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Electronic books, also called ebooks, are quickly taking off. Special devices dedicated to reading these ebooks, called ebook readers, have contributed to this newfound popularity with their powerful feature sets. At the forefront of this ebook revolution is Amazon’s Kindle 2. The second-generation of Amazon’s game-changing gadget, the Kindle 2 has a variety of features that people are getting excited about.

Ever stare at your computer screen and get a headache? So did people who used to read ebooks…but Amazon’s Kindle 2 has changed all that. The Kindle 2 uses a new “e-ink” technology that doesn’t have any glare, so you can read it in direct sunlight or in a dim room without hurting your eyes. The Kindle 2 also features crisp, clear images on a large display that rivals some print in paper books! Plus, with Kindle 2 you can even adjust the font size to your liking.

Another one of the advantages of ebooks is the ability to look up words on the spot. Amazon’s Kindle 2 is a walking dictionary, letting you look things up on the web as you read. The Kindle 2 is completely wireless and connects you to 3G networks automatically, which means you can look things up from anywhere. No monthly plan is required; you can read and shop right out of the box.

Online shopping is another advantage that ebooks have over the library. You can download new titles to your electronic reader without ever going to a book store. Amazon’s Kindle 2 is the leader in this department, as it gives you access to all the books in Amazon.com, the largest digital library on the planet. Plus the Kindle 2 boasts the ability to store up to 1,500 books. That’s an entire library in the palm of your hand! No more need to take a stack of books on those long business trips, just one little device.

And that is where Amazon’s Kindle 2 really shines – it’s as thin as a magazine at 1/3 inch thick, and weighs less than a paperback book at 10.2 ounces. It’s slim and discreet profile let you carry it anywhere, and you can charge it from your computer via a USB cord. Plus the Kindle 2 also offers a text-to-speech feature that can read your newspapers and books out loud to you, if you so choose.

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It’s really good at what it’s designed for: Reading books that are mostly text. Its e-ink screen technology makes reading a book almost as effortless as reading a book that’s printed on paper. The slimmer new Kindle 2 design makes it easier to hold, carry, and turn pages. And the long battery life means you don’t have to worry about getting lost in a text without a charging cable.

It’s discreet! No one will ever know that you’re reading The Da Vinci Code, The Tipping Point, Infinite Jest, DOS For Dummies, or anything by Danielle Steele.

Kindle-optimized Web sites are on the way. Instapaper, which lets you save magazine articles, news stories, and blog posts to “read later” is one of our favorite Web sites and iPhone apps. Now founder Marco Arment is working on a version that’s tuned to the Kindle’s browser.

It’s super for traveling, with a few caveats. When I spent three months backpacking in Europe several summers ago, I brought too many books: A few thick editions of Lonely Planet and Let’s Go, a Rick Steves, novels for 8-hour train rides, Eurail timetable, and more. A Kindle 2 would swallow all of those into a much smaller, lighter package, plus it would be searchable. But: The Sprint (S) wireless features will not work outside the U.S., so make sure you get everything before you get on the plane. And while black-and-white maps are passable on the Kindle, color illustrations — e.g., subway maps — are often useless.

New books are cheaper on the Kindle than on paper. Makes up for the $360 you have to drop to get a Kindle in the first place. Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, for instance, costs $17 in hardcover at Amazon, but is $10 for the Kindle. The Host is $5 cheaper on the Kindle, too.

With all of these options, it’s clear to see why Amazon’s Kindle 2 is leading the way in the world of ebooks. Just like Apple’s ipod changed the way we interact with music, the Kindle 2 is revolutionizing the book world, offering easy-to-use hand-held personal digital libraries. Modern technology has finally caught up the printing press.

Copyright (c) 2008 Adam Nowak

iPhone as iPod

Actually – iPod Touch. What can I write here… 8GB of music and films always with me, available after clicking 1 button. The quality of sound and picture is excellent, the screen is perfect, the screen is ideal for watching films e.g. in a bus or a train. Put the headphones in your ears and iPhone into your hands and even a 6 hour journey isn’t horrible! The way of inserting multimedia is really worth paying attention to. Apple says – ‘iTunes!’ Is it really like that? I will say even now – NO! You can read the description of the ‘Tux vs. iPhone’ struggle on the Techblog From the very purchase, my iPhone hasn’t seen iTunes nor a computer with Windows (and no MacOSX) and I hope that it will stay that way. But – let’s go back to the iPod function.

Headphones added to the set are of very good quality (after all, they cost PLN 129), but we have to be very careful about our hearing. Inadvertent turning up the volume to the maximum value will result in a really bad sensation. I’m not the kind of a person who likes listening to music quietly, but iPhone, in this case, makes me feel a buzzing noise in my ears after 15 minutes or so. That’s why – be careful!

