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10/20/09
what?! who doesn't like gettin' a little nook? #barnesandnoblesreader
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And $259 is still too expensive. I don't care about carrying 100 novels around at once because I'm only going to read one book at a time for pleasure. I don't search the books I read for pleasure, nor do I want to be restricted by DRM. I can stop off at a bookstore on my way home from work and be in-and-out with whatever just came out in 5 minutes, including parking.
So why would I pay $259 for this? #barnesandnoblesreader
10/19/09
Just like film, in 10 years, you won't be able to buy a paper book. Obsolete. #barnesandnoblesreader
10/20/09
It did end up saving me money, though. I was surprised. The thing is, I no longer buy books I don't end up liking enough to finish because I get free sample chapters of them before I choose to buy. I used to buy 5 or 10 books at a time just so I wouldn't run out. I'd end up not liking at least 20-30% of them. Wasted money. If you buy a lot of hardbacks as I did, it doesn't take too many clunkers to make it worthwhile. #barnesandnoblesreader
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10/14/09
This E-ink + touchscreen LCD combination is not user friendly. I want to select and highlight text, collaborate on text and select words and things directly. That backlit color touchscreen is going to be distracting.
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I was actually (at one point) a relatively close associate with one of the members of the MIT team that invented electronic ink. One of the things he kept going on about during the development process, was that the materials needed to make e-ink displays were not only already plentiful in nigh limitless supply, but were already being used worldwide for the construction of other products that hundreds of millions of people the world over use every day.
To put it in the description that was given to me by several members of the e-ink team, most of the build materials for e-ink cost pennies on the dollar, making e-ink cheap enough to manufacture, that people will be able to wallpaper their homes with the stuff.
Of course all that as a year (or two) before the big multinationals like the Sony Corporation, swooped in with their funding, and subsequent jacking up of the price to license e-ink technology. So much for the e-ink wallpaper I was dreaming of getting.
Interestingly, the e-ink display in a device like Amazon's Kindle, is fundamentally the same e-ink display prototype that I was shown several years ago with very few changes judging by what I can tell.
Anyway, I just thought you should know, e-ink is almost as cheap as regular paper - which was partially the reason for all the excitement for the tech in the first place. So if you are forced into paying an arm and a leg for your next e-ink device, don't blame the tech for the markup, blame all the multinationals who think that anything new should automatically be marked up for the sake of marking it up.
10/14/09
Ebooks ARE the future, but we've got a looong way to go before they can completely overtake the "user friendliness" of actual paper.
10/14/09
I'm a gadget geek, but for now, it doesn't even come close.
10/14/09
1. I can have plenty of books with me and access to more when I want them all in the size of one small book. I'm usually reading more than one book at a time. I easily go through a book per day on vacation.
2. I can get more books immediately when I want them so I don't run out.
3. Because I have a Kindle, I get large free samples (a chapter or often more) downloaded to the device that I can read when I want. I don't buy books until I've read the sample. I used to buy a lot of books I didn't like enough to finish. This alone has paid for the Kindle. I didn't think the Kindle would save me money. I bought it for convenience. This was a surprise. (B&N has samples, too).
4. I have too many bookshelves. They're overloaded with books. I have no more room. I'm also allergic to dust. I can't touch most old books for long before I start sneezing.
10/14/09
Color touchscreen for input sounds like a brilliant compromise, although battery stats are really important to me, so a deeply cut charge-to-charge life may be a deal breaker for me.
Big question: how's the PDF support?
And @kiranator et al, I'm right there with you. If you're not in the market for one of these things, please stop posting long rants about how nobody could possibly find a b & w ereader useful. Not interested? Fine--don't buy one! Very simple.
10/14/09
I also am amused that the sample text on the screen is from Ayn Rand's _The Fountainhead_. That, more than anything, makes it seem like the image has certainly passed through the hands of a nerd.
For those of you who just can't comprehend the use of an ereader... just shut up, okay? Fine, I get it, you're not part of the market segment. But a lot of people are. I can't conceive of paying $60 / month for cable TV, but not everyone is like me, eh? Every ebook related post or forum has around 10 - 15% of posts blathering that they just don't understand why *anyone* would buy one of these. Clearly enough people are that it's considered at least a niche gadget by manufacturers, and these days producing the digital format is so easy that there's practically no reason for publishers NOT to offer one. So stop lowering my signal-to-noise ratio, eh?
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