Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

dead sea scrolls?

all

i think you'd be better off comparing this to a segway or something if you really want to take it down a notch!!!!!!!! do it

-- s1ocki, Monday, June 30, 2008 12:50 AM

are you taking me or omar little to task here. also why

Saw a dude racing down the Ventura Blvd sidewalk yesterday afternoon on a Segway

Segways are awesome. Fuck is everyone's problem?

If everyone here could afford a Segway, I promise you we'd be all be sharing awesome Segway stories right now.

BOW DOWN BEFORE IT!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/02/09/bezos_kindle_ket4a6nc.jpg

The new version measures just 0.36 inches thick, the diameter of a pencil, and weighs a little more than 10 ounces.

"The Kindle is designed to disappear so that you can enter the author’s world," Bezos said, calling it "a seamless, integrated reading experience -- it’s not just a device."

He said the Kindle 2 screen provides more crispness, using 16 shades of gray instead of just four, and has 25% more battery life, allowing users to read up to two weeks on a single charge. The upgraded edition has seven times more storage space, holding more than 1,500 books, and faster page turns than its predecessor. A new navigation system allows for better note-taking and easier reading of newspapers.

But perhaps its most novel aspect is the text-to-speech feature, which enables Kindle users to listen to their material.

"Any book, blog, magazine, personal document could be read aloud to you," said Bezos, as he had a Kindle 2 read the opening lines of the Gettsyburg Address with crisp, staccato enunciation.

And presumably you can use it to read under the covers without using a flashlight.

*beaming, but must not comment on this thread - sorry*

this device still seems pretty joyless imo

$360?? Cmon. No.

*slinks back to parenting board*

Amazon Kindle the Third, in family planning stages now!

Probably a stupid question, but what's the cheapest portable device out there that lets you read PDFs?

*beaming, but must not comment on this thread - sorry*

― schwantz, Monday, February 9, 2009 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jeff?

Jeff Schwantzos

kindle killer http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/02/plastic_logic_r.php

Can you install iTunes on a Kindle? That would be cool.

what if a kindle was also a portable microwave oven and yr own personal dictation machine

yah it seems inevitable that these readers will drift toward tablet computing and travel cooking devices

and taking voice notes seems like a logical feature TBH

plus it'd be cool if they could stick a little pen knife on one end

swiss army kindle--i like it

these things will be surfing the web in no time then people will stop reading their ebooks cause they can just surf the web

:o

i have only read one "nobody will ever beat the smell and feel of a real book in your sweaty hands" article so far, I look forward to more.

The key thing for me is that they have to be so cheap I can throw them away. I don't want to lug this around with me all day I want to read it and bin it.

yah books def hav some appealing qualities beyond lol nostalgia

reselling them, for instance

these things will be surfing the web in no time then people will stop reading their ebooks cause they can just surf the web

I thought the Kindle already came with a browser.

so it does - rip kindle

ya, too bad

hope they're flammable

http://thekindle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/oprahkindle.jpg

What do books smell like?

Victory.

Oh my gosh!

http://eshop.webindia123.com/images/prodimg/large/COM0225_1lg.jpg

http://www.schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/gallery/variety/bookworm.gif

For what it's worth, I just bought a Sony PRS-505 and am madly in love with it. For the most part, I download classics from Gutenberg. Reading them on my laptop was no fun, though. The e-ink displays are well worth the investment.

i can't fuck with this until it can fit in my pocket.

But then the display would be too small. :(

not if the text was nice and big

i mean, like a 33 1/3 book fits v. nicely in my pocket. if you could make it that size, i'd buy one in a sec

Consider it done!

haha

eventually this might be made of some high-tech plastic fabric (pencil-thick is fine) so you can just roll it up and put it in your pocket.

fold out screen iphone attachment

xpost, like a fruit rollup you can read!

they already have those