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Alisa · 10-26-2009, 09:01 PM

I find my Kindle has improved my reading and I'm glad I bought it. There are some things I would change, of course. Many of the things have been mentioned like folders/tags, ePub & PDF support. Also, the clickety wheel + keyboard interface is a bit clumsy in my opinion. The little nobbly thing doesn't look much better. I'd prefer a touchscreen to the keyboard. I'd take the Wacom pen style used in the iRex rather than the type Sony currently uses for now, though. I wouldn't want to give up any screen quality. I'd like to be able to annotate with the pen and have that saved with my document. There are some other features I'd add like the ability to select a group of words as a search term for the Web or Wikipedia, multiple dictionary support like the Cybook, and the ability to flag errors in a book and have it sent back to the publishers.

My other gripes are more about how the Amazon system works than the Kindle as a device. I'd rather get rid of all DRM but I'm sure that won't happen for awhile. Ideally, we'd buy the hardware we like and would be able to buy our books from any store we like. I'll keep dreaming. In the meantime, I don't think the maximum of six licenses is fair. If they're going to encourage you to read the same book on multiple devices at the same time, then it seems absurd to only give you six licenses. If my husband and I loaded the same book on our Kindles, our phones and one computer each, that would be it. If I want to read it five years from now on my Kindle 8, I'll be out of luck unless I strip the DRM. I'm comfortable doing that but I bet the average customer would not be. Sure, they free up licenses if you ask but it takes a support contact. That seems needlessly frustrating as well as cost inefficient. I should be able to read my books on all my registered devices now and five years from now. If they're concerned about you giving away copies of your books by registering your friend's Kindle, loading books, and deregistering, then they can just flag people who keep doing that. Send them a warning if they continue. In the long run I don't think it makes a difference. People bent on sharing files will do so even if Amazon tries to make it inconvenient. They'd stand more chance of controlling it with a fair lending system than an overly restrictive limit on licenses.

10-26-2009, 09:01 PM	#27
Alisa Gadget Geek Posts: 2,324 Karma: 22221 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Paperwhite, Kindle 3 (retired), Skindle 1.2 (retired)	I find my Kindle has improved my reading and I'm glad I bought it. There are some things I would change, of course. Many of the things have been mentioned like folders/tags, ePub & PDF support. Also, the clickety wheel + keyboard interface is a bit clumsy in my opinion. The little nobbly thing doesn't look much better. I'd prefer a touchscreen to the keyboard. I'd take the Wacom pen style used in the iRex rather than the type Sony currently uses for now, though. I wouldn't want to give up any screen quality. I'd like to be able to annotate with the pen and have that saved with my document. There are some other features I'd add like the ability to select a group of words as a search term for the Web or Wikipedia, multiple dictionary support like the Cybook, and the ability to flag errors in a book and have it sent back to the publishers. My other gripes are more about how the Amazon system works than the Kindle as a device. I'd rather get rid of all DRM but I'm sure that won't happen for awhile. Ideally, we'd buy the hardware we like and would be able to buy our books from any store we like. I'll keep dreaming. In the meantime, I don't think the maximum of six licenses is fair. If they're going to encourage you to read the same book on multiple devices at the same time, then it seems absurd to only give you six licenses. If my husband and I loaded the same book on our Kindles, our phones and one computer each, that would be it. If I want to read it five years from now on my Kindle 8, I'll be out of luck unless I strip the DRM. I'm comfortable doing that but I bet the average customer would not be. Sure, they free up licenses if you ask but it takes a support contact. That seems needlessly frustrating as well as cost inefficient. I should be able to read my books on all my registered devices now and five years from now. If they're concerned about you giving away copies of your books by registering your friend's Kindle, loading books, and deregistering, then they can just flag people who keep doing that. Send them a warning if they continue. In the long run I don't think it makes a difference. People bent on sharing files will do so even if Amazon tries to make it inconvenient. They'd stand more chance of controlling it with a fair lending system than an overly restrictive limit on licenses.