Comments on: I won’t buy the Amazon Kindle

By: Hot News Today

Hot News Today — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:52:01 +0000

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By: marco

marco — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:47:21 +0000

what about having always with you the books you need?
I usually need 3-4 books at a time, one is for pleasure, the other ones are for technical reference.
I could not, before having the fantastic kindle, have all of the with me, now I can.
Completely satisfied by my kindle, not an ebook reader like the other ones. It is year ahead all the others

By: admin

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:44:13 +0000

Parvati, given the reason you're saying for iRex not switching to finger touch, I'd really say iRex people to research for another battery technology to improve their product! (oh, and by the way they should also take a look at the "iPhone style" Barnes and Noble upcoming ebook reader. And again you're right when saying that I should have counted shipping costs, but they barely modify the situation since I usually mass order books (4/5 per shipping).

By: Parvati V

Parvati V — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:24:13 +0000

iRex says finger touch would require more power to the matrix and thus both loss of battery life and of the comfort for the eyes.
On the other hand, I subscribed to the pdf version of Il Fatto Quotidiano saving more than 100 euros compared to the paper version, and I can enjoy it fully on my ebook reader, with no risk of misdelivery. In fact getting easy access to ebooks of otherwise hard to find books was the selling point to me, rather than sheer saving; although I’m saving more than you, because I’d have to add (international) shipping to the price of the books I buy the most.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:30:28 +0000

The new iRex reader looks really a nice improvement (I see a pen on the photo; I’d say that pen-touch is a kinda *old* technology now. Is it going to accept fingers as device inputs?).

Back to the Math: I probably need to contextualize my numbers (eg: when I say 3 hrs/day I haven’t accounted for travel-but-not-reading times, for example the time spent walking from the office to the train station is considered “travel time” but which cannot be spent reading).

My point is that I’m spending as much time reading as I can, and Anobii statistics speaks by themselves. but I accept your objection to include reference books to; I’ll redo the math on this.

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By: Antonio Tombolini

Antonio Tombolini — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:59:31 +0000

As you already know I full agree with you about e-readers’ current limitations in terms of ergonomics, UI, etc… I feel at ease with it, ’cause it’s just a matter of time: look at the brand new iRed Digital Reader, it’s already a big step forward:
http://www.irexreader.com/

Not so when you go and do the math. As for me, I read on average 1 book per week. And it’s increasing since I go e-reading. You say you read 3 hours per day, which is more than a fair amount, but not all books! Would you re-consider your figures? Small hint: from my experience it takes 6-7 hours to read a book… And by the way: why to exclude reference books? I’m revamping my chess opening game thanks to the fact that I’ve all my openings books always with me in my e-reader