I understand fully-- I am the one 83 old who loves to flaunt her
technical "knowledge" to others. Yes, I do have an iPhone, yes I do
have a laptop, of course i also do have still an iPod and you will
find several other computers in my house. It is a blast for me -- to
see the astonished eyes of those around me in doctors' offices,
restaurants etc.
Of course I would buy a Kindle if it were a bit cheaper, I just
bought, but have not tried this self contained box to change old
records and tapes into CDs. That saves me the connections and cords
to the computer.
I love all the new tech, can't keep up with it all, though, but
there are longings for stuff that is plain, functions in one
dimension only and has some beauty for the eye to rest on, yes, to
rest on.
I gave up watching TV in general because of the dizzy goings on on the
screen - writing up, moving bands down, faces and junk in the middle--
it gives me a headache.
But I invite anyone of you all to come to my house and set me up to
change my computers to new vistas, do all those experiments you talk
about, I am game!
It would be great that the Kindle be part of a freshman's book list.
That would drop the price to perhaps $ 100.00, maybe less . So we
could all afford one.
Marta
On Mar 19, 2009, at 12:04 pm, Rick Burnett wrote:
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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