I feel that way about a lot of things I want to blog about.
I didn't think you were dissing on the Kindle, so much as expressing how it is not right for you, yet (if ever it might be). Therefore, I didn't take anything you said as indicative that I might not enjoy my Kindle. I do wish it had more textbooks available, though a lot of my texts now are actually non-fiction books and so I can hope that I can get some of those in electronic format for my last couple of semesters. I do spend a lot of time having to read journal articles in .pdf format, however, and this is a problem for me.
Like many of my fellow students, I am forced to choose between printing out said articles (many of which are thirty or more pages long) or reading them on a standard computer screen (which lessens retention of material covered and causes eye strain). It is my intention to just spend the couple of dollars on each article, so that I can covert them into Kindle format. That way, I can read them without the eye strain, notate them without writing all over what I am reading (that just drives me crazy), and take them every where with me without lugging around a lot of extra weight.
I originally wanted a Kindle for traveling, if for no other reason than to allow me to take trips without lugging around a lot of paper books. The extra cost on luggage these days means I was paying to take my pleasure reading with me on vacation. That just burns. Once I started wanting a Kindle for that, my brain naturally realized all other sorts of benefits to having one with respect to my coursework. So, for me, it's worth it. I could see how it is not where it needs to be for other segments of the population, however, just like some of its features are completely lost on me. I mean, I'm not going to buy e-subscriptions to a bunch of magazines and newspapers, you know?
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I didn't think you were dissing on the Kindle, so much as expressing how it is not right for you, yet (if ever it might be). Therefore, I didn't take anything you said as indicative that I might not enjoy my Kindle. I do wish it had more textbooks available, though a lot of my texts now are actually non-fiction books and so I can hope that I can get some of those in electronic format for my last couple of semesters. I do spend a lot of time having to read journal articles in .pdf format, however, and this is a problem for me.
Like many of my fellow students, I am forced to choose between printing out said articles (many of which are thirty or more pages long) or reading them on a standard computer screen (which lessens retention of material covered and causes eye strain). It is my intention to just spend the couple of dollars on each article, so that I can covert them into Kindle format. That way, I can read them without the eye strain, notate them without writing all over what I am reading (that just drives me crazy), and take them every where with me without lugging around a lot of extra weight.
I originally wanted a Kindle for traveling, if for no other reason than to allow me to take trips without lugging around a lot of paper books. The extra cost on luggage these days means I was paying to take my pleasure reading with me on vacation. That just burns. Once I started wanting a Kindle for that, my brain naturally realized all other sorts of benefits to having one with respect to my coursework. So, for me, it's worth it. I could see how it is not where it needs to be for other segments of the population, however, just like some of its features are completely lost on me. I mean, I'm not going to buy e-subscriptions to a bunch of magazines and newspapers, you know?