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Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Will Unveil a New Kindle Next Week (the-digital-reader.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said on Monday that the next Kindle will be unveiled next week. Bezos posted on Twitter that an "all-new, top of the line Kindle is almost ready". Calling it the 8th-generation Kindle, Bezos promised to share more details next week but didn't say anything more than that. Other sources say that the new Kindle will have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G connectivity options, and come with a case which has its own battery
It will be our slimmest, lightest, most elegant Kindle we have ever made.
Just announce it when you are done... all this manufactured excitement these companies try to create is seriously annoying.
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This isn't news. Next week, when they unveil something? Then it will be "news." Currently it is "futures" not "news."
This is not an event we would be expected to be interested in attending in person, so there is no reason to treat the mere scheduling of the event as news.
Unless it makes my coffee in the morning and is great in bed at night, I'm not really interested. I have the Kindle app on my tablet already so I don't need a crippled Kindle.
It sounds like your solution may be crippled in bright sunlight. Or crippled by short battery life. It's also likely crippled by its comparative weight. You're basically giving in to all the software/licensing drawbacks of using a hardware Kindle, but getting none of the benefits.
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Being an avid bookworm I cant say I like or hate the kindle one way or another. I just dont really understand them. The kindles largest competition, at least for me, is the fact that amazon sells thousands of titles I want to read for a penny plus shipping used. Why buy new when you can get a perfectly good used title from a reseller?
Sure, sure, kindles hold thousands of books, but so does my bookshelf. for my heavy duty questions theres the internet and a laptop, and titles licensed under Creative Commons fit just as well on it as they do the kindle. if i break a kindle, its going to cost about a hundred bones to replace...but if i break a used copy of Dune or leave it on a plane I can just reorder it from my phone with oneclick or finish it at the library. And if i finish a title on a flight or on a vacation I can trade it at a local book store for credit, and pick up something else Id like to read. In all seriousness: can you trade kindle books? I dont know.
Then theres the batteries and charging. I know kindle runs for quite some time on a single charge, but I've got books older than 70 years that I still thumb through with ease. Whats the total life of a kindle? Do they trade them in/up? can you swap the battery like a smoke detector? Lastly, what happens if i sell my kindle? can you sell them? do the titles transfer?
Good people go to bed earlier.
I thought this until I got a Kindle. Not staring into a lamp and not using a computer while reading is much better. You're reading a book and looking at friendly text and nothing else. Also the battery will be as you left it even days later. E-readers have their merits. Don't scoff at them.
E-ink beats a tablet display for reading any day of the week and twice on sunday. In addition, you simply can't beat the battery life.
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