Kindle retailing remains weird. Dick Smith has an Australian physical store exclusive on the Kindle Touch, which it is selling in-store for $185. But if you order it from Amazon directly, you’ll pay $149 including postage. I know what I’d do.
If you thought the Kindle Touch was limited to page-turn taps and a pokey on-screen keyboard, it’s time to re-evaluate. A start-up is now demonstrating software that lets the eReader handle handwriting recognition.
We’ve more or less accepted ereaders as the best way to read a book digitally, but there’s still a whole lot that gadgets can do that ereaders suck at — literally anything you own with a screen is better at this stuff than an ereader. The Kindle Touch is the first to really bridge that gap in a way that makes sense.
