http://www.technovia.co.uk/2007/11/meet-the-amazon-ebook-reader-kindle.html Ian Betteridge on Macs, mobiles, and technology Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:45:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.technovia.co.uk/2007/11/meet-the-amazon-ebook-reader-kindle.html/comment-page-1#comment-2186 coffee Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:22:06 +0000 http://www.ianbetteridge.co.uk/technovia/2007/11/meet-the-amazon-ebook-reader-kindle.html#comment-2186 <p>the Kindle reminds me of something i saw in an old school Star Trek episode, which is a good selling point... it's a bit pricey though</p> the Kindle reminds me of something i saw in an old school Star Trek episode, which is a good selling point… it's a bit pricey though

]]> http://www.technovia.co.uk/2007/11/meet-the-amazon-ebook-reader-kindle.html/comment-page-1#comment-291 Cait Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:41:31 +0000 http://www.ianbetteridge.co.uk/technovia/2007/11/meet-the-amazon-ebook-reader-kindle.html#comment-291 <p>I knew when I saw it and thought "But it just looks like a stupid, badly designed Newton" that it felt instinctively wrong. Graham Linehan found this amusing piece with more than a grain of truth in it: http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/11/21/so-book-like-youd-think-it-was-a-book-but-its-not/#more-428 ...but there again the "definitely not Danny" Daniel O'Brien person does report that it has currently sold out - only to become destined to rest, covered in dust, on a bookshelf until eventually attempted to be sold on Ebay for £2 in 2009.</p> I knew when I saw it and thought “But it just looks like a stupid, badly designed Newton” that it felt instinctively wrong. Graham Linehan found this amusing piece with more than a grain of truth in it: http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/11/21/so-book-like-youd-think-it-was-a-book-but-its-not/#more-428 …but there again the “definitely not Danny” Daniel O’Brien person does report that it has currently sold out – only to become destined to rest, covered in dust, on a bookshelf until eventually attempted to be sold on Ebay for £2 in 2009.

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