If you want to have a close look at the function of iPod, I suggest that you turn your steps towards an Apple shop. The experience connected with using is the same as in the case of iPod built in the iPhone. But be careful – it’s difficult to get away and a queue is forming behind you…

iPhone as an Internet tool

One of the main functionalities for which I bought this smartphone. iPhone has one of the best browsers in the history of mobile devices – Mobile Safari – as well as the reader of mail – MobileMail. What’s more, there are also a few dozen applications that use the Web directly, but I will be talking about them later. GPRS/EDGE as well as WiFi are the optional connections to the Internet. They both work perfectly, automagically and simply wonderfully. If we are within the range of the WiFiNet, iPhone gets connected with it (or asks for the connection when the network is new for the device), if we aren’t within the range of WiFiNet and we want to be connected to the Internet, it activates the EDGE connection. If you want to save some money, you can switch off the GPRS/EDGE connections, so you won’t have to pay huge bills for the data transmission And what about the comfort of web browsing? Well… Web pages look exactly like they do on the computer, navigation is very simple and intuitive (phew, we only have to put our finger on the screen and move it, we move its fragments closer or away etc.) The keyboard appears at the moment of activation of the enter data field. The only drawback is the speed of operations. Pages load quite slowly. In fact – they render slowly. The Jogger’s main website needs about 3 seconds for full loading (with high speed transfer). However, it’s not so obtrusive – after all, iPhone wasn’t designed to be a main tool for webdesigners, programmers etc. Casual web browsing, reading news or scouting Google in search of the answers to bothering questions work perfectly and there is nothing one can pick on.

The built-in mail reader works, though frankly speaking, I don’t use it. I check my mail account 3 times a day and there are so many e-mails that if I was to use iPhone for this purpose, I would be answering e-mails literally non-stop. It’s not for me.

However, I notice 2 drawbacks in this category. Firstly, Safari isn’t ideal and it doesn’t load the whole page at once. In the case of web browsing, subsequent fragments of a page are loading dynamically and, because of that, we can often notice unrendered fragments, marked with a black-and-white chessboard, which after a second, they turn into a page. The second drawback – a lack of Java and Flash. One can forget about films or web applications. At the same time, one can forget about in-your-face advertisements that appear on most portals.

Other

That is – other functions offered by the external applications that are available in the unlocked iPhone:

A console – by means of a console, we can do… hmm, I don’t know how to write it… Everything? Probably everything, because recently I set up the Apache + PHP + Python server on my iPhone. And it worked… So maybe it’s true that we can do everything with it! Well, I’m not writing about such an apparent thing as logging with ssh into your own server to check if everything is all right.

A camera – takes photographs. And that’s all. Nothing more, nothing less. We can’t record a video, use filters, set the quality. Simply – click and a 2Mpix photo ends up in the memory. A piece of cake. The quality of photos is satisfactory (comparable with the photos taken by SE K750i)

EBooks – simply EBooks on a more than 3 inch touch display. You probably catch my drift And it reads not only *.txt and *.html formats, but also *.pdf is read in a proper way!

VNsea – a client of VNC server. You’re lying in bed, a film is displayed on a desktop computer with a huge screen. The film comes to an end, we get up… Noooo! We take iPhone and play another film on the remote screen. One of the most lovely applications which I currently have installed on this equipment.

MobileScrobber – KILLER APP! A client of LastFM with full support for all functions of this service! Are you getting bored with music from iPod? Turn on LastFM radio. 10/10!

… and where are games? No, I won’t describe this issue… It would take too much time and space in this already lengthy description. However, you should know that it’s impossible to get bored.

To conclude, a couple of words about the durability of the device. Despite everything, the display gets scratched (a little) in the course of normal use and I strongly recommend a cover. It can also get terribly scratched, e.g. when you drop it onto a concrete surface. Well, after all, it’s only glass, not a diamond. The back of the iPhone gets covered very quickly with a huge amount of microscopic scratches.

Battery life? With MAXIMUM use – (WiFi + EDGE switched on non-stop), plus watching films or listening to music (+- 4h per day), a lot of phone calls (from 10 minutes to 2h per day) and masses of SMS texts – it holds exactly 48 hours. If you don’t use it that often (a darkened display, the Interned switched off, no films), it can hold about 3-4 days. I can’t give the exact time, because I haven’t managed not to use it for too long. However, you can surely count on 2 days of maximum use working.

Finally – iPhone is a toy. A toy similar to electric model railways, which are bought by dads with the purpose of playing with them in secret. A toy similar to a car at a scale of 1:1 that hides a complex of toys at the scale of 1:43 in childhood. A toy, which, just like the model railway, gives a lot of pleasure, and just like the car at the scale of 1:1, is very comfortable. And who of us doesn’t dream about a model railway or a good car?

