The Kindle Review

Let me say right off the bat, that the Kindle's primary function, to allow readers instant access to books, blogs, newspapers and magazines, is performed flawlessly with nary a hitch in the entire process. At any given time with this device in your hands you can look up anything in the Kindle store. Now, that being said there are some seriously awesome things about this lil guy and sadly, a few too many major but not fatal flaws with the Kindle.

Pros

The Display:
The screen and especially the electronic-paper appearance is startlingly crisp and extremely easy on the eyes. It has no backlighting and a very glare-free screen that affords you the ability to read this thing in any kind of lighting.

EVDO Connectivity:
Holy. Balls. is this fucking thing fast! Books, big books with thousands and thousands of words come to your finger tips in the time it takes to snap said fingers together.

The Obvious
Books showing up in your hand on an electronic screen that actually makes you forget it's on a screen at all.

The Coolness:
Not quite at the level of early-adapter iPod owners in ought one or early-ought two, but still the panache is intact with Kindle.

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The Cons

EVDO Connectivity + Impossibly Primitive Web Browsing
As wonderfully fast as "teh Internet" is on Kindle, the entirely lacking web capabilities render it practically moot, if not for the whole "download words real fast" thingy going for it. Seriously, Kindle with EVDO is akin to a '87 Buick Century being outfitted with a Ferrari engine. Amazon had best get some sort of circa 2008 web browsing on this gadget if they're hoping to be anything more than a speed bump on the highway to immediate information.

Interface/Design:
Look, I'm not asking for anything as groundbreaking and minimalist as the iPhone. But when the four buttons you have for navigating the electronic pages are "Previous Page," "Next Page," "Next Page," and "Back," you're not thinking hard enough. Yo, and that up and down click wheel has gotta go. I mean, shit!, fucking Centipede had a left-right-up-down trackball in 1980!
And if I may continue [It's your blog, have at it hoss. -Ed.] the coloration and hard angles of Kindle is more reminiscent of those box PCs from the 1990s than anything I've seen this century. I wanna be getting cutting edge, not a Dell!

Flawed Purchase Plans:
Paying for blogs? Excuse me, but eat a dick! You really expect me to pay any amount of cash to read the opinions of my peers, chirping chicken heads, frat boys and soccer moms? Yeah, Amazon's gotta do something about that. Also, ten bucks a month for the Wall Street Journal? Am I getting a handjob with that shit? Cause, at those prices I better be, what with the whole no images thing and you know the whole $79 dollar price tag for the web version as opposed to $120 annually for less pictures and worse site navigation.


Conclusion:
Love the idea and not a fan of the execution. I'll reiterate, the Kindle does it's primary job supremely well but it does need some well-thought out tweaking.