I’ve got a confession to make. I’ve still been thinking of Amazon’s Kindle.
And another one: I’ve never actually held an e-reader in my hands.
But it’s not because I’ve never wanted to. It’s because I’ve never even imagined wanting to. Like I said, I just didn’t get it. But now, suddenly, a few days later, maybe, just maybe, I am.
I was researching Kindle’s screen technology, thinking that maybe I’ve been a bit too quick in saying I wouldn’t ever read anything of length electronically, when I made a significant discovery.
Imagine my surprise when I found this. It’s exactly what I had imagined — a device small enough that you can shove it in your pocket with your cellphone, but that unrolls to become something much larger.
So where is it?
Despite endless prototypes with nothing reaching the market, this little device, now a couple of years old, already makes the Kindle look out-dated.
With a device like this, something born out of intelligent design and an understanding of its place in our world (not a wanna-be book which I think the Kindle suffers from), I think I could be won over.
Amazon may have the distribution and content side of the equation locked up, but they look pretty seriously behind the curve on the technology side of this one. Why couldn’t they have partnered with someone? I’d love to get an answer to this question.
Props to the iLiad too.
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Scott Phelps shared this on Oct 15 08 at 3:49 pmI’m finding the kindle more and more attractive myself. I grow weary of reading books on my monitor (as I am mostly reading technical paper and the like) that I have downloaded. They seem to mostly come in PDF form. The kindle would make these portable..I could read in bed, on the couch, on the plane.
I don’t like the idea of a proprietary device though. Yes the ability to go ‘online’ for free though the device and quickly purchase and download from Amazon is neat. But just like the Ipod (even though I do have one and am used to it) I have to use their interface and just don’t like it.
When a device comes out that lets me wirelessly network with my home machine (even better if that was accessible from anywhere!) I think I’ll go for it.
I have held one by the way. What go me first? The screen. It is the next best thing to a book. No glare, no backlight. Nice.
Oh, and there is a new Kindle coming out…http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/15/kindle-20-coming-around-october-2008/
