Don't get me wrong, I much prefer to have books (especially in
relation to my discipline), as our multitude of bookshelves will attest.
Friends joke that coming to our house is like going to the library
(and with Delicious Library I can loan out my books as if it were!).
I just think that something along the lines of a Kindle being
distributed to freshmen on campus would be an interesting idea.
On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Marta Edie wrote:
But what happens to us, who do like to stroke the book covers and
delight in the feel of the linen and the print and the long rows on
book cases. I grant the Kindle is marvellous for travelling, I am
just reading Ovid's Metamorphoses on my iPhone, a free download. The
Kindle sounds lovely -- with reservations.
Marta
On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:09 am, Rick Burnett wrote:
If you could get textbooks at a reasonable price on the Kindle
(even on a time-limited basis), I think that it could be big for
higher education.
No more lugging around 30lbs of books, all of the hassles
associated with campus bookstores, and searching within the text...
A undergraduates dream. Now of course us grad students are still
tied to other things.
Although I do see that Papers is now available for the iPhone...
hmmm....
rick
On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Lee Larson wrote:
On Mar 19, at 5:05 AM, Ed Wiser wrote:
Marta what we are watching with the iPhone is the death of the PC
as it has been used these past years.
We are seeing devices that handle most of the jobs that PC have
done and they fit in our pocket.
Stuart’s request for scanning photo’s in a few years could be
handled by the iPhone based on the SDK event Tuesday.
A few years from now these large boxes that we use to read the
web and type email to each other will be a thing of the past.
The average consumer has no need for the power of the desktop
computer when you have devices such as the iPhone to carry around.
I think a more exciting device is the Kindle. For years the tech
industry has been predicting the death of the traditional book,
but they've never been able to produce a box with acceptable
performance, features and price. The Kindle is the first I've seen
that's really tempting. Faux paper screen big enough to read
comfortably, extremely long battery life, ubiquitous connectivity
and tons of content all come together in one package. It's still a
bit pricey at $350, but that will only improve.
Apple should be in that market with their iPhone technology. The
Kindle software for the iPhone is nice, but the Kindle is a better
device from which to read because of its passive-lighting display,
larger size and much longer battery life.
Soon, the Kindle will have instant access to almost all books in
print as well as the Web. It's the closest we can come to
something approximating Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy [1] and Neal Stephenson's Young Lady's Illustrated
Primer [2].
It's also why I hold no hope for newspapers, as we think of them.
They ought to give all their subscribers a Kindle-type box and
forget about ink and pulp.
[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiker_guide_to_the_galaxy>
[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age>
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