Comments on: Things You Should Know Before You Buy an Amazon Kindle

By: Utah Joe

Utah Joe — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:38:36 +0000

It seems there’s an increasing amount of news about the emergence of the Kindle, but I ride public transportation several times each week and I have yet to see one. Maybe it’ll be a trendy Christmas gift.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:18:09 +0000

I totally see what you are saying as I get frustrated with the hassle of converting my music or movies from my iTunes account. Except I still prefer an iPod over any other listening device my car has an iPod hook up and I will make sure every car from here on out has it as well, and as time goes on I don’t need my music anywhere else besides my iPod, cause I can use it anywhere.

I will say the movies and tv show DRM does bug me with iTunes, but with the Kindle it will probably help me read more books per month or year than I do now and after I read a book it just goes on a shelf so I don’t know that I would mind it that much.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:39:41 +0000

So glad I don’t have TV to have to deal with this crap. Are you seriously considering buying one? This is an utter failure from amazon. If it wasn’t, then you wouldn’t have seen it on amazon.com homepage the last year or so each and every day. If this was $50 I still wouldn’t recommend getting it. You are locking yourself into the DRM (digital rights management). So what your gonna accumlate a $300 book collection and your screwed to move it anywhere but kindle 2.0 and 3.0. Ebook is on multiple platforms and yes it has DRM that is tied to your name and credit card number. But you can reauthorize it on various platforms at least.

Many people are waking up and smelling the roses and many who used to purchase music from itunes now are intelligently choosing Amazon mp3 store as it contains no DRM.

Kindle I thought was cool reading about the feature you can have latest newspapers delivered to you electronically but you must pay for each and every newspaper. My advice is stick to only reference books on portable PDAs such as Dictionaries, Encylopedias, etc. at least for next few years. People buying a kindle today only wish to fancy of what living in the future will be like with ereader. Unfortunately the electronic reading devices haven’t changed much from the Sony ones I saw in Japan in Nipponbashi back in many years ago beyond increase in size, reading clarity and battery life.

By: KetchupDaily

KetchupDaily — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:48:00 +0000

Jagirl,

I actually think the 1.0 version is a good buy and better than the 2.0 version will be. I would actually recommend buying the first one.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:46:59 +0000

Great article. Thanks for the research and also the discount info.

By: Jagirl

Jagirl — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:20 +0000

I just saw the show last night (Tivo) and was so excited to buy that for my mom. I’m gonna think twice now, whether to wait for the 2.0. Thanks for the advice and research!