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Jeff Bezos: Kindle Back in Stock Soon, Honest! (P.S. I Love the Kindle Cake)
Whether the Kindle's perpetual sold out status is the result of honest-to-God feverish demand for the little slab of e-book voodoo or a willfully sub-demand supply, that's about to change. Jeff Bezos has a little love note on the front page of Amazon saying he's sowwy they can't keep up with our blistering desire to get our Whispernet on, and that Kindles will be shipping the same day you order them—in a just a few weeks. So, you have to wait a few weeks in order to um, not wait a few weeks. Oh and that Kindle cake? "Delectable." [Amazon]
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Eee PC Has A Kindle Mode?
Got a desire for the sold out Amazon Kindle? If you do your probably out of luck on actually getting one anytime soon. The next best thing might actually be an Eee PC in "Kindle" mode. By using FBReader in fullscreen and portrait mode, an Eeeph forum member turned his Eee into a Kindle imitator. Since FBReader is a free e-book reader for Unix and Windows computers this little Kindle tweak shouldn't be too hard to get you a multi-function e-reader out of the popular Eee PC. [Eeeph via EeeUser]
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Sony Reader Goes Total Stereotype for Valentine's Day
Sony is offering both the color pink and absurd romanticism in a special $299 V-Day Sony Reader Bundle.
Coming with a pink "Cross Your Heart" Reader skin and a coupon for 14 Harlequin Special Releases...let's just say that we'd never date anyone who accepted this gift in earnest. For those interested in what a real lady (my wife) thinks about the Sony Reader, hit up her impressions here. For the record, she's still reading with it nonstop.
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Harlin eReader V9 Is Like an Oversized Sony Reader, Has Stylus for Note-taking
The Harlin eReader V9 may be Chinese-only for now, but this Linux-based electronic paper reader seems to beat both the Sony Reader P505 and the Amazon Kindle in screen real estate, with a 10-inch, 825 x 1,200 pixel display that can display 4 grayscale levels, and some features, like the stylus-based handwriting for note-taking. We don't know how good this $599 to $699 eBook reader will really be, but the specs look quite good:
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My Wife's Take After a Week With an eReader
I gave my wife a Sony Reader for Christmas after she'd talked about them for some time (she deemed the Kindle "ugly" btw, which is important as anything else for a gadget that's designed to be looked at for hours on end, I guess). Her verdict on the experience? Good, but there's one thing she's surprised to miss most from real books: More »
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There's a lot to digest in Newsweek's seven-page all-out feature. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sums it up: "This isn't a device, it's a service." Kindle starts shipping tomorrow for $399 and is "a perpetually connected Internet device" running off of EV-DO—it calls the service "Whispernet." It's totally computer independent: You browse for books (88,000 at launch) and buy them in a "one-touch process," it comes with a personal Kindle email address and it can browse the regular internet—keyboard sounds useful now, doesn't it?
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Amazon Kindle Official Details: $399, "Whispernet" EV-DO, the "iPod of Reading"
There's a lot to digest in Newsweek's seven-page all-out feature. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sums it up: "This isn't a device, it's a service." Kindle starts shipping tomorrow for $399 and is "a perpetually connected Internet device" running off of EV-DO—it calls the service "Whispernet." It's totally computer independent: You browse for books (88,000 at launch) and buy them in a "one-touch process," it comes with a personal Kindle email address and it can browse the regular internet—keyboard sounds useful now, doesn't it?
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Fujitsu Flepia e-Reader Displays 4,096 Colors
Keep ignoring e-paper and e-readers, but as we see more color displays it will slowly take over the world. And Fujitsu just showed off some of their sweet new color e-reader prototypes. These readers feature 8" or 12" displays, boast 4,096-colors and XGA 768 x 1024 resolution...all on top of touch screen capability. The only downside is that you have to wait 10 seconds for images to draw. The battery is lithium polymer and gets up to 50 hours of runtime (though, to be fair, that spec is from an optional 8-color spec). Content is stored on an SD card and the unit features a USB port.
Oh, and there are speakers, too. With all this functionality and a waistline of just 12mm, we think we're in love. [gizmag via gizwatch]
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Amazon Kindle eReader Gets More Details: Pricing, Time Frame, Features
Details have been scarce on the Amazon Kindle eReader since we first saw it last September, but some publishers have actually gotten to play with it now that we're nearing the spring release date. First, the price is going to be above $400. Seeing as the Sony reader is fetching somewhere around $300 to $350, that's not a good place to start. More »
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How To Optimize PDFs For Sony's Reader
Folks who actually paid close to half a grand for the Sony Reader probably won't mind too much about having to buy eBooks to read on it. But it's not like they enjoy spending more money. For those people, Make's got a guide to optimizing PDFs for Sony Reader's format. More »
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