Register Guidelines E-Books Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Go Back   MobileRead Forums > E-Book General > News

Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 08-19-2010, 08:42 PM   #1
Nate the great
Sir Penguin of Edinburgh
Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Nate the great's Avatar
 
Posts: 12,375
Karma: 23555235
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: DC Metro area
Device: Shake a stick plus 1
CVS to carry new e-reader

Lookee:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/19/c...r-this-fall-t/
Nate the great is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 08:57 PM   #2
hrickh
Enthusiast
hrickh began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 49
Karma: 10
Join Date: Aug 2010
Device: Nokia N800, EeePC 4G Surf
$179 for the ereader? Too much.

R.
==
hrickh is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 08-19-2010, 09:11 PM   #3
ardeegee
Maratus speciosus butt
ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
ardeegee's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,292
Karma: 1162698
Join Date: Sep 2009
Device: PRS-350
Quote:
Originally Posted by hrickh View Post
$179 for the ereader? Too much.
Um-- those are $79, not $179. I was at CVS a couple of weeks ago, buying some highly overpriced DVD-Rs during a back-up emergency, and they were on the top shelf on the wall behind the register. I asked the clerk if it was some type of MP3 player (he said that it was) and the price, he scanned it, it came up as $79. I thought it was just a cheap Ipod Touch clone, and assumed that it could be hacked to read ebooks, but he didn't offer to let me read the box, and I didn't ask, because even $79 was more than I was willing to pay for a backlit LCD device. Maybe they were mispriced, maybe they were on sale, but there was no chance I misread the display-- the manager was standing beside the cashier and he guessed $59 before it scanned.

Edit-- looking at the packaging, I don't know if I would have missed seeing it say "book" on the box and showing icons of book covers on the screen, even though I was never closer than several feet from it (I was walking out the door when I noticed them behind the counter and asked about it.) It is possible, I suppose, but at the time I thought that the images on the screen on the device on the box (in the hole in the bottom of the sea) were like Ipod/Iphone/Ipad icons. So I'm not sure about the $79 price. Maybe I saw the reader, and maybe I saw what really was an Ipod clone that looked just about the same on the packaging.

Last edited by ardeegee; 08-19-2010 at 09:23 PM.
ardeegee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 09:17 PM   #4
kindlekitten
Professional Adventuress
kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kindlekitten ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
kindlekitten's Avatar
 
Posts: 13,368
Karma: 50260224
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!)
Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle
preloaded with 150 books!

I can only imagine
kindlekitten is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 09:22 PM   #5
hrickh
Enthusiast
hrickh began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 49
Karma: 10
Join Date: Aug 2010
Device: Nokia N800, EeePC 4G Surf
Quote:
Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
Um-- those are $79, not $179.
I've not walked into a CVS in a while, but they're not even supposed to be available until September.

Regardless, $179 is what's pretty much plastered all over every Google link I can find for it.

R.
==
hrickh is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 08-19-2010, 09:27 PM   #6
ardeegee
Maratus speciosus butt
ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
ardeegee's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,292
Karma: 1162698
Join Date: Sep 2009
Device: PRS-350
Just now reading the specs in the ad-- it has 512 gigabytes of internal memory-- enough to hold 350 books!
ardeegee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 09:32 PM   #7
Ken401
Addict
Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ken401 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Ken401's Avatar
 
Posts: 218
Karma: 417978
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Device: PRS-T1, PRS-950, PRS-505, Nexus 10, Xoom
I know it says 512GB, but that seems like a misprint. Maybe it should read 512MB?
Ken401 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 09:33 PM   #8
pholy
Booklegger
pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pholy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
pholy's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,801
Karma: 7999816
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch
And you can expand(?) that half terabyte to 8 GB by plugging in an SD card...

Quote:
but that seems like a misprint
Doh! Ya think? Obviously CVS knows what they are selling

Last edited by pholy; 08-19-2010 at 09:36 PM. Reason: He beat me to it..
pholy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 09:54 PM   #9
carld
Wizard
carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.carld ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 2,698
Karma: 4748723
Join Date: Dec 2007
Device: Kindle Paperwhite
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken401 View Post
I know it says 512GB, but that seems like a misprint. Maybe it should read 512MB?
Or 512K if it only holds 350 books.

Last edited by carld; 08-19-2010 at 10:00 PM.
carld is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 10:33 PM   #10
ardeegee
Maratus speciosus butt
ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ardeegee ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
ardeegee's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,292
Karma: 1162698
Join Date: Sep 2009
Device: PRS-350
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken401 View Post
I know it says 512GB, but that seems like a misprint. Maybe it should read 512MB?
Yeah, that kind of went without saying. The only way the reader could have 512 GB of flash is if it fell through a time warp from 2015.
ardeegee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-19-2010, 10:38 PM   #11
kjk
.
kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kjk ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 3,408
Karma: 5647231
Join Date: Oct 2008
Device: never enough
Quote:
Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
Yeah, that kind of went without saying. The only way the reader could have 512 GB of flash is if it fell through a time warp from 2015.
But that ad looks like it fell through a time warp from 1985.
kjk is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-20-2010, 02:32 PM   #12
Ravensknight
Serpent Rider
Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Ravensknight ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Ravensknight's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,123
Karma: 10219804
Join Date: Jun 2009
Device: Sony 350; Nook STR; Oasis
agreed.
Reminds me of those Star Wars action figure ads back in the day. [long live Mark Hamil, not so much Christian Hayden!]
Ravensknight is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
CVS $180 reader ppw News 1 08-20-2010 11:32 AM
Best way to carry the Kindle DX as carry-on on a plane? Dr. Drib Amazon Kindle 2 11-25-2009 05:16 PM
Biography Nation, Carry: The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation. IMP. 08 Nov 2007 RWood IMP Books 0 11-08-2007 01:05 PM
New Sony Reader Ads: "Fit 80 books in your carry-on" Alexander Turcic Sony Reader 33 05-08-2007 03:21 AM
Do You Still Carry a PDA? UncleDuke Sony Reader 22 01-21-2007 04:36 PM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:45 AM.


MobileRead.com is a privately owned, operated and funded community.