Amazon Kindle

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:01 pm

Link.

Probably not new, but I've just seen it.

Anyone got one?

Any good?

Christ iGeo, have you ever heard of URL tags? -GTAF

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:17 pm

I don't have one. But I kind of want one, It looks really cool. I guess you can subscribe to newspapers and blogs. It's meant to read Ebooks. It has a 30 hour battery life, and takes only 2 to charge. One of the downsides: No backlight :[

I guess you can access it anywhere, It's kind of like a phone service. You can wake up in the morning with the newspaper already uploaded on it.

EDIT: Just saw the vid, I guess you can access Wikipedia on it. That's awesome, I definitely want one now. I may wait though, It's only a matter of time before a color version comes out, with a full web browser.

Leiukemia · Post by **Leiukemia** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:15 pm

Awesome, I want one.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:42 pm

Meh. I'll read my normal books just fine, I don't need another gadget. And did they HAVE to include MP3 support? Everything being able to play MP3s is starting to bug me.
NEW FROM SONY!!! Toaster with MP3 capabilities! Only takes MemoryStick and is also an interface to your PS3! Shake it and you can play video games!
I mean, I guess it's good that there's a lot of things in one device, but if it's meant for reading books, I say just focus on that...

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:51 pm

I think the MP3 ability is meant to be for audiobooks you may already own or something.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:54 pm

I am going to be extremely ignorant and all that stuff and say.
I Hate Reading.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:01 pm

Hawaiian Modder wrote:I am going to be extremely ignorant and all that stuff and say.
I Hate Reading.

patchesreusch · Post by **patchesreusch** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:39 pm

cryticfarm wrote:
Hawaiian Modder wrote:I am going to be extremely ignorant and all that stuff and say.
I Hate Reading.

me 2 but i still think that is f**king sweet

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:13 pm

looks pretty cool. i've got to look more into it, but it'd be really cool to have one. and a touchscreen + web browser on this would be awesome, but then it gets more into the realm of PDAs and laptops. Also, i hope it's durable, because when i'm done reading, it's gonna get shoved into a bag of some sort, likely where a book would be just fine.

the only problem is i'm not sure if there's a ton of things to read other than newspapers that post things to their site anyways. sure, you can download books, but last i checked digital copies of popular books just aren't released (lol, deathly hallows). that said, once you find some good places to get books from, this thing could be real cool for bookworms, or people that just don't always have time to read the things they want to. i'll have to check on this, but i'd like to wait until it has a large base of supported file types, like word documents, pdfs, html, plain-text, open-office documents, various spreadsheets, etc.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:29 pm

Its a massive device (for an electronic device, rather than a book, don't bother with that arguement), however would be pretty damn kool...But at the same time not really unless you have lots of ebooks, and I'm not prepared to repurchase/retype my book collection

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:45 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:I think the MP3 ability is meant to be for audiobooks you may already own or something.

Oh, that makes sense.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:57 pm

cryticfarm wrote:
Hawaiian Modder wrote:I am going to be extremely ignorant and all that stuff and say.
I Hate Reading.