Comments on: New Kindle

By: I’m an ebook convert now

I’m an ebook convert now — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:52:49 +0000

[...] has made it well known that he loves his Kindle and for a while I thought about buying one too. Unfortunately I’ll have to order it from [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:22:12 +0000

The magazines I read are text-heavy, I don’t think I’d enjoy something visually rich like Wired on the Kindle.

By: Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:23:05 +0000

Hi Matt. I just read your essay about SafeBank. Have you read the book The Creature from Jekyll Island? It’s a must read (wherever on whatever) if/when you bring your entrepreneurial sword to the banking world. Check it out on your new Kindle

This being my first comment on your blog, I wanted to let you know I appreciate you and all that you’ve done with WordPress to make the world a better place. I tried to comprehended all the ways WordPress has impacted, improved and changed lives, but after some serious contemplation I realized I was just staring at the wave at the bottom of the page. Alas, I could not begin to imagine all the ways. Thanks my brotha.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:43:24 +0000

I’m cheap. I download to my computer, and then update the Kindle over USB.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:05:37 +0000

It seems that the difference between the iPad and the Kindle is that the first tries to make reading a bit fun as well, with animations and colours in the eBooks.

The Kindle is more a *real paper* kind of experience, as far as I can tell (don’t own one YET).

How is your experience reading magazines on the Kindle? I mean, don’t you miss the “colours”?

By: Lynden

Lynden — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:13:28 +0000

I am considering buying a Knidle, but when I did a few searches on the amazon website, I discovered some new release novels (released April, now August) selling for over $30 (Hardcover $44). Is this a new trend?

By: Rachel Nabors

Rachel Nabors — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:21:48 +0000

My friend Leigh just pre-ordered her Kindle. She is a writer and an avid reader, and she looks forward to using the notation tools. But I tend to read very graphics-intense books, so I’m not so sure a Kindle would help me out. I think an iPad would be a more appropriate solution. But that price tag, yeesh. I guess I’ll just wait a few generations before I can read my PDFs in bed

By: Duane Storey

Duane Storey — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:56:48 +0000

I have the iPad, and I got it primarily because I wanted to test it out as an eBook reader. Like you, it’s something that’s made a noticeable difference in my life, and I find myself reading 2 or 3 books a week lately, when I probably read about 2 books all of last year.

I actually found the iPad native book reader (iBook?) to have a much worse selection than Amazon, so I find myself in the Amazon kindle application on the iPad 99% of the time.

What surprised me though is just how terrible the iPad is to use outdoors. The screen is not only glossy, but it’s actually partially polarized too. That means if you have polarized sunglasses (like I do), the screen basically becomes completely useless. I also only got about 30 minutes of reading up at the lake near my house before it shut down due to overheating. So, not a very good outdoors reading experience.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:20:38 +0000

I feel your pain, though it’s been almost a year since I bought my K2. But word is, if you bought a Kindle within 30 days you can return it and get a new one, and if you’re slightly outside that window, calling Amazon support might help. According to http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20012007-1.html anyway.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:29:03 +0000

I generally use these things 1-2 years before upgrading.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:27:08 +0000

I can’t speak to that myself, I haven’t used that feature much. Maybe someone else here can.

By: Becki M

Becki M — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:28:57 +0000

I want to purchase a new kindle but I got confused on something about it. Does it read standard .PDF files just copied from a PC, or does it have to be in a special format?

By: Shijith T

Shijith T — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:46:25 +0000

As a new product, what is your expectation of lifetime or reliability?

By: Lucia

Lucia — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:34:58 +0000

I didn’t know they ship to The Netherlands, but they do!!!!!! I just ordered one

By: Charleen

Charleen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:51:12 +0000

In the first few days of getting my Kindle (earlier this month), I uploaded 40+ free books and 3 paid books. I’ve already been through three and started on my fourth. If you look, most of the classics are on there for free.

By: Charleen

Charleen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:45:35 +0000

I used the smaller Kindle to read my C++ textbook last night. I like it just fine.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:37:48 +0000

Can you download books from other countries in other languages? I assume there is a French Amazon – could I buy and download French books?

By: Baron

Baron — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:45:55 +0000

How is the Kindle at reading PDF files? So let’s say I bought “Digging Into WordPress,” which I did in PDF format. It’s formatted for 10″x8″ landscape layout.

Yes I can read it on my computer but it would be nice to have it on a separate screen, bookmark things easily, read it on the go and not with the computer.

My concern is the clarity of reading something in a rigid format like a PDF and the fact that DIW is in a horizontal format. Same for 8.5″x11″ PDF documents, how do they look on the Kindle?

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:58:23 +0000

I saw the news of the K3 and had to bite my lip to keep from sobbing, since I have a perfectly fine K2 that isn’t even a year old, and would have had trouble justifying just why I NEED to have the new model.

Luckily my GF understands my gadget lust and offered to buy it for me in return for me giving her the K2. You have to love compromise in a relationship lol.

By: starla

starla — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:18 +0000

First I really like the graphics of this theme. Same theme different graphics? I’m happy to read the Kindle review. Thanks for the link. I will now put it on my wish list.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:39:50 +0000

My government library does audio and pdf book “borrowings” from their website

http://ebooks.library.act.gov.au/E1A78CE2-32CE-46AB-B038-F9B86D4E2D9C/10/312/en/default.htm

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:08:30 +0000

Project Gutenberg offers thousands of out-of-copyright books for free, on the computer or on a handheld device. It’s pretty cool.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:58:28 +0000

No, but I noticed that they do now promote a huge collection of free public domain titles that are available.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:58:00 +0000

Excellent link!

By: Mark Ghosh

Mark Ghosh — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:39 +0000

I bought the DX for just that reason and I really enjoy the larger format. The DX has some annoyances such as the weight and negative battery effect because of the constant auto-rotation (which can be turned off), but all of that is offset for me because of the reading format. I enjoyed it more than my 6″ Kindle 2 and have since sold off the Kindle 2.