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: Kindle: Amazon's Wireless Reading DeviceBrowse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of and Kindle: Amazon's Wireless Reading Device. Rating:  - KindleFantastic sums it up. I can carry this everywhere. No bent pages, water or oil stains from the beach. Late night car trips no longer a problem. And the ease of use is incredible. Best Christmas gift in several years. Rating:  - Broken screen from 2 foot fall on carpetI was thrilled with my kindle for the few days that it worked. Since I read in bed, I kept it on my nightstand. It slipped from the POORLY DESIGNED jacket (velcro, anyone?) fell less than 3 feet and now the screen is like an etch-a-sketch. I called kindle support and was told that they would send me a REFURBISHED kindle for $180- I get someone else's broken product, but they cannot fix mine. I may have to try another company. BAD AMAZON. Rating: - buyer bewareI dropped mine about two feet and it's done. I can't even start a fire with it. Not worth the price. Buy the books and everyone can enjoy them when your done you can trade your book in at a used book store for free. So, save money in this in this Bush era and buys books. Talk to Oprah she will agree to save money. Rating:  - Not Ready for Prime TimeI will read anything, any time and any place. I wanted very much to like the Kindle, but it is simply not a very good device. I really think that it should be viewed as a beta: It has some problems, but it works. I have used my Palm Treo for reading for several years (first a 600, then a 650, a 700, a 750 & now a 755). I really appreciate that it's always in my pocket or on my belt and whenever I have a couple of spare minutes, I can pull it out and read a few pages. The Kindle is just another gadget to carry. It's too large to put in a pocket, the button layout just sucks and I have had serious problems with the device having to be re-set frequently. I finally tracked that down to an improperly formatted book that I had put on it. The battery life is actually quite good, which I expected, since the selling point of e-ink displays is that it only uses power when it updates like turning a page. The greatest part of the Kindle is the ability to buy books from Amazon with just a few clicks. It's like always being in a bookstore, which is dangerous for me as I could quickly run up a huge debt. It uses Verizon's EVDO network for wireless connectivity, which means that you are usually in coverage. The keyboard and User Interface are what makes this a don't buy right now recommendation. A touch screen or a mouse of some sort would really help. The User Interface is confusing and takes some time to get used to. To anyone who uses a computer frequently the cursor bar is confusing, but you quickly get used to it. The keyboard reminds me of a Sinclair Z80, it is very stiff and is difficult to use even though it is a QWERTY layout. Any review of the Kindle would be incomplete without mentioning the fact that it WILL NOT READ PDFs. PDFs have to be converted to be used on the Kindle. This is easily done with the Mobipocket Creator, which is free for download. But it really seems senseless to me that the Kindle won't natively read a PDF. PDF is a standard file format that is used in more and more programs and is accepted everywhere. Lastly, the formats that the Kindle accepts are limited and not commonly used outside of Palm products. It will accept .txt, .prc, .mobi, and Amazon's proprietary .azw formats. The books downloaded from Amazon are locked with Digital Rights Management. I am very disappointed in Amazon in producing a product of this poor design and with as many problems as it has. I will anxiously await Kindle 2.0 and see if they can get it right next time. Rating: - Can't live without my KindleI love my Kindle. I thought I would be one of those people who would miss the feeling of an actual book in my hands but I don't. The Kindle is so amazing - I was prepared to like it but I had no idea how much I would. You have to see it to believe it! |