Electronic ink, very easy and pleasant to read. Being used to touch screens meant repeatedly trying to select and scroll through the pages with futile finger-sliding attempts.
The keys are hard to press cleanly, navigation through and selection of the text feels odd using the joystick.
 |  |
There's a cumbersome multi-step process to retrieve annotations to save elsewhere as it isn't possible to pull them directly from the device, and annotations will be lost if Amazon wipes-out your book collection. There's a limit to the amount of annotation (Amazon calls them clippings) available on some books controlled by DRM, it's not possible to check what this limit is other than by hitting it.
 |  |
It's thinner than I expected at about a centimetre, and it looks better than the advertising and review pictures portray it.
 |  |
It needs a wave of the Apple design-team magic-wand but a viable alternative to carrying a bookcase with you on to a train.
No comments:
Post a Comment