Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With New E-Reader Platform Blio
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Why do people continue to believe that this is a feature rather than an annoyance?
The fact is that different devices, having different sizes, resolutions, brightness, etc., all provide different experiences for reading. Forcing us to consume the document in the same manner despite the strengths and weaknesses of the device is torture.
For example, I do my ebook reading on a PocketPC. It's got good resolution at VGA, but with a 4" screen, trying to faithfully reproduce two-column text as shown in the OP is just absurd.
Similarly, I can't fathom why we want to preserve pagination. The reader software I use allows either smooth continuous scrolling or half-page-at-a-time, which I prefer. It allows me to maintain continuity without having to remember back to the last words of the previous page after turning pages.
One of my most common uses is the same as yours, reading at night without disturbing my wife. I find that light-over-dark is much easier on the eyes when viewing in the dark.
Bad idea. 6 months is a lot of reading he's losing.
I sympathize with his point of view. The smartphone market, the netbooks, the tablets, are all changing so fast that you have to settle for second best if you want to get in.
For me, cell internet access was such a big draw I couldn't stay away from the phone eventually.
Iphone Original and 3g. The original was good but with 3G Apple reached a point of equilibrium where it is safe to say that waiting 6 months to a year for the next iphone won't give you hugely superior product. (Maybe a free firmware update to a better software)
But ereader market is not very matured, until recently it was dominated by sony, who didn't care much about innovation - because there was no major competition. With big players like Amazon - B&N - Apple entering the market, just now, it will initiate some major changes/improvements in a very short time. Which is why the perfect time to buy an e-reader in my opinion is at the end of this year.
Personally I read a lot on my macbook, which I think is a great indoor reading device.
Perhaps not, unless he's reading on a cell phone. You read a lot more with a dedicated device. I find myself pulling out my kindle & losing myself in a book whenever there's any down time.
It just means carrying around a paperback.
I see why you might read much more by carrying around a Kindle rather than a phone. I'll give you that. But I'm not the target market for the Kindle, because I am willing to check out a book from the library and carry it around instead.
Like I've been running through lots of academic papers recently. I just loaded the empirical bayes paper from the front page & I plan on reading a few pages before I sleep. Tomorrow I'll compare it with the dozen other texts I have on the kindle.
Also, the idea that it's not using e-ink is not a selling point; I don't want to read lots of content off a backlit screen with (if mobile) comparatively lousy battery life.