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Reading the New York Times On a Kindle 2
reifman links to his thorough and thoughtful review of the experience of reading a newspaper on the Kindle 2. "I've been eager to try The New York Times on the Kindle 2; here's my review with a basic video walk-through and screenshots. I give the Kindle 2 version of The Times a B. Software updates could bring it up to an A-. Kindle designers should have learned more from the iPhone 3G. Unfortunately, my Kindle display scratched less than 24 hours after it arrived. As I detail in the review, Amazon customer service was not very accommodating. Is it my fault — or will Kindle 2 evolve into an Apple 1G Nano-like $22.5M settlement? You can read about Hearst's e-reader for newspapers from earlier today on Slashdot."
One problem with the Kindle is that it doesn't come with enough free content! There are a ton of authors (even Seth Godin has volunteered) that would give away a book or two because they know people will buy more after they read one, but for some reason Amazon hasn't caught on to the idea yet. I wish they would find a way to let authors give their content away (if they want to) before they worry about getting "getting every book, including out-of-print titles, onto the device."
Also, people should be able to pay by the page for content rather than buy the book. Just like paying for songs instead of albums, this is the future of reading.
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I'd consider buying something like this if it wasn't through Amazon. They've screwed up orders, screwed up shipping, screwed up the Amazon Marketplace transactions, screwed up just about everything imaginable in the past. In one particularly difficult case the only way I managed to get Amazon to even tell me where my package was located was to threaten a lawsuit. I don't care how good this new technology is, I'll happily remain a luddite as long as I don't have to do any business with Amazon again.
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No they just charge you for the privillege of reading your own work on your own device.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.