Photo Credit Willie Holdman Amazon Kindle
April 5th, 2009 by link
I finally got an Amazon Kindle 2 and must say so far it has exceeded my expectations. The ability to word search all your books alone is worth the ride. The Speed of Trust is available in a Kindle version and searching that on the fly has proved very useful. It holds 1500 books which beats the 500 or so that crowd my office. You can take notes but it definitely is not as intuitive as a pen and highlighter but I am getting used to it. It feels miraculous to not carry the 3 to 4 books I usually end up traveling with and you can easily read several at a time as it picks up where you left off so it is simple to read several books simultaneously. The digital paper is also surprisingly easy to read even in sunlight. While off, the Kindle displays delightful pencil sketches of authors. It rotates randomly and one day it displayed the definition of Kindle: light or set fire, arouse or inspire (an emotion or feeling), become impassioned or exited. I can not yet say that my Kindle has impassioned me but you can say it has re-kindled my goal to meet the challenge that Dr. Stephen R. Covey gave to me years ago: to read a book a week. Most years I have not hit that goal but I have a couple of years past and I will say that his challenge has dramatically increased the number of books I have read in the last 22 years and that is a HABIT worth having. Maybe it is The 9th Habit!
Sep 02 at 12:52 am
With smaller bezels, finally the screen is bigger, plus there’s still plenty of room to hold it easily. The Kindle 3G is absolutely worth the price. I don’t see support for library books. Everyone wants that feature. Amazon should stop being shady not allowing EPub.