Have you heard about Amazon's ebook device, the Kindle?

[thewayne]

Here's a amalgamation of quotes by Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, where he would say one thing and the Kindle Terms of Service would say another. For example:

Act I: The act of buying

When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.

Jeff Bezos, Open letter to Author’s Guild, 2002

You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.

Amazon, Kindle Terms of Service, 2007

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-reading

The Kindle is an interesting device, though I haven't handled one. But it's loaded with gobbs of DRM crap, apparently can't handle graphics (as in web comics) very well, and I think the case is pretty ugly. I love the Sony ebook reader, but like the Kindle, they're over-priced IMO. Bring one in at $200, let me upload and download to it, get rid of the WiFi AFAIC, and I'd be happy.

Comments

[zentraedi-shep.livejournal.com]

My biggest problem with all those ebook readers is that they are really a step back... iPods can handle most types of sound and video, smartphones are just the same and add internet and phonecalls to it... Why for the world's sake can't the companies just add a PDF reader to all that? They can't tell me that this would be technologically impossible...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I replied to your post but the system ate it. I'm not a fan of an iPod for reading, I've never liked the iPod interface. I have a Palm Pilot TX which has a beautiful screen for reading, unfortunately it seems to have severe design flaws as I'm two for two for having had to send them back for replacement.