Comments on: Amazon Kindle – An Extremely Promising Portable eBook Reader

By: Hazel

Hazel — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:44:17 +0000

There is a very interesting review of the Kindle in Businessweek.com. For those who are interested in reading it, here’s the link: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071119_552826.htm?chan=search

By: martin

martin — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:22:31 +0000

like a TNG tricorder

By: Amazon Kindle - Libraries in the Palm of Your Hand : K.T. Stevenson

Amazon Kindle - Libraries in the Palm of Your Hand : K.T. Stevenson — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:32:49 +0000

[...] Gadgets are fun and all, but how does a device like this fit into the business world? Think about it. If you are anything like me, you have shelves and shelves of books. Manuals, reference books, business books, etc. I routinely run out of shelf space, both at home and in my office. Kindle promises to help me with that. For example, I’m intrigued by Josh Kaufman’s Personal MBA concept. Over the weekend, I found myself contemplating my home library wondering where I would put yet another set of books. Kindle offers an elegant solution. In fact Josh has already thought of that. [...]

By: Shama Hyder

Shama Hyder — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:21:46 +0000

It’s tempting, but where do I put my current library of books? It only seems to work in conjunction with Amazon.

By: George

George — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:14:24 +0000

This seems very cool, but I do wish it would support PDF, at least. The DRM issue is going to be big here.

By: David

David — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:59:05 +0000

The big question that all the reviews seem to be missing is: how do I get my existing library of books onto the Kindle?
If I can’t do this easily and cheaply then it’s an issue. This was one of the key factors for MP3 players and people’s existing music collection

By: Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:40:39 +0000

I’m right there with you Josh. The Kindle has the potential to be a efficient device. Oh, how much lighter my book bag would be if all the books I carry around could be complied into one small device.