There was an essay in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday about the Kindle. The story can be found at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kindle&st=cse&oref=slogin (you might need to register to read the essay). I'be been getting e-books since the Rocket ebook which I really liked. I even placed 3rd in a writing contest and have thousands of people read my 99 word short-short story about my worst date which involved Al Hirt and Chicken Burgers! I have a Sony Bookreader which is thin and pretty and powerful, but didn't have enough content (though it would handle PDFs. I recently got a Kindle and like the author of the Times essay, find it ugly and dislike the fragile and easily activated paging controls. What I love about the Kindle is the Amazon content that is available. Sometimes in the rush to list all the features of ebooks, people forget that content is still the driving issue behind ebooks. The good news with a Kindle is that you can load dozens of books on the system and not have to lug their physical versions around. What I miss from my Rocket E-book is backlighting. Backlighting saps the battery, but I would rather have 4 hours with backlighting than 6 hours without. Chauncey On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Fernandes, Fabio (APG) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking for any research you could share that relates to the use of > ebooks and possible user preference on its delivery format (true to text vs. > not). > > Thanks in advance for any insight or documents you can point me to. > > Best, > Fabio Fernandes > > > Fabio L. Fernandes > User Experience Design Manager, CUA > > Cengage Learning, Digital Solutions Group > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
