Re: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device forTechnicalMagazines, Books and newspapers

Definitely (avoided for a while). As you note, the stuff could change and
evolve quickly and obsolete stuff very quickly depending on how it's done.
And with Google going after all kinds of books it will be interesting to see
what they do in this arena or who they choose to partner with and throw
(LARGE amounts of) money behind...

Chuck

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I know what you are saying, but all you have mentioned are the "problems"
with what you are using now. Palms and PDAs like that have a small form
factor that can be hard to read. The Kindle is a larger book-sized format. I
would imagine that Amazon will open up the Kindle more within a year.

eBooks (more specifically ebooks from the big publishers) are a new
technology. Just like the MPAA and the RIAA, the book industry is going to
wrap the books in DRM so they can attempt to keep their existing business
model. I am going to take a guess that within a couple years a standard will
come out that all eBook readers will work with. If they don't, the
technology will die (or be taken over by pirates).

I won't be buying any eBook reader for a while yet because of these issues.
The second gen of the Sony eBook reader supports PDF and eInk (or whatever
they call it) will get better and eventually support color.Did you have
color monitors 30 years ago? No.

It is something to be watched carefully, and unless you are an early
adopter, it should be avoided for a while yet.