I sortof find the fact that they "sync" bookmark locations creepy though. Not only do they know what you buy, but they know how much and how fast you read it too.
ckanal
· 9 months ago
Awesome!
More than 1,500 tweets on this in a very short time, fun to watch Twitter when a major tech story like this breaks.
What I find funny about this is that the iPhone (sans service contract) and 2 versions of the iPod Touch are cheaper than the Kindle. So Amazon has basically created a better competitor to their own product.
ckanal
· 9 months ago
True, except you must buy the ebooks through Amazon. It will give their business a boost.
Michelle
· 9 months ago
Yes, they have created a competitor, but you can't just say "sans contract" with regards to the iPhone. The Kindle will always be a better product and bargain if for no other reason that it has built in broadband wireless service built into the $359 price. With an iPhone you would still end up spending almost $2,000. Now I do own a 32 Gig iPod Touch that I would use this on and that iPod Touch which doesn't have Broadband Wireless, just crappy, useless Wi-Fi that only really works at my home. I hope and wish that more companies follow Amazon's example and start including wireless broadband into their internet enabled devices and stop giving us Wi-Fi as the poor man's alternative. In case you didn't notice I HATE Wi-Fi, it's unreliable, when you can get it it's outrageously expensive - and even then it rarely works well. I was at an airport just this weekend, it was $12 and slow as heck. I'm willing to pay a $200 premium for wireless broadband connection on an device like an iPod Touch. I will say that it makes me long for back light capabilities and color on the Kindle. The books look great on my Touch but the screen is way too small, I couldn't imagine reading a full book like my Alexandre Dumas Kindle Collection or War and Peace on it.
Taueret
· 9 months ago
of course, US app store only :-(
Botta
· 9 months ago
Finally! I am getting this today for my "beach reading" this weekend..... I only hope that there is a way to adjust the "point size" so I don't have to whip out my "readers" - so unsexy!
bsgould
· 9 months ago
As an avid reader and someone who has experimented in the eBook arena for quite some time (totaling a large number of purchases since the mid-'90's looking for the perfect solution -- several successive HP PocketPCs, then the Motorola Q, then Samsung Blackjacks I & II, now an iPhone 3G, a Sony 505, (not to mention an unknown number of different Audible devices over the years), and now a Kindle II), from my perspective this is a GREAT move on Amazon's part. Finally Amazon is delivering 80+% of what I've been looking for -- a great selection of eBooks (most new publications are being released in Kindle format from the jump); a fair price (I won't argue with the value of $10 bucks for an electronic boook); and I can read the same book on my Kindle or on the go on my phone, and it even synchronizes my place. Now if text-to-voice improves so that same book can be audio or readable at my option, there's nothing left to wish for. I would buy EVERY book in this format.
garg
· 9 months ago
Now if only they create a way to let Sony EReader people purchase kindle books from amazon
spellchecker
· 9 months ago
'accross' should be spelled 'across'.
Karen in TN
· 9 months ago
I've posted pictures of all three Kindle devices, open to the same book, comparing fonts and graphics between them:
OK, I don't have the iPhone but I do have the iPhone touch and while it's pretty cool that you can download the ebooks from Kindle to your iPhone or Touch...I think it's a little misleading to call it a "Kindle" app...I avoided the Kindle for the longest time because I thought the experience would be much like reading a book on a computer screen. However, with the e-ink technology, the experience is much like reading a book. It's not backlit like a computer screen. I'd probably get a migraine if I tried to read a novel on the iPod Touch screen and would avoid this app in favor of just getting the Kindle itself.
I use my Kindle everyday and was sold once I held one in my hands and saw that the e-ink technology really does create a near paper experience.
Access to books is great...but to me this is just a glorified document reader app for the iPhone...not true to the real Kindle experience.
StephanieInCA
· 9 months ago
My biggest concern about the Kindle, aside from it’s weird, book-buring-esque name, is that it compromises the integrity of the written word. A printed book may be unwieldy, but you know that once it’s on your shelf, not one letter is going to change. Can’t say the same for the Kindle.
Also, when I spill coffee all over a book, I’ve only ruined that particular book :)
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I sortof find the fact that they "sync" bookmark locations creepy though. Not only do they know what you buy, but they know how much and how fast you read it too.
More than 1,500 tweets on this in a very short time, fun to watch Twitter when a major tech story like this breaks.
Breaking Tweets cited Mashable for its story on this, just posted moments ago.
http://booksontheknob.blogspot.com/2009/03/kind...
I'd probably get a migraine if I tried to read a novel on the iPod Touch screen and would avoid this app in favor of just getting the Kindle itself.
I use my Kindle everyday and was sold once I held one in my hands and saw that the e-ink technology really does create a near paper experience.
Access to books is great...but to me this is just a glorified document reader app for the iPhone...not true to the real Kindle experience.
Also, when I spill coffee all over a book, I’ve only ruined that particular book :)
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