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Device Kindle 2 Customer Review…
By: Tyler Hass
95%, a Few Ideas for Improvement
The Device Kindle 2 is an excellent reading device. I think it surpasses the standard hardcover book, with the exception of color-critical books, such as graphics, design and art. I am finding that I am actually reading faster and with less effort on the Device Kindle 2. I have a guess for why this is (and no supporting evidence). When you read a book, the page naturally curves, so the line of text you are reading is not perfectly straight. And a line does not start directly below where the previous line ended. On the Device Kindle 2, the reading surface is perfectly flat, so I think your brain has less work to do to decode a sentence. And being able to adjust the font size will be useful for many.
Whispernet is excellent and is the killer app for this product. Being able to select a book, buy it and start reading within a minute or two is amazing. It’s a bookstore in your hands.
I do have a few ideas on how it could be improved:
Footnotes are a bit of a pain. They are essentially a link to a separate page in the book. To read a footnote, you have to use the 5-way joystick to scroll down the page and then over to the asterix, number, etc. and then click on it. You have hit the scroll button maybe 20 times to get to the link. I would like it if there was a shortcut key to skip directly from one footnote or link to the next. Maybe hold down alt and then up or down on the 5-way?
Why pay for blogs and newspapers when they could be the ultimate ad platform. Amazon could embed links to products, including physical products, that you could purchase by clicking on a context-sensitive ad. Since it’s linked to your Amazon account, it would be very quick and easy to enable such a purchase. To me, this is the holy grail of advertising. If people want to pay for an ad-free version, that should be an option as well. But my idea would bring more free content to everyone and more potential revenue for advertisers and Amazon.
Rentals would be a great addition. Rent a book for a fraction of the purchase price and you have X number of days to read it and then it is deleted from your system. With the DRM on the Kindle, this seems like it would be easy to implement. And since Device Kindle 2 purchases cannot be sold or shared with others, we are essentially in a leasing arrangement anyways. To say that you own the content on your Device Kindle 2 isn’t quite accurate. It would be nice to be offered a more explicit and cheaper rental arrangement. A Netflix type arrangement with a flat fee would be awesome. You could have the price depend on the number of books simultaneously allowed and new ones would instantly download from your queue as soon as you finish one.
Book sharing would be a very nice feature. Publishers obviously fear that file sharing sites could crop up if people were allowed to loan books without restrictions. But it would be possible to digitize what people have been doing for centuries. If you decide to loan a book to a friend, it would become inactive on your Device Kindle 2 until they “return” it to you. Thus, no copies are being made. If we truly own the content on our Device Kindle 2, then this should be allowed.
The included instruction manual is very dry and “corporate” sounding. It would be more enjoyable to read a manual written by a power user who shows off tips, tricks, shortcuts, etc. The letter from Jeff Bezos is quite the opposite, so maybe he should write the manual, too!
More shortcuts! Alt-S to bring up Search, Alt-W to search Wikipedia for a highlighted word… The screen re-draws on the Device Kindle 2 are fine for reading, but a bit slow for navigating menus. Power users hate spending 10-20 seconds going through menus when a shortcut would be possible.
All in all, Device Kindle 2 surpasses the printed book. This is a huge accomplishment! I would give printed books 3 of 5 stars. I think that says a lot about how much I like the Kindle. There are just a few areas where it could be improved and most of these could be implemented through software updates and changes to Amazon store policies. For me to give a 5, it has to be perfect, but this comes very close. A 95%.
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