Is the Amazon Kindle Too Ugly? What do you think?
One thing that has dogged Amazon since the release of the Kindle is its design. A lot of people say it's not good-looking enough to really catch on and ingrain itself into the culture the way ipod did.
Do people want to read books the same way they read blogs and news stories, via a computer screen. A lot of the issues that people have had with the Kindle--that's it's ugly, that the black and white screen isn't up to par, that the keyboard and scroll wheel aren't that well designed, and that it's too expensive--may stem from the fact that reading books on the Kindle ebook reader is not the same as reading a paper-bound book. The experience is not the same.
You get the information, but part of the joy is stripped from the experience. Another issue is that we expect a lot out of our hand held devices these days. The iphone has set a new standard--and that's a phone.
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