Monday, September 21, 2009

KINDLE – A WIRELESS READING DEVICE

My previous post, which was the first review article on this product, hardly captured 50 per cent of the functionalities of a Kindle.

The text-to-speech feature in a Kindle, not only reads books, newspapers, blogs aloud to you, you can choose to hear a male or female voice, whichever appeals to you or depending on the book in question. For instance, listening to a female voice from a novel written by a female author makes the story lively and real. You almost feel like you are hearing the author herself and vice versa. Thus, you can switch the device on hands free and be driving your car while it reads your favourite book, turning the pages automatically as the contents are being read to you. You can also choose to speed up or slow down the pace of reading according to your preferences.

The kindle’s web browser enables you to read simple text-centred websites and extract vital information. You can transfer MP3 files to your Kindle to play as a background music while you read.

Just as a Kindle affords you the convenience of carrying your entire library about in a compact wireless device, so it also contains the New Oxford American Dictionary of over 250,000 words and definitions. Dictionary is installed in a Kindle because it is usual for a reader to look up the meanings of words which are not clear to him/her. A reader can therefore look up the meaning of a word without interrupting his/her reading. All you need do is move the cursor to the word in question and its meaning automatically displays at the bottom of the page in the same manner computer pop-up shows up. When the reader removes the cursor from the word, the pop-up disappears and he/she resumes reading without interrupting the flow of his/her reading. Isn’t that fascinating?

The device is made in such a way that it never gets warm, so one can comfortably read as long as one likes. The battery life is such that it can, after being charged for four hours, endure for four days, wireless on. If the wireless is turned off after each reading session, the battery can last for two weeks before recharge.

For font size, you can adjust the font size either to increase or decrease at your convenience, thus making reading a pleasurable exercise. In the same vein, the Kindle’s high resolution screen makes images sharper. You can zoom images and photos to display to the full size of the screen.

As discussed in my last posting, the Kindle Store offers more than 300,000 books and more are being added. The beauty of this is that you can search from the Kindle Store wirelessly, buy and start reading your books right on your Kindle within 60 seconds. You are even allowed to download and sample-read the books before you buy.

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Sylvester D. Oti
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