Amazon Kindle - An Extremely Promising Portable eBook Reader
Imagine having the entire Personal MBA business library on a single portable device with full-text search capability. Amazon just announced the launch of a new portable eBook reader, the Amazon Kindle, and I’m quite excited about it.
This little device promises to combine the best of paper books (small, light, clear text, easy to use) with modern Internet technology (search functionality, downloading any book in Amazon’s catalog via mobile wireless connection in 60 or less, searching Wikipedia, subscribing to blogs and newspapers, etc.) For more details about the device, as well as a few videos of the Kindle in action, check out the Kindle page on Amazon.
My Kindle should arrive sometime tomorrow. I’m planning to do a full review here on the Personal MBA blog as soon as possible, so stay tuned for details.
I’m making a conscious effort to reign in my expectations, particularly considering that this is first-generation device, but when you read (and own) as many books as I do, the Kindle has the potential to be a game-changer.
More to come…
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7 Comments, Comment or Ping
Chris Wilson
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.
Nov 19th, 2007
David
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
Nov 20th, 2007
George
This seems very cool, but I do wish it would support PDF, at least. The DRM issue is going to be big here.
Nov 20th, 2007
Shama Hyder
It’s tempting, but where do I put my current library of books? It only seems to work in conjunction with Amazon.
Nov 21st, 2007
martin
like a TNG tricorder
Nov 22nd, 2007
Hazel
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
Nov 28th, 2007