Anyone Get Newspapers Or Books On KINDLE?

[jyl]

The recent thread on Sony's eBook reader got me looking into Amazon's Kindle.

I'm still not sold on spending money to buy ebooks - I still like having a library of physical books on my shelves, to happen upon and re-read, pass on to other people, etc.

But I started thinking about getting my newspaper subscriptions via Kindle.

I've no interest in saving newspapers, and not having to recycle mounds of newsprint every week would be nice.

They are cheaper on Kindle too. NYT 7-day/week is $57.60/month at regular home delivery price. On Kindle it would be $9.99/month. That is a $571/year savings! More than enough to pay for the Kindle hardware.

So - does anyone get their daily newspaper via Kindle? How do you like it? I gather the images are lousy (4 grayscale), but do charts/tables come out okay? Is the content the same as the print newspaper?

Any feedback on Kindle for book-reading is fine too. Thanks.

P.S. - I realize you can read the NYT free online. I'm not into eating breakfast at my computer, though.

[Jim727]

Subscribing. I've been thinking the same things.

[jyl]

Google "read newspaper kindle" and there are some links worth following.

[slodave]

Why pay at all? I can go to latimes.com, login and read online free of charge. Even without logging in, I read certain full articles.

You can do the same with NYT.

[jyl]

As mentioned in the first post - I don't want to sit at the computer with my eggs and bacon.

But, I wouldn't mind saving $580.

[slodave]

Originally Posted by jyl

As mentioned in the first post - I don't want to sit at the computer with my eggs and bacon.

But, I wouldn't mind saving $580.

I can read it on my iPhone, being nowhere near my green eggs and ham...

[slodave]

Here are the specs on Kindle:
Display: 6" diagonal E-Ink® electronic paper display, 600 x 800 pixel resolution at 167 ppi, 4-level gray scale
Size (in inches): 7.5" x 5.3" x 0.7"
Weight: 10.3 ounces
System requirements: None, because it doesn't require a computer

I guess it just all depends on if you want another gadget. It needs to be in color as well.

[jyl]

Originally Posted by slodave

I can read it on my iPhone, being nowhere near my green eggs and ham...

I can only comfortably read websites that have "mobile" versions, using my iPhone. And even then, it feels like work.

Squinting at that small screen is not relaxing for me. A portable Internet device with a bigger screen would work (the rumoured 9" iTouch) as long as indoors and, of course, on a WiFi network.

Even a 6" screen seems kind of small. I'll be interested to see if the next Kindle has a larger screen and better grayscaling. Color would be nice.

[jyl]

When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him.
Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-sized rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.

Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word "newspaper," of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.) The text was updated automatically on every hour; even if one read only the English versions, one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites.

It was hard to imagine how the system could be improved or made more convenient. But sooner or later, Floyd guessed, it would pass away, to be replaced by something as unimaginable as the Newspad itself would have been to Caxton or Gutenberg.