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Paper? That's like a baby's toy! [eReaders]
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Admittedly nothing, and I say that as a Nook owner, but I certainly don't regret my purchase last summer, because how else was I supposed to read all those free ebooks from the library?
B&N will really need to step up their game now. What could they possibly offer that Amazon doesn't/couldn't?
I'm hoping it's a hell of a reveal too. Competition between these two drove massive improvements in the Kindle, and dropped the price by $200. But things have been stale for a while now, and the competition could use a kick in the pants.
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e: Also, the colours can hardly be described as vibrant.
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It's not. At all.
Colour e-ink is a real challenge. You end up having to layer four e-ink screens (so one black, and then one each for RGB), and then you can't really mix colours. I've seen bits and pieces of prototype tech, and while it's interesting and impressive, it's just not close to viable in a product.
I think the real challenge of the technology is the refresh speed on the existing monotone screens. Getting that an order of magnitude lower would really change the potential uses of the devices.
+1. I would have bought a Kindle 20 years ago if the idea of getting one in a size I actually want at a price I would actually pay wasn't a constant hope.
And I'm really annoyed by the same thing. It's like, come on, make a Kindle DX 2 already! It would be cheaper for me to buy 3 ad supported Kindles and duct tape them together than it would be to buy a Kindle DX. That's ridiculous.
Main reason why I'm happy I picked the kindle over nook, really
well that and the pearl e-ink screen
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Awesome. I knew there had to be something and of course it was right there in front of me.
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pretty good deal, though for 20 bucks more you can get the new kindle with deals
An example of the kind of coupons they send (these deals have expired):
$10 for $20 Amazon.com Gift Card
$1 for an album in the Amazon MP3 Store (choose from over 1 million albums)
$10 for $30 of products in the Amazon Denim Shop or Amazon Swim Shop
Free $100 Amazon.com Gift Card when you get an Amazon Rewards Visa Card (normally $30)
Buy one of 30 Kindle bestsellers with your Visa card and get $10 Amazon.com credit
50% off Roku Streaming Player (normally $99)
http://www.kobobooks.com/touch
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/23/dnp-kobo-unbuttons-for-129-ereader-touch-edition-we-go-hands/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJbMEEtnFwQ
Wow! The Engadget article has a real usage video, as opposed to the slick PR. I was impressed with how well the touchscreen worked in real life. And the redraw rate is really, really impressive. Touch-dragging a zoomed-in PDF had surprisingly little lag. I had been under the impression that the redraw speed of eInk was a result of the technology, not the slow processors employed... interesting.
I'm plenty happy with my Kindle 3, for now... but this is the first thing that's sold me on touch-based eInk. Very cool.
Edit: oooh, and the touch tech is actually infrared-based stuff built into the bezel, rather than a screen layer... so zero effect on screen clarity. And the screen is Pearl, of course.
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I have to wonder what the dude was thinking filming that on a table with a glass, reflective surface though.
As a current Kobo owner, I was wondering what the next step would be for them, and I'm glad to see they are stepping up.
Edit: Wow, Kobo Touch comes out in JUne, will cost $20 less than my second gen Kobo did at Christmas time. And the 2nd gen is price dropped.
If you want to play video on a device, then the device you're looking for isn't an eReader
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/features/index.asp
Has a lot of nice features, but also has page turn buttons. Makes me slightly regret buying the kindle 3 last week, but touchscreen on an e-book reader is not a dealbreaker for me just yet.
I imagine the next Kindle announcement will be incoming in a few weeks.
The faster page turn sounds nice, with less screen flash. I half expect the next eInk kindle to have Android on it, along with a LCD Tablet media device.
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I wouldn't count on it. Kindle 3 hasn't even been out a year yet. A price drop is a lot more likely.
problem with multi-column pdfs is that you have to scroll down and back up, a page is usually 3 kindle screens when viewed in this orientation. I don't like to print all my papers and when reading on a computer screen I'm easily distracted so this works nice for me.
Don't get the same nice result for presentation slides unfortunately as those often have a lot of white margins, causing the text inside to appear small in fit to width. An automatic solution to cut the whitespace and only zoom in on the content portion would be nice.