Interesting thoughts about Amazon's Kindle. Whattaya think?
Me, I dislike any format I can't read in the bathtub. YMMV.
Update
3 days ago
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
-
-
HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
-
Meme Dump...25 minutes ago
-
Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
-
-
Cults and Music5 years ago
-
Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
- insert witty title here
- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(733)
-
▼
March
(59)
- Mary Baker Eddy Goes Paperless
- More Big China Fun
- Sunday?
- Indy BlogMeet Tomorrow!
- By The Way...?
- Name Game
- What Are You Going To Do To It?
- Number Theory On Planet Karen
- Oh For Annie Oakley's Sake
- It's Oceania vs. Eurasia? --Or Eastasia?
- Home Again
- Mom X: Okay!
- Guest Appearance
- Idiot-In-Chief
- It's A Big World
- Dumb Event, Dumb Writing
- Mom X -- Improving
- Ah, Indy!
- Steam-Powered Airplane
- Gun Show Finds
- Mom X
- Bankrupt Bunker?
- Fun Show!
- Another Day, Part 4
- Feed Me!
- Just A Thought
- Kindle? Kindling?
- Roseholme Update
- PSH: Lawn Darts And "Cop-Killer Bullets"
- No Guns At Atlanta's Airport?
- Think Of It As Leaving A Lousy Tip
- Another Day, Part 3
- Another Day, Part 2
- I Am Not Shooting
- Ol' Yeller....Plastic
- Another Day, Part 1
- Update
- "Hippie Kryptonite"
- You Can't Fight Here, This Is The War Room
- UPS Rules:
- How To Be Wrong On The Internet
- Monday!
- When Snakes Start Smokin'
- Illinois Unpossibility
- What?
- March BlogMeet!
- Nope
- Spring? Spring?
- Meh
- Image Still Trumps Reality
- Foo
- Class
- March BlogMeet
- I Am Not "Nice"
- I Am So Glad Cats Don't Have Thumbs
- Conversations At Roseholme
- A Short Hop, Part 5
- Breakfast Menu
- Cat Update
-
▼
March
(59)
Webcomix
On The Front Lines
What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
e-mail?
No e-mail.
I Do Not Allow Guest Posts. Ever.
I Do Not Allow Guest Posts. Ever.
Sitemeter, Sitemeter, Sitemeter
You adware-loading weasels, Sitemeter: you're gone.
8 comments:
The article is wrapped around a huge misconception.
"You can download only from Amazon's store"
That is just not true.
You don't have to get books from Amazon.
There are many sources on the Internet for free books and they are easily converted to any of several formats viewable on the Kindle.
Knew they'd get that Bradbury lick in.
Next you'll be walking everywhere.
You can read it in the tub, you just have to double plastic bag it. I love my 1st gen Kindle.
Interesting sideline on baloney sandwiches and pudding. Mmm, pudding.
It boils down to an old book being a thing you can hold in your hand (or in 20 large packing cases, around your place), show and loan to friends, dry out on a windowsill after a bad day of motor cycling (guilty, guilty, guilty) or be buried with, whilst the Kindle experience is...fleeting. McLuhanite. Moderan.
Better than nothing, which is what The Young were fixin to read. Bluebloods didn't like paperbacks: can you absorb Wisdom without the smell of hide glue and leather? I've learned to read poetry on a flickering screen, but am willing to admit it's had an effect on my mood.
Did you finally find "Elegy for the Macon"? On research, I believe he was thinking of the Shenandoah.
My two gripe about them is the cost: You can buy a netbook now for what it costs. And the fact that the actual formats supported by the device is extremely limited. and I do think it's a fantastic concept, and I may get one once the price comes down a bit more.
XKCD had an amusing take on the Kindle..
I did find Elegy -- a kind man e-mailed it to me!
As for the Kindle, I don't really have an opinion, same way I don't much have an opinion of a new Jag: can't afford either one, not missing them, they look nifty.
I just can't make myself buy a Kindle. I've had ebooks on a Palm Pilot before and it taught me an important lesson... it's not just the words I love, I truly love the books. I love the smell of them, the feel of the pages... everything about them! I love that the books are my friends. The little things that happen to them along the way... the occaisional stain on a page, the bonding that doesn't hold like it should on a REALLY cheap paperback, the cover that gets the tiniest tear in a corner when I take it out of my purse at a bad angle... those things are like the wrinkles and scars that make an old friend beautiful when they've been your friend for so long.
I even have trouble reading books on my laptop. Blog posts and articles (even long articles) I can handle, but when I settle down to read a book I need it to be printed on paper.
Alan's right-- there's lots of sources for fodder.
My one experience with the Kindle was in a graduate Statistics class, where a PhD student in theology (divinity? Hell, I don't remember. But she was sweet, and clearly enjoyed fudge) carried one in her rolling backpack. She had twenty-something required texts in it, and said that, with her load, she could't possibly carry all of those tests with her at all times. Very handy for the student.
I'm thinking that it would be invaluable as the house reference manual, too, for things not findable on the InterWeb, per se.
It was a hella lot more handy than a notebook computer. Books do not need keyboards. And when texts cost $140, this was actually MORE usable in the bathtub.
That said, are they not weatherproof? If not, why not? My Nextel is. My 13 year-old Garmin 12 GPS is.
Post a Comment