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I have a Kindle now.
It's a strange little device that looks a little too close to the Star Trek® future we all imagined as children (No, really!). I had been thinking about getting something like it for a while, and I finally decided to acquire the thing last week when I printed out 200 or so pages within 2 or 3 days.
Now, I mostly bought it for academic purposes. survivorhandey was showing me his when I was in Santa Cruz the other week, and it handles academic journal articles fairly well (read: things that are printed on small pages). Larger .pdf files don't handle that well with the somewhat clunky .pdf viewer that it has, but for the most part I'm actually finding reading papers on it pretty okay.
The strange thing---the thing I didn't expect---is that I am actually reading non-academic things on it. I discovered that some of the PG Wodehouse that I wanted to read was out of copyright, and lo, and behold!, it was easily available on the internet for free, saving me the trip to the library or the $8 a physical copy would have cost me. And now I've read quite a bit of it during my morning bus commute and before going to bed and other times when I can sneak it in.
This is a good thing. It's one of the things I wanted to change. I just kind of slowly stopped reading after I started college, for reasons I don't fully understand, and not reading makes me feel like a faux-academic, or as though I am living outwith educated Western culture.
I've put things on it that I know I will never read. But there are things on it that I will, and that is good.
It's a strange little device that looks a little too close to the Star Trek® future we all imagined as children (No, really!). I had been thinking about getting something like it for a while, and I finally decided to acquire the thing last week when I printed out 200 or so pages within 2 or 3 days.
Now, I mostly bought it for academic purposes. survivorhandey was showing me his when I was in Santa Cruz the other week, and it handles academic journal articles fairly well (read: things that are printed on small pages). Larger .pdf files don't handle that well with the somewhat clunky .pdf viewer that it has, but for the most part I'm actually finding reading papers on it pretty okay.
The strange thing---the thing I didn't expect---is that I am actually reading non-academic things on it. I discovered that some of the PG Wodehouse that I wanted to read was out of copyright, and lo, and behold!, it was easily available on the internet for free, saving me the trip to the library or the $8 a physical copy would have cost me. And now I've read quite a bit of it during my morning bus commute and before going to bed and other times when I can sneak it in.
This is a good thing. It's one of the things I wanted to change. I just kind of slowly stopped reading after I started college, for reasons I don't fully understand, and not reading makes me feel like a faux-academic, or as though I am living outwith educated Western culture.
I've put things on it that I know I will never read. But there are things on it that I will, and that is good.