New Media - Written by Robert Ivan on Monday, March 2, 2009 11:06 - 0 Comments
Kindle 2 Review For Newspaper Readers
Reading the New York Times on Kindle 2 -blog.reifman.org
I think switching to The Times on the Kindle 2 is a fantastic way to lessen your impact on the environment, reducing tremendous waste from paper, print, delivery and plastic bags. Perhaps saving a forest. However, it’s not for everyone. You’ll need to be willing to commit to the form factor and accept changes in the reading experience.
Overall, I give the Kindle 2 with the New York Times a B to B+. If Amazon makes the software updates I mentioned above, this would raise the experience to an A-.
I love my iPhone and I’ve used both the NetNewswire application and the New York Times application on it – but reading The Times on the Kindle is better in enough ways to make me carry both…before even considering the Kindle’s blog and book reading capabilities… continue
Thorough review of the kindle 2 for newspaper readers. I’m still not convinced that it is cheap enough for the masses. The cost of reading the NYTimes.com site from home, office, laptop, or on my blackberry is free (right now). If the economics of this change, then the kindle 2 and others, will become more attractive. Having said that, if the cost becomes prohibitively expensive or constrained (ie. you must buy our Hearst eReader to read Heast content) then quality free content will continue to grow in popularity.
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