Posted by jeremyscheller in General | 2 Comments
I'd rather use this as kindling…
Seth Godin wrote about the kindle yesterday…(Amazon’s new electronic book reader)
I’m not ready to hyperventilate the way he is. This thing is going to be $399. It doesn’t exactly fit in your hands. Has no backlight. Even has an extension arm booklight?
I like to curl up with a book at the cabin. On the dock. Maybe even out on the fun island.
Why do I want another device?
If you can put my movies, music, calendar and phone in the palm of my hand in one device, why not just add books to that list and call it quits.
It’s the equivalent cost of my yearly book budget…and then I still have to buy the books?
I don’t get it…yet. I need convincing.
Tech Companies have been trying to get books to go digital for ten years and the true innovations just aren’t there yet. And as great of an entrepreneur Jeff Bezos is….I don’t this thing has legs.
What if I’ve got all my digi-books in there and I drop it in the lake at the cabin as I did to two books last summer? Good ole paper books have an easy to replace factor that this thing just doesn’t have…
kindle=kindling
I saw this thing yesterday, too. It looks like they started the design in 1999, and never got around to updating it–it’s just aesthetically unpleasant.
I agree with you whole-heartedly about the allure (and practicality) of traditional books. In my case, I’d add the allure of the hard copy of a newspaper. There’s something calming and just plain right about sitting down at the table with a cup of coffee and the newspaper. Sure, one has to wrestle with it as one reads it on the Metro every morning, but it’s well worth it, in my book (er…kindle). I think, like you, I’ll pass.
agreed.
I just don’t want my life to be consumed by looking at LCDs all the time.
I see a colossal failure up ahead for amazon….
The only thing that could save it, is to drastically change the price point.
If I could get into this thing for a hundred bucks and get a 14.95 subscription service that gives me 1 download a month, than I might be interested. But, as it is, the barrier to entry on this product is ginormous.