Comments on: Video: The sort of obligatory “Amazon releases Kindle 2″ clip

By: seejanemom

seejanemom — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:23:18 +0000

Ah…another useless piece of crap (like TV on contacts)that will come in SO HANDY when Obama “changes” our economy back to LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE.

Say…..can you read the LITTLE HOUSE series on that paperweight…’cuz I bet there will be a LOT of folks who are going to need to know how to butcher a hog, chop wood, and generally be miserable living in the New Third World.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:39:11 +0000

Ah, forgot the post was from yesterday…

By: Tanya

Tanya — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:37:58 +0000

Whether it’s the glare or what, I don’t know, but I can’t get lost in the same reading state as I can with a book. But I’ve read something like 30 books on my Kindle in the last year.

Jim Treacher on February 9, 2009 at 4:58 PM

It’s funny that you say that, because I was thinking the same thing but wasn’t sure how to phrase it. You don’t lose focus “turning the page” or anything? And can you read it lying down?

By: Fuquay Steve

Fuquay Steve — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:56:42 +0000

Never fear. By the end of the year the NYT will offer a free one with a two yr subscription.

By: Ganryu

Ganryu — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:52:17 +0000

Never tried the kindle, but I have the Sony PRS-505 ereader and love it. I currently have about 100 different books stored on the reader and its only half full. It doesn’t seem to work well for reference materials as the search system isn’t all that great, but for novels/fiction I have found that I actually prefer reading from the Sony than from hardcopy. My only major complaint with the Sony is their crappy store/synch software.

By: Tim Burton

Tim Burton — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:29:56 +0000

Ah another collector! I too refuse to part with a book once I’ve bought it.Inherited a large part of my Dad’s library when he left us.Keep them all!

Kevin in Southern Illinois on February 9, 2009 at 6:14 PM

My personal library is 600+ books, all except the reference material has been read. That isn’t including the 2500+ books my parents own in their library.

I love books.

By: nukemhill

nukemhill — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:09:52 +0000

Pro: Picture me at a Starbucks in Manhattan, nursing a mocha frap and looking thoughtful while I use the text-to-speech function to listen to “The Audacity of Hope.” Beta male no more.

Beta male extraordinaire!

By: eh

eh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:06:37 +0000

if they start adding more college and school text books this would save a ton on tuition costs

offroadaz on February 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM

that would make it worth 400 bucks, easy.

By: keep the change

keep the change — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:56:03 +0000

Picture me at a Starbucks in Manhattan, nursing a mocha frap and looking thoughtful while I use the text-to-speech function to listen to “The Audacity of Hope.” Beta male no more.

How can we picture you if we don’t know what you look like?

By: Old Country Boy

Old Country Boy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:31:57 +0000

My kids got me a Kindle because I am a bookaholic. I could not get to my computer because of my books. My grandson would come in and change them all around just to bug grandpa. I like the Kindle; I can use it almost anywhere and the battery lasts for 14 – 16 hours in use and days on standby. I put a memory card in it and can store thousands more of books that I will never get a chance to read in this lifetime.. Now, I just read the special ads that Amazon has been sending to me. There are very few worthwhile enhancements in the Kindle 2. A normal person doesn’t need any of them except for those demented few that think a potential that will never be used is sexy and will impress like minds if they talk about it. Buying the Kindle 2 for the so-called enhancements is like throwing away your lexus for a model that has an extra cup holder that you will never use.

By: Kokonut

Kokonut — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:31:26 +0000

Hmmm….and this is HA newsworthy? Charlie over at LGF reported the same thing. And I noticed similarities between the two. Anti-Palin and a thing for intelligent design. How about report about the ability to watch TV through a contact len instead 10 years from now? And read tons of e-books and e-mags with having to hold it up with one hand all the time. At least by then a 10 year 2.0 Kindle will achieve the same status as how cool the iMac was back then. Nothing but worthless hype.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/contact-lens-co.html

By: JohnTant

JohnTant — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:12:29 +0000

I have one. I love it. This sounds like hyperbole but it really has changed the way I read, in that I read more and I read more current things.

