90 percent of everything : Usability Blog
Written by Harry Brignull

Kindle vs Book

November 21st, 2007 by Harry Brignull4 comments

The current discussion about the Amazon Kindle suggests that its feature list and capabilities far outstrip anything that traditional paper could ever manage:

Amazon Kindle:

  • Fragile & intrinsically breakable.
  • Supplier lock-in.
  • Spies on you.
  • Will probably be useless in a few years time.
  • Limited battery life.
  • Content cannot be traded second hand.
  • Content cannot be annotated easily.
  • Looks like it was made by Tandy in the ’80s.
  • Uninspired attempt by a corporation to jump onto the walled-shopping-garden bandwagon a la iTunes.
  • Makes you look like a dork.

Book:

  • None of the above



Related posts:

4 comments so far | Leave a comment
  1. Links for 2007.11.22 « Derivadow

    […] ยป Kindle vs Book […]

  2. Mimi

    You forgot

    - makes you pay for content that is otherwise free.

    Your post made me laugh….

  3. Beck

    You are spot on with the Tandy reference. This is my favorite re:kindle post so far.

  4. timethief

    I laughed until I howled. This is the best Kindle post I have read - hands down. And, I’ve read them all.