Re: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device for TechnicalMagazines, Books and newspapers

I know what you are saying, but all you have mentioned are the "problems"
with what you are using now. Palms and PDAs like that have a small form
factor that can be hard to read. The Kindle is a larger book-sized format. I
would imagine that Amazon will open up the Kindle more within a year.

eBooks (more specifically ebooks from the big publishers) are a new
technology. Just like the MPAA and the RIAA, the book industry is going to
wrap the books in DRM so they can attempt to keep their existing business
model. I am going to take a guess that within a couple years a standard will
come out that all eBook readers will work with. If they don't, the
technology will die (or be taken over by pirates).

I won't be buying any eBook reader for a while yet because of these issues.
The second gen of the Sony eBook reader supports PDF and eInk (or whatever
they call it) will get better and eventually support color.Did you have
color monitors 30 years ago? No.

It is something to be watched carefully, and unless you are an early
adopter, it should be avoided for a while yet.

On Feb 19, 2008 10:52 AM, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mike wrote:

I see the potential for this device but the first gen is just that.

Imagine

getting a small SD memory stick with ALL of the IBM manuals on it for

your

system. You could search through quickly and find what you need right at

the

console or while on the road.

I've been doing this (sans SD stick) on my Handspring Visor for many
years. Savvy consumers just aren't interested in being locked into a
single vendor's technology. Unless it's a game console I suppose.
--buck