"I love my Kindle. I can't imagine not having it when I am at the airport or a soccer game or something."
I sat in bewilderment as my cubicle neighbor described her newfound literary love. It was as if she had never heard of a book until Amazon introduced the Kindle - a digital book reader.
With its electronic-paper display the Kindle is easy to use requiring no computer, no cables and no syncing. Its wireless connectivity enables a reader to connect to the Kindle Store directly from the Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed. And with more than 300,000 books available, including more than 109 of 112 current New York Times Best Sellers, the Kindle has become the gadget of choice for the techno set.
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Can you reference Literature, such as you would have in a college course? If the latter it would be great for a student.
each book you want on it for $9.99- is that right?
There is a whole ritual involved with reading. I browse the bookstore slowly. I make selections, decide if I can or will spend as much as I have in my arms, put some books back, choose another because I have to read that book.
I pay for my books, put them in my "green" shopping bag, take them home then pile them up beside the bed in the order in which I want to read them.
The order will change many times according to my mood.
At this point it's hard for me to imagine giving all that up.
However, if I lose my eyesight, I'll be happy to use a Kindle.
I believe digital media like this is sweeping the world and before long printed versions will not be even as popular as it is today. Such as digital news vs. printed news. Today's Americans demand instant gratification and ease of access. Printed books require time and effort, going to the bookstore to find the one you want for example. As trivial as that sounds, it's so much easier to make a few clicks on a computer and receive the information that you want.
My first comment was not meant to be "threatening" as i'm sure you took it. It's simply that objects like Kindle show that digital media is taking over. Before long the same will happen to news organizations. THG has already accepted this as fact as you now have the e-editions. So my question Odom, in a non-threatening way, is do you see this trend with news reporting as Kindle has done with written books.
Hope this one gets approved :/ It was rather long.
I don't find much on these threads to be threatening. So, to answer you....
Digital media is taking over. You would have a hard time convincing me otherwise. The idea is that the digital and print could find their prospective markets and share. Sometimes convenience is not convenience afterall. In the case of the Kindle I don't see where it is enhancing anything. Yes, you can purchase a book for $9.99 from the Kindle and read them in less than a minute. I can check them out for free. It make take longer to get them but one has to ask themselves if you are really in that much of a hurry?
Print media will never completely die. In a community like Barnesville we only see about a 5% attrition rate to digital formats. It will take (in my estimation) some years for that number to overwhelm the print percentage. And even then it is subject to things like high-speed 'net availability, smart phone cell reception, affordable laptops, etc. This doesn't even take into effect the number of purists and retro-readers that find great novelty in print media.
About your anonymous opinions.