Saturday, June 25, 2011

The Goods and Bads of Kindle

Goods and Bads about Amazon Kindle (6"). The way I found it

First, things i like about kindle.

1) first and most important, its like a physical book. the eInk technology is awesome. i simply loved it.
2) u can read it like a book with same reading speed, don't get distracted with other apps.
3) very light weight
4) concept of navigation buttons is good, two buttons on each side. liked the fact that its not touch screen slides.
5) u can write notes on any part of texts (for both PDF and mobi file). need to test if that note remains in the pdf file if u take the pdf back to system.
6) gives you a dictionary note when u keep ur cursor on a word, which is helpful
7) text to speech is a good feature

Everything comes with a list of drawbacks, Amazon is also not part from it

1) pdf documents are not well handled.
a) the original size (100%) is too small to read on screen
b) and if i increase the zooming, i have to scroll the page horizontally and vertically. it can not auto adjust pdf docs.
c) horizontal scrolling is painfull for every line reading
2) other option is to rotate the screen in landscape mode. but as the size of the screen is small, have to scroll it few times to complete a page.
3) the software i found for converting pdf to mobi format, changes the pdf in such a big way, i found it difficult to relate it with the original pdf.
4) sometime if i hold the device in my hand the navigation buttons are clicked.
5) i expected the screen size bit bigger, so that it matches the size of a book

Shib