Amazon Kindle 2 may be coming on February 9th
We promise, no one is happier about this rumor than the team here at BGR. No, we’re not all too excited about the Kindle 2 itself though it certainly is a snazzy little e-book reader. Truth be told, we’re looking forward to lighter inboxes. Huh? Since we scooped the Kindle 2 back in October and even served up a whole gallery of photos for all to enjoy, the emails have been unending. Hundreds of emails from people asking us about it. People searching out more details on it. People asking if they can buy it from us. People asking us to compare it to each and every other e-book reader on the planet. People asking if they can swap their first-generation Kindle for it. People asking if they can swap their first-born child for it. People asking if it smells like cinnamon and sunshine… You get the picture. Please oh please Amazon – announce the Kindle 2 on February 9th at the press conference you’ll be holding in New York. If for no other reason, do it for your pals at BGR.
Here’s to hoping it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg!
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I’ve heard it smells like cinnamon and sunshine. Can you confirm?
I must say I enjoyed reading this post sitting in my calc class …. I have a question to does it come preloaded with my math solution manual lol. I don’t read books because blogs like these don’t leave any desire for such a thing. Thanks for such a lovable post and I can believe it is very true but you described it brilliantly.
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I’ve always been intrigued by Kindle but at the rate I buy books, I would have to use this thing for about 3 or 4 years before I save any money over what I spend on books.
And that is just the cost of the reader, not the e-books.
It’s still *ss-ugly + bulky compared to Sony’s e-reader. How is it that Kindle is so successful? It shouldn’t have any keyboard + a much smaller border around the screen – Yeesh – can you imagine something so unaesthetically pleasing coming from Apple or even Sony?
Odd that 50 percent of early comments come from folks who say they don’t read books. My own interest is if a color display is coming because Kindle books lose a lot when there are photos.
@Andrew How is the Kindle so successful? Oprah!
I think the standard for eReaders has been set by a device that is not even released yet: the Plastic Logic Reader. I can’t wait to get my greedy little paws on one of those…
The Kindle looks rather like my old graphing calculator, ie not something on which I’d choose to read a book!
I can do without color, but please make my eReader light, flexible, and sexikthx
Until it NAtively HANDLES pdf, its a no sale.
Kindle is not a touch screen device, Too bad.
I just bought a book via 3G network, and I read easily on my Omnia phone. Dictionaries pop up fast. 32GB memory capacity, etc.
Even worse is bulky and not colors screen.
The only disadvantage of a smarthphone is the screen size, so I will try the tablets.
Yeah, the Kindle is crap. Ugly, bulky, and LOADED with DRM. I did a lot of research and bought the Sony PRS-505 instead of the Kindle, and I couldn’t be happier with it. There’s open source software called Calibre that does all the conversion you’d want, but Sony still handles native PDFs like a champ, and the Sony reader is fantastic for reading in bed, holding with just one hand, etc. Very well designed.
How many of the negative comments about the Kindle are from people that don’t own one? I have had a Kindle for almost a year. I researched all the other e-book readers then available, and the Kindle was the only one that’s Mac compatible. None of the others had wireless download, which means they had to be hooked up to a computer to download content, and since they only worked with PC and I have a Mac, they wouldn’t have done me any good.
I love my Kindle. It has paid for itself many times over in the space of a year – I have textbooks on there also. And, I can email a document to the Kindle and read it. And I can hold it with one hand, read, turn pages, listen to music while I’m reading. And no, I don’t work for Amazon!
The Kindle is hot to the read die heart readers. Some of you on here don’t any read other people comments. Its a great item, I’m considering buying one for another “die-heart” reader because they will appreciate its ease of use and ability to download wireless-ly without Wi-Fi. The keyboard is excellent for jotting down notes and quick things.
I love my kindle.Its so great to be able to download free samples of any book that are a full chapter. o.k. so sometimes you’ll accidently change the page not a big problem.The only gripe i have is the crummy bookcover holder that it falls out of.they need to go back to the drawing board and design a much better cover and i would love it even more if it was backlit for easier reading at night
I own an Ectaco Jetbook.
The reason is, it supports cyrillic, and has a built in translator, and the Amazon kindle simply doesn’t.
Still, its an ebook reader, so its given me experience running around with an ebook reader, and occasionally reading a book.
Frankly, you can read books on most portable devices, including an iPhone.
The Ectaco is such a poorly designed device, the one function it is supposed to do, have a built in translator, it does very poorly… the built in logic for finding a word, doesn’t even recognize the possibility that a verb might be conjugated or a noun might be plural. Good grief, its just a human readable dictionary slapped into the device, as if a computer cannot keep a longer list of words and relate conjugated variants to the root word.
The translate button isn’t even within reach of the thumb wheel, and ingenious ideas like letting you translate the next word, without starting over from the beginning…they didn’t even think of that.
Everytime I buy some specialized device, I find that I should have just bought an iPhone.
The kindle is somewhat slicker in its implementation than the Ectaco JetBook…. but its going to take some work to stay ahead of more popular devices like the iPhone, which, after all, can read books too.