kindle

[vernination]

Friends....if you truly love me...you will buy me one of these.

Comments

[whitesandibeach]

I know the Kindle is trying to be the iPod of the written word, but there's something about it that just doesn't click with me. Maybe it's the feel of silky paper against my fingertips, or the excitement I feel as the pages turn and the side of the book in my left hand gets thicker as the side in my right hand gets smaller, or even being able to lend a book to a friend or have a friend lend a book to me- things that I can experience with a book but never with the Kindle. Or maybe it's that bookstores and libraries are my favorite places in the entire world and I can't stand the thought of anything, especially a device, threatening that. The Kindle would be useful for travel and perhaps school but for general reading pleasure? I think not.

I apologize for my ranting. I guess I'm just a traditionalist where the written word is concerned.

[renuka31]

ugh, if you really loved me, you'd not get one. more ways to take away my future career plans... making book covers... feeling the different kinds of paper. the love you give a book...

that kindle just is wrong. in so many ways.

[vernination]

I'll consider this a legitimate argument the day Amazon stops selling everything but the Kindle and eBooks :P

Bird Librarian says...

[_moratorium_]

DO NOT WANT

[vernination]

I feel the need to respond, en masse. Ok, maybe you guys aren't as dazzled as I am or as suckered in by Neil Gaiman and Toni Morrison's testimonials, but if the sheer coolness of having all your favorite books and Wikipedia to boot with you at all times doesn't appeal to you, I guess I'll have to explain my more particular reasons for being interested in this little gadget

[whitesandibeach]

I did make concessions for travel...and studying abroad is like extended travel. I can definitely see that the Kindle would be enormously useful if you do go to Munich next year. I'd get one myself to use whenever I travel but I don't think I'm quite willing to part with $400 for the Kindle just yet.

[vernination]

Well yeah, plus it'd be a lot to fill it with books, and I'm sure I'd still bring some. It'd be good to reserve space for things like text books though, you know? And somehow I've accumulated a lot of German text books...

The $400 isn't so bad really; at least consider that you'd pay around that for a decent digital camera, an mp3 player or a game console. It's definitely affordable, as far as personal electronics go.

[i_am_mad_hatter]

I thought about asking people, as you did... but then I thought about how needy that'd make me.

I guess what I'm saying is: STOP YOUR CRAZY MOOCHING.

[vernination]

What, you don't frequently receive expensive gadgetry from your friends? How bizarre.