A glimpse of the future of reading?

March 25th, 2008

kindle.JPGMuch of technology at the moment is about portability, holding huge amounts of information, cool user friendly design and wireless capability. A good example of this is the Kindle by Amazon books which is an electronic book reader that can hold up to 300 titles. Books can be purchased through Amazon over a wireless link and downloaded to Kindle in just one minute. Each title is considerably cheaper than the paper version, and the cost of the e-book includes the wireless ‘rent’. There are also a huge number of newspapers, magazines and blogs available. It presently costs are rather steep US$399.

A couple of issues straight up: a) it is sold out and customers are having to wait months to get one;

b) sadly they are only shipping to the US.

Check out the following user review/rant by Scoble click here.

The Kindle represents a major shift in how we relate to books. Check out my post Linked with the Future by clicking here for a prediction of what could be. I would now add, reading the Bible electronically, daily devotions received via wireless…

Check out the great demo video of Kindle below:


One Response to “A glimpse of the future of reading?”

  1. Chette on March 26, 2008 11:11 am

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