Kindle First Thoughts
May 29, 2008 – 5:14 pmI bought a Kindle and got it yesterday. I opened it up and didn’t bother to read the manual. Here are the thoughts that went through my head during usage.
- Nice packaging. Unbox experience was pleasant.
- The cover is icky. Need a replacement now.
- Ooo, I love when my new toys come charged.
- Turn it on…boot time is a little slow.
- Holy UI slowness.
- There is a keyboard but input is laggy.
- Search for a book…purchase book….nice that my Kindle already knows who I am. It’s psychic!
- Book download was pretty fast. Nice!
- There is a keyboard right below my book. This makes me want to chat with people who are also reading the book. Kindle Community should be like a built-in book club.
- Time to get ready for work. Where is the sleep button? Must I turn it all the way off?
- Default font size is too big for me. Not enough text on the “page” for my liking. Shrinking the text made it more palatable.
- Quite handy for reading one handed ( I do this often) since I don’t have to turn pages with my other hand.
Mind you these are first thoughts that I’m sharing unedited. I’ve since figured out the “sleep” mode (though I don’t know why it doesn’t just turn off the screen). For my next trick, I’m going to figure out how to turn my PDF’s into files the Kindle can read (mobipocket files) on the Mac. Something about paying Amazon 10 cents to convert files I already own doesn’t sit well with me. Windoze users already have a tool for this, not so much on the Mac side of the house so I’ll be trying things out with mobiperl. Wish me luck!
