Comments on: Amazon Kindle – First Impressions http://blog.inflinx.com/2008/06/06/amazon-kindle-first-impressions/ All About Software Development Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:04:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eduardo Costa http://blog.inflinx.com/2008/06/06/amazon-kindle-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-2915 Eduardo Costa Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:19:04 +0000 http://onerandomthought.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/amazon-kindle-first-impressions/#comment-2915 I strongly recommend against buying a Kindle, unless you want to read only conventional junk books (since there is junk mail, I suppose that there is junk books). Amazon can decide that you cannot read a certain book because you live, for instance, in Logan, Utah. In my case, I want to buy Four Books from Anabasis, by Xenophon. The book was written two thousand and five hundred years ago. The edition Amazon sells was prepared more than one hundred years ago. There is no copyright. However, Amazon refuses to sell me the book, since I live in Logan, Utah! If there were good support for pdf, I could use my Kindle for reading books from Blibliotheca Augustana, or from Perseus. However, as you people noticed, support for pdf is very poor. Conclusion: Don't buy a Kindle. However, if you like to collect electronic garbage, buy from me. The only thing that I was able to read was the manual. Therefore, it is almost new. But, caveat emptor! I bought a lot of ebook readers, since Franklin started selling these gadgets around 2003. I love ebook readers, and tested a lot of them. I can assure you: Kindle is by far the worse, and has the worse book selection. I strongly recommend against buying a Kindle, unless you want to read only conventional junk books (since there is junk mail, I suppose that there is junk books). Amazon can decide that you cannot read a certain book because you live, for instance, in Logan, Utah. In my case, I want to buy Four Books from Anabasis, by Xenophon. The book was written two thousand and five hundred years ago. The edition Amazon sells was prepared more than one hundred years ago. There is no copyright. However, Amazon refuses to sell me the book, since I live in Logan, Utah!

If there were good support for pdf, I could use my Kindle for reading books from Blibliotheca Augustana, or from Perseus. However, as you people noticed, support for pdf is very poor.

Conclusion: Don’t buy a Kindle. However, if you like to collect electronic garbage, buy from me. The only thing that I was able to read was the manual. Therefore, it is almost new. But, caveat emptor! I bought a lot of ebook readers, since Franklin started selling these gadgets around 2003. I love ebook readers, and tested a lot of them. I can assure you: Kindle is by far the worse, and has the worse book selection.

]]> By: kiran http://blog.inflinx.com/2008/06/06/amazon-kindle-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-12 kiran Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:55:02 +0000 http://onerandomthought.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/amazon-kindle-first-impressions/#comment-12 I completely agree with you. I would buy one when amazon makes these things happen: 1. Make it look pretty (Look at iphone for god's sake) 2. Make it touch enabled ( In this age, pressing buttons to navigate and browsing through menus is very unintuitive for a portable device) 3. Make it intuitive at least, if not touch. 4. Kindly add support for all file formats, support PDFs well. I completely agree with you. I would buy one when amazon makes these things happen:

1. Make it look pretty (Look at iphone for god’s sake)
2. Make it touch enabled ( In this age, pressing buttons to navigate and browsing through menus is very unintuitive for a portable device)
3. Make it intuitive at least, if not touch.
4. Kindly add support for all file formats, support PDFs well.

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