With my new vow to read more fiction (substituting some magazine reading) I've been giving more thought to a Kindle. It's not just that I think that e-books are set to grow dramatically as delivery mechanisms for curriculum - I just see e-books as another way to reduce clutter.
Apparently I'm not alone...as the NYTimes reports today on "E-Books Starting to Take Hold"
Prediction: By 2011 the majority of curriculum will be in digital form - ebooks, smart phones, audio etc. By the time my girls are in college (starting 2017) this trend will extend to all curriculum plus library holdings.
My vacation reading came in legacy paper format - costing me all of $24 bucks with Amazon's 4 for 3 deal and free shipping (thanks to the lovely but dangerous Prime). (One note: buying the Kindle content would have been more expensive...as the 4 books for the price of 3 does not seem to apply to Kindle purchases from what I can tell....never mind the $359 for the reader).
My vacation list came courtesy of Stephen King, from his Entertainment Weekly column on pop culture (I love this column - although it seems to exist only in the magazine format - which I will not renew again due to my fiction resolution).
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain; Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh; The Good Guy by Dean Koontz; Old Flames by Jack Ketchum
Not sure what I'll do with all these mysteries once I'm done with them....any takers?
No...I wouldn't pull the trigger on a Kindle until Kindle 2.0 (as I'm thinking the ugliness and kinks have to get at least somewhat worked out by then)....but for the first time a Kindle is on my serious list.
Why Kindle (2.0)?
- Dedicated e-book is probably the way to go for the experience (although I do wonder if our students will think a smart phone is just fine to read course books...hmm)
- The Amazon cellular delivery is brilliant....and I think Amazon will be able to aggregate the most titles.
- Content wise I'm already hooked deeply into Amazon, with my platinum Audible subscription, Prime shipping membership, magazine buys, and increasingly music purchases. I like dealing with one trusted vendor.
I'm also betting that Amazon will start bundling audio and e-books together, integrating the experience, but that is for another post.
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