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

[iapetusneume.livejournal.com]

I am planning on buying one sometime down the line and putting things that are in the public domain on them to start. (I'm thinking specificially of the Gutenburg Project for some of the classics.) But yeah, I'm going to wait for a few more models to come out and then get one of the older ones - just waiting for the cost to go down.

And even if I get one, it will take almost an act of god for me to get rid of the books I already have and to stop buying paper books.

I will admit that I wasn't won over until my aunt showed me hers. It was so cool!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am certainly waiting for the cost to fall and for there to be a few more generations of the tech.

I am just now considering the possibility of EVER owning one.

And even if I get one, it will take almost an act of god for me to get rid of the books I already have and to stop buying paper books.

So many people say the exact same thing.