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So I've put magazine articles, online newsletters, etc., on the device and it's been great.<br /><br />I'm going to miss lending books to others, and "bookmarking" things you've read seems to be a little bit complicated. Multimedia doesn't do well on an e-ink device like a Kindle, at least right now. I'd love it if it had a touchscreen (using the arrow keys to get to footnotes is clunky--don't try reading Bill Simmons or David Foster Wallace, whatever you do).<br /><br />Also, ebooks. I'm antihyphen.Jaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953654.post-12035867076766064452010-01-28T18:56:58.000-05:002010-01-28T18:56:58.000-05:00So, the difference between your local library and ...So, the difference between your local library and Napster is . . . ?<br /><br />Snark aside, I think this is one of the (many) real issues that need to be resolved as books become digital. I don't believe piracy loss is even close to the RIAA estimates for the music industry, but it's easy to see the problem if people start downloading best-sellers directly from www.library.phila.gov or www.nypl.org. Libraries would either have to pay for their users, or introduce some delay before books are available.<br /><br />FWIW, I'd be willing to accept much more stringent DRM if it brought costs down. Restrict my eBook to my specific device or CPU, but let me share the savings because a tree didn't have to die in the process. (From what I can tell, Kindle prices are higher than paperback prices; that just seems wrong.)alex s.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953654.post-86127018498183306642010-01-28T17:29:41.000-05:002010-01-28T17:29:41.000-05:00of course the killer children's e-book will be...of course the killer children's e-book will be when AI is intelligent enough to produce "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer."bill.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953654.post-24719958172136839052010-01-28T15:36:15.000-05:002010-01-28T15:36:15.000-05:00Books fall into two categories for me: Books I lik...Books fall into two categories for me: Books I like to own, and which I will pay extra for the copy to put on the shelf, and all other books, which I use the library for. As someone upstream mentioned, how often do you reread a book? I try and limit the physical books I buy, because I am cheap and because I have limited shelf space. For me, the library is a perfect solution - free, close-to-unlimited access to whatever I want to read. I get the travel argument, because I too read quickly and take multiple books on trips, and if I was a heavy traveler I'd probably go digital. But as it is an e-reader of any stripe holds very little appeal.Tosy and Coshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953654.post-20821453509700332672010-01-28T13:38:28.000-05:002010-01-28T13:38:28.000-05:001. E-books.
2. HD-DVD. I still think the backlit...1. E-books.<br /><br />2. HD-DVD. I still think the backlit screens are a concern -- People are going to get a case of iStrain.<br /><br />3. The price point is already set at 12.99-14.99, right? Right there, I'm buying my ebooks from Amazon at 9.99, even if I have an iPad. Which, by the way, is the worst branding since Unobtainium.<br /><br />4. Can't say. I will admit that this is a thing I do not know.<br /><br />5-6. I think the only danger here is if the publishers don't get on board, which they have for the most part, so the point is moot. The big meltdown with MP3s was that the RIAA became more obsessed with stopping the technology than growing into it, making hackers out of ordinary end-users. <br /><br />7. Children's publishing is, to me, the unkillable thing. The pop-up books, the oversized volumes -- I think there's something valuable we lose when we eschew the physical format. Little Golden Books, I could see going the way of the dodo, but something like Goodnight, Moon needs to stay as it is.Paul Tabachnecknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953654.post-28519641750440394052010-01-28T12:20:06.000-05:002010-01-28T12:20:06.000-05:00ALOTT5MA fave Felicia Day tipped me to that idea. ...ALOTT5MA fave Felicia Day tipped me to that idea. And I actually didn't buy my Kindle either (it was abirthday gift) and I probably wouldn't have bought it (because not quite enough value for the cost yet) BUT I do love it, and I did name it Dolores. And she is my constant companion (also sometimes use the read aloud feature to have it read me the New Yorker at work like a podcast).Heather Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953654.post-4156248126175908272010-01-28T10:44:07.000-05:002010-01-28T10:44:07.000-05:00Another Amazon Prime user and giant fan here. I u...Another Amazon Prime user and giant fan here. I use it all the time, and everything arrives very quickly (no UPS problems, ever). <br /><br />E-books don't work for me in current form, because there's too much of a flash when the page is turned - it's a migraine trigger. Plus I love the tactile book, and I loan books to friends all the time.