For instance, Freddoso’s book about Obama? I probably wouldn’t have bought the hardcover, but $10 and 30 seconds later and I had it on Kindle.

Second…I have a subscription to HotAir and I can read the blog wherever I go.

The screen is awesome, the memory is ample (although the second version doesn’t have a SD card slot…) and it does what it’s designed to do and does it VERY well.

It’s a win.

By: Kevin in Southern Illinois

Kevin in Southern Illinois — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:03:11 +0000

Ah, 9 days since the last newspaper was delivered, and I haven’t missed it nyet!

kirkill on February 9, 2009 at 6:26 PM

Surviving the KY snow storm?

By: Vigilante

Vigilante — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:52 +0000

$360 and it’s not even in color? Paleeez…

By: kirkill

kirkill — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:29:50 +0000

and I don't think Kim Peek will like it, he reads a left page with his left eye at the same time he reads the right page with his right eye.

By: kirkill

kirkill — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:26:54 +0000

but then, lately I haven’t been especially impressed with newspapers and magazines period.

Jim Treacher on February 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM

Ah, 9 days since the last newspaper was delivered, and I haven’t missed it nyet!

By: Kevin in Southern Illinois

Kevin in Southern Illinois — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:14:56 +0000

But count me out. I have shelves of books – fiction, non-

fiction, reference, texts, etc… I have college texts from 20 years ago that I didn’t even read when I was taking the class, but I can’t bring myself to get rid of any of them. Books have an almost magical quality to them. Not gonna trade them for another gizmo whose batteries crap out at the wrong time.

innominatus on February 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Ah another collector! I too refuse to part with a book once I’ve bought it.Inherited a large part of my Dad’s library when he left us.Keep them all!

By: Kevin in Southern Illinois

Kevin in Southern Illinois — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:05:01 +0000

Or .99 for DKos.

I guess the costis so cheap because of Obama Stimulus Subsidy

By: TMA

TMA — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:58:29 +0000

and kept a record of your books

they do! so if you do damage it, you can redownload everything on a new one. Or you can move a bunch of stuff off of it and later redownload it.

doesn’t help with the price, though.

By: wytammic

wytammic — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:57:51 +0000

I think it looks really cool and our daughter is fixing on graduating from Cornell University this May. I'd love to get her this, as she loves to read, but her heart is set on something like this, and I can't afford both. Decisions, decisions ...

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:54:51 +0000

If they made it under 100 bucks and kept a record of your books then the thing would be darn near disposable and they wouldn’t be able to make enough of them.

They can’t make enough of them now.

By: TMA

TMA — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:53:56 +0000

Oh, and I downloaded a bunch of Project Gutenberg free books (does any read William Dean Howells anymore?), which look nice enough on the Kindle that it’s a pleasure to read them.

By: BHO Jonestown

BHO Jonestown — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:52:57 +0000

Meh. An electronic index card & Sharpie.

By: jmarcure

jmarcure — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:52:43 +0000

They should be making money on the books not the device. If they made it under 100 bucks and kept a record of your books then the thing would be darn near disposable and they wouldn’t be able to make enough of them. At a 100 buck a lot of parents and grand parents would get them as gifts just to entice the kids into reading. It could also be used or required at school and it would cut a lot of fat out of the whole publishing and distribution of school books not to mention the possibility of nearly instant updates and corrections.

By: TMA

TMA — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:51:35 +0000

I love my Kindle! It has SOME limitations (PDF conversion for mathematical papers is bad, it’s hard to share a book I like with someone without letting them borrow the whole thing, if you drop it you can lose a few pixels, etc.), etc. But it’s easy to read, more like print on paper than a computer screen, yet with the advantages of a computer screen (primarily searching, also I can change the type size); I can take a zillion books on a long trip in my carry-on bag, I can hold th ebook and turn the page with one finger while donating blood (ok that doesn’t come up so often, but it still was nice) — nobody in the liberal coffeeshop can see the cover of the Ann Coulter book I’m reading, and on and on. And the free wireless browser is useful, though the web interface is clunky enough to keep me from using it much.

It was a little indulgent, but I definitely like it a lot.