Amazon.com finally unveiled their much talked about e-book reader a few weeks ago. In a Manhattan launch event, the Kindle was revealed to the world. The gadget weighs 10 ounces and will cost $400.
The Kindle measures 7.5 – by – 5 inches and has the ability to store up to 200 books. It will use the EVDO cellular network in order to wirelessly connect to Amazon itself. It has a storage capacity of 180MB and you can have the option to buy an SD memory card for more storage.
The Kindle will not win any graphic design awards. It has the bland look of computers of yore and is ho-hum boring in looks.
It would be interesting to see if an e-book reader will capture the attention of buyers. I know that previous e-books have failed to really ignite the market.
I mean, it’s 400 bucks….
But to be able to store that much, with so little weight, etc….it’s worth it for the price…
(not that I have the money or anything to just drop it…or the reason to…)
I’m a big book reader and always thought it would be cool to read books with device like this, but I hadn’t imagined that it would come with free internet service. That means I can read books, and blogs while eating my breakfast. Now, if it wasn’t so expensive.
“kindle” what will happen to books…Fehreinheit 451…can someone say burn and controlled sources of reading ie:Amazon
woa, slow reponse time?
I’m curious – does this also read audio books out loud, or does it only offer the user the capability to manually read regular e-books.