My Kindle arrived Monday.
I love it so far. But it's going to be way too easy to buy too many new
books. LOL
The background of the screen is a little grayer than I'd like (about like
the Rocketebook) but that's supposed to make it easier on your eyes. No
backlight, so you can read in full sunlight (but need a reading light to
read in the dark, just like a paper book.)
If you subscribe to some newspaper, blog or magazine and leave the wireless
turned on, it will magically appear on your Kindle each day, or whatever.
And wherever you are!! Say you're on vacation and your daily NYT is at home
on your doorstep and your Time mag in your mailbox. With the Kindle
subscription, it's delivered to your Kindle wherever you are within the USA.
Even overseas, where you don't have wireless access, you can get stuff via
your computer and transfer it via usb cable.
It's weird to look at the Kindle in the morning and see your paper there
waiting for you. No recycling, either. LOL. (Does anyone waste more paper
than the NYT and WSJ?)
You can send anything from your computer to Amazon to be converted to .azw
format (a version of Mobipocket.) and have it emailed back to your computer
for free (and you transfer it yourself via usb cable) or Amazon will send it
directly to your Kindle for 10 cents per document. A great way to carry your
work with you to proofread or read a critique partner's work.
The Kindle doesn't do graphics very well, so magazines consist only of the
articles, not the pictures or graphs, advertisements, etc. Maybe some day
they'll do a larger version of it that will do textbooks better, but for
now, plain text works best.
You can see the epaper technology in the Sony reader at a Border's
Bookstore. But the drawback of the Sony is no wireless (you download to
your computer, then transfer stuff like I did with the old Rocket.)
And
they have far fewer choices. Amazon has over 96,000 right now and is adding
more every day.
You can see whether yours are offered in Kindle format by searching in the
"Kindleboooks" section of Amazon's bookstore.
Harlequin is putting all of theirs in Kindle format now at the same time as
paper.
I'm sure other publisher's will follow.
Can you tell I like playing with my new toy?
Edna
