Amazon Kindle: Bloggers Keep Writing

The Amazon Kindle has captured bloggers' interests, with approximately 1 new post on Google Blog Search appearing every 10 minutes today. There were 10 posts in the past hour. Most are short snippets of the person's opinion and a few have nice usage ideas. Here are a few highlights.

GraphPaper (includes excellent collage)

But the breathless excitement over the supposed “death of the book” is even more preposterous than Amazon’s little white elephant, especially to book lovers like my wife and me. For us, books, periodicals, and printed matter of all sorts comprise, quite literally, the very structure of both our intellectual and physical worlds. Books surround us. Our loft is subdivided into rooms using bookshelves. Every surface has a stack of books or magazines on it. We both grew up surrounded by the printed word — looking at them, feeling them, smelling them — and we intend for our family to continue in that tradition.

HTLounge

The idea is that the Amazon Kindle will revolutionize the way we spread the written word, much like what that Gutenberg guy did with his press.

Copyright in a Digital Age

Obviously, the books you purchase for use on the Kindle need some sort of copy protection so you can’t just pass the book out to whoever you want or profit from it yourself. With the Kindle, you can buy books and store them, but (unlike conventional books), it’s impossible to print a page, copy any portion, or share the book with a friend. As the author of the Newsweek article puts it,

Infodoodads

I wonder if the screen really is easier to read than other e-book readers?  Is the price worth it?

D. Robert Pease

I know there were a whole lot of people, smarter than me, that decided the pricing structure, but it seems to me that a better model would be to price it at say $149, and then plan on selling a whole heck of a lot of books. I know I would probably spend considerably more on books at Amazon than I do now.

The Post Money Value

First Gotcha: All of the purchases are one click and you own it.  When buying over the air, you get a confirmation screen and an option to undo the purchase.  I don't think you can kill a one-click kindle order on the website when coming in via your PC. I was all set to purchase my first book, The Book of General Ignorance, otherwise known as the VC 2.0 Manual.  I pressed on the buy it and I got the sorry, you can't do this, call support.  I had a suspicion this was going to happen and knew the work around but, what the heck, let's see how the phone support is working.

Prisca and Aquila

My brother spent the weekend trying to talk me out of wanting one by telling me all the ways I could do similar things on a PDA but I was not convinced. I want a bigger screen and I want to see a page at a time. My only concern right now is the kind of books available.

Cody976

The amazon kindle looks so cool. I wish that i had $400 dollars to buy one. Fortunatly this is the way books will be going soon.

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Posted by Kindler at 11/25/2007 6:31 PM
Categories: Amazon Kindle Commentary,Amazon Kindle Reviews,Amazon Kindle Usage
 

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