Ebook news!

[rhienelleth]

Amazon announces the new Kindle DX large screen, especially suited for e-textbooks and the like. I'll stick with my Kindle, but if I were still in college, you betcha.

In other interesting e-reader news, Apple and Verizon are developing something that could be touted as Apple's "ebook reader". (And they also may have an iPhone deal sooner than

Comments

[sabaceanbabe]

I think I may have to put a Kindle down on my Christmas wish list for this year.

[rhienelleth]

I never thought I would love mine as much as I do. I am disappointed now when a book is not available on it.

[peartreealley]

I may or may not have been considering getting Kindle versions of some of the books still on my TBR piles of paper books. _>

And I may or may not have brought digital copies of some of my favorite reference books (come on, Bullfinch's Mythology that doesn't weigh 20 pounds?).

[rhienelleth]

I know! It is just so easy and convenient. :) And searchable! Bullfinch's mythology would be great to have on kindle.

[peartreealley]

I have an iPhone and a Kindle. I love both to bits, but I'll keep reading on my Kindle, thanks.

[peri_peteia]

Clearly, these people have never tried an electronic ink screen for any definitive length of time.

Or maybe they just don't want to pay $350+ for yet another boondoggle so they make do with what they have?

I've fought again and again with getting a Kindle (or rather a Kindle 2 at this point), but I can never manage to convince myself that it is useful or cost-effective enough to warrant it! Like I wouldn't say no if someone bought me one, but I still do not see myself ever buying it...myself.

Of course, I don't read on my iPhone either (except fanfic sometimes) because I will always be biased towards actual physical books.

[peartreealley]

Cost effective the Kindle is not. Much like the iPhone, it's a luxury device. I suppose once you've bought 300 books or so the savings from hardcover cost might pay for the Kindle (or the lack of need to buy another bookcase

[rhienelleth]

ITA. After I got my iPod, I thought "I am so never doing without one of these again." I have a very similar reaction to the Kindle. And since I've had mine, my husband (who was even more committed to his paper books than I was mine), two of my friends, and my Mom have all gotten them. My sister recently borrowed my Mom's to read two books, so my money's on her as the next convert.

The convenience and ease of long reading and traveling with multiple books is truly fantastic.

[peri_peteia]

I completely understand that it's a luxury item. That's why I called it a boondoggle. Indeed, the entire point of my original comment was that its luxury item status was far more likely to be the reason behind people choosing to read on their iPods/iPhones than a lack of belief in/experience with ~*~the wonders of the Kindle~*~.

For me, with my ridiculous tech-whore items, I need it to be either useful or (relatively) cost-effective, just in the interest of my not being COMPLETELY eaten by consumerism. The Kindle does not feel like enough of either to me! And if I did not have these rules, I would basically run around buying everything!

So, yeah. No Kindle for me until either someone else buys me one or I can convince myself that I would ever use it outside of when I am like traveling/away from home.