Which was my excuse to get a Kindle. I love, love, love my Kindle. It is awesome.
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With the newer WiFi only kindle being rather cheep (ha!), I’ve thought about getting one too.
I’m just reluctant to leave behind the ability to loan books out and all that.
And of course I have not had much time with one in hand – how does it compare against an actual book? I hear they are quite good now days, but that’s just from sources I don’t know.
I find myself wanting a Kindle too but, like most electronics I like, I can’t quite justify the expense. In the case of the Kindle, I don’t read enough and I am seldom need or even want to carry more than 1 book with me. Still, the thought of have lots of books taking the space of single book is appealing. And pulling out a Kindle to read in the waiting room would make me feel so hi tech. 🙂
I am very glad you got yours at last, Ramona. You do read enough and you travel and often need/want to take more than one book with you.
OK, first Hawaii. I got my photos up at http://picasaweb.google.com/ramona.traynor/HawaiiOahu#. And I hope to get everyone’s packages out to them very soon. I don’t know how perishable some of it is, but there’s got to be some kind of shelf life on it. So I hope to get it all out soon.
It reads just as comfortably as they all say it does. I read lying down in bed, holding it up off the crowded table while I ate (on travel, so I was by myself, of course), in all the normal reading positions. There isn’t any eyestrain whatsoever, and you can read in full bright sun.
The advantages it has over a book is that it is a completely one handed operation – I can be eating my lunch and holding my book and never have to switch hands to turn pages. It is light enough to hold for hours, even when I’m reading the Collected Works of Jane Austin. And while the web interface is pretty sad, it is there, and in a real pinch when I had to pull up a map, my Kindle was right there. Navigating Google Maps on the Kindle wasn’t fun … but it was possible. The Collected Works of Jane Austin never helped me out with a map.
The biggest disadvantage right now is impulse control. I mean, it is so unbelievably easy to get books now. However, they don’t really /feel/ like books. I’m still learning it, and there are ways to organize your books into collections and such, but somehow it doesn’t have the satisfaction of that row of spines on the shelf.
I don’t know what all to say about it … I am very glad to finally have it, and next time I visit, you’re all welcome to use it and admire it and such.
And in the meantime, get the Kindle App and the Nook App for your iPad. Not quite as easy to hold and read for hours and hours, but all the other functionality. And you get access to both collections of books. Just can’t lose!
I told you, Ramona, that I was going to leave a comment to your comment. A few days later, here I am. I love you photos. The flowers are beautiful and the distance shots are interesting. I have seen photos of Diamond Head many times but for some reason it still surprised me that the crater covers most of the mountain.
Wish the trip had been better for you. Wish you had had someone along to share it with and make you want to stay longer. I imagine the cats were glad to have you back a little earlier, though, so a shorter trip was good for someone.
With the newer WiFi only kindle being rather cheep (ha!), I’ve thought about getting one too.
I’m just reluctant to leave behind the ability to loan books out and all that.
And of course I have not had much time with one in hand – how does it compare against an actual book? I hear they are quite good now days, but that’s just from sources I don’t know.
I find myself wanting a Kindle too but, like most electronics I like, I can’t quite justify the expense. In the case of the Kindle, I don’t read enough and I am seldom need or even want to carry more than 1 book with me. Still, the thought of have lots of books taking the space of single book is appealing. And pulling out a Kindle to read in the waiting room would make me feel so hi tech. 🙂
I am very glad you got yours at last, Ramona. You do read enough and you travel and often need/want to take more than one book with you.
OK, first Hawaii. I got my photos up at http://picasaweb.google.com/ramona.traynor/HawaiiOahu#. And I hope to get everyone’s packages out to them very soon. I don’t know how perishable some of it is, but there’s got to be some kind of shelf life on it. So I hope to get it all out soon.
Now for the Kindle.
With pressure from B&N, Amazon is soon going to allow the lending of books – http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11950602. So that’s very cool.
It reads just as comfortably as they all say it does. I read lying down in bed, holding it up off the crowded table while I ate (on travel, so I was by myself, of course), in all the normal reading positions. There isn’t any eyestrain whatsoever, and you can read in full bright sun.
The advantages it has over a book is that it is a completely one handed operation – I can be eating my lunch and holding my book and never have to switch hands to turn pages. It is light enough to hold for hours, even when I’m reading the Collected Works of Jane Austin. And while the web interface is pretty sad, it is there, and in a real pinch when I had to pull up a map, my Kindle was right there. Navigating Google Maps on the Kindle wasn’t fun … but it was possible. The Collected Works of Jane Austin never helped me out with a map.
The biggest disadvantage right now is impulse control. I mean, it is so unbelievably easy to get books now. However, they don’t really /feel/ like books. I’m still learning it, and there are ways to organize your books into collections and such, but somehow it doesn’t have the satisfaction of that row of spines on the shelf.
(Book spines. What else would I be looking at? http://wondermark.com/658/ )
I don’t know what all to say about it … I am very glad to finally have it, and next time I visit, you’re all welcome to use it and admire it and such.
And in the meantime, get the Kindle App and the Nook App for your iPad. Not quite as easy to hold and read for hours and hours, but all the other functionality. And you get access to both collections of books. Just can’t lose!
I told you, Ramona, that I was going to leave a comment to your comment. A few days later, here I am. I love you photos. The flowers are beautiful and the distance shots are interesting. I have seen photos of Diamond Head many times but for some reason it still surprised me that the crater covers most of the mountain.
Wish the trip had been better for you. Wish you had had someone along to share it with and make you want to stay longer. I imagine the cats were glad to have you back a little earlier, though, so a shorter trip was good for someone.