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<blockquote data-quote="Michael_Monroe" data-source="post: 928088" data-attributes="member: 127819"><p>Yeah, I'm aware of the alternatives. I've heard of the new kindle and here's what I don't like. Amazon doesn't have physical stores so they would like you to invest $300+ in a product you may or may not enjoy. Thats a fairly big leap of faith for me. Also, and while this capability may already be reality, say I want to use some excerpts from a textbook on my kindle for an essay, how do I get those onto the computer? Seems relatively limited to me.</p><p></p><p>The iphone apps are swell and all, but who is going to read a lengthy novel on a 3 inch screen? And as far as touch technology for e-readers, it's been done. Sony has a touch version but it's been done pretty poorly. It felt terrible and unresponsive to me. What would the benefits of touch capabilities be? Highlighting, underlining, copy and paste, bookmarks etc. </p><p></p><p>And on strength, pick up a pc notebook and then pick up a unibody macbook pro and tell me that the thinner Macbook doesn't feel stronger. It's all plausible and I would consider it an excellent Mac product addition but apparently everyone else is content with the Kindle and that's just swell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael_Monroe, post: 928088, member: 127819"] Yeah, I'm aware of the alternatives. I've heard of the new kindle and here's what I don't like. Amazon doesn't have physical stores so they would like you to invest $300+ in a product you may or may not enjoy. Thats a fairly big leap of faith for me. Also, and while this capability may already be reality, say I want to use some excerpts from a textbook on my kindle for an essay, how do I get those onto the computer? Seems relatively limited to me. The iphone apps are swell and all, but who is going to read a lengthy novel on a 3 inch screen? And as far as touch technology for e-readers, it's been done. Sony has a touch version but it's been done pretty poorly. It felt terrible and unresponsive to me. What would the benefits of touch capabilities be? Highlighting, underlining, copy and paste, bookmarks etc. And on strength, pick up a pc notebook and then pick up a unibody macbook pro and tell me that the thinner Macbook doesn't feel stronger. It's all plausible and I would consider it an excellent Mac product addition but apparently everyone else is content with the Kindle and that's just swell. [/QUOTE]
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