Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

Just checked out some kindle books from the Seattle library. Easiest if your Kindle has wifi; mine's 3g only so have to copy the files via usb. Still an easy process.

You can get them from the NYPL too. Books were in a weird grayed out limbo when I tried to download over 3G until I realized about the WiFi. So a need for Wifi or USB but no need for
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/libraryken.jpg

because i'm a nerd, i'm watching a livestream of the kindle announcement today. so far they've announced a $99 kindle touch - basically the e-ink kindle with a touchscreen to turn pages, etc.

$99 for wi-fi, $149 for 3G

or $79 for a new smaller, lighter, non-touchscreen kindle

79 is the right price, bare bones the right features. Don't need the other crap. Bought.

i think it's a smart move and they're going to sell a billion of them but i don't really see anything to inspire me to trade up from my kindle 3

don't care about touchscreen, don't really feel like the kindle 3 is unwieldy or heavy, only reason i might upgrade is if the e-ink display is significantly clearer/darker

or $79 for a new smaller, lighter, non-touchscreen kindle

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the new Portable Cash Register, from amazon

announcing the kindle fire tablet now, looks tiny (like kindle-sized)

with their own browser too!

"Kindle FIre's Silk browser will do part of the work on the tablet itself, and farm the rest out to cloud computing"

phwoah

Silk learns your behavior patterns and pre-loads pages. Read the NY Times frequently? Silk will load the Biz section ahead of time.

$199 - suck it, Apple

amazon seems like the only company serious abt competing w/apple tabletwise

in that theyre doing their own thing not just putting out shitty ipad knockoffs no one will ever buy

hardware wise a lotta this was bought up from RIM iirc tho, which is why a lotta ppl were like "meh" before specifics came out

well its all abt the specifics isnt it

i don't really care about tablets so much but this seems really small? i guess that would be nice for commuters but if i'm mainly going to use it at home the ipad still seems way nicer.

ipad is def nicer/more versatile, also costs 2.5x

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2

can def see fire 3G down the way and maybe some kinda fire deluxe that's closer to the ipad in size & feature set on the horizon tho

feel like prob the most interesting thing abt this is on the app sales end, amazon is a company who knows how to sell things on the internet unlike google rim et al their app store w/prob be the first real competitor to apple

It's a Blackberry Playbook underneath, but what really sells it is the Amazon cloud backend. If they come out with a larger iPad sized model, it'll be the first serious competitor to Apple's tablet.

can't wait to get groceries through my fire

silky http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/amazon-tablet-silk-web-browser

can't wait to get groceries through my fire

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pre cooked

no one else cares about this but it doesn't look like the e-ink on the e-readers is updated from the kindle 3 (just based on the fact that they aren't using this as a selling point) - screen size is the same but body is smaller. also $79 is for the version with the "special offers" (ad screensavers), it's $109 without the special offers.

all the quoted e-reader prices are for the special offers versions

triiicky

ah the new e-readers all say "kindle" on the back in big letters, lame

not visible in any of the pics on the amazon page, only in the intro video, classy amazon

They also come with a battery pack shaped like a sandwich board with "BUY AMAZON PRODUCTS" on one side and "ENJOY THE GREAT NEW TASTE OT SOYLENT GREEN" on the other.

i like how amazon makes base mercantilism work as a counterpoint to apples visionary user experience based approach

like theres more than one way to skin a tablet

amazon: we got stuff

A big cloud of stuff.

just realized the new e-readers also don't have keyboards. hmm, guess the note-taking feature is being deemphasized.

oh he didn't demo an onscreen keyb did he

i thought keyboards were a bit of a killer app, searching for the first mention of that guy who has suddenly reappeared in ch. 32, who the hell is he again? can't do that in my sony e-reader.

yeah it's weird, even searching for books on the amazon store will be more of a pain with a virtual keyboard, especially on the non-touch versions.

I AM THE TABLET

^ any tablet wars news makes me hear loutallica now

you know, RIM's playbook was actually a pretty awesome piece of hardware, they failed because a) no native integration with their bread-and-butter BES, b) no apps, and c) price. amazon's apparently integrated the fire pretty well into their own cloud/content arena and the price is double-dip recession appropriate so hey welcome to the partay

I'm glad to see tablet prices going down, but the Kindle Fire isn't tempting to me. It looks lousy as an ebook reader and android tablets still don't have many good games to buy.

And you know they're going to do the Apple trick of introducing a new model with a camera and 3G at some point in the next 18 months.

and the original model will cost $99 w/in the year

and as HP proved $99 is the price point at which consumers will gobble tablets like tictacs

Will this tablet allow me to buy things from Amazon?

is this thing iOS