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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.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
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.
Or yet another Android tablet with an LCD/TFT/IPS/light-shining display?
Where are the colour e-ink/e-paper displays?
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.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Yeah, I know. You grab your Kindle, remove the charging cable, step out the door, and then, quick as a flash, two weeks later, you get a low battery. Who hasn't had to put up with this. Only the other month, I was kidnapped, and when they released me a week later, my Kindle's battery was barely half full! What if my wife hadn't paid the ransom? I'd have been left with nothing to read!
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
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 keep my Kindle in the car I drive to work everyday. When I take my sanity/lunch break I read while I eat. When the weather is nice, it's great to sit outside and enjoy reading a book. The crazy battery life is very handy as I can leave it in the car for a month at least between charges, it's one less thing to remember everyday. I can definitely see the draw of a tablet, but I also consider the Kindle to be cheap enough for a single use device.
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.
An Amazon shill wrote:
It's also likely crippled by its comparative weight.
So somehow carrying 2 devices is lighter than one ? Seriously dude, it's crippled? really? Grow the fuck up fan boy.
Dear AC,
When you read a book instead of just carrying it around on your person, you have to hold it. Other device(s) have no bearing on this.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
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.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
There's no indication that this will be a reintroduction of e-Ink displays to the Kindle line. This will be another Kindle Fire type device - a general use tablet running a crippled version of Android with Amazon's tracking and spying in place of Google's.
I don't know, "8th generation Kindle" seems to indicate the e-ink lineage. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
The reason I didn't get a Kindle when my Cybook Opus broke was the lack of page-turn buttons. I've used a touchscreen Kindle. It drove me nuts.
Tap for next page. No? Tap. TAP. taptaptap. Okay th- no that was TWO pages. AUGH.
I wound up getting a Boyue T61. It's got an e-ink screen with a light, page-turn buttons, and it can handle all the common ebook formats - ePub, MobiPocket, PDF, cbz/cbr, and so on.
It doesn't have the Play Store but the Amazon Appstore and the Goodereader store install, so you can even use it to read Kindle and Nook books.
Running non-reader Android apps is iffy; they usually run but an e-ink screen just isn't suitable. (Trying to watch a video is hilariously bad.)
The only downside is battery life compared to a simple e-reader. I get about a week out of it. But I wasn't able to find a plain reader that has both a light and buttons.
If you want comic books, forget e-ink. It does render graphics slowly and with annoying fades, you lose the colors, and even monochrome comics won't be as stark and crisp.
I have no problem with e-ink for general reading. The page-render time is about the same as turning a physical page, the text is highly readable and the contrast is good. But not comics.