[Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

[NORMA JEAN HEWLETT]

> My question is WHY anyone would want to carry hundreds or thousands
> of books with them at a time.  When I travel I always have a 
> couple of
> books and several magazines (and more if a long trip), but I can't 
see
> any reason to have a hundred books with me.

This is a little off topic, but I have about 25 audio books on my 
ipod. Since it's a Nano with several gigs of storage, I could easily 
have 100. I rarely listen to any of them, but it's nice to have them 
in my purse if I get stuck in a waiting room. Much easier than 
carrying even one book around in paper.

One of my acquaintances has an ipod that he uses to hold his family 
photos and videos. He carries it everywhere and has been known to whip 
it out and show total strangers the video of his daughter's birthday 
party or photos from his son's school play.

Jean Hewlett


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Lester <dan at riverofdata.com>
Date: Monday, November 26, 2007 2:28 pm
Subject: Re[2]: [Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader
To: Tom Keays <tomkeays at gmail.com>
Cc: Web4Lib <web4lib at webjunction.org>

> Hello Tom,
> 
> Monday, November 26, 2007, 2:17:18 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > What makes e-book readers attractive (besides the pure geekiness of
> > them) is the fact that I can carry 200 books as easily as one, 
Heck,
> > why stop there... with SD cards, I can carry thousands of e-
> books with
> > me. And I do.*
> 
> My question is WHY anyone would want to carry hundreds or thousdands
> of books with them at a time.  When I travel I always have a 
> couple of
> books and several magazines (and more if a long trip), but I can't 
see
> any reason to have a hundred books with me.
> 
> Any easy explanation, other than the possibility that you were doing
> dissertation research and all of the sources you needed were on your
> kindle? (as if!!)
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Dan                            mailto:dan at riverofdata.com
> 
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