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I wavered back and forth for months on this purchase. It seemed overly expensive, and it didn’t have that sleek industrial design look that we’ve come to expect from high end gadgetry. And Steve Jobs said it was a “non-starter.� He should know, right? Well, no. Steve may have a good record of launching killer gadgets, but he was wrong on this one. Way wrong. I think he might be a little jealous.My new object of gadget lust: Kindle: Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device.This thing rocks hard. If you’re a hard core reader like me, it’s a dream come true.The high...

As a voracious reader, the genre does not matter as much as the story’s ability to engage and interest me, to help me view things from a different perspective and learn a bit along the way. As a child, I read books everywhere: school, home, church, and the car. During college, there was enough academic work -- and extracurricular activities -- to keep me busy, with little time for pleasure reading. In recent years I have begun to read more. As the mother of two young children, I have tried to pass this love of reading to them. We read...

This morning, I decided to drop down to my local coffee establishment for a breakfast of coffee, eggs, and some morning reading. I had a lot of new things, and pre-coffee I’m not up to making decisions, so I just brought several things to read: Peter Kramer’s Against Depression; Marianne Williamson’s The Age of Miracles; Wayne Dyer’s Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao; and for a little more rigorous reading of Buddhism I brought The Dhammapada, D.T. Suzuki’s Manual on Zen Buddhism, Steve Hagen’s Meditation Now or Never, and Buddhism Is Not What You...

Hype Check: Amazon Kindle Last week, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle, a new electronic book reader that has quickly become one of the hottest gifts of the holiday season (in fact, the device's first run sold out in a mere 5 and a half hours!). We got our hands on one and have been busy browsing, buying, downloading and reading e-books, -magazines, -newspapers, and blogs for the past week so we could report our findings back to you. But is the Amazon Kindle really the iPod of books? Will this new instantly-iconic gadget make a book-lover or info-hound...

Looks like Amazon has already exhausted its stock of Kindle ebook readers. Has anyone gotten one? Any opinions you'd like to share? At first glance I thought it might be another hokey ebook reader, but today saw that my Amazon shopping cart has about 20 hardcopy books, and blog/RSS feeds on Flock are well over 50. It might be much more appealing to have all of those books and blogs on a single reader, *away from the computer*, and designed for simplicity and transparency. Amazon seems to be building its Kindle offerings at lightening speed. Thoughts?