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Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279 (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world -3 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

What's the @#%^ing point, honestly

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Comics and graphic novels mostly. Maybe scientific papers and textbooks.

Oh you mean the point for Amazon? Extract money

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ha, good response. Didn't know people got comic books on Kindle. Thought the point was having/collecting the physical ones.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

Well, once you have a room full of long boxes, you kinda have to either become rich enough to build a new house with dedicated comic storage, or you start looking at digital.

Half joke aside (because good luck affording a house nowadays), reading comics digitally is actually very nice, but being able to have and store an entire published history of a comic on a single drive instead of taking up multiple boxes is too damn nice to ignore. And that's assuming you're paying for the digital version. If you pirate, the money issue is a major decrease in resources needed to enjoy comics. Hard to pirate physical copies of the very old and rare stuff, but easy to find digitally.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

For weebs and such to read their comics

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because if you read the article, it says it has a battery life of several weeks.

Name one fucking color display tablet that can be used every day for over a week on batteries without charging? I'll buy it tonight.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Any of the color e-ink readers from Kobo, Boox, reMarkable?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 7 points 4 weeks ago

Oh fuck yes, thank you

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

No clue. I read on a $20 tablet I got off Amazon. With the app that suits you, why not indeed? It's a total POS for anything but reading, but I bought it for an epub reader.