DISQUS

ursulas · 2 months ago

I am one step away from buying Kindle 2. Couldn't decide between it or the new Barnes & Noble eReader for a bit. Thanks for your opinion!

Mike · 2 months ago

The Nook isn’t available until end of November – so if you can’t delay gratification get the Kindle now

Niland Mortimer · 1 month ago

How perfect! I, too, resisted the Kindle until two months ago. My reasons were much the same as you describe: literature major snobbishness, a passion for type, and paper, and books and book arts. A personal library of over 8,000 books, scattered over three states. A self-definition as a "book collector," and the dusty image that term implies.
I remember in the late 1990's receiving an early e-book at a EuroRSCG partners' meeting and giving it to one of my sons in distain. Now I'm hooked. I love my Kindle 2. I travel by bus, MUNI, BART and CalTrain around the Bay Area, having no car, and the Kindle travels with me. I've read many books that I may might have considered "beneath" purchase. I have the ability to switch from a business book, a white-paper, a blog, a novel or a newspaper at the touch of a button. I haven't stopped buying books. But my hard copy purchases have become more considered. The Kindle compliments them, it doesn't compete with them.
Tomorrow I set off first to Boston and then to Maine and am delighted to have the Kindle with me.