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Device Kindle Review
By: M. Boone
Great e-reader!
The Device Kindle is a great purchase for anyone who loves reading and will read a lot. I just received it last week and already I am reading more for pleasure than I have in the past few years (and I ordered it because I made a commitment to read more for my own pleasure, since graduate school has a tendency to take over everything you love about leisure time).
The reading takes an adjustment period, especially if you love not only reading but the physical experience of being engrossed in a book. The Device Kindle is thinner than a magazine, so it’s awkward to hold – not in the physical sense (actually it’s far less awkward to hold than a book) but in the sense that if you’re used to reading books this will feel less than genuine to you. Over time, though, it begins to feel super-convenient. I ride the subway a lot and I rarely take out a book because on a short ride, finding my page and keeping the book steady is more hassle than I want. With the Device Kindle, I just whip it out and turn it on, it turns to the page I just finished read, and I can read for 15-20 minutes and then just put it to sleep again. Easy!
It took me a little time to learn to get lost in the Device Kindle like I get lost in books, but after a few days when I adjusted to it it just happened. I was immersed in the story and not in the newness of holding the Device Kindle. The e-ink screen really is more like the page of a book than a computer screen – there’s no backlight, ad the words look like they are printed on top of the screen instead of behind it the way a computer looks. It’s a very comfortable reading experience, although of course you will need lots of light to read just like you would with a book. I don’t have a little booklight because I have my own room and I just use my bedside lamp. Pages turn quickly, which was important for me because I am a fast reader.
The reason I gave the Device Kindle 4 stars instead of 5 is the PDF support. I bought this about 80% because I wanted to read books and 20% because I wanted to see if the PDF support would be good enough to chuck my stacks and stacks of scientific articles and just put them all on the Kindle. Alas, it is not. The Device Kindle basically reproduces a PDF that is readable on a 21″ computer screen to it’s 6″ display by squashing it down. You can’t make the text larger like you can on regular books, and you can’t zoom. The only thing you can do is rotate, which makes some PDFs readable but then you’re in the awkward position of having to press the next and previous page buttons vertically instead of horizontally. It’s just not even worth it.
Oh, and if you’re comparing the Device Kindle to the nook…there aren’t any fundamental differences between the two of them. The nook is thicker and slightly smaller on the face; most of the bells and whistles that distinguish it from the Device Kindle won’t be important to book readers (their biggest selling point was that I could listen to music while reading the book…why would I want to do that?) The largest difference was the touch screen at the bottom, but once you’re doing the primary thing that e-readers do (allow you to read books) it becomes a non-issue, as it’s only for navigation.
It’s actually slightly more awkward to navigate using the touch screen because you have to look between both screens, whereas with the Device Kindle you just use the directional rocker in the planned direction. Easy cake. I would say check to be sure that you don’t have a large library of ePUB books that you want to read, and the nook has much better PDF support so if you want to read PDFs really badly, either get the nook or go for the Device Kindle DX. Also browse the holdings of Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com before you buy. I found that there were far more books I wanted to read that were offered by Amazon for the Device Kindle than by B&N for the nook.
Anyway, this is a great buy!
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