Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story

It's about time someone said this so well.

To be fair, I find it much easier to fall asleep after using my Kindle Paperwhite than I do with an iPad. But, virtually every aspect of the Kindle ecosystem user experience is an experience in mediocrity. In some respects, I feel like the company is like what you'd get if you crossed the worst aspects of Microsoft and Google.

(And apologies to my friends who work at Amazon, but let's be honest: you're all going to quit within a year or two to work somewhere that's less abusive of its employees.)

I too fall asleep easier while reading on my Paperwhite. Rather annoying actually.

Totally agree with this article, but I'm surprised he doesn't mention the train wreck of the touch screen on the Paperwhite.

For a start it's incredibly flaky. Sometimes the slightest accidental touch will cause it to jump randomly to somewhere in the book. Other times I can press it hard or rub furiously and still nothing happens. Then sometimes it will pause for a few seconds, then do something incomprehensible.

If it had simply retained touch for "go forward" and "go back" it would be acceptable, but it seems that the Sales Department insisted that the engineers overload it with extra features.

When I'm reading I'm constantly interrupted by the idiotic "change font" or "look up dictionary" or "take notes" function when I don't want them. It's infuriating.

And then when reading a Magazine, the actions change and suddenly there's a jump forward (or back) one chapter which causes you to completely loose your page.

I love my Kindle, but I hate the touch function.

Agree with all the typesetting points, but I do not share the author's experience with the buttons—I think they're great. You don't have to press them hard, and the vibration feedback works perfectly for me.