Amazon Kindle: to buy or not to buy?
Monday, November 26th, 2007The most talked-about gadget of the moment: the Amazon Kindle. This e-book reader offers you all the convenience of loading your books onto a hand-held gizmo - but at a price.
As well as the costs you incur using it, the material you buy is subject to DRM (digital rights management) software which restricts what you can do with it. For instance, swapping and lending is out, activities you’d think nothing of doing with a regular book.
At the moment it’s US-only so British gadget fans might have to wait a while before they can even contemplate getting their hands on the thing. (So what’s new already? And it’s just as boring as usual.)
So, in the meantime, here are two views on the thing. John Naughton, writing in The Guardian quite liked it (but with typical British understatement didn’t really see what all the fuss is about).
Over at BoingBoing Gadgets they thought it was promising, but clunky and expensive - and also worryingly laid down with DRM technology.
If anyone’s had a chance to get their hands on one, we’d love to hear your comments.
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