Originally Posted by
cj001f
The concept of the Kindle as a repository of many books has great appeal to me, especially for time sensitive material like guidebooks or disposable things like textbooks and papers.
The main problems for me are
1) Form factor of the kindle. It's too darn big. I want the original 6" screen in a casing not much bigger than the screen. thicker than currrent is ok - I want it to fit in a cargo or jacket pocket so I could carry around a guidebook.
2) The fiction available is less than appealing and the method for selection even less so.
That is a first for me, hearing someone call the Kindle to big. However, if you are looking for something a little smaller, look at the nook, from Barnes & Noble. It measures 7.7" x 4.9" x 0.50" versus the Kindle 2 at 8" x 5.3" x 0.36". Still to large to fit in a pocket. Be warned, if you do get a nook, their book prices are higher when compared to both Amazon's library and Sony's for the same book.
As far as titles, what do you want that they are not offering? At the time of this posting, there are 122,083 available in Fiction alone. Finding a book is easy, at least to me. What do you find difficult about it?
- Pat