[Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

[Andrew Hankinson]

I don't know if anyone reads John Gruber's blog, but he's got a great  
post about Kindle.

http://daringfireball.net/2007/11/dum

Cheers,
Andrew

On 19-Nov-07, at 11:52 PM, Leo Robert Klein wrote:

> Roy Tennant wrote:
>> Hmmm...let me see...spend $400 on a device where the only thing I  
>> can do is
>> read books, or spend the same amount on a different device where I  
>> can read
>> books, visit any web site I want, make phone calls, listen to  
>> tunes, etc.
>> Hmmm....
>> Yes, I understand that one requires a service plan and the other  
>> does not
>> (although at least $9 for every book you want to read). But come  
>> on. After
>> watching the video I thought the interface was actually kind of  
>> annoying,
>> again especially in contrast with the iPhone. My advice to  
>> libraries: don't
>> rush out and jump on this bandwagon.
>> Roy
>
> I got the impression it was a slow week at Newsweek.  I mean, when  
> the author brags about downloading Dickens' 'Bleak House' for a mere  
> $1.99 ("You can also get classics for a song"), I'm afraid I lost it.
>
> The stuff about paper vs. electronic and the joys of hypertext (the  
> "always-on book") could have been written by Vannevar Bush.
>
> It's scary what passes for popular tech writing these days.  The  
> whole piece was an uncritical paean to Amazon.
>
> LEO
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