Amazon Kindle Review Round-up
The reviews of the new Amazon Kindle
Video Reviews:
If you don’t know about the kindle yet, watch this film:
More Reviews:
Crunch Gear: http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/19/mini-review-of-the-amazon-kindle/
Boing Boing: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/19/amazon-kindle-ebook-1.html
I’ll update this post as more reviews come in.
From a medical perspective, this device has many of the advantages of the old Palm Pilots: long battery life, very each to use and most importantly (in my opinion) it doesn’t require a desktop computer. This means you could load it up with medical texts from amazon and not even need to ever sync with your PC.
More info on this device at Amazon.com
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
What about free content. If I install book reader software on a Palm device, I can download thousands of free ebooks from Gutenburg or other sources. All of the advertising for Kindle mentions purchasing and free samples. What about public domain? Is this the book equivalent of a music player that won’t allow the user to play MP3’s unless downloaded from Imusic?
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Go to amazon.com and all the stats on the kindle are there, not here.
November 24th, 2007 at 3:45 am
This was the most informationless review I’ve seen yet. Poorly done.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Richard,
I have one and put a book on it from Project Gutenberg.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
It appears to be a well-designed product that serves its purpose well. That being said, I laughed when the CNET reviewer stated that the Kindle is “the future of books.” All those in the medical community know that books (in paper or digital form) are archaic for most study or reference and that the numerous digital databases with searchable references provide more up-to-date and evidence-based information for the best care for our patients.
However, I could see this to be a very useful entertainment device for those that enjoy reading in general as traveling with this single slim and lightweight device holding vast amounts of books would definitely beat their paper counterpart.