kindlephone
i was on the blue line outbound on friday and saw a still-rare kindle-in-the-wild (though not quite as unicorn-like as the zune-toting juggalo that i saw thursday). it was being used by a person who also had (and was listening to music on) an iphone. and i had to wonder if they felt that they wasted over three hundred dollars when the kindle iphone app came out, or if they wilfully ignore the convergence.
one can argue that devices are very different - that’s reasonable, but is it really worth that much money to have e-paper? just turn your iphone’s brightness down. plus if you are reading on the el (and especially on a line as infamously overpopulated and overcrowded as blue), having a physically smaller device helps when you’re trying to fit into a smaller space, reading something you can’t hold at a comfortable distance.
i never used to read on the el, but now i use instapaper, stanza, and papers daily. ymmv, but.
(i’ve been told that the iphone kindle app does not play external PDFs, which is pretty baffling, but at least the app “papers” can handle that - and it does so marvelously.)
