Tag: KINDLE2

Do people read e-books more slowly than printed ones? A small survey by Nielsen Norman Group alleges that we may process digital words at a lazier pace than we do those on the page, but, when further analyzed, the results of the survey raise questions about the participants themselves. A group of 24 volunteers "who like reading and frequently read books" were asked to read Hemingway short ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Reception to AT&T's new data plans, and the elimination of an unlimited option, has so far been mixed, but some ornery subscribers have, of course, expressed dismay and anger. Steve Jobs admirably responded to an e-mail from one unhappy customer, succinctly replying, "I think it's going to work out just fine for almost all ...

Readers, we had our doubts. Sure, we've been covering the Kindle (and its e-reader spawn) ever since it first debuted, but the paper apologists among us didn't foresee the pixel trumping the pulp any time soon. Yet on Christmas Day, it happened: Amazon sold more Kindle books than physical ones. Ring the death knell for the printing press. We can imagine that the majority of these digitally ...

DON'T WANT: A dysfunctional digital book reader Barnes & Noble Nook, $259 Chances are you won't find one of these anyway, as they miraculously sold out the moment they were announced and are back-ordered still. But should you be inspired to get in line with the rest of the deluded wishful-thinkers, don't. We wanted to love the Nook with all our heart, but alas we're not only ...

The only thing we hate worse than seeing other people toting around lackluster, craptastic gear is finding it underneath our own Christmas tree. That may seem like materialistic nitpicking in a season that's about generosity -- and it is -- but what really inspires us is the idea of always getting the absolute most out of your money, and the joy of giving (or receiving) a truly excellent item. ...

The Amazon Kindle2 offers dozens of useful keyboard shortcuts, but here are a few of the particularly nifty ones: To take a screen shot, hit Alt+Shift+G. A .gif file will appear in your Documents folder, which you can access when connected to a computer. Play Minesweeper by hitting Shift+Alt+M from the Home page. Hit M to mark, R to restart, and use the controller to move around. Refresh ...

The Kindle should be a pretty straight forward proposition, but this just goes to show you how sometimes folks can stir up controversy even with something as innocuous as an e-book reader. First there was the hassle with the Writers Guild over text-to-speech, and then Amazon threatened MobileRead with legal action for merely linking to software they didn't take kindly too. And now we're hearing ...

You know how it is: Amazon refreshes the Kindle, makes some upgrades, and everybody's happy. Almost. It seems that a small but vocal minority is really, really not into the way that fonts are rendered on the new device. For real. Y'see, the newest iteration of the e-reader sports font smoothing algorithms and sixteen levels of gray (as opposed to four levels on the original). For sure, these ...

It's a good time to be a Sony Reader owner. Google has just made 500,000 titles from its massive public-domain book collection accessible to users of Sony's popular e-book reader. This is the first time Google has made these resources available to such a device, effectively pushing Sony's Reader past Amazon's Kindle (which offers about 240,000 titles) in terms of books available for the ...

Either Amazon's $41,916 list price is a mistake or Malcolm Barnes is finally about to buy that BMW. At $137 a page, we'd recommend you read and re-read the sample for Practical Variable Speed Drives and Power Electronics a few times before pulling the trigger, Sparky. ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos showed up at Jon Stewart's pad the other day to discuss the Kindle 2, and Jon seemed fairly unimpressed. They were just finally getting into a groove when Bezos dropped the price bomb, and then their fleeting segment was over. It's embedded after the break. Amazon VP Ian Freed has also been chatting up the device, but in a more technical nature. On designing the Kindle he ...

We were able to get our hands on an Amazon Kindle 2 a few days before today's ship date. The next-generation e-book reader is lighter and thinner, has a longer battery life, and now includes text-to-speech capability, but for $359, is it worth upgrading from the original? More importantly, is it ready to replace your books? (Possibly, if you plan on reading or buying 72 books in the next ...

The newest generation of the Kindle, Amazon's digital reading device, can now read text aloud, and authors are not happy about it, USA Today reports. While the original Kindle was able to display the texts of whatever book a user downloaded, the Kindle 2 is additionally capable of reading those downloaded books to the user, albeit it in a robotic monotone. This capability, and the potential to ...

Say goodbye to the Speak-and-Spell look of Amazon's Kindle, because this morning the company's co-founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, and author Stephen King unveiled the Kindle 2, a slimmer, slicker, and lighter successor to the original Kindle that launched about 14 months ago (and which has already become one of Oprah's favorite devices). Besides the size and weight shrink, the main new feature on ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Amazon_to_host_press_event_at_library'; It could mean anything that Amazon is hosting a press event Monday morning, February 9th at the Morgan Library here in New York City. Maybe they just want to talk about how much they enjoy huge archives of original manuscripts and the smell of aged paper. Whatever the case may be, the last time we went to an Amazon ...