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New. Improved. Kindle. Photos.
by Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Feb 9, 2009
It’s Amazon’s Kindle: a book that can hold 1000s of books, an entire library’s worth, in less the weight than a single book. It’s easier to read than a laptop—much—you can read it in the sun on a beach with your sunglasses on. It’s eco as all hell—trees everywhere will thank you, though I wonder if the loss of tree farms is a good or bad thing, carbon-wise. (And we all love books, and what would happen if all the electricity in the world shorted out, would we all lose all our books in a Kindle-ful future?) It’s the end of pricey textbooks, of dragging 200 pounds of books to school. It’s 25% thinner than the new iPhone. It’s Oprah’s fave. It’s a sci-fi creation, here at last.
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This thing is very cool and got me wanting one. The few issues I see are this. No dharma books etc on Kindle yet. If you like NY Times best seller list type books you got it made. Newspaper subscriptions don’t have all the images and no want ads. Magazines are not formatted like you would expect and limited pictures.
What is the point of these? I am confused.
Reading on a screen for long periods of time kills my eyes, and is slowly deteriorating my eyesight. So I’ll skip the convenience of having many paperless volumes at my fingertips, and stick to my paperbacks. You’ll find me surrounded by bookshelves to the end!
But that’s the whole point of Kindle, Heather—and why Oprah loves it so. It’s easy on the eyes, it’s wholly unlike reading on a laptop. Supposedly. I’ve never seen one.