Amazon’s new Kindle 2, embarrasses the first Kindle with a multitude of advancements. The newest version can turn apges quicker, has a better casing, a vastly improved web feel and 7x  the memory.

I’m have always been a techno pioneer; I have recommended the BlackBerry Storm, the first iPhone, and even the VooDoo Envy. And the latest Kindle is my new love. Let me count the ways…

First off, the enhanced screen.  It’s quite useful when checking out your favorite Web pages on the Kindle’s browser. From the start, Kindles have come equipped with wireless cell phone radios that make it possible, even effortless to download your books of choice from anywhere. Finally that  power of the in-case radio is being utilized to the fullest, with an HTML browser capable of seeing web pages in excellent looking 16 shade grayscale. Sure, they may remind you of  Web pages from 1998, as the Kindle 2 can’t render some of the latest graphics and cutting edge code that we’re used to today, but this is a reader, not a futuristic Game-boy

Next is the Kindle 2′s capability to allow you to view a wide variety of documents types. No longer are you restricted to just magazines, books, and newspapers. The original Kindle supported Microsoft Word files, which was fine. But now the latest release is capable of displaying  Microsoft Word, TXT, BMP, PDF, GIF, HTML,JPEG, PNG, and even MOBI files. This gives it serious potential to act as your document repository. All you have to do is email them to your assigned email address, and they are automatically loaded via the Whispernet wireless connection to your You load them by emailing them from your computer to your Kindle’s dedicated email address, where they are wirelessly synced to your Kindle.

The keyboard is also improved, albeit not optimally. It’s new 5-way directional button beats the old Kindle’s scroll wheel by a mile. However, I’ll admit I’m not completely sold on it.  Not sure what a better solution would be, but this reminds me a bit of a red eraser-type mouse that that came on some PC laptops.

Now you don’t have to pay the dime to email your work documents to your device.  You can now load docs (as well as MP3s) for free. Just use the USB cable that comes with the Kindle (and also is a wall charger). This USB has a capacity of one and a half GB, and with the average electronic item weighing in at about 1MB, that equates to about 1500 ‘books’. Not bad.

Can’t hold the book because you’re cooking, or just want to get a little shut-eye but not fall asleep? Have the Kindle 2 read the novel to you. Turning text to speech has the promise of making reading more fluid than people have been exposed to. Read in the car or bus then  use your headphones and listen to the book while walking. You can read the book in the hammock, and as the sun sets, continue to listen to the story as you lie there sipping your mint julep.

My daughter loves the on screen dictionary display, as it shows the definition of a word by simply hovering over it, AND the speech feature then can let her know how it’s pronounced.

Oh did I mention that Amazon originally debuted the Kindle at $360 in February, but now it’s at $299 in anticipation of the holiday season.  It’s their number one seller, so I doubt it’ll get cheaper anytime soon.  I paid the full $360 for mine as I couldn’t resist having the latest and greatest (I’m a sucker for high-tech immediate gratification),  but I’ll be picking up one of those $299 ones for my mom as an early Christmas gift. She is going on a 4 week trip to visit her sister in Australia and those flights are real looong.

When you think about writers, the image isn’t always of cutting edge technology, yet throughout history, authors and publishers have been at the leading edge of technological leaps that have changed history. Some of the devices that have had enormous impact on modern society: the printing press, the typewriter and the personal computer are classic examples of game-changing technology that has either been driven by authors or found writers among the early adopters. The next wave of change is beginning to hit the publishing industry.

When you visit a bookstore, look around and you’ll see rows of books. When you think about the economics of this arrangement, there are definitely improvements to be made. It costs a lot of money to print all of these books, ship them to bookstores all over the country and dispose of any unsold inventory. Consumers have to drive to the store, buy a book, carry it around if they wish to read it, and then find a place to store it in their home. The economics of the situation dictate that only popular books are stocked. Now think about how that book begins its life: as an electronic file, text written by an author.

It isn’t a stretch to see the next wave of technological innovation that’s beginning to wash over the publishing industry. E-books are beginning to hit the big time and ebook creation is suddenly on the radar of every publisher, content provider and author. The concept of e-books has been around for years and the idea held tremendous potential. People dreamed of being able to carry entire libraries around with them instead of having to lug individual books. The first generation of e-book readers began to make an impact with the early adopter crowd, but as the technology has improved, they’re reaching the mainstream. The Amazon Kindle, Mobipocket, Sony Reader and even Apple’s iPhone have proved themselves to be effective and affordable electronic book platforms, capable of carrying hundreds of books at a time. Amazon and other online retailers have been ramping up e-book distribution and Google has been busy scanning public domain books into electronic format.

Publishing, it seems, is now coming full circle. The electronic file submitted by an author no longer has to go through a convoluted process to end up on the printed page, but now reaches its readers the same way it began. Freed up from the cost of stocking inventory, online retailers can distribute e-books from a vast range of authors, regardless of whether they’re likely to sell a million copies or just ten.

