![]() ![]() While reading, your only interaction is to repeatedly press the next-page button. The device thus offers good support for the task of linear reading - appropriately so, as Kindle's design is centered on this one use case. Paging backwards is a less common action, but it's also nicely supported with a separate, smaller button. This one command has two buttons (on either side of the device). Kindle shines in one area of interaction design: turning the page is extremely easy and convenient. (See sidebar for analysis of Kindle's Out-of-Box Experience: unwrapping and "installing" the device.) Awkward Interaction Design This fact alone is high praise for the device designers. ![]() But when I actually sat down to read the novel, I became so engrossed in the story that I forgot I was reading from an electronic device. When I was carrying Kindle through the house, I felt like a Star Trek character with a datapad. ( Update: a bigger study found that the Kindle 2's reading speed was still slightly slower than printed books, though much better than old studies used to find for computer-based reading.) So I can't say for sure that Kindle has finally reached the nirvana of equal readability for screens and paper. Of course, one person reading one book is not a proper measurement study. My reading speed was exactly the same (less than 0.5% difference), measured in words per minute. Alternating for each chapter, I read half the book in print and half on the Kindle screen. It now provides good usability for reading linear fiction (mainly novels), though it's less usable for other reading tasks.Īs an experiment, I bought two copies of the same book: a trade paperback and a Kindle download. The new version of Kindle, 's dedicated e-book device, recently shipped with an improved display and various other upgrades. ![]()
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