Showing posts with label Kindle (again). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindle (again). Show all posts

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Kindle (again)

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).
WOW!

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!
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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.)

The neat thing?
You can change the font size.

You can also look up words ('cause there's a built-in dictionary) and it remembers where you were when you stopped reading (then started ag'in) and you can even ask the kindle to read for you:
Click a button or two and the gadget speaks!
Did I mention WOW!
Okay, so here's the thing:
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!