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It appears that Amazon has launched the Kindle 2.
Yow.
The new features are pretty nice. But I'm still processing. They've got one cool feature: Read to Me. A text to speech converter! Wow. I wonder if the voice will annoy me though, because that's usually the deathknell in that regards.
On the other hand, I did just see the new Sony device at Borders last time we stopped in. Which has touchscreen. Oy.
Either way you look at it, there are a lot of wins going on in the digital book reader marketplace. The technology is just leaping forward.
What I'm really curious about is this: Will Amazon leave K1 owners hanging in the breeze? Does this launch signal that they are not going to continue to enhance my experience, and that my only choice will be to buy the new one? In which case, I expect there will be a lot of upset K1 owners, who might decide to abandon the Amazon platform, and go with something else.
Yow.
The new features are pretty nice. But I'm still processing. They've got one cool feature: Read to Me. A text to speech converter! Wow. I wonder if the voice will annoy me though, because that's usually the deathknell in that regards.
On the other hand, I did just see the new Sony device at Borders last time we stopped in. Which has touchscreen. Oy.
Either way you look at it, there are a lot of wins going on in the digital book reader marketplace. The technology is just leaping forward.
What I'm really curious about is this: Will Amazon leave K1 owners hanging in the breeze? Does this launch signal that they are not going to continue to enhance my experience, and that my only choice will be to buy the new one? In which case, I expect there will be a lot of upset K1 owners, who might decide to abandon the Amazon platform, and go with something else.
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