One can not look at a kindle and not think; IPod. Not only for the fact that with it's monochrome display and white plastic body it kind of looks like the first IPods, but also because what iPods and mp3s in general have done for music, so has kindle done for literature.
Changes in recording & reproduction of writing have come slower then changes in the recording and reproduction of sound, but then again the recording and reproduction of sound is just over one hundred years old and the ability to write and keep records has been a defining element of civilization since literally the dawn of history.
Not only is the culture of writing essential to qualify civilization but it has also been the instigator of epochs, spreading ideas of the divine, bringing us out of dark ages, mass media and mass literacy defining the modern world. We live in the era of information no less. And maybe one day, when we look at this in a historical prospective, we will place the kindle and e-book readers in general together with paper, the printing press, the PC and the internet.
The Kindle is a natural successor to the book, having the dimension of a little magazine (8" x 5.3" x 0.36") and weighing less than a paperback (10.2 ounces), it can hold approximately 1,500 books.
The books could be purchased and downloaded wirelessly for a fraction of the price of the dead tree edition from the kindle shop, that currently holds over 360,000 titles, directly to your kindle. Your library is automatically backed-up online. You can also download leading American and international newspapers, magazines, popular bogs and feeds and audio books.
The kindle has a dictionary; The New Oxford American Dictionary with over 250,000 entries and definitions and even has free wireless access to Wikipedia.org.
The kindle can read PDF-files and Amazon's Whispernet service; you can send your docs straight to your Kindle and read them anytime, anywhere.
The full QWERTY keyboard allows you make notes and bookmarks, you can add annotations to text, just as you might write in the margins of a book. And because it is digital, you can edit, delete, and export your notes. You can highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future use. You'll never require to bookmark your last place in the book, as Kindle remembers for you and always opens to the last page you read.
Adjustable text size, screen rotation and full image zoom gives you much more options to enhance your reading experience. The kindle will even read for you, sorry, to you with the read-to-me feature in a male or female voice. The kindle comes with audio jack and built-in speakers.
The kindle has an one week battery life, 14 days when wireless is turned off, is charged through an USB portal and is completely charged within 4 hours.
I have sympathy for the book, and with my bibliophilic father I have grown fond of my living room with towering bookcases. But as the mp3-player has not been the death of the LP, the E-book reader won't be the death of the book. People still build great LP collections, and the bookcase will not soon be something of past. LP's and books have something upon themselves, an emotional bond we've of them. The LP being a symbol of entertainment, artistic skill, and bringing across ideas, book only more so and that of academic virtue, but both are symbols of creation. These aren't subject to technological progress, rather advancement in media compliment them.
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