Yes, I've already ordered mine. Cool features include:
- EVDO Wireless Internet Access - Anywhere, always on, for FREE! No service contracts, no worries!
- Free Wikipedia access - The power of the world's shared brain anywhere on a great screen
- E-ink display - no backlight need apply, no eye strain, it looks like printed paper
- Wireless purchase books where ever you are
- 3 thousand launch titles in Sci-Fi/Fantasy alone (88k total)
- Email content to your kindle wirelessly
- Just In: You can go to arbitrary web pages! (according to the device manual)
There are some disappointments. I don't think a $400 device is going to really revolutionize things, but I hope it will get cheaper as time. Also, its not shipping with PDF support. Hopefully that will change, but it does support MOBI files, which I hear there are PDF -> MOBI file converters.
Anyway, I'll be getting the device tomorrow, so more on it then! Welcome to the future!
2 comments:
Lots of exciting stuff in the Ben blog today.
No PDF support? Boo.
Well, as you know I love all things eink without bounds so I'll be very interested to see your impressions of this device. If through some sort of Jeff Bezos-powered supermagic its able to display readable 8.5x11 pages on its little screen (maybe through some sort of telepathic zoom functionality?) you can be sure I'll buy one. I read 8.5x11 pdfs all the time these days so functional epaper would be insanely awesome.
Yeah, the no PDF support is a major downer, especially since I have all those drivethrurpg.com ebooks that I want to read.
But since the content is there, it seems like this should be a good thing even if real PDF support never arrives.
definitely more when I have it
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