Reply With QuoteWow, 2 minutes into the video, and I'm already sold on it.
Heh-heh, and my wife says she doesn't know what to get me for Christmas.
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I logged into Amazon last night to browse for a couple new books, and lo and behold, Amazon's front page was splashed with a new product they have introduced called the Kindle. This cool little (10 oz) device lets you download and read your books in a portable hand-held with a page-white display that is supposed to be easier on the eyes than reading from a computer screen. The price is a little steep though at $400! Still, how cool would that be to be able to download a new book that just came out in 60 seconds or so and start reading it immediately?
Check out the demonstration video. It looks awesome.
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Wow, 2 minutes into the video, and I'm already sold on it.
Heh-heh, and my wife says she doesn't know what to get me for Christmas.
Totally the future.
Consider text books on this thing? It would be a student's dream.
And when the world is hit by an EMP from a solar flare, or alien invasion, all of this is just /over/.
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Text books? Hell, consider RPG books on it!
That alone makes it nearly worth the price to me.
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You know, it does kind of remind me of the PADDs from Star Trek -- except slicker and easier to read, actually.
PADDs from Star Trek:
I'm sure what ever Jolene Blalock is holding would be fine by me.
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Yes, but would Jolene Blalock pay ten cents apiece to email her own documents to her handheld device? Is that logical?
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
- Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)
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Actually, I'm pretty sure there's a work-around for that pay to email business.
She should get it for free just because she's hawt.Originally Posted by fmitchell
Community Supporter I'm buying one......as long as they publish every book in this format. The downfall of the eReader was that all the books you would never read were the only ones available for the device.
Does it have color or just black and white? The video didn't show any photographs or magazines with pictures or special formatting.
I so want one of these things!!!!!!!!!1!!!!111!!!
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Well, I cannot say how many future books they will have on this format, but at the moment they have some 90,000 books. That's a pretty good starting base. I think it will do well. I just hope that RPG publishers will consider allowing their books to be digitally distributed like this. It would be nice to replace my satchel full of thirty pounds of books with a ten ounce Kindle when I DM a game at someone else's house.
I'm still going to wait around 4 years before buying one. I want the kind that will have color pictures, more books, textbooks, game books, etc. Plus have more access to the internet. Yes, I want our world version of a PADD.
Well, with tech advancing as fast as it is, we may have those pads by the end of this decade DEFINATELY before the end of the next. We'll be on what, D&D 8.0 by then?
I can imagine there will soon be a subscription service that allows direct neural implants into your optic nerve...or even deeper. Then you wouldn't have even to read it at all.
Of course Microsoft would market it as "Windows to the Soul".
Coming soon.
You read it here first.
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