Amazon Kindle: Wireless e-Reader
February 26th, 2008 | by Brad King |I’m completely down with e-Readers. I use my computer for just about everything. It runs my home entertainment center (what, you pay for cable?). I have two at work (MS and Linux) and I’m about to have a third (Mac) for lessons in Media Informatics.
What I really want, though, is a wireless e-Reader where I can store all my books, newspapers, magazines - anything I want to read. I’m a minimalist, so dumping my bookcase and all those books into the fire would be fine with me. Let me store everything in one tiny device, so that I never have to decide whether to take The Great Gatsby or The Best Science Writing 2006 when I leave the house.
The two problems — screen reading and functionality — have been tackled by Amazon’s Kindle.
There are still too many restrictions on it. Apparently, people don’t get that what consumers want is the ability to do what they want after they buy your device. But we’re moving there — quickly. The e-Reader will be here within two years.
