Re: Re: Amazon Kindle

Can't speak to this without knowing what model she has. The Touch,  
which is basically an iPhone without the phone, has the same  
capability for sending yourself Word and PDF files as the iPhone does,  
and you can read PDF in the Safari browser. It's also hard to comment  
not knowing what she means by "ebooks," because some people apply the  
term to any kind of electronic file that's not work or email. Even the  
original iPods could handle text files, but the file size was so  
limited it wasn't possible to load an entire book onto them. So, if  
the more current models allow larger files sizes on board, then,  
again, it's quite feasible to read an ebook on an iPod.

However, doing so may mean making compromises with the quality of the  
output, whereas a reader program designed specifically for use with an  
iPod/iPhone would render the files in such a way they were much  
"prettier." It would also likely add features like bookmarking and  
perhaps even notes and such, like the Mobi and eReader programs do. As  
it is, the experience is more likely one a committed ebook reader  
would accept rather than someone who hasn't tried them.

One needs to keep in mind that the Kindle's target are the latter, not  
the former.

L
Elizabeth Burton, Executive Editor
Zumaya Publications LLC
http://www.zumayapublications.com
Opening doors to the creative mind

On Nov 28, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Brenna Lyons wrote:

People
keep saying things that allude to the idea that you can't read on
Apple machines, but she's managing it somehow, I'd say.



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