Felicia Day Reviews the Amazon Kindle
Felicia Day is the very excellent actress from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long blog, The Guild and many other great performances. She’s also a self-professed geek girl and gadget lover. Her father bought her an Amazon Kindle a couple of weeks ago and she did a review of it on her blog:
She loves it, but she can also recognize the silly aspects of it. Here is her list of things that she loves and hates about the kindle.
Positive Aspects:
- Easy to read screen.
- Free wireless to download books.
- Great sync between the Kindle and the iPhone app.
- Light and great for travelers.
- Newspaper subscriptions that are inexpensive and paper-free.
- No embarrassing cover art when you read trashy novels. Feel free to indulge that cheap romance novel habit to your heart’s content.
- People want to ogle and touch your new toy.
Negative Aspects:
- No touch screen.
- It’s slow considering what it is doing.
- Disorganized home page.
- The web looks awful in black and white.
- No PDF support.
- You have to pay to put your own documents on the Kindle.
When Amazon released a FREE Kindle iPhone application, I immediately downloaded it and bought several books from Amazon. I have really enjoyed reading books on my iPhone and I have no desire now to buy a Kindle (again). I don’t think they ever wanted to sell me a Kindle. I think they just wanted to sell me books all along.
You can download the iPhone application here:
Being able to read a novel whenever a moment of boredom arrives is a luxury that only those willing to carry big purses used to be able to enjoy. Now, I can pull out my phone and read a book no matter where I am. I still carry the big purse, though…