[TriLUG] [OT] Kindle jeers? [Was e-mail suckback]

[Glenn Hennessee]

In some sense there's nothing wrong with Kindle. The recent happening 
was that Amazon sold kindle copies of 1984 that it turns out they didn't 
actually have the right to sell. Instead of contacting the purchasers 
and letting them know the situation they just automatically removed the 
book from their kindles. That is a very bad way to do something. They 
have apologized for it but will they do it again? Who knows.

The original Kindle and the Kindle2 will not deal with PDF natively. You 
have to upload the files to Amazon who will convert them to kindle 
format (which actually MobiPocket format) and send them to your kindle. 
There is a $0.10 charge per document for doing this. The Kindle DX will 
read PDF natively so no upload/conversion/charge is incurred.

Apple is rumored to be coming out with a 10 inch iPod touch this fall 
with a bookstore associated with it. Apple of course will neither 
confirm or deny these rumors. The rumored price is $600-$700 which is 
way out of my price range.

I have used a Kindle2 and liked it. I only had it for a week (checked 
out from the NC State Library) and they loaded a book on it for me. It 
remembers where you left off reading. Someday I will get an eBook 
reader. It may or may not be a Kindle.
glenn


Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> This recent thread and the mention of Kindle has given me a good setup to
> ask -- what's bad about Kindle?  I was thinking about getting one of the 2G
> models, with their nice slimness and ability to read any TXT or PDF file.
> The implication just now is that Amazon can make unreadble a book you've
> paid for after the fact.  Is that true?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
>
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Glenn Hennessee
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