Ok, 1 last thing about the Kindle. I know I mentioned in my first Kindle post about how you can email your text files to your Kindle but as I read more about it I find out more stuff.
It's not just text files. It's also pdf files so if you have a manual in pdf format then you will have it on your Kindle. Sometimes if you buy like a DVD player or a printer or whatever, I'm pulling at straws here, you can go to that manufacturers website and download the manual in pdf format. Well, who wants to sit and read the manual on the computer? Especially if the hardware you need to read about is in the other room. Say it's your tv's manual or your washer and dryer. You can just download that and send it to your Kindle and it converts it to Kindle format so you can read it.
I'm not sure if the Kindle puts your e-books, e-magazines and e-newspapers in categories or not, I think it would be a good idea though because if you get e-newspapers you will want them to be stores in there in folders. Like say you get the LA times and the NY times. Well, you don't want them to be in the same area as everything else like your books. If you get the newspaper and magazines on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis then the list will be too long so if you want to search for the book you are reading you have to scroll through the list of stuff.
Ok getting back to what I was talking about with sending text and pdf files to your kindle. You can also download free e-books and send them to your kindle. Oh and I read you can send pictures too. Now, I'm not too sure about pictures with black and white technology. I think I would much rather enjoy my pictures in color so that would certainly be something I would want to have but somewhere down the line when it has color. Right now I have all of my photo albums cropped to widescreen 3x5 for my PSP and the pictures are pretty small so when I go to show them off it's still a good size to look at but you know, it's still small. But at least I can carry all of my pictures. But you can't see them in the sunlight on my PSP.
Oh that reminds me. You can read your kindle out in the sunlight and it shows up just like a regular book thanks to e-ink. The screen isn't shiny either so there is no glare from the screen. If you are using a cell phone or pda or something as an e-book you have to cover it with your hands to be able to see it outside in the sunlight. Well, the Kindle with e-ink allows you to actually see what you are reading. And since it doesn't have a tv type of a screen you can't see it in the dark but the new Kindle 2 has lights around the page I think on both sides. Or maybe that was another e-book, I don't remember now, I'm getting them confused. I did see a Kindle light that clips to the kindle but it was made for the Kindle 1.
Ok, I can't make any promises that I won't obsess any more about this. I've pretty much touched on everything that I can think of but who knows, maybe tomorrow I might read about something that I didn't know and obsess about that. Maybe my obsession will have so much text that you will have to convert it all into pdf format and it will be so long that it will be your next e-book or e-novel. Maybe I'll shut up about it. Who knows.
2 comments:
Just came across your blog on Google. Interesting post, you bring up a few good things to think about. Good luck with the blog.
Well thank you so much for responding. At first I was on the fence with the Kindle but I'm absolutely obsessed with it. Although, I can't afford one with my income and I probably won't be able to for awhile but eventually I'd love to buy one.
I was starting to think the internet spiders were bored with my blog and decided not to add any of my posts to the search engines. Glad to know that things are working.
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