Does anyone use a Kindle?

My wife and my 13-year old daughter both love our kindle, and we have had to establish a schedule to swap the one device between its two devoted adherents. I am not yet convinced. If I traveled more I would almost certainly have one to reduce the weight of all those crappy mysteries I like to read.
 
I got a chance to play with not one but two new kindles over the past week. At a wedding in NZ. Someone cracked, "You know it's a San Francisco wedding when there's more than one kindle."

I loved it. Very easy to read. Pages "turn" quickly. Lightweight. I'm thinking of getting one myself.
 
originally posted by Seth Hill:
There's also a free Kindle app for the iPhone available.
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I am rarely so strapped for space or weight that a paperback won't suffice for travel. I have a fetishistic relationship to the book, savoring its feel, its smell and the whole sensory experience of reading. I can no more imagine trading that in for a Kindle than I can selling my tennis racquet, softball bat and golf clubs so that I can go out and buy a Wii.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Seth Hill:
There's also a free Kindle app for the iPhone available.
Click to expand...
I am rarely so strapped for space or weight that a paperback won't suffice for travel. I have a fetishistic relationship to the book, savoring its feel, its smell and the whole sensory experience of reading.
Click to expand...

Librarians of the world thank you for your support, Mark!
 
I am not Mark Lipton, but I wholly endorse his sentiments on this matter. Wholly.

(You know, "wholly" looks really weird if you stare at it long enough.)
 
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