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hahahaha...square corners, single click, etc....it's funny how set in our ways we all get. I am with sirbruce in that I really am comfy with my XP layout and moving to a new UI, wel, it might simply be too traumatic. hahaha...still I have lusted after Aero on a multi-touch panel for a long time.
wodin: I am the same way anymore. I can hardly recall some of the workarounds and navs to adjust features even on XP, which we have pretty much all been the same since Win98 (many since Win95). I am going to be leap-frogging over Vista, never even got my free copy from HP with my last laptop purchase. Just did not want to fiddle with it. And that is NOT me, but anymore I don't want to deal with the nuts and bolts of an OS...I just want it to run the apps I have and need and otherwise stay out of my way.
kinda of ashamed to admit this, but I doubt I could write a decent .bat file anymore. Just the basics no conditionals or anything, I have totally forgotten it over the years and I have been in this since before the CP/M years.
tuna: yeah, really, unless the room is well lit reading on the Kindle (as well as other eink displays of today) is a very difficult thing for me. I do not own or read any old faded paperbacks anymore. I donated the last of my paperbacks to our annual library book sale fund raiser years ago. I have not read anything but ebooks since. well, I have a few books that were not out as ebooks then, or now for that matter, but nope, nothing.
I have my reference books which are all printed on nice actual white paper and that's it.
As for reading on the 3Qi display not being any better, ya best visit the video's posted today with side by side comparison's. Over all in marginal lighting the 3Qi is indeed no better than the eink on the K1 BUT, and this is important, there is the middle mode with a partially back lit display which does turn the background white providing all the contrast needed. Nothing eink can do to compete there. Trust me I am rooting for eink to solve these issues, but they won't in a time frame for when I want a reading device that also can be used to get some work done. The 3Qi seems to give everything I want in the here and now.
And what I guess we can call "mode 2" on the 3Qi should be perfect for reading in bed w/o disturbing the person next to you. On eink even the light wedge or dongle can keep that person awake or wake them. But, I am confident some bright star somewhere will develop a tech to make some evolution of eink low light readable...within the next decade. But by then will eink even be relevant other than a niche market?
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