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Just got my 3G version 3 days ago; my first eReader device. I voted kinda awesome.
My biggest gripe is the web browser. I had expected better. I guess by calling it "experimental" that means Amazon can disclaim any problems. I can't search in Google or in Yahoo because it freezes up every time I type the first letter into the search box. Can't get my email off Yahoo either. I could live with no video support and no color, but come on, no search engines that work? I get repeated freeze ups and a couple of spontaneous re-boots. My Palm cellphone has no mouse either, but makes a way better web browser than the Kindle.
Another concern, because I haven't lived with it for a long time yet, is its durability. Will the page buttons really stand up to thousands and thousands of uses? What of the reader itself when (not if) it drops on the tiled floor?
It is kinda awesome though. Book downloads are way, way faster than I expected. The biggest book I think I downloaded so far is the Kindle Bible. About 6-7 seconds was all it took. Most books in under 5 seconds. Being my first eReader, I just assumed that it took minutes to get a book.
The Text-to-Speech is pretty cool. I used it for the first chapter of Heart of Darkness and got used to the inflection-less voice in no time. I read the balance of the book the conventional way and got totally used to the eReader experience. The integrated dictionary was helpful and simple the couple of times that I used it.
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