Comments on Prose practice: Amazon Kindle 3

Thanks for the feedback on the Kindle, I looked at...

2011-04-05T19:40:30.202+03:00

Thanks for the feedback on the Kindle, I looked at one of those in an airport shop and the screen looks great.

What you say about this device changing your habits and pushing you to read more should make you think though.

Is this just the thrill of the novelty and you are going back soon to two books per year? If this is the case, it would be nice to see a post here like: six months ago I bought a kindle but I'm not really using it anymore because I dont actually read books...

Also, how many books does Amazon sell for the Kindle as opposed to how many are available on paper (from ANY seller). Vinils dies when ALL music was made available in a single format like the CD understandable by ANY reader. MP3 players still havent killed the CD because of this mess of "what you buy here does not play there" and "something is not sold at this online shop". To kill paper books you need (and it might not be sufficient) an established book format (PDF could be the one if adopted universally) that could be read equally well on any bookreader.

Page turning time is a dead turn-off for me. I'...

2011-04-04T12:45:28.947+03:00

Page turning time is a dead turn-off for me. I've been reading books on my Tungsten T3 for quite a long time already and yes -- the screen is small, the battery life is nothing to be proud of, reading in sunlight is a pain, but it does not have that annoying delay when you scroll or turn a page. I'm sticking to my palm until there is something similar and more suitable for book reading than Kindle.

Fanen, you're right that ebooks do not have a ...

2011-04-03T21:11:57.490+03:00

Fanen, you're right that ebooks do not have a secondary market because of DRM. However, you can lend most Kindle books to your friend.

I guess this wave will simply reach the developing world a little later, as usual.

I think you are too quick to pronounce the demise ...

2011-04-03T16:08:03.010+03:00

I think you are too quick to pronounce the demise of the dead-tree book.

Ebooks are a bit of a disadvantage, especially for throwaway books like fiction, because you cannot re-sell or give them away after you're done reading them, but their pricing does not reflect this loss of flexibility enough.

For me, I average up to 3 books a month, and they are all dead-tree.

In March, I bought a good 6 books, 3 of which were pre-owned. I do hope dead-tree books live long and prosper, until ebook readers and their manufacturers recognize that there are people outside of the G-8 that would also like to read books.

Philipp, Amazon charges for 3G delivery of user-pr...

2011-04-02T23:17:23.905+03:00

Philipp, Amazon charges for 3G delivery of user-provided material, but Wifi sync is always free.

I have had a great experience and love my kindle 3...

2011-04-02T22:21:34.966+03:00

I have had a great experience and love my kindle 3, it is true that you read more books with the device than you used to do when purchasing them in the book store. I am not an American either in fact I am an Argentinian, my brother brought me the kindle 3 from the US during a family visit as a gift.

2011-04-02T22:17:26.491+03:00

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Hm, the Amazon web page suggests that delivering a...

2011-04-02T20:41:55.725+03:00

Hm, the Amazon web page suggests that delivering articles to the Kindle via email (which seems to be the transmission method of the Chrome extension) actually costs money. Is this the case on wifi Kindles too, or is that only true for transmission over 3G?