About four weeks ago I ordered one of them new fangled kindles. I got it yesterday and immediately looked to see how my financial stuff looked (after I had converted to an eBook format). Although I was a mite hesitant to spend the time massaging my tutorials before converting (since I had no idea what they'd look like), I reckon it'll be worthwhile to do more (and more). I won't be around that much longer so it'd be neat to have this stuff available to all, eh? Some tutorials don't look quite right, but then I discover that you can switch to landscape mode: Did I mention WOW! -------------------------------------- My wife has been reading a paperback by Ken Follett. The print is so small, she squints. (Price? About $8.) So I connected (wirelessly) to amazon.com and downloaded the book. It took about a minute. (Price? About $6.)
In the future, why would anyone buy a paperback? There's a significant cost for publishing, shipping & handling ... and the darn paperback don't talk good! |
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Kindle (again)
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Peter said:
ReplyDeleteOkay, so here's the thing: In the future, why would anyone buy a paperback?
Horace replies:
It's too hard wiping off the yellow highlighter on the Kindle screen!!!
Can you scribble notes in the margins?
ReplyDelete... wiping off the yellow highlighter...
ReplyDeleteThe kindle 3 is grayscale and, after creating a highlight, you move the cursor into the highlighted text and press the del button to delete it.
Can you scribble notes in the margins?
You can generate (numbered) footnotes.
So far I ain't found anything to complain about.
In fact, I'm delighted -- and have added a few more eBook tutorials:
http://www.gummy-stuff.org/eBook-financial-Index.htm
Do your graphs talk also, lol.
ReplyDelete"Do your graphs talk..."
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