I read How the Apple iPad Could Kill the Kindle and was somewhat compelled by the author's thesis that Kindle would die because iPad is an "okay" enough reader that people would choose to exclusively carry it around rather than it, and a Kindle.
This got me thinking. It's kind of a shame that rather than embrace a notebook computer sort of leaning toward the tricks and simplicity of a Kindle, that we don't instead embrace a Kindle that sort of leans toward a notebook. If I were a Kindle product executive, for instance, I would be gung ho to create a web experience in something the size and shape of the current Kindle. And, I would not allow it to use the "typical" web, but rather, an efficient black and white version that sufficed for low-visual impact tasks like e-mail, filling out online forms, checking up on appointments, and, pretty much many of the other monochrome tasks that work well on paper. Things that would prove as useful in caliber as presenting book pages, which the Kindle already does. A sort of dubbed "Kindle Web".
I believe there is a world of usefulness in a presentationally scaled back version of the web, that never really took off on the mobile platform because such platforms are just too small. But the Kindle apparatus has demonstrated a handling size and thickness, and, a presentational tone, that people seem to agree with while in motion. The iPad is just a little too big, a little too thick, and, definetely not as light (I finally got to hold a demonstration version at Best Buy a few days ago) as the Kindle.
The Kindle folks should look into it.
