I hate the Kindle, Amazon’s electronic e-book reader. I really have no qualm with the device I suppose but the model of licensing reading material and calling it a “book reader” smacks of consumer injustice. But for health reasons I may need to get one.
I read on the can as most people of learning do. I finished Robert R. Colton and Joel A. Palmer’s History of the Modern World largely on the toilet and some 3k of the 4.7k pages of the Dark Tower heptilogy were consumed on the crapper. This habit has had long-term health effects though as I’m now reading the 1.3 kilopage tome The Codebreakers and my right wrist starts hurting after a few minutes. This has never happened before and I fear it may endanger my ability to read books larger than a few hundred pages.
So I’m reduced to three options:
1) Buy an e-book reader
2) Eschew large text consumption on the john
3) Construct some ridiculous articulated lapboard to mount in the bathrooms of my house.
The answer is obvious; I have a battery of counterbalance potty tables to build.
I'd consider the Barnes and Noble “Nook” that's coming out soon over the Kindle.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compare/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/nook-is-...
I'd consider the Barnes and Noble “Nook” that's coming out soon over the Kindle.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compare/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/nook-is-...
I'd consider the Barnes and Noble “Nook” that's coming out soon over the Kindle.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compare/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/nook-is-...
OnaZ totally beat me to the Nook plug, but I would also like to suggest it.
OnaZ totally beat me to the Nook plug, but I would also like to suggest it.
Nook still succumbs to the same problems as the Kindle regarding ability to
share content. On investigating their lending functionality it appears one
can only lend a text a single time. Not letting one lend a book to one
person at a time, one may only lend a given text once. This restriction is
ridiculous. Also, the texts are far too expensive. I may approximately 0
for the preponderance of my books thanks to my public library.
Terry Robinson
Nook still succumbs to the same problems as the Kindle regarding ability to
share content. On investigating their lending functionality it appears one
can only lend a text a single time. Not letting one lend a book to one
person at a time, one may only lend a given text once. This restriction is
ridiculous. Also, the texts are far too expensive. I may approximately 0
for the preponderance of my books thanks to my public library.
Terry Robinson
OnaZ totally beat me to the Nook plug, but I would also like to suggest it.
Nook still succumbs to the same problems as the Kindle regarding ability to
share content. On investigating their lending functionality it appears one
can only lend a text a single time. Not letting one lend a book to one
person at a time, one may only lend a given text once. This restriction is
ridiculous. Also, the texts are far too expensive. I may approximately 0
for the preponderance of my books thanks to my public library.
Terry Robinson