Reading Machines
An essential discussion is brewing on e-readers.
Tim Carmody discusses single use reading machines. Jason Kottke notices that single-use reading machines, the Kindle and the Nook, are geared toward selling books, not reading. Marco Arment defends the current devices: “These are great devices for reading, even if you need to use one before you’re convinced, and any objection to their current software limitations is likely to be temporary.” Jason expands his idea and responds to Marco’s post arguing that, no,”The problem isn’t that you can’t route around Amazon’s design decisions with clever hacks, but that Amazon chose to optimize the device for reading (and buying) books.” Tim reflects, riffing off of Jason’s thoughts, on the differences between reading books and blogs and asks, “What a dedicated blog reader would look like?”Time for Andrew to put on his thinking cap. In the meantime, what do you want from an e-reader/ebook reader/reading machine?
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