I suppose this is a fair point. When I ordered my Kindle the notification basically said you may be waiting a while because there is such a backlog of orders. It is said to be the number 1 selling item on Amazon for a while. In that context, even if Amazon could sell it cheaper I suppose while it is selling so well then there isn't a lot of incentive to do so.
The colour e-ink looks like a good thing. What I could really do with is a bigger one. I could buy the DX from the American site because it is not available from the UK site as yet. The Kindle is fine for normal books but the technical books particularly my collection of Manning books on PDF are hard to read on the Kindle. Perhaps it might be too specialised, I don't know but I got to a point that I was fed up of carrying so many heavy programming tomes around with me and am kind of experimenting with trying to go completely paperless with my technical books. A reading tablet which was A4 size would be great for technical books but I understand someone just wanting to read novels would find that too bulky. For my part I think my needs are not so different from say a student who has a lot of big reference books which are not novels and benefit from a larger form factor. Even the iPad looked smaller than I was expecting when I first saw one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
