Do any of you guys have an Amazon Kindle?
Danyale bought me a Kindle2 and I really love it. I flew in very late one night, and then flew off to the Bahamas early the next morning. As I waited to board the plane I realized I did not have any books on my Kindle. I fired the device up and bought some Tom Clancy books, each was downloaded wirelessly in less than a minute. Its an amazing feeling that so much content can be delivered to you in less than a minute.
But the real wow moment for me was reading Ranbow Six by the pool. The hardback of Ranbow Six is pretty big. I would be hard pressed to take such a large and bulky book to the beach or to the pool. Even on a romantic vacation, Danyale would start bitching about me weighing down her beach bag with a big heavy book. But the Kindle is so light and small, it is a breeze to throw it in a beach bag and take it anywhere. I found myself taking my Kindle places that I probably would not bring a real book.
The third thing I want to point out is the fact that it can hold so many books, it is like having your whole library in something smaller than a softback. It blew me away. Amazon will store your purchases for you, but you can back up the books to your computer if you want to be really safe.
So anyway, I thought I would review the Kindle for you, and hopefully start a conversation about how you use it. The following are some of the things I have found that make my Kindle experance even better. If you use a Kindle or another e-book reader I would love to hear how you are using it, and whether you have some good tips. If you have any questions about the Kindle I would be happy to answer them for you.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?node=154606011&keywords=-domain&field-price=0-0&sort=price&redirect=true
This is a link that returns all the free books on Amazon.com. I found some good ones, but they come and go. Right now there seems to be a lot of romance stuff, but every now and then you can find something cool.
http://manybooks.net/
This is a link to a site with a lot of free books. Most are old, I found it a great place to pick up several classics that have evaded me. Free makes it more likely that I will read them one day.
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
That is the place to download a program call Calibre. When you download free books, they some times have the meta data screwed up for book name and author, this displaying weird or incorrect on your Kindle. With Calibre you can edit your meta data, rename the book or do whatever you need to better organize your book on your device. Calibre does much more, but that is all I use it for at this time.
BTW I got hundreds of Star Wars books in one torrent from TPB a few weeks ago. Very nice find.