Comments on: The Kindle is NOT a Closed System http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2009/10/17/the-kindle-is-not-a-closed-system/ A journal of geekery, music and joy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Buck http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2009/10/17/the-kindle-is-not-a-closed-system/comment-page-1/#comment-187586 Buck Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:38:58 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2009/10/17/the-kindle-is-not-a-closed-system/#comment-187586 Awesome article! Broken link to Project Gutenberg... http://www.gutenburg.org/ (a crappy URL landing page) should be... http://www.gutenberg.org/ (the real deal) Awesome article! Broken link to Project Gutenberg…

http://www.gutenburg.org/ (a crappy URL landing page)

should be…

http://www.gutenberg.org/ (the real deal)

]]> By: Ken Nelson http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2009/10/17/the-kindle-is-not-a-closed-system/comment-page-1/#comment-164914 Ken Nelson Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:23:38 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2009/10/17/the-kindle-is-not-a-closed-system/#comment-164914 I'm putting on my choir robe here, the better for you to preach to me. I have a bunch of O'Reilly books on mine, purchased and downloaded direct, and copied to the Kindle. I have a book or two from Pragmatic Programmers that made their way to the Kindle in the same fashion. I have several PDF manuals from vendors that I copied on there as well. Rendering of arbitrary PDFs is still a crap shoot; some are fine, some are not. I've used the Kindle to leave blog comments, check websites, etc. E-Ink rocks! With proper lighting, which you need anyway, the pages are sharp and clear. There's no eye strain with the Kindle; that definitely can't be said about LCD screens, or even dead tree pages. I like your idea of putting personal lists of stuff on there; that usage hadn't occurred to me. If this is a "closed system", close it some more! -k- I’m putting on my choir robe here, the better for you to preach to me. I have a bunch of O’Reilly books on mine, purchased and downloaded direct, and copied to the Kindle. I have a book or two from Pragmatic Programmers that made their way to the Kindle in the same fashion. I have several PDF manuals from vendors that I copied on there as well. Rendering of arbitrary PDFs is still a crap shoot; some are fine, some are not. I’ve used the Kindle to leave blog comments, check websites, etc.

E-Ink rocks! With proper lighting, which you need anyway, the pages are sharp and clear. There’s no eye strain with the Kindle; that definitely can’t be said about LCD screens, or even dead tree pages.

I like your idea of putting personal lists of stuff on there; that usage hadn’t occurred to me.

If this is a “closed system”, close it some more!

-k-

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