My Kindle has arrived. I recorded a quick unboxing video (embedded below), and will post some more comments/thoughts about it later. It seems to fit fine inside my geek bag, along side my EEE PC, so I am happy about that.
So far I would say my favorite things about the device are:
Ease of setup. I [...]
I spent sometime this weekend researching ebooks, ebook readers, and in general reading more thinks in a digital way. I have been reading a few magazines on Zinio recently, and decided I wanted to branch out to books. Rather than make an order for some new paper based books, I decided to order myself a [...]
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
I took the plunge and purchased my first "ultra portable" laptop computer today. My Dell 1420 is my primary computer at home, pretty much leaving my desktop to the roll of backup machine and gaming machine. Still, the 1420 is about 6 lbs and does get a bit tiresome to haul around.
I like to have [...]
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
I have decided that it is time to retire my Dell DJ 20, and switch over to a small, lighter flash based drive. It means giving up the big 20 GB storage, but I think that 8 will suffice for the music I most want to carry with me. I will also still continue to [...]