1) Read article* 2) See book discussed at bottom of article 3) Search for book on Amazon 4) Find Kindle edition, send 1st chapter to my Kindle 5) Read first chapter to determine if it's worth reading I actually set aside half an hour today to read. And the nice thing with the Kindle is I can take it out to my marvelous deck, sit in the full sun, listen to headphones and read. So keep that in mind when I say I'm currently plugging through the new edition of Gaia's Garden: http://www.amazon.com/Gaias-Garden-Second-Home-Scale-Permacu... (My wife pointed out that we own two copies of the previous edition, one paperback and one hardcover; I pointed out that yeah, we do, but I've never picked them up until I read the first chapter on Kindle) ...and have lined up the following: http://www.amazon.com/Methland-Death-American-Small-ebook/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Know-Who-You-Are-What/dp/1451650515/re... http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-Medicine-Revoluti... http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Disgusting-Unraveling-Mysteries-... http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Apart-State-America-1960-2010/d... http://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/159780... Note that I recently finished this: http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Garage-ebook/dp/B0061UC83A/ref=sr... (free!) And this, as an audiobook: http://www.amazon.com/End-Food-Paul-Roberts/dp/0547085974/re... Both of which I highly recommend. End of Food is... pretty damn boring in the middle but when he's not talking about USDA tables he's pretty interesting. *An observer will note that most of these titles have been mentioned on Hubski in the past couple weeks. Also worth noting: I torrented these rather than buying them because fuck those prices: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_7?url=search-alias%...
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I guess the battery life would be a lot shorter, but is it really easier to read on the kindle screen than a glass-covered LCD?
I had a very rough time reading on LCD based displays (iPad in my case) for any stretch of time. To elaborate, I found myself having headaches if I read on it for more than an hour. With the Kindle, I can read for hours on in and not have any issues.