The Amazon Kindle - Very Good At What It Does
One of the big things in the personal electronics market these days is “fusion” products - devices which do more than one thing. The iPod is a very good example. It’s a phone and it plays mp3 music files. You can play games on it, surf the web on it and even read Kindle e-books on it. Multi-function is very much the way to go it seems.
On the other hand, I simply love my amazon kindle e-book reader and - I suppose this makes me a bit weird - I don’t really want to do anything with it but read, and buy, books. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest that I can’t surf the web with it (I live in hte UK). As long as I can access the Amazon store and buy and download books I’m quite happy.
Neither does it bother me that the display is black and white (black and grey-ish I suppose). Most of the books that I read have black text printed on a white background. It’s a perfectly normal situation for 99% of my reading. A monochrome reading experience is a price well worth paying for the ability to read on an e-ink display rather than a back-lit LCD monitor which will, after a while, cause eye strain and give you a headache.
The idea of multi-tasking devices is great, especially if you travel a lot. The less you have to carry with you the better I suppose. On the other hand, who wants a device that is a “jack of all trades” - and master of none?
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