Comments on: I love my Kindle

By: Pablo Rodriguez

Pablo Rodriguez — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:26:16 +0000

If copyright law is broken (and sure it is), DRM won’t fix it.
If the market is broken, making the items you sell unreadable for the general public won’t probably increase your sales.
People love to share content (“sharing is caring”). Digital content can be shared in a much more easy way. And if some content cannot be shared, people will move on to other content.
DRM won’t magically increase sales, because those products are not accidentally “defective by design”. (Besides from the contradiction of granting exclusive rights for publishing, as copyright does, a secret [DRM is actually encrypted content].)

By: Stormy

Stormy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:24:43 +0000

If the device crashes, the book and all your notes and bookmarks are backed up on the Amazon server. I agree that I would like the right to move to another reader but I think the first step is showing publishers that digital books are safe and viable.

By: SAL-e

SAL-e — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:36:50 +0000

I would love the Kindle if they only remove the DRM off it. I don’t mind paying for the book, but I am not going to pay for again if my device crashes or I decide to move to different reader.

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:26:36 +0000

Stormy,
Jenny bought me a Kindle for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. I too really liked it too. The screen is very readable. It is easy to acquire new books, and newspapers and magazines (I take the WSJ and Analog).
Another feature I like is the ability to send materials to amazon that they will convert it to Kindle format and send it back to you or directly to your Kindle (for .10). I have a lot of articles and materials in PDF format. This will make it very easy to read and use.
My biggest complaint is the ergonomics of the thing. It is difficult to hold without hitting some button. I can’t think of a logical reason to make the entire right hand side of the Kindle the “next page” button. It could have been half the size and left room to hold it.
My next biggest critique is the lack of folders to place the reading materials in. It just one long list of books, newspapers, and other articles.
And finally, mine broke down within two days. The service people have been nice, but everything seem to take longer than it needs to. I still do not have my replacement because they have a backlog of those requests.