[Marketing] [IAEP] AP: Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use it

[Jim Simmons]

Yama,

I had the same experience with the mouse buttons when using the XO in
ebook mode.  You'd squeeze the XO just a bit too much and your book
would start paging away.   When I wrote View Slides and Read Etexts I
took some pains to make sure they were usable in ebook mode.  Recently
I've found that I don't use ebook mode anymore.  I just set up the XO
in laptop mode and use the keyboard.  I actually like this much better
than ebook mode, because I can read while eating lunch, something I
can't do easily in ebook mode (or with a real book either).

I'll take an XO over a Kindle any day.

James Simmons


> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:26:24 +0545
> From: Yama Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Marketing] [IAEP]  AP: Schools shun Kindle,       saying blind
>        can't   use it
> To: Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
> Cc: Sugar Labs Marketing <marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org>,       Luke Faraone
>        <luke at faraone.cc>, iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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> NN's one-page computer ("XO 3")is the right concept for distributing a "book
> like" experience, I believe, and if the XO were not burdened by a multilayer
> software system, and the mouse buttons that get activated when pressed down
> in e-book mode, the XO 1 itself could run circles around the Kindle.
>
> As it is we could still do something, but I see other priorities, like
> lowering the price of the XO 1.
> Kindle-like performance ain't it, but then that's my opinion