Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Kindle

Hi All
Kindle has arrived yipeeee!!!

What on earth am I talking about, I have no idea, all the twenty somethings in my office were banging on about the kindle has reached the UK. I sit there nodding trying to look enthusiastic and look like I know what the hell they are talking about.

It turns out it is a book, well I say a book it is a device that stores content. It was made by Amazon and if you own a kindle you can download e-books onto it and you have access to other digital media you can download. So you can download a newspaper onto it or a journal onto it, or articles onto it, anything digital i suppose.

On October the 19th the kindle reached the UK (hence the excitement) it is called Kindle 2 (international edition).

On Amazon.com there are about 300,000 items available to download.

Low and behold sitting on the train this morning this chap pulled one out of his briefcase (easy). It looked quite neat, I saw he was reading the Times newspaper that I assumed he had downloaded that morning. But no he started getting live news, so it is wireless too.

I then got glared at as I was now staring at his small screen and then a loud tut, so I had to go back to my paper based book which has the great look and smell and feel of.... well a book.

Must admit though it would save a lot of wall space on my bookshelves.

Toodle pip.
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous28 October 2009 at 17:20

    I did not realize the UK did not have Kindle yet. Very interesting. We are contemplating getting an office Kindle. Whoever is traveling gets to use it that week. Kind of a neat way to share the technology? I always feel torn with anything that threatens print. I am always an advocate for progress and technology. However, as an avid reader, I love books and book shelves and book stacks....

    Thanks
    Jenn

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  2. Irene Hames29 October 2009 at 10:44

    Kent Anderson had a Kindle at the August ISMTE meeting in Baltimore and showed us how easy it is to access and read journal content of all sorts. It is exciting, and will make it easier to take lots of books on holiday, and maybe help me get rid of the growing load of photocopies of articles I carry round in my briefcase to catch up on when I've time.

    But you don't actually own what you buy, and Amazon can remove content, as it did recently

    http:www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?_r=1

    - ironically, the book removed was George Orwell's '1984'.

    Irene

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  3. ISMTE30 October 2009 at 23:32

    1984, well it was out of date.

    Hoot Hoot

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