A black and white reader isn't going to be a good newspaper or magazine reader. There are better devices for that. He also wished for an app store and that starts to sound a lot like wishing it become an iPad.
That a Kindle is boring is a feature, not a problem. I don't pick up a Kindle for the Kindle-ness, it's for the books on it. With the right book, some days that boring Kindle is the device that I just can't put down.
Frankly, I wish Amazon would stop with stuff like Goodreads integrations. Take that out and focus relentlessly on the reading experience - better display, better battery life, better ergonomics, and most of all - better typography.
> A black and white reader isn't going to be a good newspaper or magazine reader.
Considering newspapers were black and white for hundreds of years, and for a long time printed color photos as black and white, this seems an odd conclusion.
That a Kindle is boring is a feature, not a problem. I don't pick up a Kindle for the Kindle-ness, it's for the books on it. With the right book, some days that boring Kindle is the device that I just can't put down.
Frankly, I wish Amazon would stop with stuff like Goodreads integrations. Take that out and focus relentlessly on the reading experience - better display, better battery life, better ergonomics, and most of all - better typography.