annotate or easily do a whole lot more. (What's cool is that I can download
to the iPhone the books that I buy for my father on the Kindle we gave him.
Fortunately, he's a retired history teacher, so our tastes match...)
I think ereader technology is not quite there yet for schools, which baffles
me. A high-quality, durable, touch-screen, annotatable ereader tablet would
be just what the education market needs. All those elements are available,
separately, but the perfect package has yet to be more than some speculative
shots on Gizmodo. I remain even more baffled by the failure of Kindle et al.
to optimize ereaders for older readers (easier controls, mainly), as there
are going to be a helluva lot of us oldsters out there pretty soon, all
wishing we could keep up our reading and cursing the lack of material. The
recent agreement among several magazine publishing groups to generate their
magazines electronically in several formats for readers may be a step
forward there, if it actually happens.
And now they say the Apple tablet is spring 2010 or later; the rumored specs
indicate that this could be what I've been waiting for, but we'll have to
wait and see.
But enough of this Apple prattle--Peter Gow
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Keith E Gatling <keith@gatling.us> wrote:
> Has anyone considered the Kindle app for the iPhone/iTouch? Owning a
> Touch myself, I won't exactly be running out to get yet another
> device, when it looks like this one will do just fine.
>
> --
Peter Gow
Director of College Counseling and Special Programs
Beaver Country Day School
791 Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
www.bcdschool.org
617-738-2755 (O)
617-738-2747 (F)
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