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Originally Posted by Razi
Very well said! Will the new version have a slot for the glucose test strips? (it will still look like an over-sized medical equipment from the 1970s) Must be the ugliest mainstream gadget of the decade! I did mention Kindle 2 when the prices for the old monstrosity were suddenly dropped recently. Flog off the old stock, bring in the new. An ugly, clunky, over-buttoned (!) device backed by an uglier marketing campaign (rumors) and business practices. I will NEVER buy one!
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Razi, no one particularly wants you to buy a Kindle. So, the fact that you will never buy one matters not one tiny bit in the grand scheme of things. Likewise your personal opinion of the aesthetics of the device. Pretty much of no importance whatsoever, and certainly of no importance to me.
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And did I mention the value of your 'old' Kindie (that you bought after reading some 'rumors' somewhere) once the Kindle 2 comes out? All that plastic would look, oh-so-dated-and-old! I suggest you have it converted to a 'blood-pressure monitor' with that 'big' display, you'll be able to read the numbers easily (and pressing all those buttons would make you feel like Dr. Luka Kovač, the ER fame!)
Oh all these newbie fanatics! Well, I guess this will happen when ereaders become mainstream. The shape of things to come.  |
Do you think my old Kindle will not work when a supposed "new" Kindle comes out?? And, who buys an ebook reader for it's looks?? I bought it to read on. Not because of how it looks (although I happen to like the way it looks). I remember reading that some poster thought it wasn't "sexy." Since I didn't purchase the device to have sex with it, why would I care if it looked sexy??
If the reason for the purchase is just to stand around with the device hoping to interest literate females ... well, then get a device that is sexier, by all means. In fact, think of all the money you won't have to spend on content ... all you would need is the "sexy" reader.
I still get a lot of use out of my old Rocket E-Book. So, since I've been reading ebooks for several years now, I would hazard that that qualifies me as something other than a "newbie." I suppose you would have to consider me an experienced fanatic. I hope that I am the shape of things to come. I looked at the alternatives to the Kindle, decided that they would not work as well for me, and I purchased the Kindle. It's not a decision I regret.
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Aesthetics, my friend, aesthetics matter. It is a step backwards in that respect. Ever heard of frontlist.com? It used to be my favorite site for buying books. Amazon bought it and it does not exist any more. They specialized in a certain type of scholarly books. Those books have disappeared in the huge pile of Amazon junk now. Ever heard of bookpages.co.uk? Same happened to them as well. We are losing diversity in the book market. Ebook market will go the same way with the arrival of the greedy giant. Then there are issues surrounding the DRM etc, things too complicated for innocent sheeple. I'll leave it at that!
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Aesthetics are a matter of personal taste. They matter to you, they do not particularly matter to me. Whether or not the Kindle is a "step backwards" in that respect is also a matter of your personal opinion. And, unless there was a world-wide election for "personal taste maven" and you won .... then again, I don't see that your personal taste matters to anyone but you.
I'm sorry the sites you used to like for purchasing books have disappeared. I do fail to see what that has to do with the aesthetics of the Kindle, so we'll assume it's a whole different rant.
Are you saying that the books from bookpages.co.uk are no longer available at all?? Or, is it simply that you are upset by the fact that they are available through Amazon? Because your statement that they have "disappeared in the huge pile of Amazon junk" does not make that clear. And, which of the books that are available from Amazon do you consider "junk"? Was there also something I missed that made you the ultimate book critic?? I really much try to keep on top of all these important elections I seem to have missed.
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A senile person?? DG?? Not by half. No, you were just being incredibly rude, for no particular reason, to a very nice lady. Now, if that's the "shape of things to come" that doesn't say much for your generation (unless you are a member of my generation, in which case it doesn't say much for my generation). As to the clowns, as the song goes, "don't bother, they're here" ... you are proof of that (in my opinion, which I doubt very much matters at all to you).