Comments on: An excellent Kindle article and how it could be more accurate and even better http://ireaderreview.com/2008/02/03/an-excellent-kindle-article-and-how-it-could-be-more-accurate-and-even-better/ Kindle Review, Kindle Fire Review, New Kindle Review, Kindle 4 Review Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Francis Hagens http://ireaderreview.com/2008/02/03/an-excellent-kindle-article-and-how-it-could-be-more-accurate-and-even-better/#comment-8510 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:53:16 +0000 http://thekindle.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-8510 Kindle would be an excellent device for the visual impaired. However It needs a few updates. The key board is impossible for the visual impair to use. I think a port should be attached for a regular computer key board. Presentely a visual impaired person must seek help to enter any information. Maybe virbal comands would be helpful. I have a friend that had to return the Kindle because it was impossible to type the informtion required to order books. It is a great item but please consider the visual impaired.

]]> By: Michael August http://ireaderreview.com/2008/02/03/an-excellent-kindle-article-and-how-it-could-be-more-accurate-and-even-better/#comment-2753 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:12:52 +0000 http://thekindle.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-2753 I work at a small youth library. My boss came across this article from her bosses and sent it around to all of us, about the Kindle and its share in the freedom, or in the case of the author the somewhat restriction, of information.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0318/p09s01-coop.html

I was looking for a good place to bring it up in the blog and this seemed alright, especially as you, then, called the Kindle ‘the Amazon Trojan Horse’ and the author of the article sees the present-day Kindle as a more ominous alternative. Just thought it would be of interest to you and maybe others that find themselves here. Personally, I can see the points made by Walshe, who is herself a librarian, but I’m not sure she appreciates all that this new tool can be. What control over information and literature can oppose the freedom I have of taking my own personal library with me anywhere I go, of accessing Amazon’s own library and perusing its array, noting the thoughts and opinions of both professionals and everyday people, taking snippets of any Kindle book I find to keep, as well as taking with me the multitude of public domain books available for free download throughout the internet -a fact that Walshe seems unaware of- all with a thing I can comfortably hold in my hands.

The book itself must have seemed like an unnatural creation to those that had only known stories and studies by speaking them and listening to others. Sitting in a room with a bunch of paper, instead of in the conversation of people? It’s just not…right. Well, that invention has been invaluable to us. I don’t know that the e-reader is comparable to its forebear, but that is what we do: we create more from what we can, to gain more from it. Not all our technological advances have served us well, and there are even a few points with the Kindle that may be contentious, but the right tools are those that can cultivate and coordinate our experience, nurturing the opportunities to live and meet the life around us. Maybe its just another way to read books, but the Kindle may just be an example of this, or the start of something like it. All the other arguments do not seem big enough for what we are taking on here.

In all honesty, I do not even own a Kindle yet, but I hope to soon. Thank you again for an insightful and helpful blog.

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