With Todays Kindle Announcements

[abookreader]

I'll admit I was surprised to see the Fire had no SD card slot and only 8GB. That's very anemic. My oldest son is mostly into Pandora and streaming but we have a HUGE music library that I've been slowly moving to the Amazon cloud storage bit by bit for months now. I don't know if we'll ever get everything up there.

We'll see how it works but I agree that I prefer on board storage to the cloud stuff any day - especially once you put a movie or two on a device.

[Graham]

I would say that the 8 GB of storage has been chosen very deliberately, not so low that the device is crippled, but to motivate people to a) buy more from Amazon to use the Amazon Cloud and b) lead in to a greater take-up for paid extended storage for users' non-Amazon content.

Graham

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Graham

I would say that the 8 GB of storage has been chosen very deliberately, not so low that the device is crippled, but to motivate people to a) buy more from Amazon to use the Amazon Cloud and b) lead in to a greater take-up for paid extended storage for users' non-Amazon content.

Graham

Exactly. They (as well as Google) want to promote the Cloud.

[mldavis2]

No interest here. My Kindle3 holds more books than I'll ever read in a lifetime, doesn't need daily re-charging and works in sunlight. I never read magazines on a computer screen, even my big 24" LCD monitor. I watch TV on cable on a real 40" TV screen, and my DSL isn't quite fast enough for streaming video because I'm too far down the fiber-optic cable line, they tell me. When I listen to music, it's through my home system with a big 500W amp and venerable AR-3a speakers which aren't just slightly better than ear buds and MP3.

So in short, I guess I'm just too picky to want to find some way to do everything half-way on one device.

[Graham]

Originally Posted by mldavis2

When I listen to music, it's through my home system with a big 500W amp and venerable AR-3a speakers which aren't just slightly better than ear buds and MP3.

Is the 500W amp so you can still hear the music when you're down the road with the Kindle?



Graham

[mldavis2]

Originally Posted by Graham

Is the 500W amp so you can still hear the music when you're down the road with the Kindle?



Graham

You bet! Actually, the AR-3a's are 4-ohm speakers and two of five on the system, with a JBL center and a pair of AR-4ax's rear, so it takes a lot of easy power to push all those cones on acoustic suspension boxes. It sure doesn't have any trouble driving my iPod earbuds, though ...

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by mldavis2

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So in short, I guess I'm just too picky to want to find some way to do everything half-way on one device.

Or too limited in your bandwidth.

[NickyWithNook]

I'm not comfortable with my books only being available from some "cloud" owned and controlled by a for-profit company. I want them physically under my control in some way.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by NickyWithNook

I'm not comfortable with my books only being available from some "cloud" owned and controlled by a for-profit company. I want them physically under my control in some way.

I agree.

[RDaneel54]

Originally Posted by NickyWithNook

I'm not comfortable with my books only being available from some "cloud" owned and controlled by a for-profit company. I want them physically under my control in some way.

Me too. Although that is not new with this iteration of Kindles. I download and remove encrustation on all my books.

Maintaining books on the device won't change and the amount of storage necessary is negligible (unless you want to put the Library of Congress on there).

[tubemonkey]

Amazon safely stores my books for me and lets me fetch them whenever I want.

I am at one with Amazon

[kennyc]

Monkeys are too trusting.

[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by NickyWithNook

I'm not comfortable with my books only being available from some "cloud" owned and controlled by a for-profit company. I want them physically under my control in some way.

You can download your books and keep them wherever you want.

[emellaich]

I'm interested in hearing about the fire's keyboard. I know it's primarily about media consumption, but if it can do slick (say slick, silk three times fast) web browsing and good email it can be an adequate net top replacement for some uses.

[cfrizz]

Originally Posted by mldavis2

No interest here. My Kindle3 holds more books than I'll ever read in a lifetime, doesn't need daily re-charging and works in sunlight. I never read magazines on a computer screen, even my big 24" LCD monitor. I watch TV on cable on a real 40" TV screen, and my DSL isn't quite fast enough for streaming video because I'm too far down the fiber-optic cable line, they tell me. When I listen to music, it's through my home system with a big 500W amp and venerable AR-3a speakers which aren't just slightly better than ear buds and MP3.

So in short, I guess I'm just too picky to want to find some way to do everything half-way on one device.

Great post, I totally agree. I would never think to watch a movie anywhere except on my tv with my 5.2 speakers powered by a 5 channel 405wpc amp audio system doing the work. and watching it on my 32" crt Sony tv. While my tv isn't the latest & greatest, it's still going strong and the colors are spectacular no matter where you sit in the room.

I don't mind listening to mp3s with ear phones if sitting in an airport, but when I'm home I want to listen to all my music and movies on my system.