Haft of the Spear

I’m not at all sure I do. It’s interesting, but as far as I can see it’s tied to Amazon, which obsoletes all the Mobipocket format e-books I’ve bought (other formats are available) from http://webscriptions.net for a lot less than what Amazon is selling them for.

My Palm M125 was a lot cheaper, does other things, fits in a pocket comfortably, and has no problem with a 512mb SD-Card that holds a truly incredible number of books.
Even if it is around 4 years old now.

Here is perhaps a better review on the Kindle:
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/index.html

If/when you can push your own PDFs to the thing, I’m pulling the trigger.

I gotta do something, if I install another bookcase in the house my wife will kill me.

Neat, but butt ugly reader. I want all that functionality integrated into a SmartPhone. I don’t wanna lug about another girly manbag to give that monstrosity the mandatory quality of portability.

Author, actor, director, and technophile Steven Fry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry has a blog where he writes that, like moi, he never saw a SmartPhone he never wanted (he’s apparently owned ‘em all).

Here’s a nice post he wrote on SmartPhones.
http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=3

Which begs the question: how many girly manbags are you carrying around now? ;-)

Definitely won’t win any design contests, and that you can’t push your own PDFs to it is annoying as heck (I’ve killed forests printing out RAND papers) but save for that it is what the eReader is not.

I don’t travel like I used to (which is where this would come in really handy) but the fact that I can tote a whole lot of material in a small package (and on/off load almost at will) and that all of it is more accessible than the Billy’s full of paper (for research), and I won’t need Lasik after using it for a month (like trying to read for extended periods on a phone-sized device would drive me to) is choice.

(smart azz)

Listen.

I have but one girly man-bag, but as all last-standing hetero-heroes acquainted with Molly know, that’s one bag too many - at least in the urban metro-sexual theater. (OK, some manly credit should be fluttered my way as my man-bag is designed to carry and reasonably conceal most run-o-da-mill niners. http://tinyurl.com/2ugg5y

But still- all that remains a poor excuse and alibi for my leanings de pinko luggage. This I know and it pains me so.

Back to Kindle: Three quarters of the joy of reading something very good or noteworthy horrid is being able to shuffle le livre on to a kindred buddy without incurring post-purchase costs.

Can’t do that with Kindle. They charge you at every duck and turn. Me no like that, on pure principle.

But if it works for you, dude, well…

Hey, and don’t fret, you will still be on our ignoble blogroll come tomorrow. My tenure of sorts grants me fool’s bravery. ;)

Man Love,
M1

Now that’s a bad-ass bag, I will grant you that.