Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Kindle 2- A little Review

I just finished reading “Tribes” by Seth Godin. This was the first book I’ve read on my Amazon Kindle. I have to tell you how impressed I am with both. The book I wholeheartedly recommend . It has wonderful stories on leadership and the way things and ideas will be spread throughout the world in the forseeable future. But the Kindle, Good Lord, the Kindle. It’s the coolest thing ever. I am a huge reader and to be able to carry up to 1500 books with me at all times is awesome. The only negative, and I mean only, is that Sometimes you want the actual hardcover book. To keep and share and have it as part of your library. In that case buy it!! But if you’re like me, you’re a sponge, and want to suck every bit of information you can because learning is not just a passion , it’s a frickin necessity! So to be able to carry around all this info in one small electronic package is life changing. This thing downloads books (most 9.99, some more, but some even FREE.) in like 40 seconds! Are you kidding me? I find out about a book from a trusted business associates recommendation and poof I"m reading it right then!! I was in church today, of course I have the bible on it , and I updated my twitter status on it. Ok maybe I should have been paying more attention to the message, but the point is I updated twitter because I could. And it felt good. Now to be realistic you can read any review and they’ll point out that it’s not “perfect”. True, but are you kidding me, this thing rocks . The new Kindle iPhone app even knows where you left off. So say you're reading your Kindle and put it down. You can open the program on your iPhone 2 weeks later and it opens up to right where you left off. Reading on the Kindle is nice with the big screen and E-ink and all, but sitting and waiting somewhere the iphone does the job. Yes I am a fan , even a zealot. So order a Kindle 2. Seriously order it now. And oh yea Tribes is awesome! Maybe get that too. Next book? Groundswell, by Charlene Li.