Abierto
After nearly eleven months of no posting, I'm opening shop. There's an exciting 2008 election season coming, and I find myself less and less interested in the other set of politics that has consumed me the last few years. I also may blog science every once in a while, since this blog is already linked to my name. Will there be navel-gazing? Yes, knowing me, there will be navel-gazing.
Kindle
I'm going home today, and now that I'm a working adult, home is where the commute to my job is relatively brief. I'm bringing with me Amazon's new wired e-book device, Kindle, which may become the iPod for the bibliophile. About the size of a medieval breviary (and usable as one with the help of its basic Internet browser and folks like Josh "Indiana" ), Kindle provides you with a lifetime subscription to a cell phone wireless network and access to purchase about 95,000 books, a few magazines and newspapers, and blog feeds (not recommended). The books are reasonably priced. The standard scifi paperback that has become my favorite airplane reading will cost about $4. Professor A.K.M. Adam's latest. Faithful Interpretation will run you $10. As someone who enjoys patronizing libraries as a means of both recycling books and preserving his limited substance, Kindle will save paper, some energy, but hurt first run booksellers such as Borders and Barnes and Noble, who I fortunately rarely patronize anyway.
But as any experienced reader would ask, "How's the reading?" Well, it's not quite the technology of the Orange Catholic Bible seen in Frank Herbert's works. It's a large paperback-sized PDA-like device (think PADD from Star Trek). But despite its digital heritage, the text actually looks sufficiently bookish. And if you want to read for work, you can send .pdfs to Amazon to convert and return to your computer for free or to your device for a small fee. I haven't tried out this process, but I look forward to doing so, if only to reduce the amount of paper I print. Best of all, it has no backlight, so you can't read at night in the passenger seat, thus enhancing public safety.
Downsides: Its web browser is experimental and text-based, and it could use a mail client. It also costs $400 (will pay for itself after 40-80 books).
ESA(20080102.1)
After nearly eleven months of no posting, I'm opening shop. There's an exciting 2008 election season coming, and I find myself less and less interested in the other set of politics that has consumed me the last few years. I also may blog science every once in a while, since this blog is already linked to my name. Will there be navel-gazing? Yes, knowing me, there will be navel-gazing.
Kindle
I'm going home today, and now that I'm a working adult, home is where the commute to my job is relatively brief. I'm bringing with me Amazon's new wired e-book device, Kindle, which may become the iPod for the bibliophile. About the size of a medieval breviary (and usable as one with the help of its basic Internet browser and folks like Josh "Indiana" ), Kindle provides you with a lifetime subscription to a cell phone wireless network and access to purchase about 95,000 books, a few magazines and newspapers, and blog feeds (not recommended). The books are reasonably priced. The standard scifi paperback that has become my favorite airplane reading will cost about $4. Professor A.K.M. Adam's latest. Faithful Interpretation will run you $10. As someone who enjoys patronizing libraries as a means of both recycling books and preserving his limited substance, Kindle will save paper, some energy, but hurt first run booksellers such as Borders and Barnes and Noble, who I fortunately rarely patronize anyway.
But as any experienced reader would ask, "How's the reading?" Well, it's not quite the technology of the Orange Catholic Bible seen in Frank Herbert's works. It's a large paperback-sized PDA-like device (think PADD from Star Trek). But despite its digital heritage, the text actually looks sufficiently bookish. And if you want to read for work, you can send .pdfs to Amazon to convert and return to your computer for free or to your device for a small fee. I haven't tried out this process, but I look forward to doing so, if only to reduce the amount of paper I print. Best of all, it has no backlight, so you can't read at night in the passenger seat, thus enhancing public safety.
Downsides: Its web browser is experimental and text-based, and it could use a mail client. It also costs $400 (will pay for itself after 40-80 books).
ESA(20080102.1)
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