01-26-2009, 05:06 PM | #1 |
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A Year with a Kindle
Don't know if anyone else is familiar with Scott Hanselman who is (a) doing cool things at Microsoft with the ASP.NET MVC stuff, and (b) is a Kindle owner.
Thought you might be interested in his comments on a "year with a Kindle": http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AYearW...ndleCases.aspx |
01-26-2009, 05:11 PM | #2 | |
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The only thing I don't get with his review is how he says the Kindle is flimsy and flexes. I don't see that with mine. I certainly am not going to "try" to flex it seeing as how I don't want to break the glass in the screen. BOb |
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01-26-2009, 06:53 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, I don't find my Kindle flexing at all.
I loved where he referred to one of the slip cases as a "murse." I may be out of the loop, but that's the first time I've heard that word. |
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I assume you know that comes from "male purse"? BOb |
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01-26-2009, 10:36 PM | #5 |
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I've never heard of a Kindle flexing, but interesting article all the same.
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01-27-2009, 05:27 PM | #6 |
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No, I wouldn't call the Kindle flimsy at all; no flex. It certainly feels more substantial than my Cybook Gen3 (whose thinner profile and lower weight are great, but lead to more concern about durability/breakage).
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01-27-2009, 05:40 PM | #7 |
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01-27-2009, 05:42 PM | #8 |
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I actually went to the site to post a question and call him on it, but didn't care to go thru the registration process...
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01-27-2009, 05:50 PM | #9 |
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01-27-2009, 05:51 PM | #10 |
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01-27-2009, 06:02 PM | #11 |
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Done. For better or worse, I could not let him slide on that......
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02-07-2009, 05:26 PM | #12 |
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Thanks for the share. Good stuff
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02-09-2009, 05:03 PM | #13 |
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Scott is selling his Kindle 1... the first $200 gets it. That's a hell of a price.
http://tweba.com/auctions/auction.as...b-bc716738d4f4 BOb |
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It's going to be interesting to see where the market settles on K1 price. Looking at the used ones on Amazon, I see that there are 50 ranging from $240 to $1100 |
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02-10-2009, 04:52 PM | #15 |
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Im interested to see how the K1 sells as well, since i plan on selling mine to buy a K2
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