Amazon Kindle Goes From Must Have to No Thanks Overnight

Pretty much everyone out there knows about the Amazon Kindle and what a great e-book reader it is. The Kindle is, if you believe the front page of Amazon their #1 selling item which would mean that pretty much every other person you know should have one.

The Kindle is a great device… as an e-book reader, and that is about all. You can read books, newspapers, etc. with wireless net access world-wide, but for all the money you spend what else do you get?

Kindle does have text to speech. Sure it does, but do you want to use it or read for yourself? People buy bookreaders so that they can read books, not so they can listen to robotic sounding text-to-speech.

Kindle comes with many book samples at no charge so that you may get a taste before you buy. What would be the reason to do that? If you know of a book that you want to read you would buy it, you aren’t going to want to read the first chapter of a book to see if you like it or not first.

The book prices are only about $10, and there’s 400,000 to choose from! Yeah that’s awesome… but few realized before buying that Amazon can and will delete anything they choose from every Kindle without the owners knowledge or consent? Point in case, they gave for free to Kindle buyers George Orwell’s 1949 masterpiece “1984″ at no charge, and then found out they had to pay royalties for each instance of the book and instead deleted it from ever Kindle device in one fell swoop. Amazon gave Kindle buyers no choice in the process.

It’s got a big 9.7″ LCD with a whopping 16 shades… of gray. Wonderful, gray. That’s amazing. I believe it was 1953 when the first color television was released to consumers by RCA and now, 57 years later, we have the amazing B&W screen Kindle.

But the Kindle must do something right or nobody would buy it, right? It’s true the Kindle is a great e-book reader. One of my friends bought a Sony e-book reader not too long ago, and it was blown out of the water by the Kindle so he ended up selling his Sony partly out of disgust with the unit. If you’re looking for an e-book reader you can’t get better than the Kindle, it really excels at what it was designed to do.

So if the Kindle is just an overly expensive book reader what would be a better alternative?

I’m not buying an iPad but is it something you could use and is it worth buying? My wife has a shop on Zazzle.com where she creates custom birthday invitations and she could make good use of an iPad but not a Kindle.

The iPad is the same size as the Kindle DX, and starts at only $10 more than the Kindle. For your $10 you get a full color screen, internet access, and basically what is a redesigned netbook computer. For just $10 extra you get a gadget that does basically all that your laptop does and also all a Kindle can do too. The thing about the iPad is that it does everything the Kindle does better than the Kindle does it.

Sure the iPad is great but I won’t be buying one. In my digital camera repair business, we do Canon camera repair and like to keep up on new technology, but we really couldn’t use an iPad to do everything we would want it to do. The other reason is that Google will be releasing their own tablet computer it is going to make the iPad outdated junk overnight the same as the iPad did to the Kindle.

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