Kindle - I love it

My wife recently bought me a Kindle from Amazon.



If you haven’t heard about the Kindle, you can watch a video here:

Kindle Demo Video

I love my Kindle.

It helps that I love books but the Kindle has supercharged that love affair.

Here is a quick overview if you didn’t bother to watch the 2 minute video link I just gave you.

Kindle is an electronic book reader...but saying that is like saying the iPod is an electronic music player.

The Kindle has changed the way I interact with books.

First, the Kindle has amazing electronic Ink that looks like real ink. When you see the book, like the image up above, it appears to be real ink.

It has an intuitive interface that allows me to quickly read and even speed read through books. I got so lost in a story today, that I attempted to turn the page at one point, forgetting that I was reading an electronic book.

These features are nice, but it isn’t what has changed the way I interact with books.

I’m one of those people who has trouble throwing a book away. Any book, whether I like the book or not. This causes me to hesitate to buy books because I worry that if I don’t like it I will have to go through the angst of getting rid of it.

I also like to collect books and have a nice collection in my office.

What the Kindle has done, is to allow me to easily read books that I may not have read before. The price is usually 50-60% off what I would normally pay. The reason I can read these books is because it makes the purchasing of books dead simple.

I do a search on my Kindle on the Amazon Store (Free cell phone networking is built in), find the book, purchase it, all within a few seconds. And my purchase is downloaded within 60 seconds.

Now when I go through an airport bookstore, I have my Kindle in hand. I see a book that looks interesting, I read a quick review on my Kindle, then purchase it, and read at my leisure.

The Kindle device itself will hold 200 books, but that isn’t something you really need to worry about...remember I said I have trouble throwing books away, or even giving them away. With Kindle you never have to worry about that again. Once you purchase a book from Amazon with the Kindle, you get to keep the book forever. Even if you lose your Kindle or delete the book, Amazon will remember your purchase and make it available to you whenever you need to download it again.

Suddenly my anxiety for buying books doesn’t exist. I never have to get rid of another book again.

The Kindle must be seen to be appreciated. But once you have it, or if you get within 25 feet of my when I have mine, you’ll be convinced you need one as well.