Amazon have been promoting their Kindle to be THE eBook reader that everyone should have. This may not happen, though Amazon are really going out to show the kindle is way ahead of the other eBook readers.
The size and weight of the Kindle is certainly something they can be proud of. It is 5.3 inches x 7.5 inches and weighs in at only 8.7 ounces. Small and compact, you can take it anywhere and use it anywhere. The battery life of the Kindle is quite lengthy, it has a reading capability of up to 2 weeks without using the WI-FI and 10 days with the WIFI active. Charging of the Kindle can also be done quite fast so without waiting too long you can be up and running again.
The Kindle also has the E-Ink which is a nice feature. It is said to mimic the reading of a real book and is keeping it’s word with that. For those of you who have trouble reading eBooks on an LCD screen for a long period of time, E-Ink is the solution.
There is a small downside to the Kindle and that is it’s lack of colour support. Everything will appear in black, white and shades of grey, this could be a setback for those of you that want to view anything colourful on the Kindle.
Flipping through pages was a minor drawback of the previous version of the Kindle and it was also quite slow. The touch screen function was not very good and could interfere with the reading of your book. The new version now has a solution with buttons on the side that are there to make the page turning function more user friendly and is built with comfort in mind.
You can surf the internet on the Kindle with it’s built in WI-FI capability, but due to the lack of colour support the pages will only display in monochrome. This can be a downside to the Kindle and sometimes you wonder if it would have been better off without it’s support for WI-FI.
The internal memory has a storage capability of up to 3500 eBooks so you won’t find yourself having to remove older books in order to download new ones. Apps are also available to enable you to read a Kindle eBook on the iPhone or PC.
Besides reading your eBooks and (if you really need to) surfing the internet, there is not much more you can do with the Kindle. Amazon have not yet introduced any kind of open standard so there will be no apps within it. 3rd party applications should be introduced in the near future but given the specifications and restrictions the amount of apps is going to be small.
Most of the books you read will have Digital Rights Management (DRM) on them. Some of you might remember the scene Amazon caused when they automatically deleted a book banned from Amazon from every single Kindle that bought that book. So there is a small issue with privacy and what Amazon can do to your books inside Kindle.
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