My obsession with books has been tested with the introduction of the second generation of Amazon’s Kindle.
If you’re interested in learning more about this (potentially game changing) device, watch the video below to hear some of my thoughts about it.
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My intention was to publish a review of Amazon’s new Kindle 2, but after learning about the release of the iPhone Kindle application, I felt pretty strongly about its release and wanted to tell the world about it. After calming down (and researching more information about the intent behind Jeff Bezos allowing that Kindle app to be sold), I recorded more rational (and hopefully helpful) comments.
To hear general information about the Kindle 2, start about halfway in (5:10).
Also, in mid-March, my daughter and I talked about the Kindle 2 on our radio show, Parents and Kids Talk Radio. Download the show by clicking here.
I am one of those that just can’t quite make the switch to reading through technology. I can see the benefit of a Kindle. FOR SURE. I think it will CHANGE the way colleges and high schools provide information and that more kids will be able to attend college due to the decrease in the book fees. But I just like the way books smell, and feel. And I like having to turn the pages down, and wipe off the spaghetti sauce, and see the fingerprints…
traceys last blog post..I’m drawing a blank…
more or less agree with tracey. i like the way they (the printed books) smell (not a fan of sphagetti-sauced, finger-printed pages, though).
personally, the argument for kindle (or, something similar) is the amount of reading material available in pdf format. from scribd.com etc, i download a ton of interesting things, but it is a pain to print all of it out, and the screen time is never enough to read everything. so, from a staunch opponent of e-readers, i have been slowly moving in the other direction. who knows, a year or two later, i too may switch to kindle 2+.