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extremely preliminary kindle 2 impressions

from an email i just sent my brother Jay:

I've not yet had a lot of time to work with it as I'm pulling some OT today. The buttons will take a little getting used to, I think, as will the little control stick (the k1 has this roll thing button). It's comparatively smaller, but the K1 is angled down from the left, which makes it more ergonomic. the k2 is flat.

crisper screen, and the increased number of greys really does help. i just loaded up a NY Times front page image and it looks like a picture from the paper, not some blah image on a windows 3.x machine.

the keyboard is nicer, and when i was typing my info to register the kindle it didn't take me 9 years. page load is slightly faster, still with the black screen, tho.

my previous purchases were in a "folder" called archived (but i don't yet know if folders are an option on the k2, i don't think so but i hope so). downloading them onto the new kindle was easy, but i had to go onto the amazon site and manually set my ny times subscription to go to the k2.

amazon also doesn't track any samples you download on the customer's kindle page so i will need to go back and request the samples again.

after I spend more time with it (I named it Balthazar), I'll write up a real comparative review.