Amazon Kindle 2 Review

Wed, Mar 17, 2010

Readers and Accessories


The staff at Brighthand.com take a look at the Amazon Kindle 2, Amazon’s new e-ink based e-reader.

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26 Responses to “Amazon Kindle 2 Review”

  1. amy1122331 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 8:29 am

    could i download books for my college courses?

  2. tomrcool Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 8:44 am

    Almost certainly.

  3. Restarea11019V Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 9:27 am

    can you down load the bible om it ?

  4. klaatu42 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 10:09 am

    Kudos. Very well structured review. Told me everything I needed to know. Won’t be getting a Kindle due to the price, but at least now I know what I’m missing! :)

  5. TheBrookeRadical Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 10:18 am

    @sugarcookie182 nuhh just a gay one :l

  6. sugarcookie182 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 10:19 am

    @hughming yeah, you can add notes to yur books and there is dictionary check, it isnt touch screen

  7. sugarcookie182 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 10:43 am

    @TheBrookeRadical wow! those are so expensive though! you must go to a nice school :)

  8. scholarwarrior Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 10:55 am

    So Kindle does not just equal books. It also means magazines, blogs, and newspapers. This you can only do on an iPad with limitation and a wi-fi connection. If I am in a car or in an area without that, I cannot easily get that content digitally. Also, a Kindle is a PDF reader. To say that the Kindle can only read books is cutting it short. The Kindle and iPad are 2 completely different devices. One is a fantastic eReader. The other is a bigger iPod Touch with more features.

  9. scholarwarrior Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 10:56 am

    Its all about media content and how they get it. People are not reading newspapers anymore because of sites like digg, but also because of convenience, cost, or time to go buy a newspaper. The Kindle offers a viable option. To me, checking the New York Times website or any other news website by a newspaper is a crappy experience. To wake up and be able to download a newspaper or a magazine to a Kindle is a nice option, especially if I don’t have wi-fi around.

  10. disneyfreak191 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 11:51 am

    i have oneee
    i named him mikey :)
    loll i love my kindle
    and the ipad cud just drop in a well

  11. purpleshamrock17 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 12:35 pm

    just got my Kindle as an early birthday present and i love it! The only critisms i have are that the keyboard takes some getting used and some books are hard to find. LIke I searched for Harry Potter and I got everything about Harry Potter BUT the actual books by Rowling. I guess they assumed that everyone already has them and dosen’t want to read them in e-Book form.

  12. TheBrookeRadical Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    omg our school is getting these…

  13. rikoizmn Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 1:25 pm

    Is there a colored e-ink? And what’s the qwerty used for?

  14. RocMerc Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    I got it about a week ago and I love it very much so far. I have read two books since getting it and it feels like your reading real paper. Its nuts

  15. themenanman Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 2:13 pm

    @RocMerc when it come to health its DEFINATELY worth it because Kindles are very good to the eyes because it uses e-ink and i believe that technology is expensive now. This will be very good for university or typical academic nerd.

  16. 101shialover Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    haha the ipad is like HUGE

  17. Nogorn Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 2:42 pm

    lol ipad is gay

  18. RocMerc Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Ya i weighed the pros and cons for quite sometime and finally came to the conclusion to buy the Kindle and I’m loving it.

  19. Chewytube1 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    @RocMerc Yea, so do tablet PCs- You can get one of comparable size to the iPad for half the price, 4+ times the capacity, and run most/all common windows apps. (U810). Yea it has a physical kb too! You can get a mobile card to be built into it, and it’ll still be cheaper.

    Keep in mind, I do not own either device. I just know that now that apple made a tablet, all other tablets will be ‘copying’ even though they came out first. Typical media does this.

  20. hughming Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    I wonder…
    What sort of materials can I download in Kindle? For example can I download Hong Kong’s newspaper?
    Does it support microsoft word, powerpoint?
    Can I drop notes on the ‘book’ to aid my reading?
    Is there a quick dictionary check?
    Does it has a touch screen?

  21. RocMerc Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 5:02 pm

    I want one real bad but idk if its worth it when the ipad is coming out and it has books and loaddddds more

  22. skai30 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

    U should get the kindle 2 it has 3g ware ever you go, it has games, and is faster at turning pages and downloading books the kindle is the original and all the rest of the ebook readers are just fake imitations of it

  23. damanfrommars Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    ipad?

  24. superE230 Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    I really want to get an e-reader but cant decide what. s which one should i gte nook or indle? and why?

  25. shmookins Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 6:47 pm

    Switching pages makes me dizzy. I hate that flashing screen every time I press something…

  26. learn to sing Says:
    March 17th, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    Wow! This could be the most complete info I have found about this issue on the net. Would you think about hosting guest posts from others?


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