The Amazon Kindle, Amazon's foray into hand held ebook reading devices, was released in November. The reader splashed onto the scene with a cover photo on Newsweek and Amazon hoped the Kindle would do for digital-reading-on-the-go what the ipod did for digital music. That is, make it a viable concept and business, replete with enthusiastic users.The Amazon Kindle has definitely made a splash if for no reason more than how much it has polarized fans and detractors of the hand held ebook reading device.
Some people appreciate the palm-sized smallness of the Amazon Kindle, while others deride its small keyboard and awkwardly designed casing. The opinions are mixed and there are plenty of them.
Once you have the Amazon Kindle, you can visit Amazon.com's ebook store, where you can purchase brand new books for $9.99, which is a discount from what new hardcovers generally cost. Even though in this proposition you don't end up owning a tangible tree-made book, you get to enjoy the reading of it. But that brings up a principal issue for ebook readers. Is it feasible to read an entire book on a digital screen?
It that something you would even want to do?
Read some of the reviews here on the Amazon Kindle and decide for yourself.
Here are several links:
Amazon Kindle review
Amazon Kindle highly recommended
Amazon Kindle: Great Gift
Save the Trees with Amazon's Kindle.
Review of the Amazon Kindle.
2 comments:
Hey Chris,
Thanks for the comment-- I do feel lucky to be able to play with one...so far, I really like the swiftness with which you can request a preview or buy a book off the site and its instantly there. And the screensavers, lol.
I dont like the pricing of the books, I usually dont buy all the books I want to read and I also think the machine design is lacking and a little bit...ugly.
:)
I agree with you on that. It is ugly --they should have taken some cues from Apple.
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