<br /><br />Marsha, I read books while I do some other things - toothbrushing, getting dressed, etc. Not the same as music, and obviously doesn't work for anything mobile, so your essential point is right.Genevievenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953654.post-60794036381905768292010-01-28T10:36:44.000-05:002010-01-28T10:36:44.000-05:00Never really thought about the "embarrassing ...Never really thought about the "embarrassing book" factor. Brilliant. (Does that solve Isaac's porn argument? Probably not.)<br /><br />I should note, for the record, that I didn't buy a Kindle, and that technically, my Kindle isn't even mine. It was a gift to my husband, who is much less interested in it than I am. So I snagged it. I doubt I'd have bought one for myself, but I do like having it. It'll be a long time before it replaces books for me (especially because I also try to use the library) but it's kind of like having a CD player at home and in the car, plus iPod and iTunes and music on my phone. Lots of ways to enjoy similar things.Marshanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953654.post-79513667957243887042010-01-28T10:13:15.000-05:002010-01-28T10:13:15.000-05:00I love my ebooks and my book-books and my local li...I love my ebooks and my book-books and my local library, and when I got a Kindle last summer it just became another tool for me to love books and reading.<br /><br />For books I cherish and read the cover off or force everyone I know to read, I definitely buy a physical copy. Sometimes I met this book through the Chicago Public Library which I hit up at least once a month. However these books require me to carry a much bigger heavier bag around on Public Transit.<br /><br />My Kindle has been brought into the fold (and often is in my purse right next to a physical book) for a variety of reasons.<br /><br />1) I am an actor with a group here in Chicago that does original works. Sending the 75pg manuscript to the Kindle and bookmarking my scenes is a WAY more manageable way to tote that around and I can add notes and blocking to it in the form of notes (although would like to chat with amazon about making that function a little more user friendly). Plus I can do this at $0.15 a manuscript instantly of for free from my computer with the cable.<br /><br />2) I read books fast. On a two hour flight with 45 minutes of pre-board wait time and a good 30 minutes to an hour in a cab or on the train. That is at minimum one whole book (unless I am reading a mammoth book). Add in more flights, layovers, delays and anytime on the vacation where I might want to read and we are talking me bringing three to four books on any trip just in case. Or the Kindle and 80 books (what is on it right now). This is my FAVORITE aspect of the Kindle.<br /><br />3) I think we can't overestimate how much easier it is to read embarassing books out in public on the Kindle. Would I have read any Twilight novels on the bus without it probably not (now would that have been a better life choice? YES)? The same goes for trashy romance novels, fantasy, sci-fi and other genre type books that seem to make the covers as embarassing as possible for people to read in publc. And yes I read them sometimes, just like most of the time I try to eat healthy (ish) but that doesn't stop me from eating nachos at the ballpark or the occasional candy bar. <br /><br />Although I also have the Kindle app on my itouch which means no matter where I am, my favorite book (Pride and Prejudice) and all of William Shakespeare are with me too. In my pocket. 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If the same product were available locally, in hardcopy CD form at a similar price, a bricks and mortar store would be my first choice, but often I can't find what I want in a bricks and mortar store.<br /><br /><br />The same thing happens with books. When buying books, I've been fortunate enough to live close to the Harvard Coop, Tatnuck Booksellers and Jabberwocky, so sourcing books is not usually an issue. But if there was a title only available electronically or in NYC, I absolutely would buy it electronically, even though I prefer buying and reading books in an oldstyle paper form. The capability to get any title I wanted would be the thing that would push me toward a Kindle or iPad or other ebook platform. Even then, if it were a book I cherished, I would still try to find a paper version of it. There's something about the physical book,...knowing how far in and where on the page favorite passages are....something I can't get from the electronic version of a book. I guess that shows that literature is more than a collection of words strung together - reading a book on Kindle is comparable to reading a newspaper online....you get most of the content but the experience is very different.<br /><br />The multi-media addition to books just confuses me...I want to experience the book the author imagined...if suddenly a bunch of multi-media stuff gloms on to a novel, it might add to my experience some ways, but distract from my experience in others. (the way metadata and pop-ups takes away from my experience reading articles online...it may provide more information ,but it can be incredibly annoying. 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