Comments on: Amazon’s Kindle – The Next Great Mobile Platform or Just a Novel Device? http://adrianmott.com/2009/03/24/amazons-kindle-the-next-great-mobile-platform-or-just-a-novel-device/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:33:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Fred http://adrianmott.com/2009/03/24/amazons-kindle-the-next-great-mobile-platform-or-just-a-novel-device/comment-page-1/#comment-475 Fred Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:07:47 +0000 http://adrianmott.com/?p=399#comment-475 If you've ever even been on a crowded train, you'll realize that having an enormous piece of virtual paper that you're swinging around and shaking is just going to be awkward. The product in the video would combine everything bad about the paper version of newspapers (bulky, awkward, annoying to dispose of) with everything bad about the electronic version (not permanent, hard to share, impossible to mark up.) The kindle, however, is a great design. If I was on the train regularly again, I'd pay extra for a newspaper subscription on the kindle instead of having to deal with the paper version. I don't see it as being weird that the journal costs more on the kindle; it's a better way to read the news than on dead trees. If you’ve ever even been on a crowded train, you’ll realize that having an enormous piece of virtual paper that you’re swinging around and shaking is just going to be awkward. The product in the video would combine everything bad about the paper version of newspapers (bulky, awkward, annoying to dispose of) with everything bad about the electronic version (not permanent, hard to share, impossible to mark up.)

The kindle, however, is a great design. If I was on the train regularly again, I’d pay extra for a newspaper subscription on the kindle instead of having to deal with the paper version. I don’t see it as being weird that the journal costs more on the kindle; it’s a better way to read the news than on dead trees.

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