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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Interesting post. One or two really moronic comments posted there (one idiot wants to know what their "plan is when Amazon or Sprint raise their prices" while they aren't looking (regarding the Whispernet connection).
Good lord!! As if the Kindle were intended to be primarily an internet browser. Give me a freakin' break. You know, I've had my Kindle for close to four months now, and I have probably used the Whispernet a total of about 2 hours in all that time. Once the novelty of being able to see something on the net wore off (took about two weeks), all I use it for now is to download books (generally when I'm in a regular bookstore and checking out what's available in hardback).
The only thing that makes me wonder about the post is that the author states they will be using the Kindle to view PDFs. I really love my Kindle, but I'll be the first to admit it is NOT the preferred device for reading in the PDF format.
Well .... interesting article anyway.
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As for the goofball who posted about the future Whispernet pricing, he/she obviously missed the "download to your computer part".
I'm assuming (
) that the PDF docs are mostly text since they are also offering an MS Word version.
The non-Whispernet downloads along with PDF and Word docs, opens all this information to be used on many other e-ink devices as well devices like the iPhone or Palms. As long as there is a way to covert documents, it won't matter what is used to read them.
It's a good thing.
Edit: Now that I've had a good night's sleep, I realize that Word documents don't have to be mostly text (I use table and images in Word nearly on a daily basis). Now I think that someone would have played with a Kindle before starting this pilot program and has an idea of it's strength's and weaknesses and would create content accordingly.