It’s all a thousand times more convenient and more interesting than the load of books on a PC with a cable, as it should with Sony’s Reader, to catch archrival. As a bonus, the light includes a simple Web browser, a large fast wireless controls Wikipedia and blog reading.
Starting today, there are flame November price from $ 359. Amazon calls flame is 2, but the lights will be 1.1 more than that, the changes are fairly minor. Fortunately, they are exactly what was necessary to make a very good reader in an even better.
Page-turn buttons are now much smaller - and Clicky inward part is on each button - so as not to highlight the page turns just picking the thing up.
Here, square plastic joystick is simple and rigid, but it gets the job. The back is now the brush aluminum. Turning pages on fire in a place more quickly now. The screen displays 16 shades of gray right now, not four, so the pictures look sharper, you can also zoom in and rotate them.
Taking a page from the Apple playbook, new light is a sleeker, more closed as the car. You can not expand storage with a memory card, then again, the built-in memory holds seven times more - 1,500 books. Think you that we will water the weekend?
The battery is also sealed inside, the iPhone. Amazon says, however, that it takes more than 25 percent on fees (for four days of reading the radio on, or two weeks if off). If the battery needs replacing, the Amazon to do this ($ 60).
It will also light read aloud to you, through tiny speakers or stereo headphone Jack, and even in their pages to go.
But if you have visions dancing in your head to transform each card into an audiobook, forget it. To light, male and female voices are very good, but nobody will mistake the voices of people, let alone professionals who record audiobooks. Kindle voices have some special inflections and pronunciations - they sound oddly Norwegian, sometimes - and, of course, they are incapable of expressing emotion. They read Hemingway read the same way Stephen Colbert.
As before, your books, notes and clippings are self-supported on Amazon.com. But now, if you buy more Kindles (Amazon dream), they all remember where you stopped reading each book. (This feature will be more useful if, as hinted to Amazon, you’ll soon be able to read your e-books on other systems, such as laptop or iPhone. And why not? The bait is only razor. The books are lame - ka-Ching!)
Kindle catalog is greater, too, 240,000 books are now available. New York Times Bestsellers are $ 10 each, which is less than the Hardcover edition. Older books run $ 3 to $ 6.
That said, Amazon is still a long way from “any book, any time” goal. No need to look far to find the most important titles, among the missing, and they include all the Harry Potter books, “An inconvenient Truth” in English Patient “and” associate “(the best film No. 1 seller fiction) or anything by John Grisham.
You can have any of 30 newspapers, including this one, beamed wirelessly to your lights each morning ($ 10 to $ 14 per month) - minus the ads, comics and crosswords. Magazines (22 so far, $ 1.50 to $ 3 per month) and blogs ($ 2 per month) can get in automatically, too.
Finally, you can send Word, text, JPEG and PDF documents to light with his private e-mail - a great blessing for publishers, lawyers, professors, script readers and so on - of 10 cents each. Or transfer them to a USB cable for nothing.
So, for a thousand times: this is the end of the printed book?
Do not be silly.
To ignite the usual list of e-book perks: dictionary, text search, bookmarks, clippings, MP3 music playback and six type sizes (baby boomers, appear). No trees died to provide paper for books kindle either.
But, as always emphasize traditionalists, an e-book Reader is a piece of delicate electronics. It can be lost, abandoned or roasted in the bathtub. You should buy a lot of $ 10 best sellers to recover the purchase price. If you go to Amazon or abandons a fire, you lose the whole library. And you can not move to or sell e-books after you read it.
Another group of naysayers argue that the flame missed her window. E-Book programs are thriving on the more portable (and more popular) IPHONES and iPod touch. Of course, smartphones, which already serve as cameras, computers and web browsers, will become the dominant e-book readers, too.
Each missing point is that in Technoland nothing replaces nothing. E-Book readers will not replace books. The iPhone will not replace e-book readers. Everything just splinters. They will all prosper, serving their audience.
With those caveats, the new flame edges even closer to the ideal of an e-book reader. The reading experience is immersive, natural and pleasant, card catalog, while not yet complete, is growing and delivered instantly, and in addition Clicky keyboard (an appendix unnecessarily 99.9 percent of the time), the design is well.
In case of fire kept growing popularity, it may be recalled that the spark that finally ignites mainstream e-books. A day other gadgets can even be described as “Kindleizing” their fields. In this case, “lights” will be the product name, that ever went to a noun to a verb - the verb and back again
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