(urth) The Electric Wolfe
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
Thu Dec 20 21:51:24 PST 2007
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:36:40 +1100 James Crossley
<ishmael at drizzle.com> wrote:
>
>I used to work at Amazon, and I still have a friend there who's
>had one for
>a while. It's better than other electronic readers I've seen, and
>I can see
>real early adopter types wanting one now, but I think it needs
>some tweaking
>before I'd be interested. It's a nice size and weight, but some
>of the
>buttons aren't quite where they should be to make use fluid. Page
>turning
>seemed a hair too slow for me to feel perfectly comfortable. The
>visual
>quality of the text is good enough to prevent eye strain, but not
>on par
>with actual print. The system for acquiring books is really easy
>and
>effective.
>
>The main problem, though, is the pricing. Simply speaking, they
>either need
>to lower the cost of the reader or of the books. I hope book
>publishers
>figure out a viable model for buying, storing and sharing texts
>electronically more quickly than the record companies have for
>music.
Thanks for that. All the other readers I've seen are crap. I think
I'm the perfect target given that I carry a book everywhere. A
Kindle wouldn't make me any less geeky but at least I'd feel like
an up-to-the-minute geek.
Hopefully AMZN will have sorted out the usability and the pricing
model by the time you can get them down here.
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