Scoble Disagrees With Me About the Kindle

Wow, are we ever traveling on different wavelengths! Check out Scoble's scathing 1-week review of the Kindle here.

He sees a lot of features missing that, frankly, I don't give a darn about. Here are a couple of the things he thinks the Kindle should offer:

1. No ability to buy paper goods from Amazon through Kindle.
4. No ability to send electronic goods to anyone else.
5. No social network. Why don’t I have a list of all my friends who also have Kindles and let them see what I’m reading?

I guess these features would be nice, but I don't seek them. I think Scoble wants this to be all-encompassing. It is a great tool for readers and for the pleasure of READING. I don't want my reading interrupted with visual noise regarding what my friends are reading. I don't need to use the device to order non-Kindle products from Amazon. I love that the Kindle store is just for Kindle products because it makes the navigation and selection process more streamline.

Scoble also thinks the user interface and menus suck. After using the Kindle pretty solid for one week, I think it works great. It will do what I want it to do very fast. And my hands have found the sweet spots and I now find holding the Kindle very easy as well. It is kind of like a golf club, you have to get used to the optimal grip.

But I wanted to share Scoble's perspective in case you are more like him than me!

If you are more reader than online social networking god/goddess, I think you will like the Kindle a lot. To buy books and newspapers and to read books and newspapers, it is tops. They still need more blogs available - right now they only have the top few A-list bloggers in each category and not ONE of the 200+ blogs I have in my aggregator.

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