the Kindle
The Kindle device was leaving me nonplussed. I like reading books because they are books. It gives me a very different feeling from reading chunks of text online. I completely ignored Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road when it came out in serial, as i couldn't be bothered to read it online, knowing that it would be better enjoyed when it would be collected in a book.
Bookninja suggests something very obvious that i ignored completely. Reference books. Yeah, that would be useful. I already carry one bird book around with m all of the time (National Geographic, because it has paintings, not photos, and the range maps are on the same page as the pictures.) It would be kinda cool to carry books around for insects, reptiles, flowers, ect. or just cram it full of Wikipedia entires. However, the Kindle does not look much more robust than a laptop. And 30 hours of battery life? Why bother?
Yeah, i'm unconvinced. It looks like an utterly useless device.
Ed Champion has ten arguments against it.
2 comments:
Okay for non-fiction and magazines, I suppose. At $9.99 they're not passing on alot of savings to me (and I had to spend $400!)
People are animals, we like heft, packaging, cover art, and so on. Especially if its not free or stolen.
I don't understand why there'd be any limit to the number of books I could buy (200!?) Once I buy the book I should be able to access it forever, even if, god forbid, my house burns down.
Also, I am a booksmeller and toucher, not just a reader and looker.
booksmeller. i'm adding that to various profiles now. I had a friend at one of the bookstores who had opinions about the quality of different inks, as she'd take a deep lungful of the new titles.
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