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Originally Posted by sassanik
Alas I can't afford a kindle currently and none of my friends have one. I currently have a eb1150, which is awesome, and my iphone. I would not be adverse to trying out a kindle if someone would want to loan me one for a few weeks!
I think the kindle would definately benefit from people being able to see it in person and try it out at a store. I tried out a Sony PRS 505 at the Sony Store.
Anyway I think its very exciting that we are getting more and more ereaders on the market!
Amy
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I understand completely. I only bought mine because I had a great summer season last year with 3 big projects that all paid off at the same time. Talk about the planets aligning. Still, I found it did not fit how I prefer to read. OTOH, my better half, she does like it. She reads 3-10 novels/month on it. But she doesn't use half of what it can do. One bonus is I can buy Kindle books I want then find a way to read them on my other devices.
But to be honest, the few books I have bought were experiments to either see how they looked or if "adjustments" could be made so I could device shift. Which is legal here so no problem just one of this "we dare not give it a name" sorta things on MR...
Without a doubt being able to handle the device would help many people. Especially those for whom this would be a significant investment, for some equal to their annual book buying budget at the used book store for a year. That is a lot to ask of the vast majority of avid readers out there.
Hopefully you'll run across a Kindle somewhere...and the owner be willing to allow you to try it out for a brief period. There is always the 30-money back thing, but Amazon seems to have gotten a tad cranky people actually were taking them up on that offer. I suspect there were a lot of those selling the Kindles on ebay at huge markups early on and then returning the ones which did not sell in 20-days or whatever. Do that a couple times and everyone pays the price eventually.