musings of a kindleworm

Date January 12, 2008

My Amazon Kindle arrived last Monday — it has been a good week. I finished reading my first book, so here are some impressions of my experience so far.
The Good

The text is crisp, clean, and readable.
The battery life and wireless signal have both been excellent. I’ve charged it a few times, but haven’t even gotten […]

kindle chaos

Date December 14, 2007

I have a Kindle on order from Amazon. Right now, they are so backordered that they aren’t even able to give me a potential shipping date. I know that is true because I check the order status about 6-10 times a day!
This is the second Kindle I’ve ordered. I ordered one on Thanksgiving, because at […]

kindle

Date November 20, 2007

As a bibliophile and technophile, I’m pretty intrugued with the idea of Amazon’s new Kindle e-reader. I’ve never been that interested in e-readers before but this one seems to capture some features that would make it more appealing — wireless shopping and downloading from anywhere, and reduced pricing on books where you are paying only […]