Comments on: The Kindle Won’t Replace My Paperbacks http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2007/11/23/the-kindle-wont.html A blog about web apps, web 2.0, social media, and everything else that making the internet worthwhile Fri, 16 May 2008 19:57:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Mariella http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2007/11/23/the-kindle-wont.html#comment-2501 Mariella Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:08:02 +0000 http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2007/11/23/the-kindle-wont.html#comment-2501 <i>“You can dog-ear the pages and write in the margins.”</i> One of my favorite attributes of a real book. Also: you can check out a real book from the library, for free. You can browse the whole county's collection <a href="http://www.hcplc.org/" rel="nofollow">online</a>, place a hold, and ask to have the book delivered to your local branch. When it arrives, you'll get notification by phone or e-mail. Sure, it takes a little longer than downloading to a Kindle, but the free part makes it worth waiting for. “You can dog-ear the pages and write in the margins.”

One of my favorite attributes of a real book. Also: you can check out a real book from the library, for free. You can browse the whole county’s collection online, place a hold, and ask to have the book delivered to your local branch. When it arrives, you’ll get notification by phone or e-mail.

Sure, it takes a little longer than downloading to a Kindle, but the free part makes it worth waiting for.

]]> By: dave http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2007/11/23/the-kindle-wont.html#comment-2500 dave Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:26:01 +0000 http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2007/11/23/the-kindle-wont.html#comment-2500 Hey Sarah, Like you, this baby or anything like it is in my future. But if you or your readers are interested in a really neat design critique of the Kindle, you gotta check Thibaut out. http://well.thsy.org/2007/11/bookishness.html Hey Sarah,

Like you, this baby or anything like it is in my future. But if you or your readers are interested in a really neat design critique of the Kindle, you gotta check Thibaut out.

http://well.thsy.org/2007/11/bookishness.html

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