Put a Kindle in the Window: Days 3-5

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Put a Kindle in the Window: Days 3-5

POSTED: Monday, June 15, 2009, 4:00 PM

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Look, a guy holding a Kindle.

They sent me a Kindle 2 to try out. It's due back in 5 days. This is gonna be just like Gone in Sixty Seconds.

Been reading Oscar Wao. It's a little much. But I do like the Kindle's ambidexterous handling. Reading in bed is easy, thanks to little thumb flicks taking the place of full-arm page turning. Man, that sounded lazy.

The really interesting thing I've been checking out is the newspaper function. For $.75 I bought the current issue of the New York Times and flipped through the articles in all the sections. It didn't look like a newspaper ' the pages were bland pdf-looking things ' but it read like one. Everything seemed to be there.

And for a second I envisioned what the Amazons did: The future of newspapers would be a handheld device like this where you download your morning paper to read on the train or what have you. Too bad people think "information wants to be free," though. Sad face.

Anyway, Kindle, that little pause and blink between each page gets a little grating. I mean, if it can't be helped, that's cool, but it seems a touch Comcastic. In a bad way.

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