Amazon's Kindle accessories

[oman]

i have a dx and it's great

 

[ratboycom]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

I looked at the nook. it's got some interesting features but a couple points:

1) amazon is almost always cheapest and if it's not the difference is marginal, so that's not really a selling point imo.
2) The one thing I like about the nook in principle is the touchscreen instead of the keyboard of the kindle. It's nifty and makes for a cleaner layout. That said, kindle 3 has a much better layout than the k2. It's slimmer, lighter, smaller, and not quite so clumsy. The downside of the touchscreen is that it provides a reflective surface for glare. Right now i read off an iphone in the subway and the glare on even a small screen surface can be annoying when you're trying to read. I also am aware that the touchscreen isn't that responsive.
3) LendMe is nice in theory. Apparently you can only lend a book once and for 2 weeks only. Usefulness seems limited but i'd really like to see amazon do something like this. I don't so much care for myself because I like to buy books, but it would be nice to be able to lend to someone.
4) The ability to borrow books is nice too, so that's another point for the nook.

jhva, I'd imagine that it would be a pain **********. You'd constantly be zooming/scrolling. Much better to get a DX if that will be the primary use. I have lots of technical books that i'd love to be able to carry around for easy reading/reference. The DX is pretty tempting but it's too big/heavy for reading comfortably with one hand imo.

Couple good points, and yeah the lendme is a cool idea, but they bonered it by pulling a Zune share esque way of locking it down.

Also, from what I have seen Amazon is very slightly cheaper than B&N but there are a lot of ebook retailers online that blow Amazon out of the water such as:
Books a Million and Addall ebook search.

Another nice feature is the fact that you can read any ebook from B&N for free while you are in the store on their network.
I just got my first eReader, but we will see. Maybe in a year I'll be looking into buying a Nook2.

 

[oman]

i have a DX, it's great. amazon solved my last complaint when last week's patch introduced the ability to organize your docs by folder

 

[Reggs]

Kindle 3 pre-orders just sold out. That was quick.

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by oman

i have a DX, it's great. amazon solved my last complaint when last week's patch introduced the ability to organize your docs by folder

You ended up getting it? What type of reading are you doing with it? Mainly textbooks/pdfs? I keep having the DX/regular debate with myself. Can you now highlight in pdfs on the dx? Apparently kindle3 is supposed to enable highlighting and annotation, but maybe current ones can do it already?

 

[limester816]

Just decided to order one. I'm studying abroad in Chile, and it will be nice to have my books on one device, and be able to read the pdf's professors send me without printing them all out (which I have the luxury to do back at school in Boston). Plus, there are no big english bookstores around here, and I would like to read the occasional book in English. I just have to decide which color case I want for it...

 

[oman]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

You ended up getting it? What type of reading are you doing with it? Mainly textbooks/pdfs? I keep having the DX/regular debate with myself. Can you now highlight in pdfs on the dx? Apparently kindle3 is supposed to enable highlighting and annotation, but maybe current ones can do it already?

sorry pal, i don't think you can highlight pdfs

i don't mind, though. i don't really use the highlight function because i think it would be too annoying - takes a while to navigate, and the last thing i want to do is get bogged down in computer-type functionality on a device i bought purely for reading. that's just me, though

i will need to take notes and stuff eventually, but i plan on just writing stuff in a notebook and marking page numbers so i can reference back and forth at will

 

[Reggs]

I strongly suspect I will get a Kindle 2 tomorrow. The thing was ordered just days before Kindle 3 was announced.

I think I will keep it for a good 6 mo or so, then trade it in for a Kindle 3. Amazon said the Kindle's resale value has always been pretty good, so its no big deal.

Unfortunately the next book I really want to read isn't available on Kindle.