Travis and Michelle Fitzgerald's blog

I just got a Kindle (e-book reader). Pretty cool! Nice screen (e-ink rocks), light weight, easy to use. But I’ve found the hardest thing is figuring out what books to buy for it! There’s a great temptation to run out and buy all my favorite books for it, but…I already have those books. Do I really need them in another format? Not at the moment. I think the books I’m most likely to buy for the Kindle are the sort of books I would borrow or get out of the library - Dan Brown sort of novels that are fun to read, but don’t really tempt me to re-read over and over. Hmm. Must think about whether I want to spend ~$10 for them now.

I hope a digital library is coming sometime soon. I would pay $1 or so to check out a book for two weeks. I already know Amazon can go in and delete whatever they want to off the Kindle (witness that issue a few months back where they’d sold a book they didn’t have the rights to, so they deleted it from everyone’s devices with a refund). Doesn’t seem a far stretch to checking things out.

So, all that being said…I’m still going to run out and buy some of my favorite books, just because it’s so cool! And there’s also a neat feature that I can email PDFs, HTMLs, Word documents, and things to Amazon and they’ll send them back in the right format to put on the Kindle. Baen Books has a bunch of free books in HTML…this ought to be fun.

~Michelle