Why you should buy an Amazon Kindle
Kindle (\ˈkin-dəl\ ), v. 3: to become illuminated (m-w.com)
Amazon's got a new product out. It's called a Kindle. It's ugly. It costs $400.
I would like to explain to you now why it is awesome and totally worth your money.
The Kindle has free internet access. I don't mean in the "can use wi-fi networks" way. I mean that if you're sitting in the middle of a park with no wi-fi around at all, your Kindle will still have Internet access. It's got cell phone internet built right in, and it's free.
Okay, but it's not that great a device for browsing the web. The screen's not even in color, for chrissakes. Well, yeah, it's not. The screen is very carefully designed to be easy to read. That's because the Kindle is for reading books. Bored in the park? Buy a book from Amazon. Read it on the device. It's the perfect screen for book-reading. Not glossy, not shiny, just words on a page.
But that's not why you should buy it. If you're like me, you have 100 questions about the world around you every time you walk outside. Why don't you ever see a baby pigeon? How do you make a quill pen? What was the name of that rooster in Looney Tunes? Well, the Kindle will answer those questions for you. It has Amazon's NowNow service, which means you can just ask it any old question in English, and Amazon will give a nickel to some bored academic to research and answer your question and send the answer back to you, absolutely free for you forever. Now THAT'S value!
But I won't be buying one myself because, Jesus, $400.
Amazon's got a new product out. It's called a Kindle. It's ugly. It costs $400.
I would like to explain to you now why it is awesome and totally worth your money.
The Kindle has free internet access. I don't mean in the "can use wi-fi networks" way. I mean that if you're sitting in the middle of a park with no wi-fi around at all, your Kindle will still have Internet access. It's got cell phone internet built right in, and it's free.
Okay, but it's not that great a device for browsing the web. The screen's not even in color, for chrissakes. Well, yeah, it's not. The screen is very carefully designed to be easy to read. That's because the Kindle is for reading books. Bored in the park? Buy a book from Amazon. Read it on the device. It's the perfect screen for book-reading. Not glossy, not shiny, just words on a page.
But that's not why you should buy it. If you're like me, you have 100 questions about the world around you every time you walk outside. Why don't you ever see a baby pigeon? How do you make a quill pen? What was the name of that rooster in Looney Tunes? Well, the Kindle will answer those questions for you. It has Amazon's NowNow service, which means you can just ask it any old question in English, and Amazon will give a nickel to some bored academic to research and answer your question and send the answer back to you, absolutely free for you forever. Now THAT'S value!
But I won't be buying one myself because, Jesus, $400.