For the most part I wasn't going to write too much more about e-readers. I figure that the revolution has transformed into a cold war with the dominant three parties, Apple's iPad, Amazon's Kindle, and B&N's Nook, all settling in. But, there was a great article from Walt Mossberg today that discussed e-reading apps for the iPad (Link).
As he states, this article doesn't discuss e-readers, but rather e-reader applications on iPad. He says that they all have good and bad points, but one thing he did say about Amazon's Kindle reading application for iPad caught my eye.
"(The Application) synchronizes the last page read, your bookmarks and notes with the Kindle hardware reader and Kindle apps on Windows PCs, Macs, and BlackBerry and Android devices." This is something I've loved about my Kindle. But, that wasn't the key, this was, "The Kindle app also lets you see popular highlighted passages selected by other users."
And I thought my Kindle was broken. I've seen these highlights while reading and wondered what the hell it was. I knew I hadn't highlighted anything. Now I know. How keen! I can't wait to find the next one and see what other readers are highlighting in the books I read. It's like getting a text book in school and having all the notes in the margin already.
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