Support your library or the Amazon Kindle?
// March 4th, 2009 // Comments Off // General, Ranting
I have my moments of being a gadget geek … oh hell, I’m always a gadget geek, though the current economy hits this brand of geek pretty hard. Recently Amazon put out its upgraded Kindle product, Kindle 2, which I’d been eying since it was hinted at a while back. The Kindle 2 is an eBook reader — essentially, you can read just about any book you want on it without killing trees. Also, in case you’ve never seen it before, the display is nothing like a laptop or PDA screen — it actually has a a matte finish and eerily looks like you’re reading a piece of paper on an electronic device.
I tend to get my reading material these days via the local library, which is a plus because a) it’s free and b) it’s not contributing to another dead tree (do I sound like a smelly hippy yet?) The Kindle books cost money, but once you read the book there, that’s it — you can’t really share it or donate it to a library. However, you are saving trees.
