Kindle 2 kind of a bummer

[catsittingstill]

Been moving all day, but just glanced over a few things about the new version of the Kindle.  Shape is different, screen is supposedly whiter (which would be nice); pages supposedly turn 20% faster (okay...); now has text-to-speech (great for the disabled; I'm happy it's there, but it doesn't affect my life); cell phone chip now 3G (I think, except in other spots it says EVDO and I thought they were different, but whatever).

But it seems to no longer take SD cards, to no longer have a user-replaceable battery, to take twice as long to charge, and to still not have any way of organizing your books using folders or tags.

I don't know what these folks were thinking.  But I'm sticking with my dinosaur with the SD card slot and the user replaceable battery, that charges in half the time.

Speaking of which, maybe I'd better order a new battery while I still can.

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

As with iTunes, Amazon doesn't own all content, but they own the network, and I expect their network to get more and more closed, and more and higher fees be charged. Did you know they charge full print price for many textbooks? No, I don't trust Amazon.