Kindled
My brother ordered a Kindle for me for Christmas. I am so looking forward to it.
There's a used book I've been waiting for to arrive in the mail. I'm tempted to just get the Kindle version and start reading it on Kindle For Mac.
I'm a bit concerned that the Kindle does not have a touch interface. Isn't it awkward to highlight and annotate passages using the cursor buttons?
I am tempted to download a bazillion free and paid books onto the device. A temptation I shall resist. What would be the point of doing that? I would be building up a library of books that, honestly, I would never get around to reading.
Even with a Kindle, there are not enough hours in an evening to read even a fraction of everything that one would like to read.
There's a used book I've been waiting for to arrive in the mail. I'm tempted to just get the Kindle version and start reading it on Kindle For Mac.
I'm a bit concerned that the Kindle does not have a touch interface. Isn't it awkward to highlight and annotate passages using the cursor buttons?
I am tempted to download a bazillion free and paid books onto the device. A temptation I shall resist. What would be the point of doing that? I would be building up a library of books that, honestly, I would never get around to reading.
Even with a Kindle, there are not enough hours in an evening to read even a fraction of everything that one would like to read.
posted by Jonathan at
12/31/2010 06:27:00 p.m.
3 Comments:
Hi Jon,
Vaguely on-topic: did you ever get permission to post the Kindleified Catechism?
God bless!
Mark
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Mark, at 1/02/2011 1:49 p.m.
It is definitely easier and faster to highlight with the Kindle app on Android or iOS, but annotations are probably easier on the device because of its physical keyboard. I picked up a couple hundred classics, and it'll take me the next couple decades to get through them all. The quantity of works out of copyright is quite massive.
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Nathan, at 1/03/2011 2:48 p.m.
@Mark - No, I unfortunately did not find any plain-text copy of the Catechism that had any notice that it was being legally distributed. Alas!
@Nathan - Yeah, there are so many classics freely available that are worth reading. Even with the Kindle keyboard, I find annotations to be a pain, so I avoid doing them.
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Jonathan, at 7/21/2011 7:56 p.m.
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