Within the last week or so, I broke down, entered the new age and bought a Kindle 2. While I swore a blue streak that I would NEVER give up my paper books, the notion of something that will hold 1500 tomes and still fit easily in my travel bag was just too tempting and it finally dropped to a price point I found acceptable.
I also realized that I didn’t have to give up my one-man quest to kill all trees by buying huge amounts of books. I’m still dedicated as ever to the printed page, but the Kindle is just my dirty weekend lover that’ll willingly do all those naughty things my stuffy old hardbounds won’t and look totally flash while doing them, too. Sort of a Jane Austin in the study, Anais Nin in the…well, pretty much every other room of the house.
I currently only have purchased three books on said Kindle and, I must say, I do enjoy it. I was expecting an LCD screen, but their ePaper is really quite impressive and looks almost exactly like printed-on-paper page. The Whispernet download WiFi is nice, but so far I have yet to actually get a book in their advertised “under a minute”, and unlike Dominos, there’s no “under a minute or it’s free” guarantee.
Of course, though, there is nothing pure on the Internet and nothing internet denizens won’t get their cyber-panties in a bunch over. Case in point: THE AMAZON SNATCHBACK FIASCO OF 2009! read more »
