On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Ashwin Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> someone mentioned color ? - http://goo.gl/RoDU > this is tempting. > ~ashwin > The nook got universally bad reviews for their previous version. Will have to see what they bring to the new one. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Mahesh Murthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we really need specialised devices? > > My 12-year old is an android geek and does all his reading, surfing, video > watching and listening on his $200 Samsung Galaxy 3, where he downloads and > stores all the books, videos and music that interests him. And Kindle is > just another app on it. I cannot imagine taking in all that bright screens every day for more than 12 hours. The Kindle uses the e-ink so the screen has absolutely no brightness, it appears like a paper and you can only view it under the light. It makes the Kindle a much better device for reading. I do like that I can do focussed reading and not multi-task.
