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Re: more thoughts on kindle; missing the point

Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:37:50 -0000

I've been reading books on my Palm Pilot for years. If you take that into consideration, do you think the Kindle is a superior product?

I really think I want one, but $400 is pretty steep.

Re: more thoughts on kindle; missing the point

Carl Parrish — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:37:18 -0000

I also *love* the idea of this device. I played with Softbooks (and even wrote some of the code) about 10 years ago. The kindle fixes some of the major problems there but I still can't share my books with others (a *major* problem for me), or Or use my already *large* collection of ebooks (please someone correct me if I'm wrong). That said if they get it working with safari I'm getting one.

Re: more thoughts on kindle; missing the point

Adam Nash — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:48:47 -0000

I don't know, John, I think the lack of the bridge between the current unprotected content (books) and the device is a problem. Very little of the music on iPods comes from the iTunes store.

Rip, Mix, Burn.

Now, if when I buy a physical book from Amazon, they ALSO included the electronic copy, that could really jump start the Kindle. In fact, if they could find a way for me to even send in old books to "recycle", ie, give away to libraries, etc, and give me the electronic copy as an incentive, that would be interesting.

I think depending on paid content for this device is going to doom it to extremely slow adoption - witness the AppleTV, which lacking a path for existing content (DVD, HD-DVD, BD) to get onto the device, really throttled it's path.

We'll see - I can't believe you want one. :) I've been waiting a long time for an eInk display, though.

I'll pay with yours.

Adam