6" Kindle Amazon book reader , Review
As is known, the market of e-Readers using E Ink is developing somewhat slowly. New devices do appear but, as a rule,they aren’t very different from each other.
e-Readers use the same e-paper and they are only different in the case, navigation buttons and software.
There are some odd cases of an additional LCD, but the excitement dies away quite soon,
and the developers focus on the software and try to make the cases more ergonomic.
Sony, however, made the display of their new e-Reader Sony Reader Digital Book with touch screen - PRS700 sensitive to the touch, which allowed it to add some useful features. The company had to pay for it though: there was a great drop in text contrast which makes most of the users choose the Sony PRS505. It’s considered the best e-Reader at the moment, if we don’t take into account the weak software. Its advantages can be made up for with the programs of other developers.
This was the background for the release of an e-Reader called Kindle Amazon Book Reader , made by the world’s most famous online store - Amazon. This aroused a lot of interest among the users and fans of e-Readers all over the world. Unlike other e-Readers, this device is furnished with a CDMA-modem, a speaker and a qwerty-keyboard, which greatly extended its functions.
The device kit is very simple: the e-Reader itself, a power adapter and a USB-microUSB cable.
Since the lower part of the Kindle Amazon Book Reader case is occupied by the keyboard, the display looks smaller than that of the PRS-505 (and other e-Readers like this). However, it’s an optical illusion – its size is the same as that of other e-Readers: 6 inches.
The page-turning buttons are located on the right and on the left of the screen: on the left there are pages of the previous and next pages; on the right – Home button (allows you to view the list of loaded pages) and a next-page button.
In the bottom left corner there are Menu and Back buttons as well as a four-position pressable joystick. When you press it, it functions as the Enter button.
The back cover of the device is made of aluminum. The speakers are located in the bottoms corners: you can listen to music or a text.
The device supports the following formats: Kindle (AZW), TXT, Audible (formats 4, Audible Enhanced [AAX]), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively.
Kindle Amazon book reader uses the same Vizplex e-paper as practically all other e-Readers.
The books are very easily downloaded onto the Kindle Amazon book reader: you connect the device to a computer USB slot with the USB-microUSB cable, it’s recognized as an external storage device, and then you can copy books into the necessary folder in any file manager.
The e-Reader navigation is carried out through a contextual menu activated by pressing the corresponding button.
Kindle Amazon book reader allows you to bookmark pages, add notes or create a note from of a highlighted text.
Another interesting feature is Text-to-Speech: you choose the menu item and the e-Reader will read the text to you out loud. It isn’t bad at all, and quite pleasant to listen to.
Thanks to the keyboard, it’s very easy and convenient to search the text.
There are 7 font sizes for the downloaded books, but it took me some time to figure out how to change them. It turns out, you have to press a certain key on the keyboard to change the font size.
Now we should say why this e-Reader is different from others. The idea man of this device, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, wanted to create an e-Reader with which you could buy and download books and other publications from Amazon.com without using the PC.
As a result, Amazon Kindle is closely tied to the Amazon online store. The e-Reader enters Kindle Store website via Sprint EVDO 3G network, and you can buy any book there, as well as subscribe to different periodicals – newspapers, magazines and blogs. By the way, blog subscriptions aren’t free - $2 a month for a blog.
All of this is very convenient, of course, but I should mention that the eBooks cost around $10 each – the price for the same paper books is about $10-20 more, though.
Overall there are around 100,000 eBooks and another 200,000 periodicals in the store. Some books can be downloaded for free (as a rule, they are various old reference books), but there are also eBooks that cost $5,000 to $6,000 (their paper editions would be a couple thousands more expensive). For example:
To my mind, the idea is great and it’s very well carried out too: at any moment in any part of the US you can buy the necessary book or periodical without a computer, and begin reading it right away.
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