dead sea scrolls?
― am0n, Monday, 30 June 2008 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
all
― s1ocki, Monday, 30 June 2008 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i think you'd be better off comparing this to a segway or something if you really want to take it down a notch!!!!!!!! do it
-- s1ocki, Monday, June 30, 2008 12:50 AM
are you taking me or omar little to task here. also why
― am0n, Monday, 30 June 2008 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw a dude racing down the Ventura Blvd sidewalk yesterday afternoon on a Segway
― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 30 June 2008 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Segways are awesome. Fuck is everyone's problem?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 30 June 2008 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
If everyone here could afford a Segway, I promise you we'd be all be sharing awesome Segway stories right now.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 30 June 2008 07:04 (fifteen years ago) link
BOW DOWN BEFORE IT!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/02/09/bezos_kindle_ket4a6nc.jpg
The new version measures just 0.36 inches thick, the diameter of a pencil, and weighs a little more than 10 ounces."The Kindle is designed to disappear so that you can enter the author’s world," Bezos said, calling it "a seamless, integrated reading experience -- it’s not just a device."He said the Kindle 2 screen provides more crispness, using 16 shades of gray instead of just four, and has 25% more battery life, allowing users to read up to two weeks on a single charge. The upgraded edition has seven times more storage space, holding more than 1,500 books, and faster page turns than its predecessor. A new navigation system allows for better note-taking and easier reading of newspapers.But perhaps its most novel aspect is the text-to-speech feature, which enables Kindle users to listen to their material."Any book, blog, magazine, personal document could be read aloud to you," said Bezos, as he had a Kindle 2 read the opening lines of the Gettsyburg Address with crisp, staccato enunciation.
"The Kindle is designed to disappear so that you can enter the author’s world," Bezos said, calling it "a seamless, integrated reading experience -- it’s not just a device."
He said the Kindle 2 screen provides more crispness, using 16 shades of gray instead of just four, and has 25% more battery life, allowing users to read up to two weeks on a single charge. The upgraded edition has seven times more storage space, holding more than 1,500 books, and faster page turns than its predecessor. A new navigation system allows for better note-taking and easier reading of newspapers.
But perhaps its most novel aspect is the text-to-speech feature, which enables Kindle users to listen to their material.
"Any book, blog, magazine, personal document could be read aloud to you," said Bezos, as he had a Kindle 2 read the opening lines of the Gettsyburg Address with crisp, staccato enunciation.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 February 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
And presumably you can use it to read under the covers without using a flashlight.
― Aimless, Monday, 9 February 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
*beaming, but must not comment on this thread - sorry*
― schwantz, Monday, 9 February 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
this device still seems pretty joyless imo
― John Hyman (misspelled intentionally) (omar little), Monday, 9 February 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
$360?? Cmon. No.
― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Monday, 9 February 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
*slinks back to parenting board*
― schwantz, Monday, 9 February 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazon Kindle the Third, in family planning stages now!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 February 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably a stupid question, but what's the cheapest portable device out there that lets you read PDFs?
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
― schwantz, Monday, February 9, 2009 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
jeff?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeff Schwantzos
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
kindle killer http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/02/plastic_logic_r.php
― ice cr?m, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Can you install iTunes on a Kindle? That would be cool.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
what if a kindle was also a portable microwave oven and yr own personal dictation machine
― Mr. Que, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
yah it seems inevitable that these readers will drift toward tablet computing and travel cooking devices
― ice cr?m, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
and taking voice notes seems like a logical feature TBH
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
plus it'd be cool if they could stick a little pen knife on one end
― Local Garda, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
swiss army kindle--i like it
― Mr. Que, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
these things will be surfing the web in no time then people will stop reading their ebooks cause they can just surf the web
― ice cr?m, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
:o
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i have only read one "nobody will ever beat the smell and feel of a real book in your sweaty hands" article so far, I look forward to more.
― Local Garda, Monday, 16 February 2009 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The key thing for me is that they have to be so cheap I can throw them away. I don't want to lug this around with me all day I want to read it and bin it.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
yah books def hav some appealing qualities beyond lol nostalgia
― ice cr?m, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
reselling them, for instance
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought the Kindle already came with a browser.
― Alba, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
so it does - rip kindle
― ice cr?m, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
ya, too bad
― s1ocki, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
hope they're flammable
― eman, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://thekindle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/oprahkindle.jpg
― eman, Monday, 16 February 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
What do books smell like?
― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 16 February 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Victory.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 16 February 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh my gosh!
― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 16 February 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://eshop.webindia123.com/images/prodimg/large/COM0225_1lg.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 16 February 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/gallery/variety/bookworm.gif
― eman, Monday, 16 February 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
For what it's worth, I just bought a Sony PRS-505 and am madly in love with it. For the most part, I download classics from Gutenberg. Reading them on my laptop was no fun, though. The e-ink displays are well worth the investment.
― brightscreamer, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't fuck with this until it can fit in my pocket.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
But then the display would be too small. :(
― brightscreamer, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
not if the text was nice and big
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean, like a 33 1/3 book fits v. nicely in my pocket. if you could make it that size, i'd buy one in a sec
Consider it done!
― brightscreamer, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
eventually this might be made of some high-tech plastic fabric (pencil-thick is fine) so you can just roll it up and put it in your pocket.
― brains, hand-rolled (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
fold out screen iphone attachment
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost, like a fruit rollup you can read!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
they already have those
― to inspire myself, i turn to myself (sunny successor), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link