Kindle: The Next Generation
I like the Kindle. But I don’t quite love it. The biggest advantage is, of course, the lack of screen glare that’s a problem on the phone or the iPad. Sadly though, the touch leaves a lot to be desired and, as Eugene Wei wrote, “typing on a Kindle hardware device is for masochists”. Wei wrote this great article suggesting how the Kindle could become the social network of book readers ! I sure hope Amazon implements his ideas. Wei describes the problems many of us have with reading in the Age of the Internet: we have a “promiscuous attention span” that aligns with blog and tweet sized content, we “crave more novelty and diversity” than can be offered by any single book at a time, we resent many otherwise good books that get bloated in size just to fill some physical book era page count rules, and our “best ideas come from the interaction between concepts in different fields”. So what are the solutions Wei suggests that the Kindle implement? He’d like a home feed on the Kindle ...