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ctennenh · 11-20-2007, 09:45 AM

I'm not worried about Amazon owning the market. Aside from bringing ebooks (and especially e-ink) into the public eye, it seems easy enough to get material on and off the Kindle. Some people here have written some incredibly useful tools for converting just about anything into anything else, so once we get to text/rtf/etc we can easily get to html. Sure, most consumers will stick with the formats Amazon gives them, but more manufacturers will mean more competition, and more reason to convince consumers that there's more than one game in town.

I'm interested in how the browser works, however, since I'm sure there will be stops in place to prevent free EVDO browsing. If the Kindle gets WiFi and can manage USB host (or BT, think GPS) then I'll sell my 500 and roll the cost of the Kindle into my next low-end laptop purchase.

11-20-2007, 09:45 AM	#59
ctennenh Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Denver, CO Device: PRS-500	I'm not worried about Amazon owning the market. Aside from bringing ebooks (and especially e-ink) into the public eye, it seems easy enough to get material on and off the Kindle. Some people here have written some incredibly useful tools for converting just about anything into anything else, so once we get to text/rtf/etc we can easily get to html. Sure, most consumers will stick with the formats Amazon gives them, but more manufacturers will mean more competition, and more reason to convince consumers that there's more than one game in town. I'm interested in how the browser works, however, since I'm sure there will be stops in place to prevent free EVDO browsing. If the Kindle gets WiFi and can manage USB host (or BT, think GPS) then I'll sell my 500 and roll the cost of the Kindle into my next low-end laptop purchase.