WEB 2.0 Experience: Wherein breaking up is hard to do

Thinking of making a comparative study of the following titles:


On the same shelf:

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. By AZADEH ENSHA | New York Times -- includes FACEBOOK, GOOGLE PLUS, AMAZON, LINKEDIN, MYSPACE, TWITTER

 The Anxiety of the Unanswered E-Mail New York Times

Amazon's Kindle (genre: e-book reader)

To be able to read you need literacy, information and a medium. Amazon facilitates all of the above. Let's stick to information (message) and medium (electronic book reader), i.e., Amazon's Kindle. The good news is, Kindle, is now available in Canada (it was US exclusive wireless e-book reader). In the following is a quick glance of the product:
Pros:

You don't need a computer or a connecting device - standalone, mobile via 3G wireless

Built-in keyboard -- helps in search, browse, notes, and navigation (back, forward, main home page)

Handy and light weight - just as holding a magazine

Lot of variety - Over 350,000 books plus newspapers, magazines, and blogs

Cons:

Pricey, starting @ $299 (No free Internet + taxes, if you are in Canada, for instance)

Wireless utility not available globally (i.e, outside US & Canada)

You can not add more memory

See also on the same shelf:

E-books take off on Amazon

News flash: the book isn't dead – yet John Barber, Tuesday's Globe and Mail,
Monday, Dec. 28, 2009

Kindle: Amazon's 6" Wireless Reading Device Price: $299.00

Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device (U.S. Wireless)

Stephen's Lighthouse: Kindle Comes to Canada

The E-Reader Explosion: A Cheat Sheet | Technologizer

Will tomorrow's libraries become more like museums of today -- A question for the coming decade

The Battle of Building Library's Digital Collection

Kindle guide to the the Internet Archive: More than a million free e-books for K owners to download @ TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Why user reviews are worthless: Customer Reviews!!!

PS. This is not a review from my desktop.

By Christopher Null

Why user reviews are worthless - Computers - Yahoo! Canada Tech

Say you are in the market for a new frying pan. How do you go about figuring out which one to buy?

If you're like many shoppers, you probably log on to Amazon.com or another shopping site, poke around to find the size you want and something that's in your price range, but still find yourself faced with a choice of maybe a dozen potential options. How do you pick from that point? If you don't go with the cheapest of the lot, chances are you'll buy one based on which has the best rating as provided by prior purchasers of the item."...



"Bottom line: Merchants may try to temper this stuff, but as a consumer, you need to keep your expectations in check, too.

For more on this topic, I invite you to check out my book on film criticism, which has several pages devoted to grade inflation. I'm happy to report it has a perfect five-star rating on Amazon.com, so you know it's good. continue reading

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Citation links @ Amazon by Dr. Mohamed Taher