Ready to “Re-Kindle” the Art of Tablet Reading?
November 21st, 2007By Justin Lopinot
The Ten Commandments were carved into a stone tablet, and now The New York Times, “Harry Potter” and other modern fare will be available in tablet form. Reading’s one big cycle, I guess. What I’m referring to is Kindle, Amazon’s bold foray into the world of electronic books and magazines. The product was announced on Monday.
According to Amazon, Kindle is a wireless, portable reading device that will provide instant access to more than 90,000 books, blogs, magazines and newspapers. I stare at a computer screen all day and am not sure if I’m ready for this, but the idea of being able to lug more than 200 books around with me (and at just over 10 ounces) is pretty appealing.
What do you think? Are you ready to turn the page (yes, a bad pun) on the traditional reading experience?
November 24th, 2007 at 2:46 am
I’m not 100% sold on this idea yet. It sound like it would be great for travel and storage of books etc, but there is something about turning a page, marking it, highlighting it, smelling it, looking at it upside down then throwing the book across the room because you’re envious of how well the author is able to write, ahh trade paper - i’m just not sure of how well the kindle could endure a beating like this?