On Jan 9, 10:22*pm, Wayne Knight wrote:


My cheesehead friend, I too prefer books.

I've seen some of your books. I carried one around for a few days,
afraid to touch it and kept awake nights for fear that bandits might
be coming for it at any moment.

However the Ipad Kindle app gives you the book behaviors you so
mention, but it also shows the illustrations.

Neither here nor there,

Neither here nor there is one of the two important things to bear in
mind. The Kindle was a gift, a thing I was delighted to receive and
am happy to have, but not something I desired or would have gone out
of my way to purchase.
The second (somewhat less important) thing is that I'd like it better
if it behaved more like a real book.....with certain qualifications.
Some of the features, like bookmarking, searching across multiple
volumes, and other data retrieval and manipulation functions are the
cat's ass.....things that would be welcome in REAL books, were they
possible. But beyond that, the point of the thing, as far as I am
concerned, is that it be a BOOK.....not a computer, one of whose
functions is something booklike. The iPad, one of which I have
sitting here as I type, is a fully functioning computer, and appears
(based on my very limited experience with it) to be a very good one,
but I already have a laptop and a phone with more funtions than I'll
be able to learn about and use to their fullest effect before it wears
out or is superceded by something with even more useless (to me) bells
and whistles. The iPad also has a backlit screen. I assume that the
Kindle application on the iPad (I don't see it here) cannot get around
that; the Kindle's very paper and ink like screen is presumably a
different technology. And that screen is, for me, the single most
important esthetic feature of the device.....not to mention the matter
of eyestrain that Russell brought up.

So, again, I'm thrilled with the Kindle.....but there is room for
improvement.


Meanwhile, you should be making plans to get your slenderized ass up
here in the spring. Many fish in many excellent streams (the nearest
of which is about a four minute drive away), and deluxe free
accommodations* in a beautiful sylvan setting. Ask Frank.

Wolfgang
*including two heart-healthy meals a day at no extra cost.