[LINK] The Amazon Kindle e-book
Scott Howard
scott at doc.net.au
Mon Jul 7 13:05:47 AEST 2008
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au>
wrote:
> So .. what *are* the advantages of reading a book on the kindle vs reading
> it on paper?
The need to only ever carry one single "thing", and always being able to
have a book available.
No getting half-way to work on the train and finishing your book, and then
realizing you forgot to bring another.
No carrying that 2nd book backwards and forwards for 3 days, just in case
you finish the first one today.
No need to go to the bookshop to buy a new book, or waiting days for the one
ordered over the internet to arrive.
Personally I haven't bought an ebook reader yet, but I will eventually - for
the exact same reason everyone else in my team has already bought one. I
spend over 50% of my time on the road (or more realistically, in the air),
and there is only one thing worse than having to carry multiple novels so
that I've got a new one when I finish my current one - and that's running
out halfway across the Atlantic because I didn't end up bring enough (or
left them in my checked-in luggage).
Yes, there are disadvantages to ebooks in general and the Kindle
specifically, but the simple fact is that most people either don't care,
and/or rate the convenience of the Kindle greater than the disadvantages.
At the end of the day, it's exactly the same reason that I carry an iPod
rather than a CD player and a few dozen CDs.
Scott.
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