What is on Your Mind?

The Kindle 3 is making headlines as Amazon's #1 bestseller. According to Amazon:

Do you own a Kindle?

What do you think about them?

The Kindle is a fantastic reader. I used my friends for a bit, and was tempted to buy one there and then. But I had just got the iPad. Who knows, when I've finished reading Winnie the Pooh, I might look at the Kindle again

I don't have one. In fact I haven't even tried one...

I've been using iBooks since its release and I know it's not perfect but it just works fine for me.

I just tried to buy a Kindle and have it shipped to Asia, but the estimated ship date was three weeks out and the delivery time was four weeks, so I canceled the order for now.

I'm currently using my Eken m001 for reading, but I'm thinking about buying a Kindle:

- the E Ink technology seems great
- now the price is acceptable
- there's Amazon Italy now, so I hope delivery will be quicker

The Kindle is expensive... though less so now. It does provide something that the others don't and that's a free 3G connection and some limited browsing capability.

It's e-ink... so, good visibility in bright light (e.g. sunlight) and you can place the silly thing on a copier and copy it.

We have 3 of them in our family. Mine was purchased from somebody else (to help them out economically). I use mine mainly for PDFs. All of ours are tied to the same Amazon account... so we can read each other's books.

Is the Nook better? Maybe. It wasn't around when we bought ours (all of ours are Kindle2 or Kindle2 DX).

We like our Kindle's even at the exorbitant prices that we paid for them. I took my Kindle DX with me overseas for a couple of weeks and loaded maps and books about places I was visiting... very useful. Easy to carry and the battery lasts a long time. And you can even put some MP3's on it (though it's NOT a feature rich player). Part of the time was on a boat... and it was easy to use in the open deck in direct sunlight.

Yes,
I remember the prices of the first models, those were quite expensive
(~ 500$, if I recall correctly). Now you can buy one for 139$ (no 3G).

But I'm not sure if it's good for reading technology pdf
(with technical diagrams, images etc - the official Oracle documentation,
for example).

Those types of documents loose their formatting, when converted to
the various ebook format.

When I use my 7" Eken for that now, I have to read them in landscape mode,
the Kindle for 139$ has a 6" display.