I am OBSESSED (that new Mariah song just started playing in my head!) with the Kindle. I might be a little late on the bandwagon but lets face it with a job and a social life we don't have countless hours to read. When I picked up the new Dan Brown book last week I remembered how annoying it is carrying around a 500 page hardbound book and since pretty much all new books are hardbound that really weighs you down. But not with a Kindle only weighing 10.2 ounces! Whats really cool is that you don't have to sync to your computer or pay for wireless and the Kindle is on 3G. That's how it downloads the books in under 60 seconds! They have over 350,000 books, newspaper and you can even read blogs! Some downloads are free and still the avg price of a book is around $10. Huge fan and def asking for one for Christmas!
The 6 inch model is avail with US wireless coverage for $259 and US & International for $279. Both hold about 1,500 books. The 9.7 inch model retails for $489 and hold over 3,500 books but its US wirelesses only.
Buying books on kindle is certainly cheaper than buying them at a bookstore but then again you don't get to keep the physical books for years to come. This raises some immediate questions for me: What happens to bookstores like Borders? Will they somehow partner with Kindle or come out with a Kindle of their own? Will more school textbooks be offered on Kindle? Now that you can highlight is there a way you can print out all of your highlighted text so students can study?
Come Christmas time when I have my own I will hopefully have these questions answered! Happy reading.
Come Christmas time when I have my own I will hopefully have these questions answered! Happy reading.
Well apparently competition for the Kindle was well in the works. Go figure! Barnes & Noble released the Nook on Monday of this week. Check out the article in PW World for more info.
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