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shadowkatJust watched the worst movie - Tony Gilroy's Duplicity - what is it about Clive Owen and bad movies? Julia Roberts isn't doing so hot herself at the moment. Was bored. And it kept jumping about in time, without spending any time whatsoever giving us a reason to care about any of the characters. Basically too clever for its own good.
On the Apple Ipad vs. Amazon Kindle thing? I have a kindle. I've seen the Ipad. Read a comparison in the paper. My Kindle was about definitely cheaper than the Ipad - which clocks at well over $400 with the additional $130 for 3G and for AT&T wireless, which are included in the Kindle's base price, which is half the price of the Ipad's base price. (My Kindle was a Xmas gift, or I wouldn't have it.) The battery lasts a week without charging. Little recharging period actually. And you can read fanfic on it. Actually you can read the NY Times, the New Yorker, and subscribe to blogs and anything else on the net. It has a keyboard which allows you to key in links, and little buttons that provide browsing, plus dictionary capability. It's also small, light, and easy to hide - so less likely to be grabbed out of your hands by people on the subway. The Kindle also has a screen that replicates the page of a paperback book - so you don't go blind looking at it. The IPAD like everything Apple appears to put out is pretty, lots of flash, lots of funky things, but little practicality. This is why I own a Dell PC and ignore the Macs. Asked a computer expert who fixes computers and taught marketing for a while, he told me that Steve Jobs is a marketing genius, but don't believe a word. He knows exactly what to do to sell. True. I've read my flist - my computer crashes less than the Imac does, it has gotten less viruses, it has lasted longer. Granted I don't watch movies on it - but I don't want to. Overheard an interesting conversation on the train between two guys, who owned a Kindle, the Iphone, and the Smartphone. Apparently the Iphone is the most fragile, the most expensive, has the worst battery average, and doesn't have the capacity of the others. My bro who owns an i-phone says its' broken twice on him. Also, people are sort of underwhelmed over the ipad.
As for how Amazon treats content? I've worked in the publishing industry - amongst many others, including finance, utilities, music, video games, railroad, and health insurance. The publishing industry is by far the worst. They are all assholes. ;-) I currently hate Barnes and Noble.
Anyhow...with the Kindle? You aren't limited to Amazon's content, like I said, I'm reading fanfic for free on it. And you can subscribe to news sources. Also they haven't edited or deleted any words - from the fanfic I'm reading, which can be pretty lurid.
Anyhow, depends on what you want it for? I desperately wanted it so I could read fanfic without printing it off, read classics and books like Butcher's Harry Dresden without forking over $25.
The e-book version for Butcher is $9, the classic's - $0. Plus I'm getting overloaded by books.
The ipad is for people who want to watch movies and tv shows...although why anyone wants to watch it on that small a screen is beyond me, but I know you all do. ;-)
On the Apple Ipad vs. Amazon Kindle thing? I have a kindle. I've seen the Ipad. Read a comparison in the paper. My Kindle was about definitely cheaper than the Ipad - which clocks at well over $400 with the additional $130 for 3G and for AT&T wireless, which are included in the Kindle's base price, which is half the price of the Ipad's base price. (My Kindle was a Xmas gift, or I wouldn't have it.) The battery lasts a week without charging. Little recharging period actually. And you can read fanfic on it. Actually you can read the NY Times, the New Yorker, and subscribe to blogs and anything else on the net. It has a keyboard which allows you to key in links, and little buttons that provide browsing, plus dictionary capability. It's also small, light, and easy to hide - so less likely to be grabbed out of your hands by people on the subway. The Kindle also has a screen that replicates the page of a paperback book - so you don't go blind looking at it. The IPAD like everything Apple appears to put out is pretty, lots of flash, lots of funky things, but little practicality. This is why I own a Dell PC and ignore the Macs. Asked a computer expert who fixes computers and taught marketing for a while, he told me that Steve Jobs is a marketing genius, but don't believe a word. He knows exactly what to do to sell. True. I've read my flist - my computer crashes less than the Imac does, it has gotten less viruses, it has lasted longer. Granted I don't watch movies on it - but I don't want to. Overheard an interesting conversation on the train between two guys, who owned a Kindle, the Iphone, and the Smartphone. Apparently the Iphone is the most fragile, the most expensive, has the worst battery average, and doesn't have the capacity of the others. My bro who owns an i-phone says its' broken twice on him. Also, people are sort of underwhelmed over the ipad.
As for how Amazon treats content? I've worked in the publishing industry - amongst many others, including finance, utilities, music, video games, railroad, and health insurance. The publishing industry is by far the worst. They are all assholes. ;-) I currently hate Barnes and Noble.
Anyhow...with the Kindle? You aren't limited to Amazon's content, like I said, I'm reading fanfic for free on it. And you can subscribe to news sources. Also they haven't edited or deleted any words - from the fanfic I'm reading, which can be pretty lurid.
Anyhow, depends on what you want it for? I desperately wanted it so I could read fanfic without printing it off, read classics and books like Butcher's Harry Dresden without forking over $25.
The e-book version for Butcher is $9, the classic's - $0. Plus I'm getting overloaded by books.
The ipad is for people who want to watch movies and tv shows...although why anyone wants to watch it on that small a screen is beyond me, but I know you all do. ;-)
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Date: 2010-02-02 04:21 pm (UTC)I had thought that you just bought a book from Amazon. Sorry to be off-topic but how does this work? download? or live feed?
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Date: 2010-02-02 06:46 pm (UTC)All you have to do is push the menu button, push Search, type in the item you are searching for, hit google - it finds it. You click on it. Then up comes the text. I googled for example All About Spike, then hit on Spike/Buffy, then scrolled to Raising in the Sun, clicked on it and it appeared on the kindle. Not downloaded, a live feed - that once you hit the page downloads but is not saved. You can book mark it and you'll go back there or just stay there, turn off kindle, turn back on - and that's the page you are on.
Push next and you go to the next page.
Simple.
Works with most blogs too. I can't figure out how to read my lj on it though - but that has to do with a complicated password. Was however able to access darkapple's fic on an lj site and angeria's on fanfic.net.
In other words it has a built in web-browser powered by Google. And is not in any way limited to buying or accessing Amazon books.
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Date: 2010-02-04 10:21 pm (UTC)