Kindle
I'm seriously thinking of buying a Kindle DX when they're available again. I'm not primarily buying it to read published books, but rather things like fan fiction, technical documents, and the NY Times, things that I currently read on my laptop sitting at my desk. Because I want to be able to read in bed again, not to mention outside. (I'm getting the DX for the larger screen and the native support for PDF, which so many of the tech documents I need to read are in. Also because I have a sudden cash infusion coming and want to celebrate.)
But one thing that caught my eye was the capacity, "3500 books." I don't know about you folks, but I don't count books. I measure them in running feet for bookcases. So I read that and went "How many? Let's see, 15 books per foot...233.3 feet of shelving. 8 feet per shelf...29 shelves?! Whoa!" For comparison purposes, this house currently has 144 feet of paperbacks and 100 feet of hard-covers, for a total of approximately 3660 books.
But one thing that caught my eye was the capacity, "3500 books." I don't know about you folks, but I don't count books. I measure them in running feet for bookcases. So I read that and went "How many? Let's see, 15 books per foot...233.3 feet of shelving. 8 feet per shelf...29 shelves?! Whoa!" For comparison purposes, this house currently has 144 feet of paperbacks and 100 feet of hard-covers, for a total of approximately 3660 books.