Yep, We know, could they please use another color scheme. Currently there are 3 floating around the office and all of them look hideous with all the finger prints on them.
Color schemes I can take or leave, but what really bugs me about my Kindle is the fact that both of the bottom corners are sharp. I have yet to be able to come up with a comfortable way of holding it that doesn't result in the corners digging into my hands. This seems like a pretty obvious mistake to me, so hopefully they will correct it.
Because of the nature of the e-ink display, (it pushes physical ink blobs to and from the surface of the screen), the unit does not use any power if you are not turning pages and not using the wireless connection.
Not quite true. It does use some power, b/c the battery will eventually end up dead, even if you have the wireless connection off, if you forget to turn off the main power switch.
Apple can make kindle out of the Kindle with a free (or cheap) PDF/eBook reader for iPhone/iPod touch. Millions of people already have the devices, many millions more already have thousands of PDFs on their hard drives and downloading them can be as easy as using iTunes.
Well, it might.
Where I went, the campus bookstore was a co-op anyway. I think not for profit. I'd imagine for many campuses they just cost money to keep alive.
But You'd probably still need them to an extent.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 48.4 ms ] threadHowever it's so much like a book that i forget to turn the power off all the time -- and it has no auto-shutoff function.
It's also nice that you can read only using one hand. Since you don't have to turn your head or flip pages, I can actually read faster.
If Amazon can beef up its experimental web browser, the kindle would pay for itself with its free wireless.
The only drawback to e-ink is that it is very slow. It would be hard to leverage the technology for more interactive applications like games or video.
More powerful, more versatile.