{"id":942,"date":"2009-02-10T11:01:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zephyrusanemoi.com\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2020-02-06T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T02:25:31","slug":"fires-must-be-kindled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/fires-must-be-kindled\/","title":{"rendered":"Fires must be Kindled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon’s\u00c2\u00a0Kindle 2<\/a> has arrived. It looks great, and if you want a device for just eBook reading, you probably won’t find better in the current generation. It seems Amazon is serious about this market. And, it seems there may be a possibility that Amazon will make KindleBooks available to iPhone owners<\/a> in the future.<\/p>\n

While the Kindle itself sold less than Microsoft’s Zune<\/a> by a 2-1 margin, that doesn’t seem to make it a failure in Amazon’s eyes. To be fair, eBook readers are still an emerging market. Either that, or there’s no market at all and no one has told Amazon, Sony, or a handful of other companies yet, either. Personally, I still love to read, and a dedicated eBook reader would go a long way toward making reading fiction something I do daily again.<\/p>\n

However, since I still can’t justify spending this kind of money on a device just for reading eBooks and then pay the hardcover price for a DRM’ed digital copy, I’ll stick with Stanza<\/a> on the iPhone<\/a> for now. Or, if I’m looking for a good price on a large selection of classics with a gorgeous interface, I’ll go with Classics<\/a>, instead. What are your thoughts on the matter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon’s\u00c2\u00a0Kindle 2 has arrived. It looks great, and if you want a device for just eBook reading, you probably won’t find better in the current generation. It seems Amazon is serious about this market. And, it seems there may be a possibility that Amazon will make KindleBooks available to iPhone owners in the future. 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