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Sunday, November 18, 2007

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Anyone Going to Give the Amazon Kindle a Read?

- Rob Bushway

Amazon Kindle Ebook EreaderNewsweek has more details on Amazon's Kindle device and service, which begins shipping tomorrow for $399. Looks very similar to a Tablet PC and UMPC, huh? I doubt it supports ink, but it sure would have been nice. Like Scoble, I wish Microsoft would have gotten their Tablet PC team on to this. It screams tablet. Oh well....

  • 30 hours of use per charge
  • Weighs 10.3 ounces
  • Holds 200 books
  • Purchase books via EV-DO through Whispernet - more details to come on price, if any

 I might give this one a try, just for the heck of it.

via Gizmodo

 

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Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:57:12 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I have always used ebooks as great companions to my TabletPCs. This device looks interesting but I'll wait to read reviews before I trade in my Bookeen Cybook ebook for one. BTW, Mobileread.com is a great palace for news and reviews on ebooks.
JoeC
Monday, November 19, 2007 10:09:02 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I think it's a great idea. Too bad they don't have law school text books for sale. Each of my books is super heavy and it would be awesome to have them all on such a small device. I could always scan them into my PC but scanning 200 pages a night is slightly impractical.
Monday, November 19, 2007 12:20:13 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
I would rather not be limited to one device for reading my books...years ago I bought my sister a Rocket eBook Reader, which she totally dug (and she's not a gadget person, at all). Anyway, a year later, it was pretty much over for the Rocket, and the book availablility dwindled away, as did the reader. So buying in to another such system will be hard. I've played with a Sony eBook reader in the store -- and the latest iteration is pretty lust-worthy -- but again, I just don't trust that this will be around long enough to make it worth the entry fee. Amazon may be in for the long haul, but only time will tell. There entry makes the Sony reader's future seem even more bleak, though.
Feralboy
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