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This experience about mimics mine with the iPad. The first two weeks or so I couldn't put it down, and now it's just kind of something that I have on my coffee

by ben1040 16y ago

This experience about mimics mine with the iPad. The first two weeks or so I couldn't put it down, and now it's just kind of something that I have on my coffee table. I still find it very useful - I can now just "hand a web page" to my wife, it's great for having around in the living room for random web surfing on the couch, and yes, reading the news or doing a crossword while having a beer on my back patio. I still can't type properly on the thing to save my life. I didn't realize just how awkward it is. I need to set it on a flat surface and type on it like a regular keyboard, and if I'm going to do that I'd prefer a laptop.

DanielBMarkham 16y ago
Same for the kindle. At first it's this completely super-cool thing and you wonder how you could live your life without it. Then it just becomes a piece of stuff that you have to carry around because it does a couple of things better than all the other stuff you already carry around.
- jodrellblank 16y ago
  http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/pix/cartoons/techno-bill.gif http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/pix/cartoons/techno-bill.gif Same for many things - books are completely super-cool until you've read them and they just sit on a bookshelf most of the time.
- blhack 16y ago
  Just want to say that my experience with my kindle is very much unlike this. The only thing that keeps me buying dead-tree books right now is the ability to bike over to Barnes and Noble and browse them, and my ability to keep a couple under the seat in my Jeep without fear of them being stolen. At first, I liked it, but it still just felt like an MP3 player for books...the first time I really "got it" was when I was walking my dog one morning. I usually bring a bag with my that has a couple of tools in it (mountain bike habits die hard, I guess), as well as my kindle. I decided to stop near the lake and let my dog rest a bit. My friend had recently recommend that I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", and I was considering riding up to the store and buying it when I realized that I already had it...in my bag, all I had to do was pay for it. I booted the kindle, opened the kindle store, and was reading the book all in less than a minute. This is absolutely amazing to me because unlike my phone, or my laptop, or whatever other device I have that can read text, the kindle really really does feel like reading a book. It doesn't hurt by eyeballs, it doesn't get warm and feel strange in my hand, and the battery lasts for almost a month without charging. Nothing about my kindle feels like it's getting in my way...this is pretty much exactly the opposite of my experience with every piece of apple product I have ever used (save for the early ipods...can you still sync them with amarok and gtkpod?).

by ben1040 16y ago

DanielBMarkham 16y ago

Same for the kindle. At first it's this completely super-cool thing and you wonder how you could live your life without it. Then it just becomes a piece of stuff that you have to carry around because it does a couple of things better than all the other stuff you already carry around.

jodrellblank 16y ago
http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/pix/cartoons/techno-bill.gif http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/pix/cartoons/techno-bill.gif Same for many things - books are completely super-cool until you've read them and they just sit on a bookshelf most of the time.
blhack 16y ago
Just want to say that my experience with my kindle is very much unlike this. The only thing that keeps me buying dead-tree books right now is the ability to bike over to Barnes and Noble and browse them, and my ability to keep a couple under the seat in my Jeep without fear of them being stolen. At first, I liked it, but it still just felt like an MP3 player for books...the first time I really "got it" was when I was walking my dog one morning. I usually bring a bag with my that has a couple of tools in it (mountain bike habits die hard, I guess), as well as my kindle. I decided to stop near the lake and let my dog rest a bit. My friend had recently recommend that I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", and I was considering riding up to the store and buying it when I realized that I already had it...in my bag, all I had to do was pay for it. I booted the kindle, opened the kindle store, and was reading the book all in less than a minute. This is absolutely amazing to me because unlike my phone, or my laptop, or whatever other device I have that can read text, the kindle really really does feel like reading a book. It doesn't hurt by eyeballs, it doesn't get warm and feel strange in my hand, and the battery lasts for almost a month without charging. Nothing about my kindle feels like it's getting in my way...this is pretty much exactly the opposite of my experience with every piece of apple product I have ever used (save for the early ipods...can you still sync them with amarok and gtkpod?).