The iPhone now has an application that they say (read the article at HuffingtonPost) is cooler than the Kindle for reading ebooks. And I bought the iPhone. But I also bought the Kindle. Gulp.
Oh dear … now my iPhone is cannibalizing my Kindle. It’s bad enough to be a gadget lover/early adapter adopter and all, but now the one is making the other obsolete. That’s bad for my rationalizations when I get the latest and greatest. Say it isn’t so!
Somewhere there is at least $400 of wasted money.
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2 Responses to “I’ve Seen The New Kindle (And It’s An iPhone)”
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July 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Tim, don’t believe everything you read
August 4th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Tim, I am in the same boat, having fallen in love with my Kindle but aware of the elegance of the eReader app on my iPhone. One problem with the iPhone 3G is its disappointing battery life. The Kindle has a big edge there. Another is more subtle.
I spend the bulk of my day reading backlit screens, on my MacBook Air and iPhone. I find it restful to “unplug” from that interface and read the paper-like e-ink screen of the Kindle. I can feel my eyes and mind relax, and I read more slowly and receptively than I do otherwise. The Kindle thus becomes more like a traditional book, a place to escape, to fall into a different mode of receptivity. That’s why I am very reluctant to use email or RSS feeds capability on the Kindle; it’s like blurring a line that I’d like to keep intact. I plan to talk about this further in the next episode of The Kindle Chronicles, my new Friday podcast all about the Kindle, now available for free subscription at the iTunes Store.
Thanks for your though-provoking post!