How I Waste My Precious Time » Technology http://jeffhottinger.com/blog The blog of Jeff Hottinger, spouting BS as usual. Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:37:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Initial Kindle impressions http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2009/02/initial-kindle-impressions/ http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2009/02/initial-kindle-impressions/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:10:18 +0000 Jeff http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2009/initial-kindle-impressions Just got my Kindle 2 today (a day early). Please forgive me for skipping the unboxing documentation, but it was nicely packaged in upscale cardboard with the phrase “Once upon a time” printed on every tear-open-tab.

The device is sweet for the reading experience, which should be primary. Turning pages causes a refresh which flashes through a inverted black page first, which is somewhat disruptive but brief.

Everything else seems a little forced in terms of interface choices; it was definitely built first for the reading experience and second for the buying and navigating options. That said, nothing really gets in the way too much. I bought a book lickety-split and could make my way through the menus fairly intuitively right away.

More later maybe.

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