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I think that your confusion here stems from your misunderstanding of the people who are in the market for the kindle. They're not using it for anything other t

by blhack 17y ago

I think that your confusion here stems from your misunderstanding of the people who are in the market for the kindle. They're not using it for anything other than reading books, and most of them don't want to. You know what demographic represents a large portion of kindle users? The elderly. While we geeks might enjoy envisioning kindle users as the sort of technical elite that salivate over the kindle's wireless distribution model, or its e-ink screen, the people actually using the device don't care. It is a book reader, not a mobile computing platform, I'm not sure how hard I can drive this point home. The people who really are geeks (people that use websites like HN), carry things like netbooks around because they have real keyboards on them. Putting a real keyboard on the kindle would ruin it. The refresh time on the kindle's screen (kindle 2) is almost perfect. It is almost exactly the ammount of time that it takes my eyes to transition to the top of the page and continue reading. For me, the experience with the kindle is better than experiences I've had with dead-tree books. I (and I suspect the overwhelming majority of kindle users) hope that amazon never changes it.

stcredzero 17y ago
No, this is your misunderstanding. (It comes across as quite insistent, actually. You're opposing views I don't hold, rather you are projecting them onto me.) I'm advocating a reader-type device for other uses like reference. I'm not talking about a Kindle replacement. I'm not advocating putting a real keyboard on such a device. A very flat pad with no hinges would be the best, actually. You're only talking about the narrow use-case of the Kindle. There are other use-cases for print media, and these represent additional markets. Kindle refresh time is good for linear reading of entire books. But this is not the only use case that print media satisfies! That's about a half-dozen things you misunderstood. (However, a device with the enhanced interactivity I am talking about would also be just as usable as a plain old eBook reader.)

by blhack 17y ago

stcredzero 17y ago

No, this is your misunderstanding. (It comes across as quite insistent, actually. You're opposing views I don't hold, rather you are projecting them onto me.) I'm advocating a reader-type device for other uses like reference. I'm not talking about a Kindle replacement. I'm not advocating putting a real keyboard on such a device. A very flat pad with no hinges would be the best, actually. You're only talking about the narrow use-case of the Kindle. There are other use-cases for print media, and these represent additional markets. Kindle refresh time is good for linear reading of entire books. But this is not the only use case that print media satisfies! That's about a half-dozen things you misunderstood. (However, a device with the enhanced interactivity I am talking about would also be just as usable as a plain old eBook reader.)