Kindle 3: another view

RantWoman emphatically does NOT repent of all her grumbling about inaccessible or incompletely accessible versions of the Amazon Kindle. However, in a spirit of fairness, RantWoman also offers another view along with a number of additional comments:


from author and blogger Nan Hawthorne:

Re: reading documents on the Kindle 3
I know there are lots of people who are really ticked off with Amazon and the accessibility of the Kindle.. or its lac ck thereof, but I wanted to point out one aspect of it I use constantly, and that is access to documents via wifi. I know there are other ways to do this, so it's not anything really new, but I certainly enjoy it.

If you have the Kindle 3, and I bought the $139 version, you can send any Word document to it wirelessly. Then you can read it using the text to speech, which is pretty good quality. I am a novelist, so I send my own chapters to listen to them and I also get books from other authors in doc format to write reviews. I don't own a Stream.. I made the decision to spend the money I had on the Kindle instead, even without full accessibility for a variety of reasons. I like that wireless transfer.

I also need to read scholarly articles both for research for books or for articles I plan to write. I take material that is in text format and just open and save it in Word so it will work with the Kindle.
I just wanted to mention this so people who are interested learn about this capability. I don't really want to argue the perfidy of Amazon's accessibility record. I will only say I adore my Kindle and use it daily to read books, magazines, and documents. I will answer questions about the Kindle 3 but I won't get into debate4s about all or nothing. I've been through enough of those already. You can find more about my experiences with Kindle at
http://allsheread.blogspot.com and check the label list for Kindle.
Respectfully,
Nan HawthorneAuthor, blogger, broadcaster and songwriter
www.nanhawthorne.com
More than 1200 books set between 500 and 1600 AD.www.medieval-novels.com



And another Nan Hawthorne item with links to specific items:
Thought I would just post the links to the articles I wrote about the new Kindle 3.
Expanded Text to Speech on Kindle 3http://allsheread.blogspot.com/2010/09/expanded-text-to-speech-on-kindle-3.html
Clearing the Air About Kindle 3http://allsheread.blogspot.com/2010/09/kindle-3-tour-part-ii-clearing-air.html
To Some Blind People Kindle 3 Is Sour Grapes: A Rant
http://allsheread.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-some-blind-people-kindle-3-is-sour.html
There are others, both informational and critical.. just use the search box at the top on the word Kindle.
The blog is mostly book reviews, but I do regular articles about accessible reading issues.
-- Respectfully,
Nan HawthorneAuthor, blogger, broadcaster and songwriterwww.nanhawthorne.com
More than 1200 books set between 500 and 1600 AD.www.medieval-novels.com