Amazon Kindle

[Josh]

[Laurie]

[Sarah]

Nu?

[Martin]

Exactly, Laurie - it looks ancient.

[Omar]

Exclusive photo of Kindle design sessions:

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Is that really the Kindle?  I'm anti the whole e-Books thing, period.  Books are a near-perfect technology.

[Sarah]

Except for the whole tree thing.  Besides, a lot of technologies once deemed ne plus ultra have been left in the dust with the passage of time.

Have they made a Kindle that you can read in the bath tub?  If not, that's a serious design flaw.

[Laurie]

I'm sure you can read it in the tub, Sarah. You just can't air it out after you drop it in the water.

[Sarah]

Terrible lack of precision on my part:  "Have they made a Kindle that you can read in the bath tub without having to worry about getting it wet?"

[Chris L]

I instantly regretted that KINDLE-CORE tattoo I got this afternoon. 

[Josh]

Is that really the Kindle?  I'm anti the whole e-Books thing, period.  Books are a near-perfect technology.

Search.
Getting something that's long out of print without having to sell an organ.
Easier footnotes.
Space in your back/fannypack.
Libraries having unlimited copies of a work.
I think if it gets wet, you would just dry it out like a cellphone, right?

[boost ventilator]

Terrible lack of precision on my part:  "Have they made a Kindle that you can read in the bath tub without having to worry about getting it wet?"

Do you laminate your books, magazines and newspapers?

[Sarah]

You drop a book in the tub, you can dry it out and still read it.  I wasn't sure you could do the same with a Kindle, although Josh seems to think you can.  And, speaking of Josh, good points all!  As I've said elsewhere, I think books will eventually become obsolete or at least rare, limited to fancy editions for rich retro folk.   

[Gagneaux]

In general, I completely embrace technological progression ... but not with this. I'm not sure why, but I really don't want to see books go the way of the dinosaur.

[Sarah]

I don't, either.  I just think it's going to happen.