The Kindle - An Amazing Tool To Read E-Books
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 appears like the first IPods, but also since what iPods & mp3s in general have done for music, so has the kindle done for literature.
Changes in recording and 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 is a defining element of civilization because literally the dawn of history.
Not only is the tradition of writing crucial 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 perhaps one day, when we look at this in a historical prospective, we'll place the kindle and e-book readers in general along side paper, the printing press, the computer and the internet.
The Kindle is a natural successor to the book, having the dimension of a little mag (8" x 5.3" x 0.36") and weighing less than a paperback (10.2 oz), it can hold around 1,500 books.
The books can be purchased and downloaded wirelessly for a fraction of the price of the dead tree edition from the kindle shop, that now holds over 360,000 titles, directly to your kindle. Your library is automatically backed-up on the internet. You can also download major US and international newspapers, magazines, popular bogs and feeds and audio books.
The kindle has a dictionary; The New Oxford American Dictionary with more than 250,000 entries and definitions and even has free wireless access to Wikipedia.org.
The kindle could read PDF-files and Amazon's Whispernet service; you can send your documents directly 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 its digital, you can edit, delete, and export your notes. You could highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future use. You'll never need to bookmark your last place in the book, because 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 has audio jack and built-in speakers.
The kindle has an one week battery life, two weeks when wireless is turned off, is charged through USB and is fully 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 will not be the death of the book. People still build wonderful LP collections, and the bookcase will not soon be something of the past. LP's and books have something upon themselves, an emotional bond we have 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, instead advancement in media compliment them.
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