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E books coming

In January I declared that paper magazines were dead and books might soon follow. The hold up for me was the absence of a really good portable reader on the market. The Kindle 1 looked sort of iffy and got mixed reviews, plus I wasn't about to plunk down $400 for something I couldn't hold in my hand first. I'm glad I didn't get one then.

The other day I saw a lady reading from the new Kindle 2 on BART. I went over and asked her how she liked it and she gave it rave reviews all around, and she was a former Kindle 1 owner. She let me look at it and hold it. I have decided that, as soon as I can save up the dough, I'm so going to get me one of those! Here is another review of the new Kindle 2 from cyberbrethren.

I do like reading paper books, but some books are really too big to carry with you, like Stephen J. Gould's "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" that I've had on the shelf for several years, unfinished because I can't carry it's 1,400 page mass to work with me and most of my reading gets done on the train or during breaks at work.

So, when it becomes financially possible I'll be all over the Kindle idea.

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