The lovely and talented SarahK has decided she wants a Kindle, so I’d thought I’d put up a link so she can buy one and so can anyone else who wants one because I get mad money for anyone who buys a Kindle through my site.
Anyway, when she gets one, I’ll let you know what we think, but I already know everyone who got the first Kindle seemed to love them despite how stoopid it seemed to me. I mean, you can get an X-Box and a couple games at that price. I think my main use for it would be the Wikipedia access from anywhere (with no monthly fee!) and something to put PDF documentation on for any engineering projects at work. Also, I’m really interested to see how different is the screen which is supposed to be the biggest selling point (no more reflective than a piece of paper).
Anyway, click on the banner and buy a Kindle or keep reading off of pieces of pressed wood stained with a black substance like a caveman.
UPDATE:
I forgot; the new version of the Kindle will read aloud to you, so you don’t have to be literate to use one. I have to make sure you can get IMAO on that thing so it can read my wisdom to your kids as they go to sleep.
Internet begging should be banned.
[Who was begging? Being a douche on the internet should be banned, but then like half the internet would disappear. -Ed.]
Gee, will the Kindle come with a .PDF of the Stimulus Bill? That will probably be the only way we’ll get to read it.
If your Kindle reads my IMAO comments to your kids they’ll wake up stupid.
Jimmy, they are working on a KindleSuperMagnumXXX which will hold 1/2 of the stimulus bill at a time. It will NOT read the stimulus bill, however because the wording of the legislation is too idiotic for the devise to translate! You can purchase the new devise at $13.00 per week charged to your credit card in perpetuity…
Oh…one caveat…the new KindleSuperMagnumXXX will be 14 inches thick and will need to hooked to a 30 terabyte external drive and will weigh 75 pounds…
That would be a Microsoft product, ussjc, with 4096 easy payments of $13.00 with 24% interest compounded continuously! And the debt is transferable to your descendants via terms in the Stimulus Bill itself. You can buy one in the new Zune Stores they’re opening up around the country. You’ll recognize them by the giant picture of Balmer on the front door and lots of chairs inside but no tables.
In other news, it was revealed today that 53% of members of Congress are missing their temporal lobes and actually don’t know how to read. The other 47% have crossed eyes and reading for them is just painful.
It’s simple to get a free one. Just ask Representative Nick Thompson (R-District 73) in Florida. Apparently, he’ll hand you a whole freakin’ house if you cry on TV. A small price to pay.
The only disqualifier for qualifying for the newly-launched “Henrietta Hughes Leach On Society” Grant is if you actually have a job and contribute to society. If you fall into that category, you are owed nothing…except, of course, scorn.
I’ve heard good things about both the old one and this one. Yes, it’s more expensive than an iPhone and doesn’t do as much.
Anyway, the “will read to you” feature isn’t the latest and greatest voice synthesis technology – it’s not easy to understand at all. So don’t put too much stake in that. You really have to concentrate to understand what’s being set. I guess you’ll get used to it eventually. I listened to an entire Jules Verne book on voice synthesis like that at work on an iPod some time ago – it works, but expect to completely miss what some words are intended to be and find yourself looking at the page every 5 minutes when you can.
One cool thing is the download via 3G. Apparently, the cost of the transmission is bundled in the book price, so no monthly fees or anything. The bestsellers are cheap this way, too. So I guess it’s good for disposable literature. I like the fact that the physicial books I own will still be readable 100 years from now. However, I doubt they’ll let me keep the equivalent of 12 or so 5 shelf bookshelves in any nursing home, whereas a kindle 12 or whatever may be OK.
The size is wonderful – not pocket sized but far smaller than just about any book. I like that you can e-mail your own docs to it so that they can also be available.
Anyway, I’ll probably have better uses for that money until Kindle 3, but if a nice job drops in my lap with a long commute on the train, I’ll definitely pick one up.
I almost dropped everything to buy it last week when I learned it would read to you. Then I remembered hearing with crushing disappointment the horrendous sounds coming from readers and machines and decided no thank you, although if I have money to burn I would get it for reading at a far away location like on a cruise (which I’ve never done) or on an exotic island (not the kind of island I’m from) where I could not haul a lot of crap. Yes, if you can afford it and you are a compuslive reader, this could come in handy. But don’t stop buying beautiful books ! P.S. I would loose my Kindle way before a year’s time.
You could buy 36 paperbacks for the price of the kindle. I can’t imagine it saves you that much money unless you are a very avid reader. Personally I only buy 8 or so books a year, so it would be hard to justify. Unless they put textbooks on it, that would be sweet! Then I’d probably save enough in a single semester to make it worth it.
** Tosses piece of pressed wood stained with a black substance at Frank **
I forget where I read this…Ace? Daily Gut? wherever….something along the lines of ‘with a Kindle you don’t have to go to a bookstore to buy a book cuz Lord knows booklovers absolutely hate going to a bookstore’.
Even people who don’t buy books that often still love to browse in a bookstore, let alone all the book junkies.
And one thing I learned from the downloadable Gigantic Enormo POS That Is The Stimuli is that PDFs are not “word or phrase searchable”. So if you’re gonna buy a Kindle with the hope you can use it to search and print, rotsa ruck with that.
And the dumbing down of America just keeps going and going…..it’s like the Energizer Bunny.
Oh and Obama’s gonna buy me a Kindle, right after he pays my mortgage and send me my check.
What happens to the books stored in memory when the battery dies? I clicked on the little box but didn’t buy anything. Does Frank still get money?
“[Who was begging? Being a douche on the internet should be banned, but then like half the internet would disappear. -Ed.]”
And you’re still here for what reason? Skippy, you’re such an immature child.
YES! I’ve, many times, been thinking while reading on my computer screen, “this screen is too shiney! It shouldn’t be any more shiney than a piece of paper! Where’s my non-shiney screen!” The discomfort with reading on a computer screen has nothing to do with fact that it tends to glow more than a piece of paper; no, it’s because the screen is shiney.
THE OBAMA has plans to dumb down our children with the liberal lies in todays text books ,so everyone will need the read aloud feature. cuz if-n wez cant reed- wez wont now hoo to vot 4 . just lisen to THE OBAMA he wil tel us al we nead to now
its 359 freaking dollars. you can practically get a laptop for that at Circuit City’s GOB sale!
its 359 freaking dollars. you can practically get a laptop for that at Circuit City’s GOB sale!
Hell, you can almost get a 360 elite for that.
dave’s daddy was a douche bag his momma was a troll momma hated enemas but he missed the hole so now dave gushes out hey look at me i would have been here sooner but momma had to pee