Kindle owner *sadly* disappointed by today's announcement

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by Namekuseijin

Also, I don't know how you guys used to read back in the old days. Not only you had to touch the paper, you also usually had to wet your finger in saliva to make the page move

In contrary to a touchscreen a paper book doesn't start and maybe keeps on to flip pages unnoticed when just accidentally touched. Were you indeed reading in what you call "the old days" you'd know, but obviously you even don't know how to treat a pbook properly and even never learned how to flip pages. Drooling on them is NOT a necessary technique.

[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by lunixer

Yes. That is correct. They did have 8 months up accidentally for a while.

And 30 minutes? Really? C'mon Amazon, I read 2 hours or more a day. And my KK still lasts a month or more so I'm not complaining, but who reads just 30 minutes a day?

Originally, Amazon's battery life was based on one hour of reading per day and was described as being one month. But then another company (B&N? Sony?) said that their battery life was two months, using the 30 min/day rate. So Amazon changed its metric to reflect that.