Entries Tagged as 'Opinion'

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Kindle 3 Approaching?

There are all sorts of rumors lately, about Amazon possibly releasing the Kindle 3 (or Kindle Student) any day. Even the a writer at the Wall Street Journal recently wrote about the impending release of a larger format Kindle (ideal for newspaper reading).
If this is true, those of us who purchased the Kindle 2 only [...]

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Book Cover Delight

You know, one of the things that bugs me with the Kindle (yes, there are a few things) is that it removes the artistic value of publications. Specifically, you miss out on a few characteristics:

Paper type and quality
The smell of dead trees aged by their siblings in a book store
The binding of the pages
The physical [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Kindle 2 First Impressions

I’ve spent about 28 hours with the Kindle 2 in hand. I have had a chance for my peers to take a look at the device, and while they’ve been enthusiastic about asking “is that the Kindle 2?”, no one really wants to sit down and play with it. When asked why they’re not so [...]