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e-readers are amazing!
nekowafer:
It might be that you don't quite see how big of a change it will be? Maybe? From carrying books around, that is.
If you were close to anyone that had one I'd say ask if you can borrow it for a day or two, try it out. But I'd pretty much only let my boyfriend and maybe two other people borrow mine so I guess it depends on who it is.
Barmymoo:
I did use Jens's for a while and it was nice but I didn't carry it around or anything so I don't know how that would change things. I think you might be right, since there are very few books which fit in my handbag so I generally don't carry them - but I cope quite happily.
On the other other hand one of my goals for this year is to become better-read. Maybe that is A SIGN.
Scandanavian War Machine:
it's not just the weight/volume though, i'm constantly being amazed by seemingly simple things like...for example, the internet browser. I was reading this neat little "kindle single" thing about human evolution, it's history, and future, with a huge focus on the present and what new technologies might drive humans to speciate in the future (i think it was called Homo Evolutis or something. cost me two bucks. i recommend it).
so anyway, i was reading this and there was some sort of theory or principal i wasn't familiar with, but it was underlined...so i clicked on it and it took me right to it's wikipedia page. And if what you're reading doesn't have that functionality, you can always just look up words while reading without even needing to use the internet. it's wonderful.
I feel smarter already.
nekowafer:
I love Calibre, it helps me organize all my side-loaded books.
Toba:
I fucking love my kindle 3g.
Free Reading!
Free old classics... http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free PDFs of awesome papers published on every topic ever! http://scholar.google.com/
Free transfer of these things to kindle without any stupid wires... [email protected]!
Free Internet!
You can browse the web, anywhere, on a decent sized screen, for free, forever. It's hidden under Experimental but there is a web browser that is pretty okay. I use it to read everything2 etc when I am bored and stuck somewhere but none of the well, tons of things on my kindle already are what I want. It's no multimedia experience but if you just want to read, it's great.
Eventually I might bother to buy a book in the kindle store... but we'll see. I don't see it happening quite yet.
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