Kindle reviews by folks who actually have seen one
Posted on 25 November 2007
Amidst all the misinformation about Amazon’s new Kindle electronic book reader, particularly coming from people who have never touched or used it, here’s a list of reviews from the fact-based segment of techdom:
Gizmodo checks Kindle in the bedroom, on an airplane and atop the porcelain throne.
Not quite a home run, just a triple, according to David Pogue.
First impressions of Kindle’s features, from Peter Glaskowsky
Michael Parekh looks past the nitpickers.
Christian Cantrell has one of the more detailed and accurate reviews.
jkOnTheRun uses a Kindle for a few days and critiques the button placement and screen contrast.
And perhaps Platform Agnostic best hit the nail on the head:
It’s quite possible to still love “real” books and benefit from the portability and interactivity offered by an eBook reader like Kindle. They’re not mutually exclusive. Books I plan to share with others or that do not adapt well to the eBook medium (like coffee table books and those with complex illustrations and graphics) I will still buy in “dead tree” format. Books I intend to read and reference and that I’d like to always have with me in a highly readable and accessible format I’ll buy on the Kindle. Best of both worlds.
UPDATE: Robert Scoble absolutely hates his. Is Scoble doing his best Steve Ballmer imitation on this video or what?
UPDATE3: Excellent six-day diary of living with Kindle.
UPDATE4: Josh Taylor TechRepublic took his Kindle on a Thanksgiving vacation to the Caribbean and reports that he’s “fallen in deep like with it.”
P.S. I was going to list some of the worst offenders, too, but why drive up their page rank…
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