travel by air almost every week and I have to pack very tight. Don’t have much room for books – certainly not for more than one.I feel this is great for light reading (magazines, popular fiction etc). If it is too expensive – do not buy it, go use a library instead.
As for button placement and all this other hoop-la, there is likely a good reason it is the way it is – I am certain they have tested it that much. I agree, you would think they could put design somthing that is more pleasing such as Apple?). But this ebook reader is a straight forward device that serve one simple purpose. You may not be able to have a touch screen with electronic ink with current technology, you need real estate to hold on to the device without smudging the screen. By the way, they likely want wireless phone connection so folks are more likely to make spur of the moment buying decisions (gotta have it now society). It is not easy for the manufacturers to cram all these features into one small device. Just look at mobile phones, even the iphone and Blackberry aren’t any where near perfect and they have been building those things for sometime. iphone has bad calendaring and Blackberry has lousy internet interface (both these things have been refined over the period of years). This will make the competitors busy churning out good products and all this is good for us.
I have a first-generation Kindle and I absolutely love the shit out of it. I will probably not do any upgrade for now since the upgraded feature do not warrant the $400 difference. The improved screen refresh and 16 shades of gray is tempting, though. Maybe if I can pawn my old one off on a friend for $100 or something… we shall see.
For the purpose of reading books, though, Kindle 1G is certainly more than adequate. Physically ugly, maybe. But adequate for most of the time.
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