[cfgeeks] Kindle

[Ryan Price]

> And nook has a card slot.

I thought Kindle also had a card slot... so I looked it up:

> An optional SD memory card lets you hold even more.

On the other hand, iPad... no expandable memory at all. You decide on  
the size at birth. This is a huge problem with my touch. It's  
constantly full, can't expand.

Instead of a jailbroken iPad, I'd rather see a HackPad that ran the OS  
and apps, but added much-needed peripherals, like Camera, Microphone  
jack (so you can do simultaneous input and output), GPS, MIDI output,  
Arduino serial port, etc.

Oh, or we could just create one?

Peace,
Ryan

P.S. I would sell my 8GB Touch (1st gen, no volume buttons) to an  
interested party, as I may get a Nexus One soon. Also, an N96 camera  
phone running Symbian (now with Open Source!) and a really old Sony  
Mylo COM-1.

On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Kevin Inscoe wrote:

> I was going for a Nook until the iPad was announced (yeah yeah start
> your flames) however price is prohibitive to me. Still fence sitting.
> Mean while I watch to see what low price tablet makers are doing.
> What's that you are saying there are no "low price tablet makers".
> Correct I can't find any. Acer seems to have backed out. So again I am
> fence sitting. For now I get by on my Touch for portable-ness. My eyes
> are begging for a bigger screen though. What I like about the Nook is
> the unit itself (based on pictures) but what I loathe is B&N
> themselves. I like Amazon for price I just don't like their device{s}.
> I seem to remember Nook had a better ePub support (think open source
> documentation here such as Docbook output) than the KIndle did and
> also you have to dock the Kindle with USB to download it but the Nook
> can be caught wireless. Nook is AT&T which is big for me because of
> coverage around here (I am rural). And nook has a card slot. Butt...
> it' also important to note that the Nook has no browser unlike Kindle
> (although it's crippled at best) that I am not happy about. Also I am
> told by my boss who has one it has no news reader or any features for
> RSS. I am also looking at Android devices. In short many of these
> devices are not very open and have almost competitive feature sets
> (seemingly on purpose to draw you away). Soo sigh I am still fence
> sitting.
>
> My wiki page on what I have been observing (albeit I have not updated
> in two months now) is at
>
> http://kevininscoe.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyPublicTechnicalNotes-Platform-ebookReaders
>
> I was going to do a comparison of features for my own edification but
> I never got a roundtoit. I have played with several Kindles though:
> DX, KII and K1 and have friends who have them. The only thing I will
> say is it seems to me stay away from the Sony models. They seem too
> dark and feature poor.
>
> P.S. I just download my first iBook book (the new iPad ebook format as
> a standalone app) on my Touch. It's ok but it's not eInk either. But
> at least I know what I would be getting on the iPad.
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Joseph David LeBlanc
> <jdlspeedy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have or want a Kindle? Would you recommand this to a  
>> friend or refer to something else?
>>
>>   Thanks
>>      Joe
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