Regular readers of my various blogs know that I am quite fond of my Kindle. I'm a little too prone to whipping it out of my (ridiculously overstuffed) purse to show to people, although most of them wind up fascinated by its display and Whispernet technology. Say what you will about the ugly white rectangle, it's got game.
Unfortunately, it's remained an ugly white rectangle in its newest incarnation, debuting this morning (probably as I type!) in NYC, along with a new novel by Stephen King uploaded. (Since King has been trying out new kinds of text transfer for a long time, this isn't really a surprise.) I am glad to see that Cole Haan has designed a few snazzy leather covers for it, since I'm way over the cheap Naugahyde one that comes with the Old Kindle.
Still, New Kindle is skinny, and sleeker than Old Kindle. But when I asked some Tweeps whether or should get New Kindle or an iPhone, two of them whose opinions I regard highly answered without hesitation "iPhone."
We've all been hearing a lot about how the new apps and the cool screen and the portability make the iPhone the new eReader. Lots and lots of "young people" will be reading on it. I get it, I get it. But will they be reading entire novels on it? History books? Or just blog entries?
I'm not sure I'm ready to give up a page-sized screen, yet. But that's just me. What about you? Will you snap up a New Kindle? Rely on your iPhone? Use both? I'd love to know...
I have a Sony Reader and an iPhone and I use both separately. The iPhone would be fun to have books on just as a last resort, but I'd think reading extensively on that screen would hurt my eyes. That's the thing I love about the Sony Reader, the screen doesn't hurt my eyes! (And it accepts tons of different file formats unlike the Kindle and it doesn't look straight out of the 80's computing age!)
Posted by: S. Krishna | February 09, 2009 at 07:37 AM
You and me both!
Posted by: Kathy | February 10, 2009 at 07:43 AM