Mon, 12-28-09 - 11:47am by heyheymymy
Kindle!!!
What are yours thoughts on it?
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Tue, 12-29-09 - 01:01 pm by nitasantos2
Hey Mediocrity! I completly
Hey Mediocrity!
I completly agree with you! I think that its really funny to pass the book soon you finish! its great!
Tue, 12-29-09 - 11:54 am by Mediocrity
i will always love having
i will always love having real books. you can't lend your kindle to your friends when you're done! and isn't have the fun of buying a book being able to pass it along when you're done??
Mon, 12-28-09 - 08:20 pm by Benji17
When I first held a Kindle I
When I first held a Kindle I thought it was another gimicky technology to make money. I do see its usefulness if you are a voracious reader & do not want to carry books around all the time. However, I think the Kindle can never compete with the fun of the actual book itself; the feel & smell of new pages, the going back to an old book & remembering when you read it before, having a library of some of your best loved books that friends may look through & borrow & talk to you about later, the adventure of going to a bookstore or public library & perusing the wares, the notations that you can make in your books and look at what you thought years from now. I love books I can keep forever, dog earred pages, potato chip stains from eating & reading. I guess I am too tactile.....
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Tue, 12-29-09 - 11:19 am by Zakman
Yet the Kindle does have some huge advantages--especially when reading those books. As was already mentioned, it has a built-in dictionary and a screen made of a technology that's easy on the eyes (electronic ink). But it's also incredibly lightweight, so if a book is getting really good, you won't have to put it down because your arms are getting tired.
But consider the other stuff, too. One thing that I find terribly interesting is how the Kindle and other e-book readers are changing the writing process. Many authors have started to give away the first chapter of their electronic books for free. Knowing that they could do this for future books, these authors might want to make the first chapter a little more interesting so that people are more likely to buy the rest of the book.
Also on that subject, there aren't page numbers with the Kindle since Kindles have the built-in feature of being able to change the font of the text. Thus, that makes sense because page 15 could become page 7 if you chop the font size in half. Instead of page numbers, however, you deal with passages. The cool thing about this is that people can comment on those passages, so you can read text and commentary on one device.
And here's the REALLY interesting thing about that. Because people can comment on passages and say "This part reminds me of the part in So-and-So's book" and include a link in that passage, all of a sudden you're tempted to check out So-and-So's book and buy that because guess what?--it's only a few clicks away.
But what's important isn't if someone chooses to read the Kindle or the traditional book. What's important is that someone chooses to read.
Tue, 12-29-09 - 11:15 am by heyheymymy
Mon, 12-28-09 - 01:19 pm by nitasantos2
Kindle!
I think that's a great idea...but i'm more traditional...I prefer books!!! i like the smell of old and brand new books!But for many readers, Kindle is the best electronic advice! but not for me....
Mon, 12-28-09 - 11:57 am by antoniom626
I hate Kindles
When I first saw the Kindle I was like great, "Another electronic device that gravitates away from regular media." I prefer good old fashioned books. For me its easier on the eyes because i feel like I'm always staring at someting electronic such as a TV, computer screen, a mobile. Not everything has to be electronic. Having all your books on medium loses all it noterierty. You can have guests looking through all the books you've read and discussing them. And you can't have a library.
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Mon, 12-28-09 - 01:42 pm by heyheymymy
I think Kindle can be a great too for magazine subscriptions...Ive already subscribed to The New Yorker for $3 a month....I´ll have a 14 day trial and if I´m not into it I can just drop it. I think it can be a great tool when it comes to read great classics for free...I´m already reading Flaubert´s "Madame Bovary". Also I love the feature where you can just have the dictionary ready on spot when you aren´t sure about the meaning of a word.
I love my paper books also...I think I´m going through a phase where I have to find out what works better with what. Kindle is certainly a great tool if you need to travel and you dont want to carry heavy books.
Mon, 12-28-09 - 01:04 pm by listen2me
Also, did the developers of the kindle think of things like scratch guard or anti-glare?? Then again, I barely started using a cell 4 years ago... so, I may just be the wrong person to write about a kindle!!
Mon, 12-28-09 - 12:08 pm by heyheymymy
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader hit a watershed moment on Christmas Day, when, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books. The company also claims the Kindle is the most gifted item in Amazon's history. These two facts were part of the online retailer's recently announced holiday sales activity.
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