Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 05:25 pm
this is very, very cool
Child's Kindle was delivered today as a slightly belated birthday present, and oh.
Now I get why people like these.
I didn't make the connection for some weird reason--this is instant no-wait access to books. I mean, it's like, the pieces just came together all of a sudden. Ebooks. Instant. Access. Books.
And I'll be honest; I'm kind of running out of space for mine.
I don't mean like, literally. Of course there's space. I mean, for the practical purposes of keeping up with them and finding them when I want, and I still tape paperbacks together that I can't locate anywhere else (Sydney van Scyoc, for one), but the fog has lifted.
How did I not get this on a gut level I have no idea. I think I'm suffering from a great deal of envy now. He's stupidly excited, and I feel his book budget is going to get a workout. It's adorable.
Now I get why people like these.
I didn't make the connection for some weird reason--this is instant no-wait access to books. I mean, it's like, the pieces just came together all of a sudden. Ebooks. Instant. Access. Books.
And I'll be honest; I'm kind of running out of space for mine.
I don't mean like, literally. Of course there's space. I mean, for the practical purposes of keeping up with them and finding them when I want, and I still tape paperbacks together that I can't locate anywhere else (Sydney van Scyoc, for one), but the fog has lifted.
How did I not get this on a gut level I have no idea. I think I'm suffering from a great deal of envy now. He's stupidly excited, and I feel his book budget is going to get a workout. It's adorable.
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From:We were SO glad we had them when we traveled last summer.
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From:I love my ereader. And apart from all the instant access, I can load all kinds of fanfic on it.
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From:I was thinking next year of getting an Evo or whatever has a bigger phone screen next year, but seeing the Kindle in action, it's going to be that or an Android tablet for reading purposes. I really didn't absorb how utterly convenient that was compared to my laptop or netbook. Just--wow.
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From:I tried the nook, and the lag of the screen refresh drove me nuts.
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From:Now someone just needs to make an e-ink android based device, and I will do possibly illegal sexual favors for them in public.
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From:(hi! here via network & insomnia!)
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From:But if I'm doing a lot of reading on it, I have to make a conscious effort to switch hands periodically, or I start getting carpal tunnel twinges from repetitively hitting the space bar to page down.
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From:The real expense is going to be the books that are 70, 80, 90 pence each. Under a quid. Nothing. Until I own five hundred of them...
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From:Used to be I'd be making the decision during the first book of a new series whether to buy the rest of the series or not -- because I'd have to physically go out and acquire the other books (assuming I could find them on the shelves in a local bookstore) and try to make a point of having done so before finishing the first book so there wouldn't be an unpleasant gap in my reading. And I'd generally go ahead and buy all of them in that pass, so if the series fell off in quality I was stuck with already having bought it anyway. (One of my strongest memories of a previous Dragon*Con was being in the first book of a series, discovered I loved it, and being completely unable to acquire the rest of the books until I'd gotten home from the con. Learning I wasted money on four mediocre books is a minor irritation by comparison.)
And we're not even touching the issue of the collapsing bug-infested cardboard boxes of books out in the garage that I have to rummage through when a new book is published in a favorite series and I want to go back and reread the previous installments. Assuming I can find the older books at all. There are definitely some favorites I'm going to be rebuying in Kindle format in the coming years. (I already rebought most of the Miles Vorkosigan series.) And no more waiting for the paperback of a book I'm dying to get my hands on because I just can't justify the storage space for hardcover -- or being so desperate I get the hardcover after all and then have to wedge it into a box after reading. No more vast stacks of books I've read and need to find boxes for, competing for space with the stacks of books I purchased or borrowed and have yet to read. I can hold off on actually buying until I'm ready to read them right now -- which in and of itself has done grand things in terms of paring my book-buying budget.
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From:But yeah, ebooks ruin the budget like whoa.
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From:Instant. Access. Books.
I do not understand why the naysayers don't get this. ALL OF THE BOOKS. INSTANTLY. For all those who dreamed of one day being able to cart the entire Library of Congress around in their backback, that day is here.
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From:But, seriously, I am stupidly in love with the thing. Instant books. Lighter travel (no more packing three big volumes in my tote bag for a day trip because I'm not sure which one I'll want to read). Internet access for free, wherever I am (no Flash, but the basics are covered). One-handed reading without fatigue. I will admit that I find the wonky formatting of ebooks a little annoying (strange line breaks, occasional hyphenation problems), but I'm hoping that either I'll become inured to it, or the publishers will be able to clean things up eventually.
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From:1) You need a good case. I like this one because it's armor-like and has a stand:
http://www.ipearl-inc.com/kindle3.html
2) You may not have to blow the entire book budget, because two words:
FREE. EBOOKS.
http://tinyurl.com/3xyrpns
http://freekindlebooks.org
http://www.retroread.com
3) Also! You can email your Kindle ANY PDF and Amazon will convert it automagically and send it to your Kindle.
http://amzn.to/b9y5FV
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