I am sorry if the fact that my first post on SlashDot carried an opinion was upsetting to you. I guess you'd rather see all the critical comments from people who had never even seen a Kindle. The opinion of one who actually has one and likes it must be of little interest to your narrow mind.
Not really... It's got an email address for delivering a limited set of MIME attachment types. Word/Doc, HTML, Text and some image formats. But you can't send it a simple e-mail message. The message bounces back to the sender with a "no attachement error message".
There's no "inbox" and no mail client for composing/sending messages. Even the web browser is so basic that I am pretty certain it would not support the JavaScript or applet capabilities needed for a brwoswer based e-mail system, like Hotmail, etc.
It's NOT a portable computer. It's a document display device, primarily aimed at books, newspapers and magazines (which are textual in content) with fast, easy and cheap delivery.
A more suitable comparison is a bookstore and personal bookshelves to a kindle.
With a Kindle, you can be sitting in your home, your car, a coffee shop, a restaraunt, at the beach, etc and have your library with you to select from. You want something new? It'll download in 60 secs. You want to lookup an item of interest? Wikipedia is an immensely valuable knowledge base.
I looked with interest at Sony's technology, and PDA-based opions for years, but never bought one. However, this one I bought 5 mins after reading about it.
Well... I read about the Kindle on Monday morning, and ordered it within 5 minutes. It came on Wednesday and I love it.
- Easy to read (easy on the eyes)
- Easy adjustment of text size
- Simple operation and page flipping
- Long battery life (3-4 days at least)
- Very convenient access to Amazon's Kindle catalog (which is quite large already)
- VERY fast download of purchases (I have purchased 10 books already and the download was less than 60 secs in all cases)
- The connect-from-anywhere capability beats WiFi hands down
- Small and light and easy to just keep with you in case you have a chance to read
It's funny... I was driving San Diego to LA with my daughter yesterday and we were listening to and talking about music. Freddy Mercury and Queen came up and we both were trying to recall his ethnic origins. She said she'd check Wikipedia later. I handed her my Kindle while driving Interstate 5 at 75 mph and she looked it up and gave me the anser in a minute or two. And it was the first time she used the device.
The down side is... Now I have to buy another one for her.
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I am sorry if the fact that my first post on SlashDot carried an opinion was upsetting to you. I guess you'd rather see all the critical comments from people who had never even seen a Kindle. The opinion of one who actually has one and likes it must be of little interest to your narrow mind.
Not really... It's got an email address for delivering a limited set of MIME attachment types. Word/Doc, HTML, Text and some image formats. But you can't send it a simple e-mail message. The message bounces back to the sender with a "no attachement error message".
There's no "inbox" and no mail client for composing/sending messages. Even the web browser is so basic that I am pretty certain it would not support the JavaScript or applet capabilities needed for a brwoswer based e-mail system, like Hotmail, etc.
It's NOT a portable computer. It's a document display device, primarily aimed at books, newspapers and magazines (which are textual in content) with fast, easy and cheap delivery.
And for that it excels.
It's not a fair comparison of a book to a kindle.
A more suitable comparison is a bookstore and personal bookshelves to a kindle.
With a Kindle, you can be sitting in your home, your car, a coffee shop, a restaraunt, at the beach, etc and have your library with you to select from. You want something new? It'll download in 60 secs. You want to lookup an item of interest? Wikipedia is an immensely valuable knowledge base.
I looked with interest at Sony's technology, and PDA-based opions for years, but never bought one. However, this one I bought 5 mins after reading about it.
I got it 2 days ago and love it.
Well... I read about the Kindle on Monday morning, and ordered it within 5 minutes. It came on Wednesday and I love it.
- Easy to read (easy on the eyes)
- Easy adjustment of text size
- Simple operation and page flipping
- Long battery life (3-4 days at least)
- Very convenient access to Amazon's Kindle catalog (which is quite large already)
- VERY fast download of purchases (I have purchased 10 books already and the download was less than 60 secs in all cases)
- The connect-from-anywhere capability beats WiFi hands down
- Small and light and easy to just keep with you in case you have a chance to read
It's funny... I was driving San Diego to LA with my daughter yesterday and we were listening to and talking about music. Freddy Mercury and Queen came up and we both were trying to recall his ethnic origins. She said she'd check Wikipedia later. I handed her my Kindle while driving Interstate 5 at 75 mph and she looked it up and gave me the anser in a minute or two. And it was the first time she used the device.
The down side is... Now I have to buy another one for her.