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The Kindle - An Amazing Device To Read Digital Books
One can't look at a kindle and not think; IPod. Not just for the fact that with it's monochrome screen and white plastic body it kind of looks like the first IPods, but also as what iPods and mp3s in general have done for music, so has kindle done for literature.
Changes in recording and reproduction of writing have come slower then changes in recording and reproduction of sound, but then again recording and reproduction of sound is just over a hundred years old and the ability to write and keep records has been a defining part of civilization since literally the dawn of history.
Not only is the culture of writing crucial to qualify civilization but it has also been the instigator of epochs, expanding ideas of the divine, bringing us out of dark ages, media and mass literacy defining the modern world. We live in the age of information no less. And maybe one day, when we consider this in a historical prospective, we will place the kindle and e-book readers in general together with paper, the printing press, the computer and the net.
The Kindle is an organic successor to the book, having the dimension of a small magazine (8" x 5.3" x 0.36") and weighing lower than a paperback (10.2 ounces), it can hold approximately 1,500 books.
The books can be bought and downloaded wirelessly for a small fraction of the price of the dead tree edition from the kindle shop, which currently holds more than 360,000 titles, directly to your kindle. Your library is automatically backed-up online. You can also download leading US and global newspapers, mags, popular bogs and feeds and audio books.
The kindle carries a dictionary; The New Oxford American Dictionary with over 250,000 entries and definitions and also has free wireless access to Wikipedia.org.
The kindle can read PDF-files and Amazon's Whispernet service; you can send your docs directly to your Kindle and read them anytime, everywhere.
The full QWERTY keyboard permits you make notes and bookmarks, you can add annotations to text, just like you might write in the margins of a book. And because it is digital, you could edit, delete, and export your notes. You can highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future use. You'll never require to bookmark your last place in the book, because Kindle remembers for you and always opens to the last page you read.
Changeable text size, screen rotation and full image zoom offers you much more options to enhance your reading experience. The kindle will even read for you, sorry, to you with the read-to-me feature in either a male or female voice. The kindle comes with audio jack and built-in speakers.
The kindle has a seven days battery life, 14 days when wireless is turned off, is charged through an USB portal and is fully charged within 4 hours.
I've sympathy for the book, and with my bibliophilic father I've grown fond of my living room with towering bookcases. But as the mp3-player hasn't been the death of the LP, the E-book reader won't be the death of book. People still build great LP collections, and the bookcase will not soon be something of past. LP's and books have something upon themselves, an emotional bond we have of them. The LP being a symbol of entertainment, creative skill, and bringing across ideas, book just more so and that of academic virtue, but both are symbols of creation. These are not subject to technological progress, rather advancement in media compliment them.
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