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catsittingstillKindle 3
Amazon came out with the Kindle 3 (they call it the "LG" for "Latest Generation" but let's face it; that's a name that's going to last less than a year and a half so let's start calling it the K3 now.)
It has wifi for when you have wifi available; the nice thing about this is it's faster than 3G; you *can* surf the web on the K2 but it requires some patience. It has blacker blacks, and faster page turns. It has highlighting and annotation of pdfs. It has 8GB of memory so you have a place to keep those pdfs (can you say scientific journal articles?)
Yum.
I still have unfulfilled wishes:
What I really want that it doesn't have at this point is cross-pdf search. It will search within a single pdf, but I want it to search all the pdfs on the machine for a certain term (RNA processing, say) the way it will already search all the azw files for that term. When cross-pdf search shows up I will be getting one (maybe a DX) as soon as I can scrape the pennies together.
Multi-tag search would be nice. Oh, maybe I'd better unpack that a bit. Okay, since the latest software update the K2 has had tags (Amazon calls them "collections"). You can tag documents with terms like "unread' or "science fiction" or "Mom recommends" and call up the tags and see all the books with that tag. A document can have more than one tag. (The e-arc of Cryoburn (now available if you don't mind the occasional typo) might be tagged both "unread" and "science fiction" for example, though in this case it won't stay "unread' for long.) But you can't at the moment call up a list of your "unread" "science fiction." Obviously this would be useful.
Epub support (it's a format--supposed to be universal, though DRM changes from device to device, which is stinky, but there is un-DRMed ePub) would be nice. Ditching the DRM on the Amazon books would be nice.
But really, this is very tempting. And at 189$ (without a case, though) it's ...not a bad price. 139$ for the wifi-only version. But frankly there isn't that much wifi here, and the 3G of the K2 has saved me once or twice when I needed to access mapquest from the car. So I would be more interested in the more expensive one.
Cory Doctorow, on DRM and the release of his new book, DRM-free, from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo:
"This led me to formulate something I grandiosely call Doctorow's First Law: "Any time someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you, and won't give you a key, they're not doing it for your benefit." " Publisher's Weekly
Amazon came out with the Kindle 3 (they call it the "LG" for "Latest Generation" but let's face it; that's a name that's going to last less than a year and a half so let's start calling it the K3 now.)
It has wifi for when you have wifi available; the nice thing about this is it's faster than 3G; you *can* surf the web on the K2 but it requires some patience. It has blacker blacks, and faster page turns. It has highlighting and annotation of pdfs. It has 8GB of memory so you have a place to keep those pdfs (can you say scientific journal articles?)
Yum.
I still have unfulfilled wishes:
What I really want that it doesn't have at this point is cross-pdf search. It will search within a single pdf, but I want it to search all the pdfs on the machine for a certain term (RNA processing, say) the way it will already search all the azw files for that term. When cross-pdf search shows up I will be getting one (maybe a DX) as soon as I can scrape the pennies together.
Multi-tag search would be nice. Oh, maybe I'd better unpack that a bit. Okay, since the latest software update the K2 has had tags (Amazon calls them "collections"). You can tag documents with terms like "unread' or "science fiction" or "Mom recommends" and call up the tags and see all the books with that tag. A document can have more than one tag. (The e-arc of Cryoburn (now available if you don't mind the occasional typo) might be tagged both "unread" and "science fiction" for example, though in this case it won't stay "unread' for long.) But you can't at the moment call up a list of your "unread" "science fiction." Obviously this would be useful.
Epub support (it's a format--supposed to be universal, though DRM changes from device to device, which is stinky, but there is un-DRMed ePub) would be nice. Ditching the DRM on the Amazon books would be nice.
But really, this is very tempting. And at 189$ (without a case, though) it's ...not a bad price. 139$ for the wifi-only version. But frankly there isn't that much wifi here, and the 3G of the K2 has saved me once or twice when I needed to access mapquest from the car. So I would be more interested in the more expensive one.
Cory Doctorow, on DRM and the release of his new book, DRM-free, from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo:
"This led me to formulate something I grandiosely call Doctorow's First Law: "Any time someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you, and won't give you a key, they're not doing it for your benefit." " Publisher's Weekly
