"Kindle DX will be released this summer"
Amazon is just afraid of the incoming Apple iPad.
Very afraid...
Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle
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#82I hope there is a way to disable auto-rotation for reading in bed. That is a big pet peeve with my iphone.
It doesn't auto-rotate if you tilt it so the home button's at the top.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
As stated a few places. I think this may work well for students that need to carry around many large/heavy textbooks. Since it would still fit nicely in a book bag. However, the price tag is a bit high for students, unless the textbooks are already included :)
Eh, eight semesters in college at $400 in books per semester comes out to $3200. An extra $500 wouldn't make a huge difference, and would make biking up the hill much easier. ;)
Better add the cost of a replacement policy to that total.
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#84Looks great but does anyone else think the price is a bit expensive? Not that this is a great comparison, but I can buy a netbook for $299 or less these days. Why such a up-front hardware cost when Amazon will get recurring revenue from Kindle books? Are they taking a loss on the book sales to boost downloads?
Um, don't Kindles come with lifetime of wireless access? Factor that in and they're reasonably priced.
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#85Based on the price of this one, I think we'll see the small Kindle go down in price soon. Because right now it doesn't make any sense to buy the small one. I still wont' buy one, chances are they'll release a color version in a couple of months, thats the next obvious step
Are there even any color e-ink type displays in the lab?
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is really cool. I have the Kindle 2 and the PDF conversion on many books is really bad, but especially programming books. However, the Kindle DX looks huge . I'm not sure I could carry that thing around the same way I do the Kindle 2.
As stated a few places. I think this may work well for students that need to carry around many large/heavy textbooks. Since it would still fit nicely in a book bag. However, the price tag is a bit high for students, unless the textbooks are already included :)
Noone else will say it, but I'm sure the piracy will pick up if it gets popular enough.
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#87Looks great but does anyone else think the price is a bit expensive? Not that this is a great comparison, but I can buy a netbook for $299 or less these days. Why such a up-front hardware cost when Amazon will get recurring revenue from Kindle books? Are they taking a loss on the book sales to boost downloads?
Um, don't Kindles come with lifetime of wireless access? Factor that in and they're reasonably priced.
The wireless access is only free when buying books I believe, not for general browsing.
(Someone correct me if I'm wrong)
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Obvious but orders of magnitude harder in difficulty. I'm thinking 2 years, from a Japanese company.
The problem here is that nobody can release a similar device and get adoption because they don't have the content. Similar to iTunes and the iPod. I'm pretty sure this is going to be a device monopoly. The only people that could pull off a licensing deal would be Barnes and Noble or Borders and they don't seem to be in a position to do that. At least Apple has the Zune Store as competition (as much as it sucks). Amaz…
If the release comes from Japan, it will start in Japan, with Japanese content. Tie-ups with B&N would be a good deal for both sides. The Japanese have talked about this for years. One of the first targets would be the newspaper publishers. They have the infrastructure to pull off a wireless distribution channel from the train stations. (curiously this didn't happen with Sony).
But, I could be very wrong, and Taiwan might actually be first mover: http://www.epapercentral.com/pvi-to-mass-produce-ereaders.ht...
If they are though, funnily it would not start in Taiwan with Taiwanese content.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm going to be using this to read technical books, a lot of which can cost between $50 to $100. Compared to the cost of my library, I think $500 is easily worth it for being able to take most of these books with me anywhere I go.
But how much do the PDF versions of the technical books cost ? And where do you get them? I am also trying to calculate the costs and see if I can throw the bookshelf away.
Free.
Well - there's http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
And then there's cough scribd cough
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#90The killer feature is that it reads PDFs natively now (i.e., without having to convert them). For someone who prefers to read on screen and who has to read a lot of PDFs, this is very exciting.
can it read protected PDFs also? I suppose that i can enter my password with the keyboard.
You can always just strip the DRM off on your computer.