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Old Mar 18, 2008 | 12:15 pm
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Originally Posted by ScottC
We got a kindle the day it was released. And sold it last week.

It's just not ready, in the end we only used it to read the Reuters RSS feed, which we now do on a PDA or iPhone.

It's a shame, I really wanted to like it, but it just didn't work for us.
I would be interested to know why it didn't work for you. I have to admit, I am having trouble acclimatizing myself to those paddles, but the wireless delivery, plus the reduced cost of books more than makes up for it.

Granted if they could figure out a way to have a backlight without killing the battery, that would be great, but it's a nice to have, not a got to have.

As for newspaper and magazine subscriptions, I have given up on getting those on the Kindle. The lack of good graphics is to hard for me to get by.
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