Comments on: Amazon Kindle in India?

By: Gaurav Mishra

Gaurav Mishra — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:47:28 +0000

If a person is reading technology books or referring a Manual , ebooks rock as they can provide a lot of hand on tools that the traditional method doesn`t.

But What about serious reading which people do in non-serious time like reading before going to bed, Reading on vactaion etc .

I never felt a need of buying a ebook as it`s all available on internet, See esnips.com (I am not very sensitive to publishing industry too, :P)

Still would be interesting to watch the growth of Amazon Kindle in india, 🙂

By: Manu

Manu — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:56:01 +0000

Hey! There’s something wrong with the comment counter. Unless my comments don’t count 😛

By: Manu

Manu — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:53:10 +0000

ebook readers have been hindered from gaining wider acceptance due to many reasons. One of the main being the screens they use. For a specialized device meant to do only one thing, the screen resolution and size of ebook readers was nowhere near the quality of the LCDs found on even the ultra-lightweight laptops. That caused too much eye strain when trying to use the readers for any meaningful length of time. Also, reading a novel on the small screen is one thing, but trying to read a technical book where you want to see more information in one scan, the small screen size, IMO, didn’t cut it.

However this Kindle looks like it has a good screen, a new type of screen that resembles a book’s page more closely and the wifi support is great. I still wish they had put a bigger screen on it 😉 I am still going to try it out and see how good/bad it is.