Comments on: Barnes and Noble Setting Up to Compete With Kindle http://blogkindle.com/2009/07/barnes-and-noble-setting-up-to-compete-with-kindle/ Daily News about Amazon's new e-book reader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: T. Garland http://blogkindle.com/2009/07/barnes-and-noble-setting-up-to-compete-with-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 T. Garland Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:06:20 +0000 http://www.blogkindle.com/?p=1781#comment-1853 You have some good points in regard to the lead that Kindle has on this market. However, unless Amazon addresses a major weakness of the current Kindle readers--lack of touch input--there will be a sizable migration of advanced users away from Kindle to equivalent readers which offer touch. Navigation within reference documents, annotation, and a more direct means of navigation within linked documents (e.g., HTML content, web browsing) is a critical feature for advanced users. I received a kindle2 as a gift but wound up returning it primarily for this reason. It was simply too ungainly to make one's way around in any sort of reference document (converted HTML, PDF with bookmarks, Biblical texts). I'm waiting for a kindle or kindle-like device with usable touch input which, in my usage, will offer great advantages over the present kindle versions. Kindle today is fine for reading strictly serialized information (e.g. trade paperbacks) but deficient when navigation becomes important. You have some good points in regard to the lead that Kindle has on this market. However, unless Amazon addresses a major weakness of the current Kindle readers–lack of touch input–there will be a sizable migration of advanced users away from Kindle to equivalent readers which offer touch.

Navigation within reference documents, annotation, and a more direct means of navigation within linked documents (e.g., HTML content, web browsing) is a critical feature for advanced users.

I received a kindle2 as a gift but wound up returning it primarily for this reason. It was simply too ungainly to make one’s way around in any sort of reference document (converted HTML, PDF with bookmarks, Biblical texts).

I’m waiting for a kindle or kindle-like device with usable touch input which, in my usage, will offer great advantages over the present kindle versions.

Kindle today is fine for reading strictly serialized information (e.g. trade paperbacks) but deficient when navigation becomes important.

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