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all the time, so I can read while I eat lunch at work...or if I have to wait for an appointment.
, and although I prefer to have the physical book in my hands, the convenience of an ereader sounds so appealing to me. I want one so bad!! 
. I am such a sucker for these things.
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We’ve seen color e-readers before, even colored e-paper displays. But in 2011, Chinese e-reader maker Hanvon will ship the first color reader with a screen made by Cambridge’s E Ink themselves.
According to the New York Times, Hanvon will announce their new e-reader at Tuesday’s FPD International 2010 trade show in Tokyo. Sporting a 9.68-inch color touch screen, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, it will retail in China in March 2011 for about $440.
The reader uses a standard E Ink screen with a color filter, so it has the same low-power, lightweight, high-readability characteristics of its black-and-white cousins. But this also means the screen is more-or-less static: it can show color photographs, illustrations and possibly some animation, but not full-motion video. Without a power-hungry backlight, the colors won’t be as bright as an LCD screen either.
Other features of the device remain unclear. Hanvon is known for its handwriting technology, which it packages with some but not all of its e-readers; the NYT is silent on whether the new device includes it. Business users, who are the device’s target market, are often more receptive to a stylus interface than the general consumer market; introducing color could make a stylus appealing to illustrators as well.
The long-term trajectory of color e-paper displays is even less clear, even as more-capable products from E Ink, Mirasol and Pixel QI come to the market. Color plays a different role in reading than it does in video or gaming. Will color illustrations be enough to satisfy readers, or will they drift towards LCD screens and tablets?
The short version is that consumers want everything: vibrant color and full video with low power consumption and zero glare at an unbeatable price. Until that arrives, we’ll continue to see both makers and readers in this space accepting tradeoffs and experimenting to find a balance that works.
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Anyone have a Kindle? Do you like it?
I'm thinking about getting one because, after clearing five crates of books out of my place recently, I've pretty much decided not to buy any more "hard copy" books. (Except for plays, which haven't made the jump to Kindle yet.)
I'm especially interested in hearing from anyone who has the super cheap "Kindle with offers" edition. Are the offers bothersome? Do you wish you'd spent $20 more to get the one without them?
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I believe the new B&W Nook is a better device, but I've heard rave reviews of the Kindle.
I plan to get an e-reader. I simply love the idea of being able to bring thousands of books with you anywhere you want. And the iPad isn't a great e-reader in the sense that you will suffer from eye fatigue and have to put up with a backlit screen whereas the Kindle and Nook use e-paper. | |
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See...this is what I'm thinking, too. And honestly, I can't afford an iPad right now.
I'm not doing any plays this fall (that I know of at the moment, anyway), and would love to catch up on some reading. It'd be really nice to just keep the Kindle in my We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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WANT WANT fucking WANT for the reasons Danny Boy said. | |
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My parents came to visit a few weeks ago and my dad...my almost-80-year-old dad had a Kindle, FFS. And during that visit, my 11-year-old nephew got a friggin' iPad for his birthday.
I feel like the red-headed stepchild when it comes to electronics. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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I've wanted one for such a long time now. I'm a huuge bookworm
Actually, I've been thinking about the new nook touch just because of the fact that there's a touch screen.
I'm gonna ask for one when my birthday comes up in September | |
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I dig it. My daughter uses mind and I see her using the internet on the thing. I use the e-reader which serves my purposes. | |
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I did a little bit of research on the matter around Christmastime.
Basically the Kindle and Nook (b&w) are similar. The BIG difference is that the Nook allows for "sharing" so that you can "lend" another Nook owner your files (& vice versa) PLUS you can "borrow" ebooks from your local library.
The Nook color is awesome as well, and the big thing right now is that people have been able to "unlock" it and turn it into a cheap "tablet".
B&W is better than color, BTW, if you tend to read outside because there's no glare on the screen. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! |
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And that is definitely something I want to be able to do. There are lots of great places to sit outside and read in Madison - and in Arizona, when I go there in the winter. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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The B&W screens are so crisp that you swear you're looking at a sheet of paper!
ALSO - Borders sells the KOBO that's cheaper and has similar specs. I think they also allow sharing (but don't quote me on that). The only "drawback" to that one was that it had a little "pad" for navigation as opposed to the more conventiently-mounted arrow "buttons" on the sides. I think KOBO is coming out with a newer, improved unit so you can get the older one at a REALLY good price right now!
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Also, you have to buy the books on your comp and download them on the kobo as opposed to all other ereaders where you just buy and download from the internet straight on the device. That is a big turnoff for me. | |
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Oh wait-! The Kobo isn't WiFi?
