Review of Amazon Kindle 2
My wife recently bought me a Kindle 2. Here are some of the things I loved about it
easy to change font sizeeasy to read - Jakob Nielson said it is roughly the same speed as reading a regular booklightweight - 10.2 ounceseasy to travel withsolves my buying too many books and bookshelves problemyou can store notes in it (everything is backed up on Amazon’s servers)You can search against all your books and notes in it (which really turns it into a powerful reference library…makes me want to buy about 3 or 4 of them to store different topics in) . This should be VERY powerful for looking well researched and finding money quotes. Steven Johnson (one of my favorite authors) uses Devonthink when he writes a book. it has an audio/reader version baked init has an Oxford dictionary baked innew books are typically only $9.99 and take less than a minute to downloadit starts off where you last read
While it has many shades of gray, it lacks color and does not have a touch screen interface. It is a nice device and will make moving far easier than it would have been if I kept buying so many physical books.
If books get more interactive with more permiable barriers when they are digitized then they may play a much bigger role in the web graph. Google’s copyright settlement with authors and publishers may make Google more likely to promote books:
“When someone goes to Google, they’ve got a question in mind and an answer they need,” Jennie Johnson, a Google spokesper son told DMNews. “We don’t really care where [on the Web] that answer comes from. If it comes from a book, great; if it comes from a Web page, fine.”
One of the things I regret over the past couple years is that I let my reading slide. If early usage is any indication of future usage then hopefully the Kindle will help me get into reading more often.
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