Reply to: Colour e-readers coming soon

[d000hg]

Base iPad is 4X as expensive as base Kindle, and hurts your eyes.

[milanbenes]

An IPAD doesn't fit in your pocket.
And the Kindle is meant for intelligent readers, you know the kind who read long books with big words and complex ideas in them. So its not for you really.

HTH

thank you Sas,




I must admit, I'm a 'synopsis' man myself


Bunk,

thank you,

Milan.

[sasguru]

I gotta say folks,

I don't really 'get' this e-reader Kindle crap stuff

What I don't get is...

why to buy some black and white e-reader crap, why not buy a IPAD and have everything and read pdf versions of books ?

where does the e-reader fit in ?

and from what I see they ain't cheap neither


it's kind of an oxymoron, in 2011, to read a headline that 'Kindle' is going to come out in colour - wow woopee doo

if I was in the market for something like that i'd get a IPAD.

Milan.

An IPAD doesn't fit in your pocket.
And the Kindle is meant for intelligent readers, you know the kind who read long books with big words and complex ideas in them. So its not for you really.

HTH

[Bunk]

it's kind of an oxymoron, in 2011, to read a headline that 'Kindle' is going to come out in colour - wow woopee doo

I think you mean an anachronism

Bunk.

[sasguru]

Santa (well Mrs sas) was kind enough to give me a Kindle this Christmas.
If you are a serious reader, its well worth it.
It fits in my coat breast pocket, one charge lasts for days, with the 3G version you can get a book instantly 365/24/7.
The display is great and easy on the eye.

The only disadvantages I have found:

1. Reading pdfs with 2 columns per page is not that great. You have to resize the screen, then scrolling across is a pain.
I haven't managed to find a comfortable way of doing this yet

2. Maths symbols don't format correctly sometimes. Not sure if this an instrinsic problem with the Kindle standard or simply a bad implementation in these particular cases.

But if you read "normal" books regularly, it's a must have.

[milanbenes]

BBC News - Colour e-readers set for 2011 release

Color and Video for Amazon's Kindle E-Book Reader? - PCWorld

I gotta say folks,

I don't really 'get' this e-reader Kindle crap stuff

What I don't get is...

why to buy some black and white e-reader crap, why not buy a IPAD and have everything and read pdf versions of books ?

where does the e-reader fit in ?

and from what I see they ain't cheap neither


it's kind of an oxymoron, in 2011, to read a headline that 'Kindle' is going to come out in colour - wow woopee doo

if I was in the market for something like that i'd get a IPAD.

Milan.

[minestrone]

I only really read when I am on holiday ( I just never have the time )

A kindle would lighten my bag load massively

[d000hg]

I'm always surprised how quickly non-techy people are interested within moments of seeing the Kindle, about the way the screen looks. Typical response "ooh, it's like looking at a book!"

[Lockhouse]

I always thought the same, I dislike reading on a PC screen. But I find my Kindle remarkably easy to read and tend to forget I'm reading an e-book.

Me too. I like mine a lot.

[NickFitz]

Can you download PDF files onto them, or are they restricted to chargeable/encrypted ebooks?

PDF and other formats that have been mentioned - and there are shedloads of free books, either out-of-copyright at Project Gutenberg and similar repositories, or newly-created such as this collection of shared knowledge from Stack Overflow's (Creative Commons licensed) content pool.

[d000hg]

Not only PDF but .doc and even .docx, and they'll even convert to a more conveniently formatted Kindle doc - you email the file to your kindle and it happens by magic.

[AtW]

Can you download PDF files onto them, or are they restricted to chargeable/encrypted ebooks?

I think they work with PDF, but you'd better make sure that your particular model does.

[OwlHoot]

Amazon sells cheap digital books for those devices.

They are also cheap devices.

Can you download PDF files onto them, or are they restricted to chargeable/encrypted ebooks?

[d000hg]

In which case I suppose the average CUKker is target market for colour e-readers

[RichardCranium]

It wasn't long ago that newspapers were black and white, apart from the odd page. The change to colour started in the mid 1980s in the UK according to the Wiki, with the majority of newspapers still mostly black and white today.

Whether you want colour in your newspaper depends upon whether you buy it for the news, or the pictures.