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]

Yep.

There are various free ways to get book on a kindle, however.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

True, but they're still mostly either public domain or Corey Doctrow.

Which isn't really bad, but I'd still like it if there were some option to scan the barcode on the back of your book or something to load it onto your reader.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, if that was a possibility, I would buy one tomorrow.