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Loool, man i completely agree with you. Kindles Hardware (including of course the screen) is really top notch IMHO. But the software is.. well.. crap.
The amazing thing is, that even their bookstore is supernice compared to the selection menu. The only thing i would need is one other option on top (Sort by: author, title, collection and FOLDER) Then i'd be happy.
btw. The first thing I did when i got my kindle was installing a custom screensaver (with the cover of the book I'm currently reading), and an English-German Dictionary (from dict.cc). After that i was somewhat pacified. If i can also get the folder structure to show (and filenames as titles), then i'm completely happy. Will be a matter of weeks i guess.
And best look at it that way: 97% of the time I use an ebook reader I am reading a book. For that, the screen (contrast, readability, speed etc..) matters. Thats very good on the kindle. 0.5% I'm looking up words on the dictionary since I'm not a native speaker (solved with dict.cc). 0.5% is choosing the next book to read (crap i admit) and 2% is other stuff (web? creating collections etc.).
Oh and 100% of the time when i'm NOT using it, it shows the picture i want.
In my optinion (and for that price!) I think we can be satisfied and overlook the shortcomings. And who knows... maybe Amazon will create better firmware some day ;-)
Oh and someday I met a random guy on the street who happened to have a kindle 3 and he mentioned something about buying ebooks, removing the DRM and share it (and the cost) with his buddy as he would also do with an ordinary book. Complete twisted morality if you ask me. But then again, its just hearsay ;-)
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