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Re: New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only, $189 3G, available August 27th

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Post by mike463 » Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 8:34 PM UTC

KevinMS wrote: post #63

Does anybody have any good/killer reasons to recommend the 3G over the wifi-only?

It saves me quite a bit of money.

I never buy books until I'm sure I want to read them. When I first got my kindle, I bought more than one book at once, and I regretted it.

Now I keep a backlog of sample books on my kindle. When I finish my current book, I can pick something from the many sample books I have, and if I like what i read, I buy it right then.

Of course, I tend to carry my kindle quite a bit out and about when killing time (auto shop, kids swim lessons, etc)

Re: New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only, $189 3G, available August 27th

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Post by Herring » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 12:08 AM UTC

joshfinnie wrote: post #83

Herring wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>smudges Just use a shirt to wipe it down. Works for me.

Over 300 words and you pick on the smudging part. I think the main point of the Kindle versus iPad argument is twofold: 1) the e-ink is remarkably better to read and 2) the battery life allows for more reading than the iPad allows. I have the nook and I cannot see myself without it. eBooks are great for people who want a device to read books on.

Well he didn't say anything I disagreed with. If you want my opinion, take a look at this article

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/07/26/ipad.universit...

>Students at Reed College complained of the slow refresh rate of e-Ink displays, problematic input, inability to load PDFs over the network, and inability to view more than one text at a time as major sticking points. Reed faculty found converting documents to work well on the Kindle to be particularly difficult in most cases.

>Students participating in the test at Darden School of Business, while loving the Kindle for personal reading, overwhelmingly felt the Kindle didn't pass muster in its current state for academic use -- about 4 out of 5 would not recommend a Kindle DX to incoming MBA students.

I came to that exact conclusion after using a kindle DX for a few months. Additionally, battery life & weight don't really bother me. It's lighter than most textbooks, & I don't mind putting it to charge right before I go to sleep. I spend a lot of time looking at LCDs anyway, so that isn't a problem.

Re: New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only, $189 3G, available August 27th

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Post by rodh257 » Sat, Jul 31, 2010, 3:30 AM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #88

rodh257 wrote: post #79

I want an e-reader, but I want to read technical (coding) PDFs etc. I'm told this will be inconvenient at a screen this size and that I should get the Kindle DX. Hopefully they announce a massive price drop on the DX as well (preferably before I visit the USA in December)

They just did recently.

$379 is still too expensive, all I want is the base wifi kindle with a few inches more screen area

Re: New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only, $189 3G, available August 27th

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Post by tjpick » Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 9:01 PM UTC

lazyant wrote: post #80

tjpick wrote: post #53

I got on of these for $149 (NZ) and it does the trick. Same display technology as the kindle anyway. http://www.koboereader.com/

In Canada they are also $150 but Canadian dollars (like $200 NZ) isn't it built in Canada?

yes I think they are built in Canada. Actually I just checked online and it looks like the NZ price is $295. Maybe I just forgot how much it actually cost.