Putting ebooks, NIT and big sales into the same sentence
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If you think about it, why on earth would Amazon use a monochrome screen if it had no clear advantage over a colour one? Unless the new Maemo devices are as easy to read as e-ink, they won't really be competition for things like the Kindle. |
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Now if FBreader would only add proper support for CSS rendering and add bookmarking, it would be the greatest ebook reader of all. :D |
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Amazon may believe that a lack of 3G is bad but I just see it just another way of charging us and income for Amazon. As an e-book reader, wifi is certainly prevalent enough to download any books and to even keep updated on daily newspapers/magazines. I would prefer to read something on the N810 and if it had an application to read the text to me, it would be great.
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I mean, like the iPhone, as an adjunct or partner to the Kindle — people buying Amazon's ebooks are relying heavily on the iPhone to read their books at times when their Kindle is unavailable. The synching between your Amazon-registered devices is a key feature lifting the Kindle experience above Sony and other ereaders. It's way more critical than is being acknowledged (and is why Amazon may require 3G before porting its readers to any device). Roger S |
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I think it also has to do with the whole.. hmm this book looks interesting in a store, why not buy it online with my 3G access. Thus as you said, getting revenue for Amazon.
Though speaking with people I know who are interested in ebook readers aren't interested in 3G (they'd be primarily using it for reading PDFs outside in the sunlight). A friend of mine was asking me for advice about it a while back since she is going to intern at Google over the summer. |
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There is one major factor for me which makes me fancy an e-ink reader, the battery life. I mostly read fiction and monochrome text books, so mono e-ink doesn't bother me. I reguarly read fiction happily using fbreader, but I've not had pleasant experiences doing the same with PDFs. I really like the look of the Kindle DX or other large-format e-ink readers for textbooks.
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Of course, I immediately start thinking about using this mythical e-book reader in conjunction with something like httrack to fill up my device with all of the blogs, news sites, etc, and then read them at my leisure on my commute or whatever... |
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Nevertheless, I also regularly use NIT for reading and agree that it is really good for that. Just not as good as physically larger e-ink based ebook readers. |
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