Posted on 06/25/2009 6:08:39 PM PDT by paul in cape
If it’s $300 you can’t afford, and you’re not even sure you want it, you really shouldn’t need any outside help to figure out whether or not you should return it.
My husband gave me the Kindle 1 for Mother’s Day a year ago. I loved it. He gave me the Kindle 2 when it came out so I could have the newer one and he took the Kindle 1. Now we can share books.
I used to take a bag filled with books on every trip. Now I slip the Kindle into my purse and go. We cruise a lot and with the new weight limits on flying, I would rather pay for clothes than books.
The bad thing is that when I watch TV and a good book is recommended I can download it at once and begin reading. That could get costly, but you can get free books on feedbooks.com. They have a lot of classics
I also keep up with freerepublic on the whispernet while traveling. However, you can’t get the whole article that is cited if it sends you off freerepublic.
I love the ability to look up the meaning of a word I don’t know. You just move the “cursor” to the word and the meaning pops up. You can search for a word and it will find every time the word is used in all your books. You can also search Wikipedia and Google.
I have a kindle reader through my iTouch (too cheap to get an iPhone). I think it’s cool and probably worth it if you travel and need to keep up with reading (I’m a prof, I’m reading all the time) or don’t want to haul a bunch of books around with you on vacation, etc.
I ended up buying some classics for .99 on an iTouch app. I just finished Call of the Wild and am reading Flatland. I wasn’t sure if I’d like reading this way, but it looks so much like reading from a book, it’s no problem. I imagine a Kindle would be even better because of the larger screen size.
As a prof, I have access to a lot of books thru my school’s library, so so far, I’ve only ‘test driven’ some Kindle books and have decided not to buy what I can get from the library. But, the idea of not hauling books around on the plane is a pretty compelling one and at some point I will probably break down and get Kindle books to read on the iTouch.
Keep it for a bit and see if you like it. Most folks commenting on a ‘Should I get a Kindle’ thread on a professor board said that they really liked it and find it very useful, but again, we profs do a lot of reading.
Do you know....can you read magazines on the Kindle?
Yes, Go to Amazon and click on Kindle Magazines on the first search box and a list will come up. They have a lot. I found the page by googling amazon kindle magazines.
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