Caution: CAT BLOG AHEAD
Including random thoughts on life, art, business, stuff, and occasionally Real Estate.
What is a CAT BLOG?
According to Seth Godin: "Cat blogs are for, by, and about the person blogging. A cat blog is about your cat and your dating travails and your boss and whatever else you feel like sharing in your public diary."
Well, I am the boss, my dating years are behind me, but I do love my cats.
Enjoy!
If you are a frequent shopper at Amazon.com, you've seen it.
Amazon is promoting a new device toy they call "Kindle" ... which they describe as "a convenient, portable reading device with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers."
I confess. This thing looks so tempting, it gives me goose-bumps.
Has anyone else ordered one yet?
I just put my name on the waiting list. (AKA Hold For Later area of my Amazon shopping cart.)
11 comments • Cheryl Johnson • November 22 2007 10:41AMThis blog does not allow anonymous comments
As much as I like the look and feel of a paper book, I must admit I'm tempted by this. I always pack several books when I travel and this would certainly lighten the load.
Can you highlight sections? Write in the margins? Search for a particular term or phrase? If so, I'm off to order it.
Sharon -- From the Kindle video, it looks like yes, you can highlight and make notes:
The thought of reading magazines without ending up with a bunch of paper debris to toss into the Recycling bin really appeals to me, too.
Don MacAskill loves it: http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/11/20/kindle-review/
Tech-Crunch isn't thrilled: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/21/kindle-web-browsing-experience-is-horrible/
I think it's the Brain-Fit thing. It seems to me Kindle will probably fit the way my brain works.
I love my books, and thought of ordering this little device until I did some resarch. Apparentlly we already have the technology to read eBooks on our computers. You can read the review here:
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/11/20/kindle/
Cheryl...I'm hoping you tempt loads of folks to buy them...all through Amazon.com. I have shares in the company and if the stock goes up I can buy a new
devicetoy myself. I definitely want to thank you for sharing.You made my Thanksgiving even happier!
Kathleen
P.S. Wouldn't they make great gifts for family members, close friends, very special clients (they all are right now), in-laws, out-laws, former spouses, future spouses...........Buy, Buy, Buy.
Jay, Yes I am also wondering if the price will drop after a short time ... I haven't forgotten the IPhone price change! That's why it's sitting in the "Save For Later" area of my Amazon shopping cart.
And, Kathleen, that's why I'll probably wait and buy them as gifts ~next~ year. :-)
Tracey, The Buzz Machine report is especially interesting when you get to the part about a monthly charge for accessing blogs .... As a blog reader, of course, that annoys me. But as the owner/operator of several outside blogs, I'm thinking hmmmm....
Sharon, I, too, enjoy the look, feel, and weight of holding a real book. I would probably not stop buying books. What I would do, though, is immediately move all my newspapers and magazine subscriptions over to the Kindle. Hoping they will all be available in Kindle format, that is.
Just think of the good press NAR could get by going green and providing members with Kindles, and then using the Kindle to deliver their Realtor magazine every month, instead of dead trees.
Heck, maybe a system could be put in place, that I would agree to receive all my catalogs and junk snail-mail by Kindle, in exchange for a reduced Kindle cost. :-) !!!!
I've looked at this a few times... Went back to Amazon and it's sold out. Just couldn't justify the price! Not only do I enjoy reading my books, I enjoy the LOOK of my books on the shelf!