The new AmazonĀ Kindle2.0 was unveiled today at a New York press conference. While I’m in the camp that has recoiled in the past at the idea of curling up with a Kindle, the new version of the e-reader device is undeniably more appealing than the first — slimmer, sleeker design, better graphics, more storage, stronger battery, and with a new audio feature. Read a bit more at The Wrap.














Thank you for this one. Amazon has me in mind with their sales strategies.
Web Van was going to begin with groceries, establish a market, and then move on to books.
Web Van came to my door, and I stopped having to throw away unused food. They expanded too fast and went bust. However, during the few years that I shopped with them, I had stopped shopping in grocery stores, gift shops, and drugstores.
Of course I read 50 books or more a year, not counting the books on tape that I listen to when I want to create something with my hands. So Amazon is my supplier. I go to bookstores, sometimes. My purchases are made on Amazon.
I was not interested in Kindle, til I saw this! It can read to me while I’m doing something else? Most people that I know have cameras that cost more than this new device, and they rarely take pictures.
I bought my camera in 1984. I still use it, but it is big and awkward. It just takes great pictures.
The kindle may be my next important purchase. Amazon does have one buyer figured out, and that’s me. Unlike the years that I waited to buy a PC, I won’t wait for the price to go down. This is a lot better than a book bag!
I agree that the new read-aloud feature is a draw, but aside from that, the Kindle doesn’t have much appeal to me — there’s something about curling up with an actual book and physically turning the pages that I don’t want to lose. Reading from an electronic device just isn’t the same.
Have you ever curled up with a very large and heavy book? Or a small paperback that had type-face that was small or poorly spaced and difficult to read? Or perhaps you began a story, printed in an airline periodical or The New Yorker magazine….and within minutes, you were so completely lost in the words, the images, the ideas, the thoughts of the characters, the descriptions of the setting, that you were no longer completely aware of the place where you were sitting , the position your arm was resting in, or even the weight of the book that you were holding? When I am reading, and I am enchanted or absorbed by the text, I could be reading from a piece of cardboard, and I wouldn’t actually be fully aware of it.
I am beginning to believe that a Kindle 2 may provide that same experience that I enjoy so much, without requiring me to clutter my space with books that I know I want to read again…….I read many favorites over and over again…I don’t have enough bookshelves,now, for the books that I plan to pass on to a friend or that I will read again, someday.( I don’t want to describe the newspapers that I am saving to read just this week!)
I am not someone who gets excited about electronic devices per say. My cell phone, which I like to spell, ‘cel’, is just something I like to use for ordering take-out while I am away from the house. Sometimes, I can hear it ringing, somewhere, but I don’t really want to be available 24/7 to everyone I know, so I rarely answer it. Returning calls, when I am not busy, is ok with me. But , I think I can get on board with a gadget that allows me to take a hundred books or so with me—everywhere! I love to take books with me…just in case I get a few dull minutes that I can fill up with reading!
I just could be the first in my family, even in my extended family, to aquire a Kindle 2! Thanks for the idea. The picture of the Kindle 2 next to the pencil looked like the future to me.
it’s easy to imagine the Kindle being combined with the functionality of a cell phone, PDA and mp3 player to make an all-in-one gadget