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22 February 2008
Classic Sesame Street quality children's book
It never fails to impress me how most printed content coming out of the Sesame Street franchise is so different from most pre-95 content. This particular book is a great example of this delta. The Sesame Street Word Book is pretty much what you expect. It has quality illustrations of various scenes, a plurality of characters and everyday objects, along with their names. This is not a complicated book, or one with a plot. It provides scenes and scenarios that you talk about with your child, and reinforce the names of related objects and environments.
So many contemporary Sesame Street are monocultural in both characters and theme. Illustrations, with some exceptions, look like they're lifted from the same stock art source as most other recent books. This book, and many others like it, does not bet its success on a small handful of popular characters but on the power of many faces and names. The Disneyfication of Sesame Street is well under way. Segments like Elmo's World and Journey to Ernie aren't horrible, they're just not that good. Unfortunately there's not a lot left to back it up. The genius that was Sesame Street is still evident as a kernel, but it's getting smaller every year. This book brings you back to a time when they didn't prioritize merchandise revenue streams, and content quality meant something to Sesame Workshop/CTW.
15 January 2012
The Nook Simple touch is superior to the Kindle Touch
75 of 76 found this helpful I bought this product because I wanted an ereader to use on the subway, and I didn't want to use my ipad. (I still carry books around.) I also wanted something that actually did exactly what I wanted it for - to read ebooks. The Kindle is superior in the experience of purchasing Amazon products. It also lets you read ebooks. There's a difference.
The Nook Simple Touch's reading experience is superior to that of the kindle. The touchscreen technology and page-turning is fast. The battery lasts 1.5 months. It has extra options for setting font size and type. It's a nice compact size you're comfortable holding for extended periods of time. It is non-slip, and curved to fit a holding hand.. It has expandable memory in the form of a microSD slot. It fits in a coat pocket. It doesn't force ads down your throat. It's under $100.
My only quibble with the device is that it could get better value out of its wifi connection. Setting up an API for service providers to create plug-ins shouldn't have been that much of a burden. I honestly don't care so much, because I have a smartphone, but I'd trade battery life to occasionally check email or the time.
Also, it could do better with 'collection'/list management, and it could better incorporate any embedded description tags in the ebooks. When you have hundreds of books, the search function is useful but browsing isn't as much. The Kindle has this problem too.
Another issue, affecting nearly all ereaders, is the difficulty they have in rendering PDFs.
How often do you get to pick the superior product while also discouraging the formation of a media distribution monopoly at the same time? Amazon requires a credit card in your account set up to use kindles. It has been known to unilaterally revoke/remove ebooks from kindles, if it runs into a dispute with the publisher.
I prefer reading on the simple touch over kindle, kindle touch, ipad, laptop or desktop. It's easy to hold for extended periods of time. The touch screen experience is superb; much faster than the kindle, and still a little faster than the kindle touch.
Don't let anyone tell you that ebooks are replacements for real books. Ebooks have superior portability and possibly better annotation functionality, but at the end of the day what you bought from most vendors is a non-transferrable license to read something. And they can change the rules of that license whenever they find it worth the hassle. You don't 'own' an ebook. You can't resell it. You almost definitely can't lend it to 100 friends. And you can't download it to all your devices (kindle app on desktop, on iphone, on tablet, etc., kindle upgrade/replacement) if the number of devices exceeds a variable number of maximum downloads set by the publisher. Ebooks are degraded 'defective by design' products, and should always be cheaper than an actual book. I'd set the right price at 1/2 to 2/3 of the paperback price.
Always demand ereaders that can read open formats, and have external memory slots.
06 December 2018
Always-on device reviews are tricky - not just about the hardware
When the hardware functions, it functions well. I am to some extent segregating issues with voice recognition from the hardware. However, the wifi connection this device maintains is spotty at best. I have an identical unit that operates fine in the same spot relative to same router, and this one drops connection at least once a day. On the positive, it's a better speaker than the 2nd generation version of this. If you can find a new 1st generation over the 2nd generation, buy that one.
SEparately, the voice recognition on all devices seems to have taken a sustained hit these past months. I've repeated myself way too often, on all devices.