Comments on: New Kindle? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/05/new-kindle.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tucker http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/05/new-kindle.html/comment-page-1#comment-19062 Tucker Tue, 05 May 2009 16:48:32 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=7883#comment-19062 I have the 1st gen. Kindle and I still use it all the time. www.feedbooks.com has MANY classics available for FREE and they upload quicker than an ipod. Of course they're all by authors who's copyrights have expired (Plato, Voltaire, etc.), but it's better than buying them from amazon. You can actually publish your own work if you want too. Sign up and you can convert text files to fit on a kindle and everything. I have the 1st gen. Kindle and I still use it all the time. http://www.feedbooks.com has MANY classics available for FREE and they upload quicker than an ipod. Of course they’re all by authors who’s copyrights have expired (Plato, Voltaire, etc.), but it’s better than buying them from amazon.

You can actually publish your own work if you want too. Sign up and you can convert text files to fit on a kindle and everything.

]]> By: randomscrub http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/05/new-kindle.html/comment-page-1#comment-18989 randomscrub Mon, 04 May 2009 18:34:19 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=7883#comment-18989 It figures. I literally just bought a Kindle 2 (I haven't even opened it yet). I held out for so long because the screen isn't big enough to properly cope with academic papers (I'm a grad student), but I just caved. So now they're going to release one that basically has my name all over it. I hope I can return the one I have and get the newer one! It figures. I literally just bought a Kindle 2 (I haven’t even opened it yet). I held out for so long because the screen isn’t big enough to properly cope with academic papers (I’m a grad student), but I just caved. So now they’re going to release one that basically has my name all over it. I hope I can return the one I have and get the newer one!

]]> By: EvilRedScandi http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/05/new-kindle.html/comment-page-1#comment-18987 EvilRedScandi Mon, 04 May 2009 18:07:51 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=7883#comment-18987 I actually saw a Kindle 2 the other day - they guy on the cardio machine next to me at the gym had one. It still seems to have the problems I've always associated with e-books: you can't fit enough text on the page, and the pages turn too slowly. I love the concept, but I read fast. 400 - 600 WPM is a lazy, relaxed, meandering speed for me and I can crank it up to about 2000 if I really want. So far, the eBook readers just can't keep up. I actually saw a Kindle 2 the other day – they guy on the cardio machine next to me at the gym had one. It still seems to have the problems I’ve always associated with e-books: you can’t fit enough text on the page, and the pages turn too slowly. I love the concept, but I read fast. 400 – 600 WPM is a lazy, relaxed, meandering speed for me and I can crank it up to about 2000 if I really want. So far, the eBook readers just can’t keep up.

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