Comments on: Amazon's Kindle Makes Buying E-Books Easy, Reading Them Hard

By: Walt Mossberg: Color e-Books, Kindle II

Walt Mossberg: Color e-Books, Kindle II — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:46:42 +0000

[...] issues. “They understand what they need to do to improve it,” he said. [In his Nov. 289, 2007 review of the Kindle, concluded: “Amazon has nailed the electronic-book shopping experience. But it has a lot to learn [...]

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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:04:12 +0000

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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:52:27 +0000

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By: Un-Boxing and Getting Started with Amazon’s Kindle | Moviefanboy

Un-Boxing and Getting Started with Amazon’s Kindle | Moviefanboy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:46:48 +0000

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By: Sarasin Booppanon

Sarasin Booppanon — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:39:46 +0000

As a maker of devices that turn printed books into PDFs (http://www.atiz.com),
we advocate Amazon make Kindle better able to open adopt standard formats such as PDFs rather than promoting proprietary format, which would ultimately fail.

Can you think of any MP3 player that can’t play an MP3 file? It would just tank.

http://www.atiz.com

By: Walt Mossberg on the Kindle | Blog Kindle: Introducing Amazon Kindle

Walt Mossberg on the Kindle | Blog Kindle: Introducing Amazon Kindle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:07:14 +0000

[...] AllThingsD. Walt Mossberg, who is the principal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, reviewed Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader last month. Now this was surprising slow out of the gate for [...]

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Transnets » Blog Archive » Kindle à 1.500$ sur eBay — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:47:37 +0000

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By: Charlie Brenner

Charlie Brenner — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:28:16 +0000

While I agree with all of Walt’s criticisms, for me the Kindle is worth buying. The fundamental question is, “Can you forget about the device and have a true reading experience?” The answer is yes. And, ordering a book on impulse without the PC sync process is wonderful.

That said, it’s hard to understand what went on during the reportedly extended beta test period for Kindle. Didn’t anyone notice blatant flaws like the inadvertent page-turning and the cover that falls off?

One unsettling experience: I complained about a book with unreadable text in charts [Text within images cannot be zoomed.] I didn’t ask for a refund, but Amazon responded by erasing the book from my Kindle and giving me a refund. So the online feature is a two-way street: Amazon can manipulate your Kindle’s content any time they want, without notice or permission!

By: R. A. Wilson

R. A. Wilson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:23:59 +0000

“There is no way to email friends …”

Doesn’t the Kindle include an “experimental” web browser? Can’t you use this browser to send email via Gmail or other web mail?

I’d love to hear more about the web browsing experience using the Kindle. If web mail works great with the Kindle, then you could use it to do simple unlimited email anywhere there is cell phone service, without having to pay any monthly fee. Compare this to typical $50-60/month unlimited data plans required to do the same thing with your cell phone or iPhone.

By: John Knight

John Knight — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:59:02 +0000

Travelling abroad coupla times a month, the roll-on gets rapidly jammed with paperbacks – so I do need this ugly gizmo and would readily pay the $$. The fatal flaw your review misses is that it’s a brick outside the US. You can’t get new books, newspapers or mags anywhere in Europe or Asia. Here in Oz we have abandoned CDMA/EDVO for GSM/EDGE – like most places I visit, in fact. Amazon surely sees itself as a global player, with stores in UK, France, Germany, Japan – so why exclude the 6 billion odd potential customers who would welcome a multiband version? Will wait impatiently for Kindle 2.0 (Kandle?)