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By: Michael Lomker

Michael Lomker — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:41:28 +0000

RL, do you have many drinks with your dinner? I keep the Kindle in my computer bag — one has an hour of battery life so they serve rather different purposes.

By: Brent Anderson

Brent Anderson — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:49:19 +0000

Based on this review, I broke down a bought a Kindle. With four children, a Honda Odyssey for the wife, and a Mac computer, I have to be like Russ.

By: RL

RL — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:07:33 +0000

My main concern re Kindle is leaving it somewhere. My iPhone, though expensive, fits in my shirt pocket. My book bag or computer bag is too big to forget. I'd know I wasn't carrying it immediately. But I've left books at restaurants before. When I remember and return an hour later, they're usually still there, but not always. And most books I buy don't cost $399.

By: play dumb

play dumb — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:10:11 +0000

I suspect the page number on the kindle e-book may not be exactly same as the hard copy book + with the ability to change fonts/size and such the page numbering will change if you PageDown and yet you are on the same page (does that make sense!?). We have a similar situation for documents with multi form display devices (PCs, mobile phones, PDAs etc.) The page number is a relic of hard copy books, in electronic form a percentile might be better, as in your are 87% through a who-dunit mystery and your anticipation grows as the secret identity is about to be revealed.

playdumb
PS - I have never seen/used the Kindle yet.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:37:29 +0000

Trick to (partially) make up for lack of page numbers: bookmark the first page of each chapter, and the end of the book. In the location status bar (one click up from the bottom with the scroll wheel) you can see where you are in the book, and with respect to bookmarks. Voila! You can now see where you are in the current chapter, and in the whole book.

By: Kent Gatewood

Kent Gatewood — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:21:04 +0000

Curious, when I own a book on a Kindle, what do I actually own? Can I make copies of a few pages for a time when I don't want to put the machine at risk? Can I make a copy of the book to another media in case the Kindle dies?

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:00:38 +0000

unit…it exists..it's mini-usb, and is thankfully becoming more standard. other than that, many companies have chargers where you just purchase an extra tip for this or that device. I think of ratshack's "igo" device….but they haven't quite taken off….usb-mini usb has got to be a better system.

By: Unit

Unit — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:19:39 +0000

There's a business opportunity. Devise universal chargers that can recharge several battery-operated gadgets, easily and simultaneously.

By: JamesFromPittsburgh

JamesFromPittsburgh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:03:48 +0000

I also recently finished my first book on the Kindle (The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb-- which I greatly enjoyed and heard about through your podcast). I also missed page numbers. It makes sense to leave them off, though. After all, the text doesn't "want" to be divided into arbitrary pages. That's a concession to a (now obsolete) technology--namely paper.

The only other thing I really miss is that I can loan my physical books. I'll eventually get over this (hardly anyone ever wants to borrow my books anyway!).

I look forward to reading The Invisible Heart kindle style.

By: shawn

shawn — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:42:33 +0000

josh…it's a tall poppy, isn't it?

…don't be too quick to refer to it as a mini computer, until you actually see the e-ink display. You're not reading an lcd…eye strain really isn't an issue–certainly in no way as it is on a computer.

russ…so, are GMU textbooks for grad students going to be offered on kindle?

By: josh

josh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:40:38 +0000

I wonder, does the Kindle mean that soon people will be illegally downloading books off the internet and then onto their device? (The straight answer may be no, I've never heard of the Kindle in Australia).

It certainly does strike me as odd, though. Reading a book is almost intimate, and somehow lying down in bed before sleep with what is basically a mini-computer just does not the same as with a good book. I spend far too much time as it is staring at a computer screen, and reading is meant to be a form of escapism.

By: vidyohs

vidyohs — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:11:22 +0000

To the list that includes the Buggy whip maker, the traveling knife and scissor sharpener, the carbeurator maker, the record and record player makers, the maker of cassette tape makers, we can now add the poor woe-begone maker of bookmarks.

Oh, I shall miss my book marks.

By: BoscoH

BoscoH — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:54:23 +0000

This is a very interesting observation. We've found with our publishing tool for kids' picture books that we have to number things two different ways: one for printed presentation and another for online presentation. With printed presentation (i.e. a printed book), page numbers make sense because there is a tactile sense of progress. If you're on page 10 and there are a lot more pages on the right than the left, you haven't made a lot of progress. If the stack of pages remaining on the right is thin, you know you're almost done. In electronic form, if you're on page 10, you have no sense of progress. So in electronic presentations, we show "10 of 32" or the like. And since we show page pair spreads, we number the page pairs online, while we number the individual pages in printed form. Needless to say, if the content needs to refer to page numbers, it's difficult. Fortunately, contents and index aren't big things in children's picture books yet!

By: cameron

cameron — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:36:18 +0000

I love my kindle.

I think you should look a little more at reading newspapers and magazines on it. I how found i am reading more of the newspaper now, then i was pre-kindle.

I also would like page numbers. It just doesn't feel right reading without them.

My only problem with it really is the cost of the kindle itself. I find the books prices to be good, but $350 for the Kindle itself is just insane.

By: Ray G

Ray G — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:22:08 +0000

These kinds of things always make me think of that scene in Rollerball where James Caan is trying to find a book, and they're all on computer, and I forget the details, but I seem to remember him being dismayed that there were no more books.

Or something like that. . .