Amazon Kindle

Come on in, the water's nice.

Cheers I'm going to buy one asap now!

Sorry chap I meant colour screens, there seems to be a fair bit about colour screens on the web.

I vote no for colour.

On a computer screen, you look closer, whether with a paper based material, you don't look closer.

The Kindle is the latter, it's so easy and nice on the eyes that made reading a pleasure just like a book.

the other aspect is the enormous battery life - 1 month worth of usage with the WiFi/3G turned off, and my dad's Kindle did last that long when I tried that (reading everyday), it's amazingly nice to have a technology that you no longer worried about charging, unlike the iPhone.

add colour and the battery will be on pair with a Macintosh, sorry I mean 'Apple' as they call it now.

I think it would be awesome to have illustrated chapter pages in the style of Medieval books.

98% black and white, 2% vibrant colour.

oh you can do that.

(screensaver but netherless).

The colour screens are coming soon. The manufacturing is still a little too expensive for a full roll out to compete. There are also a few competing technologies ranging from LCD style change in polarisation letting light out from certail pixels to magnetism being used to raise regions of ionised magnetic colour pigment zones to the surface of the screen where they can be seen.

Plastic Logic, a spin-out company from Cambridge Cavendish lab is one to watch. Although I think they are concentrating on black and white, they are developing flexible screens and are sure to be researching colouor versions

Just ordered a Kindle

....for my girlfriends Mum. Won't get to play with it before its wrapped up. BOO!!

Has anyone bought a clip on LED light for their Kindle yet? Was looking at these

Really tiny Book Light - Blue: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products

I did have a play on one in Germany recently to check my emails while on a train. Pretty cool to use the 3G network abroad for no cost!
I did notice how cumbersome it is to use for browsing generally and to this end I think a future Kindle could have a touch screen (perhaps with an enable/disable physical button) for using when browsing a la iPad/all the other tablets around. If this could be achieved and the price kept at current levels they could be on to an absolute winner.
A friend of mine has an iPad and only uses it for 'sofa' web browsing when at home. The Kindle could replace that for many users, then when videos etc are needed you whip out the laptop.

You don't need colour if you are going to read it. If you want to look at the pictures, Kindle is never going to come close to a fick off coffee table glossy. Take you pick. For reading, Kindle is done. They will, of course, fick about with it come what may, but it's all farkle and bling.

Have you guys considered the iPad?

BwhahahaHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

You laugh, but it did. I wanted to spend more. A lot more. For no reason. In the end, I ordered a Ti coffee maker and matching car.

The nice thing about the Kindle is that, like the original iPod, have one function.

it's nice to have a device where you can read a book in, and treat it as such, it's pretty rare for a product to have a single function in our world of muilt-functional gadget that wipe your arse as well as ringing the doorbell.

i agree... I chose all my technological devices based on their limited functionality.

I just bought a beautiful watch with no minute hand. Fucken useless.

That said, Joseph Conrad's contemporaneous take on anarchism in A Secret Agent is interesting if a tad Daily Mail.

Have a read of The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, some lovely descriptions of London approached from the river. Ch XXXI I think. The whole thing is a bit patchy.

The nice thing about the Kindle is that, like the original iPod, have one function.

it's nice to have a device where you can read a book in, and treat it as such, it's pretty rare for a product to have a single function in our world of muilt-functional gadget that wipe your arse as well as ringing the doorbell.

Agree with you there Ed. I've got an iPod classic, love the thing, couldn't or wouldn't want to get a touch since how many devices do I actually need to access the internet on, the iPod works and holds all my music, what more could I want?

I find it incredible now how almost every new device can access the internet on it, there are now no black spots in our lives when we can't access the internet, this is both a blessing and a pain in the ass at the same time.

Anyway I was reading on the kindle app for Mac in bed last night and for the first time (since holiday) I was so engrossed in a book I didn't know what time it was, I really do think It's time for me to buy a kindle.

it's amazingly nice to have a technology that you no longer worried about charging, like the iPhone.

^ smokin' crack

The nice thing about the Kindle is that, like the original iPod, have one function.

it's nice to have a device where you can read a book in, and treat it as such, it's pretty rare for a product to have a single function in our world of muilt-functional gadget that wipe your arse as well as ringing the doorbell.

^yep, crack

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They been talking about colour Kindle for years..
http://www.reghardware.com/2009/05/29/colour_kindle/

^ smokin' crack

It was suppose to be 'unlike the iPhone' rather than 'like'.

I've got an iPad... it's useless, heavy, inconveniently larger, and just limited compared to the Kindle.

But then, I put reading, basic web, stupid battery life and global mobility way above watching videos.

Which torrent sites are people allegedly downloading ebooks from?

A test search for Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" (it's a guilty pleasure) gave no joy. Since I already own a paper copy, I have limited moral qualms about downloading an ebook copy. (similar to my approach to getting DVDs onto a digital device. It's quicker to torrent than rip...)

Any pointers welcome.

Which torrent sites are people allegedly downloading ebooks from?

A test search for Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" (it's a guilty pleasure) gave no joy. Since I already own a paper copy, I have limited moral qualms about downloading an ebook copy. (similar to my approach to getting DVDs onto a digital device. It's quicker to torrent than rip...)

Any pointers welcome.

I would have thought that nicking a Clancy book off of the web is somewhat less immoral than adding to his fortune.

Come on Clive, someone has to pay for his collection of military caps and his weekly "Evil frog from danger mouse" make overs.