So Book-like, You’d Think It Was a Book (but it’s not)
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Do you love to read books but hate reading books? Amazon.com finally has the answer for you.
It’s called Kindle
and it’s described as a “wireless portable reading device,” where the screen is so realistic and glare-free, it’s almost like reading a book. You can bring Kindle with you on long train rides, to class, the library, and anywhere else you can take an actual book. At $400, the Kindle is perfect for someone desperate to live out that book-reading adventure they could only fantasize about for years.
The Kindle, which Amazon scientists have been working on for the last three years, boasts the following characteristics:
You know what else feels like real paper and doesn’t require cables or monthly bills? Fucking books.
It’s also worth mentioning that you can’t obviously directly upload books that you already own onto the Kindle; you’d have to acquire them from Amazon. So if I desperately wanted to re-read The Novelization of Judge Dredd,, I’d have to pay for it again despite the fact that a perfectly good copy exists on my bookshelf.
