Re: Kindle and its peers

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

Until the Kindle and the Nook evolve into color, they will never capture the 
attention of readers of garden, art, decor, or other illustrated magazines. 
These reader devices were designed for books, and are as flexible and 
wonderful for reading text as they are bad for viewing color photos, let 
alone videos. We already have a color-equipped gizmo that is perfect for 
online magazines, the computer. It rapidly handles full color, flash, links, 
interactivity, and more, although security could be better. The winning 
device in this hotly contested area is probably going to be a powerful, 
lightweight, inexpensive, portable computer, maybe a netbook.

My ideal small laptop or netbook would have a built in DVD drive but 
streaming video may make that feature unnecessary. I think the hardware 
people will come back to the full-function computer even though it is hard 
to make it as lightweight as a Kindle.

-- Betty Mackey
www.mackeybooks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorraine Flanigan" <lorraine.flanigan@sympatico.ca>
> I think acceptance of this medium, whether online or on an ebook reader,
> would depend on the value of the interactive elements. If readers turned
> to a spread of a gorgeous container garden, for example, and clicked to
> view step-by-step instructions on how to put it together, or could click
> on "sun" or "shade" to see the same container with plants suited to
> each, that would be a page-turner for me.

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