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by simias
2143 days ago
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>Perhaps a little bit breathless, but it was an amazing thing at the time. I bought the first kindle and I thought it was great but "amazing" is a bit much. E-readers already existed, Amazon's main selling point was their catalog and aggressive pricing. I mean the Sony Reader predates the Kindle and is technically fairly similar AFAIK: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Sony_Rea... On top of that e-paper readers so far have effectively been a fad, conventional smartphones and tablets have taken over pretty dramatically. Paper books are also going nowhere. So the impact of the Kindle is negligible when compared to something like the iPhone, that completely changed the standard for a mobile phone. |
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Yeah. I like my Paperwhite well enough for certain uses but I'm not even sure I would replace it if it broke tomorrow. And I'm a little surprised at the degree to which people have stuck with physical books even when it's just flowing text. I'm at the point where a new book means a book I have needs to be donated. I'd much rather books that are just text are digital. But then, in normal times, I'm traveling most of the time.
E-books really haven't ended up being that much of a revolution and certainly dedicated readers are not.