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I looked into the kindle and nook and ended up going with the kindle. I don't have the one with offers, though. Mine is the 3G- wi fi
The nook won't let you download books outside of the united states, something about copyright laws. The kindle only lets you download e-books from amazon, so your library e-books wouldn't work. The nook has the color option - but it makes the e-reader have significantly worse battery life.
You CAN loan books to another kindle user for 2 weeks.
I'm happy with my kindle! Although if I was staying in the united states, I would've probably went with the black/white nook, because I'd want to have the library e-books. There are quite a few free downloads available on the kindle, but they tend to be romance novels and Christian books - and I'm not into either.
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There are also a lot of classics that are in the public domain that are free, as well. I would totally have the complete works of Austen in there. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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New color e-ink reader in China...
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Cool, huh? Wonder when this will come to the U.S. ...
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ive had my kindle for 6 months, and in the beginning I was questioning why on earth I bought it. I borrow most new books from the library.. but... the steve martin book 'an object of beauty" was hard for me to get into but I wanted to read it, so i bought the download from amazon...another book was only available as a download, the library didn't have it, so... I took the kindle with me on vacation. usually I bring 5 or 7 books to read..this time the vacation was at the jersey shore...and the kindle was soooooooooooo convenient. amazon did annouce several weeks back, thay they reached an agreement to allow kindle to "borrow" library books... my daughter has a nook, but I like the kindle better.. | |
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Ron had it and liked it fine but didn't like it not being backlit.
If I end up doing a reader I will do Nook Color as well.
The only hard copy books I buy anymore are my art books. And we bought some paperbacks from the used bookstore to read in the pool. [Edited 7/12/11 21:14pm] | |
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Don't you guys see what's going on here?
Genesia chose a topic everybody likes, and now she's being deceptively nice to all of you!
You are all lambs to the slaughter, I tell you!
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I don't have the Kindle device, actually, but I do take advantage of the e-reader "functionality", sorta. I installed the Kindle app on my laptop and on my Droid Incredible, and I have about 10 paid-for books in my "library". Since I'm always on my laptop in the house anyway, that's where I do my reading, and if I'm out and about and wanted to pass the time with something (in a waiting room, for example), I can just go to the app on my phone and continue reading anything in my library. And it all syncs up, knowing my last read page and all my bookmarks and whatnot.
So, I utilize the service, per se, but I don't have any e-reader device for it. I know this probably wasn't any help whatsoever, but I figured I'd add my 1.5 cents in anyway. | |
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I looooooveee my kindle.
I didn't look into alot of other devices, as all I wanted was a reader that was crisp and clear and the kindle is that.
I also had lots of books on my pc which were in pdf format and kindle lets me upload those, so it's all good as far as I am concerned.
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Yes - you are right. I forgot about the extensive selection of free classics that are available!
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I have Kindle for Droid, too - but I really don't care for it. The screen on a phone is just too small - you have to scroll constantly and it's hard to read.
It's great if you're just looking for something to do in a pinch (as you note) - but I wouldn't want to try reading a whole book that way. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Yeah, I can definitely see how you wouldn't want that to be your main reading device. If you're going to be doing a lot of "mobile" reading, that just wouldn't suffice one bit. So, I hear ya on that! | |
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My Nookmy gf has one, and I like reading on it. I have read maybe only 50 pages on it, but enough to get a sense of it.
It is not like staring at a computer screen and that is a good thing--for that reason I would not get a color one or a iPad instead
They are cheap enough that i think splurging for something without ads would be worth it, though I don't know what the ads entail. My Legacy
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I'm torn between getting a Kindle (or Nook) or an iPad. I might get two devices. I've heard comics look amazing on an iPad, which is of huge appeal to a geek like me.
I've heard many good things about the Nook. People are very fond of it, and I like what they have to say. The only drawback to it is that, for some reason, it just seems like the Betamax in this race.
But as one of my publishing-industry friends was quick to point out to me when I said that: Everything right now is going to be a Betamax eventually.
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Try them both out.
The iPad (and color Nook) have the advantage of color (duh) and the LCD screen is better for low-light reading (indoors, nightime)...but they are heavier and in the sun will glare.
Reverse that logic for the B&W versions.
It's what YOU want to do with them that will determine your ultimate selection.
I actually have been considering getting myself a color Nook simply so that I can also "surf the net" somewhat at half the cost of an iPad or comparable tablet. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! |
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Yeah, I suppose I should spend some time getting to know the options. I've tried to go look at a Nook, but everytime I go into a B&N, there's always a bunch of gross, dirty kids putting their grimey paws all over them and I get grossed out. Maybe I can find a B&N that won't allow kids in the store. | |
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I just thought of something else. My multi-focal sunglasses have polarized lenses. So I wouldn't be able to read an iPad or Nook in the sun, at all! We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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