The settings also show a Voice Guide feature that makes navigation easier for the vision impaired with spoken menus and pages. Amazon lists text-to-speech as an experimental feature.
Aside from changing the voice gender and speaking rate, there are no settings. The speakers are back-firing so putting the Kindle down on a flat surface helps reflect the sound and appear louder. The Kindle's speakers are sufficiently loud for this task and there is also a headphone jack on the bottom. These settings also control the Text-to-Speech settings. Yes, that's actually an upside! Less eye strain after hours of reading and it is readable in just about any lighting condition you might encounter indoors or out 8. Fortunately this is not anything like burn-in and goes away completely after a page turn/refresh.Īs for the upsides of the E Ink display. That is to say that some faint elements from the previous page or menu that just closed are present. Also, every once-in-a-while I will see ghosting. For example, page turning is not instant and takes a second. E Ink displays only use power/work when changing display items and turning pages 6. That's just the E Ink Pearl display in action. At first I thought the 6-inch screen had some overlay plastic on it as it was displaying an astoundingly crisp and sharp black setup image on it when I opened the box. The Kindle is remarkably thin (1/3rd of an inch) and lightweight (8.5oz). Though you won't use it much with the one month battery life. Props to Amazon for including a USB cable that is actually long enough to be useful. Here's my quick and candid unboxing video: I just had to pull a strip like I was opening a FedEx'd document and it opened right up. Spoiler alert: the Kindle does that single function amazingly well.Īs you can expect from the pioneers of Frustation-Free Packaging, the Amazon Kindle is easy to unpack. The Kindle has a different form factor, is in a massively different (lower) price range, uses different technology ( E Ink) and does one thing (reading) really well. The Kindle 3 is not in the same class as the iPad, so don't compare them. What you're about to read is a newcomer's stance on the Kindle 3. I won't be nitpicking about subtle differences between the Kindle 2 and Kindle 3. Note: This review is written from the perspective of someone that has never used any eReader device 5 or tinkered with E Ink devices. I pre-ordered the Kindle 3 for only 139 paired with my all too useful Amazon Prime account 3 and it arrived earlier this month. BINGO! That's impulse buy territory for me. The price tag was announced at 139 USD for a Wi-Fi only version. okay all nice to have but nothing really standing out at me just yet. Thinner and lighter than the last version, a higher contrast screen, more internal memory (4GB). That week Jeff Bezos announced the new Kindle. Holding the phone for hours at a time gets very uncomfortable not to mention the eye strain from looking at that backlit and small screen so long. However, after reading that much on my iPhone it was clear this was not scalable for continued reading purposes. I can dive in for a chapter whenever and wherever. I chalk it up to the pure convenience and ubiquity of my phone. I went from zero regular reading to 500 pages read in a month. Then I read the Zappos book over the next two weeks. By the end of the week I had read the entire book all on my phone. The next time I touched it I purchased a book called Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior while taking the Caltrain to Notifo HQ in Menlo Park. My first Kindle for iPhone experience was a bit shaky.
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Books like "Ruby Best Practices" are not quite conducive to reading on a device that introduces constraints on the taken-for-granted ability to easily flip through pages and line-wraps the crap out of code excerpts. Unfortunately, I was still set in my old ways and purchased technical reference books. When Amazon released Kindle for iPhone, I immediately installed it and to even my own surprise, got suckered into buying several books that night. Kindle 3 loaded up with Hacker Monthly 4 whilst waiting for a cappuccino to cool down at Caffe Roma
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