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Originally Posted by Hadrien
The Kindle does seem to look a bit better on the Newsweek cover...
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Yeah, it does look a bit better than that prototype photo we've seen a million times, but it's still just way too big. One of the big benefits of the current crop of Readers is that they're really not much larger than the screen alone, and are very portable. I'm not sure the kindle would fit comfortably into any bag that I carry on a regular basis, so just like all my paper books it would stay at home.
And now I just have to vent: dedicated readers are great because they don't do anything but display books. They don't distract you with incoming messages, potential wikipedia searches, stores for browsing, etc. I'd rather use my computer to do all those things on a nice, full-color, fast display. And I don't like reading on my computer because there are so many distractions. It looks to me like the kindle is doing nothing very well, since it will be a sub-standard browsing and email device, and a sub-standard reader. Bleh.