Comments on: AmazonKindle eBook Reader

By: Ebook Search Engine

Ebook Search Engine — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:12:45 +0000

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By: Clay Jones

Clay Jones — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 +0000

I probably won’t buy one till the price comes down, but allot has been figured out about the Kindle already.

Kindle files are actually MobiPocket files with a unique PID and and extra bit turned on. People already know how to buy content from any other Mobipocket store and put them on the Kindle.

Kindle can natively load any MobiPocket file that doesn’t have DRM (Digital Rights Management) tagged on, so all of the stuff from LDS.ORG will load.

MobiPocket has a free converter that you can use to convert PDFs, DOCs, HTML, etc etc into MobiPocket format and load it onto a Kindle.

Amazon provide free document conversion via email. You add the content as an attachment to a special email address and they respond with web link to the converted doc. You can then upload the doc to your Kindle via USB.

Amazon provides a pay for conversion that converts the doc and automatically uploads it to your Kindle for at 10 cents per.

I’m not too worried about content anymore, just that upfront price.

By: Jacob Brunson

Jacob Brunson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:31:29 +0000

$400 is kind of a lot of money. For $400, you can get a OLPC (and donate another at the same time), which has a display mode which is very good for reading text, even in direct light.

The price is such that you would have to do an incredible amount of reading before it pays for itself, which means the device is more about convenience than savings.

But without support for external file formats, I can’t say the device is extremely convenient either.

By: Jake Munson

Jake Munson — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:56:02 +0000

I’m pretty excited about this, even though I won’t buy it yet…I’ll wait until something better and cheaper comes, but I think this one will finally pave the way for a healthy e-reader industry. I hope we can get the Scriptures onto these.