Comments on: 24 hours with an Amazon Kindle 3 – a quick review

By: A nifty old-world Kindle case - James Cridland

A nifty old-world Kindle case - James Cridland — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:12:50 +0000

[...] wishing me to write about things, and GearZap was no exception. Noticing my (quite popular) Kindle review, and accompanying disappointment at The Times on my Kindle, they contacted me wondering whether [...]

By: The Times on Kindle disappoints - James Cridland

The Times on Kindle disappoints - James Cridland — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:42:20 +0000

[...] Kindle Edition, a copy of The Times specifically created for Amazon’s small and well-formed e-book reader. Looking forward to some reading for later, I clicked the link to buy a copy of the newspaper, and [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:20:49 +0000

I don’t understand this “luddite” response from people. If you love to read, love the operative word here, then you do what you can to read as much as possible. This K3 is amazing. I am an English teacher, of course I love paper, but I can now have hundreds or even thousands of books in a device that weighs 8 ounces! Come on, how is that bad? And don’t worry about the purchases, if your kindle is stolen, tell Amazon and they shut it down, the “stealer” cannot use it or purchase on it. As for me, I have had 0 crashes and have mostly “bought” free books, hundreds of them, and paid .89 or .99 for complete collections of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde etc. I mean come on now! I was sitting in my car the other day and thought about reading Walden, so I had it downloaded in seconds and was reading, for free! All while sitting in a car waiting for my daughter to finish school for the day. Unless you care to drive a truck filled with books, good luck with that one. But then, I love to read.

By: Bit Literacy – book review - James Cridland

Bit Literacy – book review - James Cridland — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:50:23 +0000

[...] an Amazon Kindle, as I do, I find myself oscillating between paid-for books and free downloads. Free downloads come from a [...]

By: B Johnson

B Johnson — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:19:53 +0000

There are other sites apart from Amazon from which bboks can be downloaded to Kindle.

Many free on http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:21:13 +0000

There is a point to the 3G version. It appears to give you web browsing for free when roaming (as tested by a colleague who was attending IBC in Amsterdam on Monday).

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:28:46 +0000

As a little note: there’s a new firmware update (v3.0.1) which is now available: http://amzn.to/duOhaD

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:13:38 +0000

Couldn’t agree more – I’ve done exactly the same: Kindle arrived on Tuesday, put Blair’s book on it last night, and I now found that I’ve read eleven percent of the first politician’s autobiography I’ve ever read.

The best thing I can say about it (the device, that is, not Blair’s oddly matey-cum-intellectual prose) is that I’ve found myself lost in the narrative several times during the day; my eyes don’t hurt like they do after staring at a screen, I’ve not been dodging fingerprints and bright sunlight, and the thing is just so unobtrusive.

Downsides? It does crash a little bit – add things to a wish list and hit the back button too quickly and it reliably reboots – and I could have sworn that it was slowing down when it came to page turns this afternoon. The one-click purchase system is terrifying; there’s no confirmation of password like on a iPhone and I can’t find a way of turning it off, so lose this without password protection and it could do damage to your credit card. There’s no power indicator on the screen as you’re reading, so I’ve no idea whether it’s just about to turn up its toes unless I back out to the home page.

And there’s something about navigation – I’m a target-led reader, you see, always thinking I’ll just finish this chapter before I put the washing on; racing ahead to the end of the section so I finish it just as the doors open on the tube. But I now have no idea how many “real” pages I’ve read today; nor any idea of where I am within the chapter (I can’t flick forwards easily and see that I’ve got ten pages left, for example, and so pace myself).

But that said, I already love it. The Kindle, that is. The jury’s still out on the book.

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:50:18 +0000

@James Thank you! *Adds to birthday list*

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:07:23 +0000

The Kindle’s cheaper and is more fully-featured. The content for the Kindle is wider and cheaper; though you are locked into using Amazon for any purchases.

There’s no contest, really.