Should you buy an Amazon Kindle?
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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To be honest, I don’t know if you should step up and preorder an Amazon Kindle, not least because I haven’t got a clue who you are. I do know who I am (most days, anyway) and when I arrived at work this morning and flipped on the old news machine, I admit I got all excited and instinctively thought “I want one”. (To be fair, and completely off topic, I have the same reaction every time I see a pony or a pint of beer or a free seat on the tube, so it’s a frequent occurrence.)
The point is, the UK finally gets the Kindle. All these years without it, and our dreams have finally been answered! Time to place that preorder…
Or, not. To start, it’s all American — and even if you’re a fan of the New World, that does mean it’ll cost extra in shipping and duties, come with the wrong type of plug, and — as our sister title PC Pro noted — feature an overuse of the letter ‘z’ in the e-books.
Even if you can overcome such horrors, there’s also the question of whether or not there’s a better option out there.
PC Pro’s resident e-reader expert Stuart Turton — hey, we all have to be good at something — gets misty eyed describing the Sony Reader Touch, and with its clever touch screen it does look rather lovely.
But the £250 price tag puts it at the high end of the range. That said, the low end of the range kicks in at about £180 for less shiny versions - still rather costly for what you get, given the low tech version (as in, books) still seem to work pretty well.
And, while the Kindle has a sweet spot on price, especially with the included wireless, the books are rather pricey, and lining up to a closed off e-book system seems silly when Google’s trying to digitise the heck out of everything.
So, what to do? Buy a Kindle? Buy a Sony Touch Reader? Go down to the local charity shop and get something made out of dead trees?
For the time being, I’ll be opting for the latter, but I’m looking forward to someone — be it Amazon, Sony or some other gadget maker — changing my mind, and soon.
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Comment by Sharon - October 8, 2009 on 11:59 am
I love my Sony eReader Nicole and would love to play with the new touch one - ah well.
As for the Kindle - even if I didn’t have my Sony I would still be waiting for the 2nd round of Kindle issues at the very least. Why chould us UKers pay for something to be posted from the US and have the wrong plug plus incorrect spelling? I think Amazon are testing the waters before committing to a proper UK release.
Comment by - October 31, 2009 on 10:40 am
Well if your spend on books is about 10,000 rupees a year then you should seriously consider buying the Kindle. This is because at 259$ which is about Rs. 12,150 approx and assuming the digital books cost you about Rs.4000 a year. After 2 years your buy would become a profitable one. Well this is from the cost perspective but from a techie perspective and just as a gadget enthusiast we might go back on our statement and recommend buying the kindle as of now there is zero cost of data download besides the cost of the actual digital book. So in essence kindle if you are a book reader!
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