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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
More later maybe.<\/p>\n
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UPDATE<\/strong> (7\/21\/2009): Left this thing at a restaurant and lost it.<\/p>\n That possibility had honestly never occurred to me up until the moment it happened. I never lose shit. Hmm, well not in a rush to re-buy it yet.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n UPDATE 2<\/strong> (4\/6\/2010): Now I have an iPad. Good enough battery, color, Kindle App and many other readers. Text is way sharper too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-technology","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}