‘It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.’ ....they’re too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the “features” have been rendered useless.’”
As reported by Slashdot, a recent trial of the Kindle at Princeton University has resulted in some dissapointing feedback about the device and its use in a uviversity.
Posted on 29 Sep 2009 around 9am • Tagged with: eBooks | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
How to make Kindle ebooks from InDesign. A white paper from Adobe just published.
Just one problem ... calibre is currently suggesting that it doesn't work under Mac OS X 10.6. I am running this fine on 10.6.1 so maybe this has been fixed.
Posted on 25 Sep 2009 around 2pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Software | Permanent link to this article
Didn't like it. I mean why would would I want to carry around yet another device?
But the two real reasons I didn't like it:
First off, the text is justified and when you increase the zoom it can look 'orrible. You can't change the paragraph format.
And then of course, it doesn't smell of books. Still I could try this.
Posted on 01 Jul 2009 around 12pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Technology | Permanent link to this article
TheStreet has a juicy rumor that Barnes & Noble, a store where physical “books” in “paper” form are sold to “customers” who stand in line to pay with “cash” or “forms of credit” is working on an eBook reader, possibly in partnership with Verizon.
Posted on 08 Apr 2009 around 11am • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
“Fujitsu launches the world’s first e-book reader with a colour display in Japan.”
Read the whole thing here from The Sydney Morning Herald Technology Headlines
Posted on 20 Mar 2009 around 2pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Technology | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
