Re: Kindle and its peers

**L* F* <l*@sympatico.ca>**

I love Betty's concept of a netbook for reading magazines. Portability 
is a big issue with magazines -- don't we all read them while we're on 
the subway, or in a waiting room or while eating a quick lunch? So, I 
think once the online magazine becomes perfected (I admit, there's still 
work to be done), the natural evolution would be to a lightweight 
portable with all the bells and whistles required that's as easy to use 
for reading full colour magazines as the Kindle is for books.

They're not all perfect, but here are some of the magazines and 
catalogues I browse online:

http://provenwinners.wicow.com/pvProBeautyEC/start.asp?page=0
http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/browse-catalogue.html?catalog_name=fall2009
http://www.3dissue.com/PDF_2_flash_samples/lite/sample4/pageflip.htm

And I love the software Zinio uses:
http://www.zinio.com/browse/publications/index.jsp?productId=113272806

And here's some info on pageFlip, which some of the mags seem to be using:
http://www.flashpageflip.com/

Cheers,

Lorraine Flanigan
Visit my blog at http://citygardeningonline.com/
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Email: lorraine.flanigan@sympatico.ca
Phone 416-481-7160

Betty Mackey wrote:
> 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
>
>   
>
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