I seriously love this century

[lauralh]

Intellectually I understand that eBook readers make one able to carry their whole library around, but actually literally switching out Infinite Jest ( a monster of a book with over a thousand pages in paperback form) for my Kindle after spending $5.37 for the privilege? kind of makes it visceral for me.

 

Plus you don't need to keep switching back and forth with the footnotes! You just click!

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Comments

[xaotica.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty fond of scrolling over to a word to get the definition, because infinite jest contained lots of words i didn't know, and a lot of my school research papers have in the past too

i pretty much fell in love with the kindle after being unexpectedly stuck in the hospital for a week. laptop battery died, phone died... but the e-ink kindle lasts for 2+ weeks without a charge

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

yeah! eInk is seriously convenient on Backpacking trips, b/c not only can you read whatever, YOU CAN INSTALL MAPS

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

the kindle is how i knew i was in the future, yeah. i was on a plane and on my 2nd glass of wine when i realized i was in a flying tube, holding more books than i could read in a year, plugged into a 'walkman' that had more music than i could listen to in a year. i felt like a crochety old man.

and then i fell asleep.