I have to say that I was simply not impressed by the Kindle Touch. I looked at one recently, and I can see why they sort of keep these things boxed up and hidden away. They really don't want you to see how small it is.
Now, is small good? When it comes to gadgets, people love small. But, for functionality reasons, small is not always good for me. And so, this is sort of more about me than the Kindle, and that's why I don't know how useful this is to say: the Kindle just didn't do what I thought it would do.
People have complained about how slow it is; I didn't think it was that slow. It's a device that runs from $99-149. It doesn't have to be like lightning. But, compared to my Sony reader, it's not much faster. In fact, the Sony reader is roughly the same as the Kindle but with a clunkier operating system and a much heavier device body. The Sony reader is durable and made of aluminum; the Kindle touch is thinner and lighter, and that's what people want.
The fact that the device uses cloud storage concerns me. After what happened with Megaupload, will anyone ever think of cloud storage in the same way again? The 3G aspect of the device doesn't really register with me, either. I don't need it; I need something that I can read books on.
The display is excellent. However, the Touch has a six inch screen which I found to be too small since I am a fast reader.
That's really all I can say. I'm sure that if I had one, I could get used to it. But the size limitation really is what made me say, no thanks. And I'm not paying $500 or more for an iPad. I just don't think that that is a sustainable price, at least not for me.
