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Can you load your own .txt files onto this? This is actually big enough to carry & review my source code without booting up a laptop.
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A software keyboard is much more likely. It shouldn't be too long before E Ink displays can reliably/cheaply handle touch input.
source? I'd like to see news on such tech,
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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…
This looks like it will be a great product, especially for all the technical pdfs I've built up over the years. Still not wild about the DRM though -- I made the mistake of buying DRMed music that I can't listen to anymore. I'm not going to do the same with books. Anyone else trying to justify a $500 pdf reader? :)
Can you load your own .txt files onto this? This is actually big enough to carry & review my source code without booting up a laptop.
How often do you browse your source code without the intent to edit it? Just curious if you have an interesting code review or development process because I don't think I've done that before.
I just figured that if I'm spending $500 on a full page sized device, it sure would be nice to load all of my recent source code on it. I travel alot without a laptop and I'm always thinking about my work. I often follow the trail to a hard copy or an older module that I'm not carrying with me.
Looks 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?
The 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.
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.
This looks like it will be a great product, especially for all the technical pdfs I've built up over the years. Still not wild about the DRM though -- I made the mistake of buying DRMed music that I can't listen to anymore. I'm not going to do the same with books. Anyone else trying to justify a $500 pdf reader? :)
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.
Looks 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?
Because I believe Amazon is losing money on each ebook sold. They want people to move to their platform so badly that they're willing to accept a loss on each ebook and make it up with the hardware costs.
The kindle is in a strange position now. The more features they add (like native PDF) the more people will clamor to make it more input friendly (like the talk of a wacom-esque interface below). Here's hoping Amazon knows where to draw the line and it just remains a damn good way to read text.