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Tuesday marks the official start-ship date for Amazon’s Kindle 2 — the next generation of the e-retailing giant’s red-hot e-reading device first unveiled in New York on Feb. 9….
…For e-reading observers such as Eric Ginsberg, vice president of marketing for BookSwim, the answer is a little more complicated than whose device does what best….
J. Pekala
/ December 13, 2009Yes. I love it. Got a Kindle 1 when it first came out, and many books later, I now get annoyed when I can’t find a title in Kindle format. I learned to live with the well-known drawbacks. Kindle 2 fixes most of those problems. Not all, but this is certainly a good second version in such a short product cycle.
People who love to read get it.
Some pros for me
- small, thin and light. thin!
- no accidental clicks when I pick it up.
- more space. although honestly, I wasn’t out of space on my Kindle 1. I had about 6 pages of books on it. With the backspace fix for deleting, getting rid of samples and non-keepers was easy. Don’t people know you never really lose anything?
- looks great compared to Kindle 1 (as does almost anything)
- a little sharper display, a little faster page turns. Seems slighter easier to read at an angle
- great idea with the joystick
some cons for me
- no folders (maybe soon?)
- more menu items for the joystick would be nice
- screen could be bigger, even with the existing form factor.
- no color choices. not e-ink, but the device body.
- no color e-ink yet. not a big deal, I’m sure it’s coming
- an LCD or LED backlight one day would be nice
All of the cons are very minor to me. I really love the new form factor, and the bottom line is how much I like to read on the Kindle, not how much the person sitting next to me likes it.
I carried my Kindle 1 on every vacation and trip during its reign. The Kindle 2 is welcome upgrade.
Well, that’s my quick review. I’ve only had Kindle 2 a few days, so I hope it is as reliable as Kindle 1 has been for me.
Happy reading.