Kindle 3 Review – Australia

Pros:

• Excellent screen, easy to read
• Long battery life
• User friendly design
• Easy to transfer sync files
• Saves trees (maybe, would like to see cost of resources used to produce and ship one of these suckers..)
• Useful dictionary

Cons:

• Keyboard is pretty irrelevant and takes up precious space
• Surface could be a little stickier for holding long periods, back material could have been used on the front
• Logo on front is distracting when reading

I’ve been wanting to get an e-reader for quite a while now. When I lived in Tokyo 2 years ago I spent months trying to find one with no avail. I event went to the multi-story Sony headquarters  building in Tokyo and when I asked the sales guy about an e-reader he thought I was talking about a mini laptop. Basically they didn’t sell ‘em.

Along comes Amazon and starts selling the Kindle, each revision sells more and more of them. Now at version 3 its met a price point I cant pass up. So I preordered mine a month ago and a couple of days ago it arrived.

The new Pearl E-Ink screen is very easy to read, I’ve had a look at other e-readers with e-ink and they are not as clear/crisp as this pearl display. Sony has also released a couple of readers now with Pearl but they are almost double the price.

One of the biggest issues people have usually commented on is the screen refresh that this type of screen has to do, fortunately this refresh is very quick.

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