Comments on: Is the Kindle 2 gym friendly?

If you read while you work out, an e-book reader is easier to deal with than real magazines, newspapers, or books. Here's why.

[arshield]

I use mine K2 every day at the gym. If I am moving too much because I am jogging or something like that I listen to an audio book. Otherwise I read.

[Adeel-Imran]

Check this post alos on kindle 2 being friendly with gym

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[nikenjeru]

I use my DX at the gym on an elliptical trainer. It works great. Because it's larger than the 2, you can increase the font size without having to turn the page too frequently. I prefer reading to watching MTV or whatever crap they have on at the gym anyway.

[azell]

I've had a Sony 505 for 16 months and am on my 18th book read 95% while on a treadmill and recumbant bikes. I played with many different things and now use an 1.5 corner bracket, covered with a rubberized tape (to keep it from slipping) and have industrial velco male on one outside angle and the fuzzy part on the back of the eReader plus 2 plastic bumbers (to keep it from tilting). The corner braket sits on top of the equipment's reader board, the rubber keeps in from slipping. It works fine. I can ajust the level by where i attach the corner bracket. If I need the cover for the light, I've a strip of fuzzy velcro on inside of the back cover.

For reading while eating, I've a a small folding rubberize display stand.

Why Amazon or Sony or some gadget guy come up with something like this means that none of them exercise or, if they do, they don't read while doing it.

Innovation is more than more memory, faster chips, etc. In some ways the computer industry only thinks of what is inside and how how things are used.