Monday, November 17, 2014

My Kindle Voyage arrived on a Sunday, or what reader do you need?

One thing about Amazon: they sure work friggin hard. I got my K Voyage on Sunday, at seven in the evening!
Another delivery (to my mail box), also one they'd promised for next-day, I got after 22 at night. They deliver seven days a week, day and evening, one-day promised, if you have a Prime membership.

The Kindle Voyage: Well, I feel there is not so darn much to say. David Pogue basically says it all. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/either-amazon-knows-exactly-what-its-doing-or-102593981399.html

It's the best e-ink Kindle that they can make at the moment. (Apparently they can't make them much speedier, it's still feels much slower than any tablet.) And it's priced for it.

Do you need it?

I say: if you're happy with what you have, keep it.
If you have the money and want the best B/W reader you can get, get the Voyage.
If you want something more flexible and faster, with a great color screen, get the Kindle Fire HDX.
If you want the best mid-sized tablet, get a iPad Mini. That is a the best all-round ereader there is, it's easy to hold, and it has the perfect screen size to show both novels and web and magazines to their best advantage. And the second model is much cheaper now. Even the first one, without Retina display, is great, the display is plenty good, and it's cheaper yet.

If you want cheap, get the $69 Kindle.
If you want a cheap, compact tablet, get the Fire HD6. (Though it is really a $120 tablet, not 100, because you do need 16GB of RAM, really.)
If you want a B/W reader with front light, get the Kindle Paperwhite. Almost as good as the Voyage in most respects, and rather cheaper.

If you want a LOT of apps, get a non-Amazon tablet, like Nexus 7 or Galaxy Tab. They are good too.

If you want to read full page comics or magazines, get a 10-inch or a 12-inch tablet, that is currently the iPad Air 2 or the Samsung (some number, 9400 or such. Sigh, the Japanese and names...)

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