The Amazon Kindle, Amazon’s foray into hand held e-book reading devices, was released in November. The reader splashed onto the scene with a cover photo on Newsweek and Amazon hoped the Kindle would do for digital-reading-on-the-go what the ipod did for digital music. That is, make it a viable concept and business, replete with enthusiastic users.

However, there’s not a whole lot of evangelizing going on around the Kindle.

Some people appreciate the palm-sized smallness of the Kindle, while others deride its small keyboard and awkwardly designed casing. The opinions are mixed and there are plenty of them.

Once you have the Kindle, you can visit Amazon’s e-book store, where you can purchase brand new books for $9.99, which is a discount from what new hardcovers generally cost. Even though in this proposition you don’t end up owning a tangible tree-made book, you get to enjoy the reading of it. But that brings up a principal issue for e-book readers.

Do people want to read books the same way they read blogs and news stories, via a computer screen? A lot of the issues that people have had with the Kindle–that’s it’s ugly, that the black and white screen isn’t up to par, that the keyboard and scroll wheel aren’t that well designed, and that it’s too expensive–may stem from the fact that reading books on the Kindle e-book reader is not the same as reading a paper-bound book. The experience is not the same.

You get the information, but part of the joy is stripped from the experience. Another issue is that we expect a lot out of our hand held devices these days. The iphone has set a new standard–and that’s a phone.

An e-book reader should have a high degree of interactivity with other Kindle owners that are friends. It should look as advanced and appealing as an iphone. It should be able to do most of what a high-tech cell phone can do in addition to the e-book reading functionality. It seems like it does too little if you can’t use it to access maps, the yellow pages, and search engines. For $399, it should do some of these things. At the very least, you should be able to do Internet searches.

Computers have become so intertwined in our work and personal lives, that it seems logical that an e-book reader would be the next step. And maybe it is. But it shouldn’t just be an e-book reader. It should be an e-book reader and a cell phone. I think the Kindle’s designers misread the psychology of an e-book reader.

It’s not bibliophiles who will be using this thing. It’s the geek who wants his hand-held device to do more for him than he expects, and that he can wow his friends who don’t have one.

Surprisingly or unsurprisingly, the Amazon Kindle is sold out. Or at least that’s what it says on Amazon.

The Kindle makes sense on paper. But that’s the problem.

The Amazon Kindle eBook Reader is coolest gift this Christmas! It uses the latest in electronic paper technology that it looks like the real thing! Smaller than your average magazine and capable of holding over 1500 books, it easy to why it is the top favorite this Christmas.

Buy Kindle eBook Reader and discover that turning the page is effortless in either hand. Kindle displays text in 6 different font sizes. Simply press the text key and choose the size that works for you. You can even take a break and let Kindle do the reading for you. With Kindles new text to speech function you can switch from reading to listening on the fly. When you are ready, pick it back up and start reading, right from where you left off.

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The Kindle eBook Reader is the iPhone of eBook Readers!  It is the coolest and hippest reader on the market, it is the eBook reader that everyone wants!    The device so popular it is easily the number one eBook Reader in the US and its recent launch in the UK means that it is only a matter of time before it enjoys global success!

What seals the deal for the Amazon Kindle is its connectivity.  It connects to the internet in exactly the same way as your cell phone does.  This is so much better than the Sony Reader which relies on a USB connection to an internet enabled PC.  ”Text to Speech” is another great feature that the Amazon Kindle has that the Sony Reader is missing.  It allows for books to be read out loud.  A great way to help the kids with their reading!!

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The Barnes and Noble “Nook” eBook Reader is getting some buzz, and for good reason. Here’s some reasons why the Barnes and Noble “Nook” is going to be a hot gift item this holiday season.

The Nook Allows You To Lend Books To Others- Along with the fact that you can store over 1,000 books on your device with the default memory card, the Nook also allows you to lend books to others. All they need is to have the “nook app”. This means the lendee can download the app on their Blackberry touch, or iPhone, etc, and enjoy the book for up to two weeks. The Barnes and Noble Nook Syncs With Everything- Or just about…it uses the new Google software, Android, which allows it to sync with your lap top, iPhone, Blackberry, and 100′s of other devices. It’s really the first of it’s kind and should be a hit on the market. The Nook Has A Color Navigation Screen- Where the Kindle, Kindle 2, and Sony Reader just have gray-tones on their navigation screen, the Nook boasts a full color navigation screen. So you can peruse titles of books, magazines and other publications in full color.

So there’s a few good reasons the Nook is going to be a strong fighter in the war of eBook Readers this holiday season.

Barnes and Noble smartly priced the Nook comparable to the Kindle 2 as well. In fact, they are priced the same at the moment, we’ll have to see how long that lasts.

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