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Kindle Amazon Customer Reviews…
Works as advertised
By: David Overoye “nightdave”
Had mine for a month now…Does pretty much what its supposed to do. Download of books is flawless – no issues. Appreciate features like adjusting the text size. Have gotten use to what each button does – ie home versus menu. Very readable. I use it on the bus on the way to work, and am able to see it with a variety of lighting conditions from direct light through the window to bus light in the evening.
On the critical side, the buttons are too stiff for my liking. The “5 way” selector is a bit annoying – not real easy to manipulate and the back/next take a stronger push than I’d like.
Have a newspaper subscription (LA Times)..its ok..not great. There’s no size difference in headlines – all articles have the same weight, so you don’t have any way to visually assess the relative weight of each article. Navigating through sections works, but again isn’t great…and I miss the pictures!
Overall a good product. No regrets on purchase, but can still be improved…
A chief pleasure
By: Matthew da Silva
I got my new Kindle Amazon 2 over two weeks ago and I use it everyday. Every morning when I wake up, I switch on the wireless feature, update my blog subscription to [..], and use the Text to Speech feature and have my favorite blog read to me as I shave. Trust me, this is five times awesome. It is like having my own custom-made news show everyday. In general, the Text to Speech feature is incredibly useful so long as the text in question is mostly prose without a whole lot of dialogue because the voice does not always pause in the right spots.
My main concern before purchasing this was the cost of the device but then I browsed for books. While it is true that newer books only benefit from a moderate reduction in price, older books (you know, the ones written by good authors) are cheap with prices ranging from ridiculously low (less than [..] for a complete anthology of all GK Chesterton’s works.
That is over 400 works — including novels) [..] or even free for some public domain works. In addition to the Chesterton, I also purchased the complete works of HP Lovecraft, the complete works of William Shakespeare (including sonnets), a parrallel Latin-English Vulgate, the Douhay Rheims Bible, the entire Suma Theologica, and several other books the grand total of which would have easily[..] for their paperback versions and, weighing over 80 lbs, shipping would have been crazy expensive. I got all of these tomes for cheap and can carry the entire library in one hand.
The wireless feature works very well. It is free after all but do not expect to be able to use it outside the US. While it functions perfectly in Hawaii, it did not work in the American territories of Guam and Saipan.
My wife also proclaims this device has already improved my intelligence and made me “insightful and engaging”. Whatever that means…
We are both writers of the Nanowrimo sort and look forward to publishing in this format.
Amazing. Useful. Indispensable.
My only complaint is that I cannot use this wonderful device to display the other Asian languages I speak (Chinese and Japanese). If it had this one very important feature, I would have given it a perfect score. But purchasing it has allowed me to recoup the cost of its purchase in super cheap books, and has more than earned its keep by giving me the convenience of carrying an library in my hand.
Kindle Amazon Highly Recommend!
