My interest in Amazon's Kindle just died

[lokiju]

This is another reason I'm glad I went with my Sony PRS-505 over the Kindle.

Besides the fact that it has a SD slot and can read many formats that I want to put on it without having to email Amazon and waiting for them to convert it and send it back to me for a free (which is also bullshit).

 

[Anubis]

im still at a loss to why anyone was interested in it or any ebook reader in the first place

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Anubis
im still at a loss to why anyone was interested in it or any ebook reader in the first place

It's way more than I want to spend, but it seems like everyone who owns one loves it.

 

[Eos]

Originally posted by: lokiju
This is another reason I'm glad I went with my Sony PRS-505 over the Kindle.

Besides the fact that it has a SD slot and can read many formats that I want to put on it without having to email Amazon and waiting for them to convert it and send it back to me for a free (which is also bullshit).

There are free conversion programs available such as MobiCreator.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: Anubis
im still at a loss to why anyone was interested in it or any ebook reader in the first place

because it's a lot easier to carry around than a bookshelf.

it was a life saver when I was in the hospital back around Christmas... I had nothing to do all day but read; it was great not having to rely on whatever books were in the hospital gift shop or whatever my mom happened to have in her purse.

I read the entire Asimov Foundation series as well as all the Sookie Stackhouse books.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: Anubis
im still at a loss to why anyone was interested in it or any ebook reader in the first place

This. I don't really understand. I guess it has the advantage of having a bunch of books together in one portable device, but that doesn't make up for the cons.

I would never pay the same price for a digital copy of a book as a physical copy, as you don't really own the digital copy and can't resell, donate, or pass it on to your children. Not to mention that you have to read the book of that blasted screen, which doesn't compare to the actual pages of a book.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: Anubis
im still at a loss to why anyone was interested in it or any ebook reader in the first place

because it's a lot easier to carry around than a bookshelf.

it was a life saver when I was in the hospital back around Christmas... I had nothing to do all day but read; it was great not having to rely on whatever books were in the hospital gift shop or whatever my mom happened to have in her purse.

I read the entire Asimov Foundation series as well as all the Sookie Stackhouse books.

But how often do you really need your entire book collection with you? Normally people read 1 or 2 books at a time, at most.

The hospital situation is an unusual one, but all you have to do is just send someone to the library/book store to pick up a pile of books for you. I assume someone loves you enough to help you out.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: Anubis
im still at a loss to why anyone was interested in it or any ebook reader in the first place

This. I don't really understand. I guess it has the advantage of having a bunch of books together in one portable device, but that doesn't make up for the cons.

I would never pay the same price for a digital copy of a book as a physical copy, as you don't really own the digital copy and can't resell, donate, or pass it on to your children. Not to mention that you have to read the book of that blasted screen, which doesn't compare to the actual pages of a book.

kindle books are typically cheaper than the printed versions (how cheap depends on the book... new releases might be the same price or a dollar or two cheaper, but there are also a shitton of books for .99 or less, not to mention all the free books out there).

screen really isn't that bad. my only minor complaint is that the back/forward buttons are easy to accidentally push, but the readability is fine and being able to increase/decrease text size at will is great (not to mention easily looking up random words).

I have no interest in reading my parents' old paperbacks.

 

[ryan256]

I was considering a Kindle til this. No F'n way I'm buying one now.

 

[Pheran]

Looks like Amazon is now getting sued for this.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Pheran
Looks like Amazon is now getting sued for this.

/. discussion: http://news.slashdot.org/story...k-Deletions?art_pos=10

 

[waggy]

hmm the lawsuit is kinda stupid. "it deleted my book and now my notes don't match! whaaA" sorry kid go buy a paper copy and find what your notes talk about. its not that hard.

while i do agree amazon should get a huge smack for what they did the lawsuit is just silly.

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: PieIsAwesome

Originally posted by: josh0099

Originally posted by: PieIsAwesome
They can delete or modify stuff on your hardware? Why would anyone want something like that?

Any piece of hardware that gets synched up with new firmware could do the same thing.

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has
been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a
five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for
short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the
hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up
konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters,
which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil
agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is
disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" by z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords
kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be
no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand
ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

LOL

 

[thomsbrain]

I could almost get excited if they couldn't delete your stuff and there was a way to "share" a book by having it transfer over to another Kindle and get deleted from the original.

I messed with the original Kindle and came away extremely impressed with the device as a piece of technology, despite my initial skepticism. But it seems like most new ways of digitally distributing media work because they are MORE convenient, not less. Until Amazon makes owning a Kindle better in every way to owning a book, they will never take off on a mass scale.