Comments on: How long until Amazon does a Kindle-cellphone hybrid? Might the right display tech be the key? http://www.teleread.org/2008/08/04/so-how-long-until-amazon-does-a-kindle-cellphone-hybrid-might-the-right-display-tech-be-the-key/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:52:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Binko Barnes http://www.teleread.org/2008/08/04/so-how-long-until-amazon-does-a-kindle-cellphone-hybrid-might-the-right-display-tech-be-the-key/comment-page-1/#comment-868318 Binko Barnes Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:05:52 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/08/04/so-how-long-until-amazon-does-a-kindle-cellphone-hybrid-might-the-right-display-tech-be-the-key/#comment-868318 More reasons not to spend too much money on ebooks in the proprietary kindle format. I have great fun scouring the web for free ebooks to read on my kindle. Since I like SciFi the freebies from Tor alone will keep me amused for a few weeks. Another trick I use is to download the free sample for 20 or 30 books. The free sample is long enough that I can read it at my leisure and well determine if I'll like a book. Then I go check out the ones I like best at the library. I love my kindle. But I doubt I'm using it in quite the way Amazon intended. I'm just not going to spend big bucks on ebooks until I know that I can read them on any of the many possible future screens or devices or technologies. More reasons not to spend too much money on ebooks in the proprietary kindle format.

I have great fun scouring the web for free ebooks to read on my kindle. Since I like SciFi the freebies from Tor alone will keep me amused for a few weeks.

Another trick I use is to download the free sample for 20 or 30 books. The free sample is long enough that I can read it at my leisure and well determine if I’ll like a book. Then I go check out the ones I like best at the library.

I love my kindle. But I doubt I’m using it in quite the way Amazon intended. I’m just not going to spend big bucks on ebooks until I know that I can read them on any of the many possible future screens or devices or technologies.

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.org/2008/08/04/so-how-long-until-amazon-does-a-kindle-cellphone-hybrid-might-the-right-display-tech-be-the-key/comment-page-1/#comment-867988 Mike Cane Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:54:55 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/08/04/so-how-long-until-amazon-does-a-kindle-cellphone-hybrid-might-the-right-display-tech-be-the-key/#comment-867988 A Kindlephone?!!? kPhone?! David, that idea is just downright evil! A Kindlephone?!!? kPhone?! David, that idea is just downright evil!

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