Sunday, January 10, 2010

Just so everyone understands!

      With all this talk of late about kindles and nooks and others to be announced I keep hearing people talk about tablet taking on ebook readers. Why I ask. They are not the same beast people.  They arent build to be nor can be. Yes you can download ebook to a tablet but you can do this on a cell phone to it a laptop. The problem is no e ink, the needed force behind a good ebook reader.  It makes your text look like that of a book.  It keeps your eyes from hurting due to backlight strain on your eyes that you get from other devices. It is the key to the love people who do have a kindle. I think we have gotten so caught up in the one shop eveything device that we have forgotten the original reason why there was the need for them in the first place.  Most products have the one or 3 top things it does better than the other things that it does. "The other things"are just out there to be a "just in case thing". Something to say hey I don't have to wait til I get home if I have to have this now. And these products produce these things with that very thought in mind. Knowing that this was never meant to be a complete replacement for it. Kinda like portable movies are. Yes you can watch them in your car, on your phone or psp device but they will never take the place of that 40 inch+ led or lcd bluray experience at home. And this is exactly my point to all the attempts made thus far from companies trying to create a product like a tablet and push it toward someone that into reading books as if this would replace their kindles or books with the back lite monitor screen. Its just not going to work. And even of they put them on two different screens they look like a experiment stuck together. Hell I have seen some go as far as to make a ebook reader with almost zero support from publishers and no way to buy books unless you can get home to your computer.  This is so stupid to me. If you come out in a era of advance support like that of the kindle then you have to at least have the same things and advantages. You can't come out with less. This seems to be the theme lately even with the Nook ( the only other logical choice if you don't go with the kindle) . They came out with less battery power, more load times, horrible navigation controls, a stupid dictionary that can't find some of the most used common words, and poor stocking during the most important shoping time of the year. All this to a market dominated by the kindle equals failure. And with all other attempts being worse than that thus far doesn't show me that anybody is ready but kindle, to push this ebook era to the next heights.

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