I May Have To Eat Crow Regarding Kindle

[redbrunja]

So, my Fiction class on Friday sucked and was a complete waste of time for several reasons, but one of the things that happened was that I had two people comment on what I was reading (on positively, one simply asking what I was reading) and I ended up going into my  whole I-hate-people-talking-about-what I read spiel. Which I felt really bad about, because both of the people commenting had positive things to say. In fact, one of them had a kindle and he pulled it out as an I-read-trash-books-and-no-one-knows solidarity thing.

And actually, his kindle was very cool. It was very sleek and about the size of a hardcover book and I didn't have the same instinct to skim that I do on the computer. I didn't feel the same disconnect with the text that some people reported and I think the dictionary feature is nifty. Now, I still think it should be back-lit and I have issues with how close a kindle book is to a corporal book in price but that experience plus hearing a UN worker rave about being able to have a whole personal library in something the size of a hardback is winning me over.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I hear you about not wanting another one item product. That said, since I'm always carrying around at least one book ANYWAY, except on the days when my bag is monsterously heavy, it wouldn't change much for me.

I always have a book for the precise reason of found time - I have no patience for waiting in line with nothing to do, waiting for the bus, waiting for class to start...

I have no real interest in replacing my hardcopy library -- I like the sensual experience of having a book in my hands too much for that.

So far, just about everyone I know has been like Kindle is great/terrible but it will NEVER replace hardcopy, which I find both expected and reassuring.