Amazon Kindle now available in Ireland (1 Viewer)

[jcdonaggio]

any bricks n mortars stores that sell these?

 

[WaveyDavey]

Yeah I see PCWORLD have them for 150 & 200 for the 3G version...

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

thats a really bad website pcworld have.
cheers though wavey,gonna go have a look this week hopefully.

 

[rettucs]

I got a 36 euro refund on the one I bought a couple of months back. Said in the e-mail that it was due to reduced export costs.

Nice. Getting 36 euros is better than getting a kick in the hole.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Could this new book kill the Kindle?

Im not sure I understand what these things are. They look like tiny books with tiny print printed the wrong way across the page.

 

[Cormcolash]

Fuck that. I love an oul buke like, I've got hundreds after all, but when it comes down to it, when we have stuff like the Kindle, you just can't justify the amount of paper used to produce books around the world. It'll be great when everything is digital in that respect.
In the future I'd like to see limited special edition type runs of books, say print 5000 instead of 50000 or whatever, and sell the rest as e-books, that way if you really care enough you can get a paper book, but most people will stick with the digital format.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

or we can all buy tiny books and reading glasses

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Maybe projecting the text of a book on to the wall might be a nice way to read it

 

[Goodbye]

I use Kindle for Mac & I've noticed that I can only buy from the 'merican store. The UK shop tells me to feck off its not available in your area.

Whats up with that?

Does that mean if I ever get a proper kindle yoke that I'll have to sync it with america or something?

 

[rettucs]

I got a kindle and I hate it.

but that Fire looks so tempting. A real shot across the bows of Apple too. I likes it.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The Fire isn't an e-reader though. I'll wait till 2012/13 when they find a way of combining the e-ink and normal stuff on the same screen.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Could this new book kill the Kindle?

Im not sure I understand what these things are. They look like tiny books with tiny print printed the wrong way across the page.

I saw one of these in waterstones yesterday, it was David Nicholls' One Day, and I was wondering what the hell it was. Could've easily slipped it into my pocket and walked out as well

 

[rettucs]

I'm going to go to a bookshop tomorrow out of defiance against the Kindle.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

you'd never catch me using one

 

[ann post]

the world metal supplies are depleting at a very fast rate so the price of home electronics will shoot through the roof, whereas trees and therefore paper are indefinitely renewable. i give the kindle 50 years, which is a short lifespan in comparison to a book. specially a leather bound one made out of a cow and a tree.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The Fire isn't an e-reader though. I'll wait till 2012/13 when they find a way of combining the e-ink and normal stuff on the same screen.

Just to be clear, that's a timeline you've pulled out of your ass, yeah?

 

[Andy_aurel]

I love my kindle. Downloading rare, out of print or otherwise unbuyable books and not having to read them on a retina burning computer screen is particularly great.

 

[Ferox13]

Thinking of purchasing one as a present. How essential/useful is having the 3G on it? If you've a dozen or so back up books on it I can see it as that important.

 

[rettucs]

Thinking of purchasing one as a present. How essential/useful is having the 3G on it? If you've a dozen or so back up books on it I can see it as that important.

I would say utterly non-essential unless you think you'll need to download books on the bus. Otherwise the wifi is more than adequate. You won't use the kindle for web browsing. The web browser is crap and completely unusable.

 

[Ferox13]

Cheers - prolly going to go with the £89 from Amazon.co.uk.