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Old 01-28-2010, 12:33 AM   #20
simonp
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Beautiful British Columbia
Device: Kindle 2
"What is the one thing you love most about your Kindle that you can't live without?"

The ability to turn the screen into landscape mode (this functionality was added to the Kindle 2 in Canada in a recent patch). I mostly read fiction, but every once in a while I read some poetry on it (reading Paradise Lost now). On the normal portrait mode, stanzas are broken mid-line. With the landscape mode, you get complete unbroken lines.

Close second is the onboard dictionary. Not as good as the battered Oxford English Concise I have sitting around, but so handy.

"What is the one thing you wish your Kindle had/did that it doesn't?"

Only criticism I have now is the speed with which the file manager displays your library. Flipping pages in a book is fine, but it does take a few seconds more to read and display a page of the file-listing. Not sure if this is a cpu or an e-ink/display issue. Still it is relatively minor, and nitpicking really.
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