Hi All, I agree personal opinion, does not belong on PG. Even further it is disquieting when PG starts advocating a particular device! When I first read the REVIEW, immediately came to mind that this eview had been paid for! The part about the ads seemed at first strange! I then went to the german amazon site and to my surprise I saw immediately why the nameless one had these problems with the ads!!! HE GOT HIS KINDLE CHEAPER! In other words, when he bought his kindle he specifically ask for the ads, in the sense that he opted out for the special. My opinion and position is that this REVIEW be removed from the PG-site regards Keith Am 27.10.2012 um 08:02 schrieb don kretz <dakretz@gmail.com>:
It appears that the author is expressing the position of Project Gutenberg. Is this the case? If not, then I believe he needs to use the same communications channels available to the rest of us.
Don Kretz
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:27 AM, James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote: I have to admit I am disappointed and disturbed that PG is publishing an anti-Kindle rant on its website home page. Especially since the content is untrue. I have a Kindle Fire and am not subjected to ads all the time. I do not have to download PG books first to my desktop computer and email them to my Kindle Fire, etc. So the review is clueless.
There is indeed much to dislike about the Kindle Fire, and Amazon, just as there is much to dislike about the other ebook readers and ebook reader vendors, including Apple and Google and BN, etc.
But an intelligent review of these issues would be one based on factual knowledge of the products – plural – and would discuss factually, based on actual real expert user knowledge, what each product can actually do and not do – and then would leave the purchase decision up to the end customer – rather than plugging one product as being the “solution.”
Having PG shilling for one vendor does not increase its credibility nor its prestige.