Kindle 2 – Quick Review
Just last week I got my Kindle 2 and I purchased this semester’s books for it. I have used it almost non-stop. It is a wonderful reading device that allows for a relatively transparent reading experience. It is simply you and the content contained in the text. Overall, excellent – for many books (save reference works and certain major texts) it is my new preference for reading, both books and magazine (although not newspapers).
Now, my few gripes: no easy conversion to page numbers for citation (and not their fault, but I cannot find provisional styles for citation in Turabian or MLA for the location references given in the Kindle). Either no support, or lazy presses have led to near unreadable Hebrew and Greek text (which in the books I own have been imported as images and look horrible). Some spectacular OCR or data entry issues that are particularly horrid in passages with Latin (the could be solved with a reporting feature, such as used in Logos where the text can be highlighted, fixed and reported).
With the recent announcement of Logos for the iPhone a day may soon be coming when I no longer have to bring my laptop along with me to most places! That will be a blessed day.