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Mover Mike

Mike is a retired stock broker, and now supports his wife's furniture business. He is her warehouseman, deluxer, and marketing guru. In addition, he writes poetry and finds abundance, health and joy in the world around him while pondering life's little mysteries

Amazon Kindle: $399,
Is this, the next iPod or iPhone and will it be on your Christmas shopping list?

The Amazon Kindle weighs 10.3 ounces and can hold up to 200 books.

What's in the library, aka Kindle Book Store? There are already plenty of books, 90,000 in all, including 101 of the current NYT bestsellers. Don't believe us? See for yourself at the Amazon Kindle Store.
In the demo, it looks easy to use, light, easily readable, just like a book, and you can also read newspapers, magazines and blogs. Hopefully, you will get my RSS feed on your Kindle.

I would think it would fit in well with the environment. Think of it as eco-friendly. Yes, I love my books and they accumulate in various parts of our home. I can sell them, sure, to Powell's or even sell them on eBay. But how many trees have to be cut for all the print material in our lives? And how much energy does it use to make all that paper?

For discussions on the Amazon Kindle here are some links:

Amazon.com

GIZMODO

Wall Street Journal

Yahoo Finance

Popular Mechanics

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Posted by movermike on Monday November 19, 2007 at 9:53am
JustaDog (mail) (www):
Just more kindling for the fire. I never believed in the eBook concept and still don't. Amazon is just trying to salvage an old business model that didn't work the first time.
11.19.2007 11:10am
Mover Mike (mail):
I don't want to say you are wrong, but is it possible that just like CDs, books are going to go electronic and the music store and the book store are old business models.

|That's what makes this so intriguing!
11.19.2007 11:43am
yourdaughter:
You are concerned about being eco-friendly? Couldn't that ultimately help with 'gasp' global warming?
11.19.2007 5:16pm
Mover Mike (mail):
Why, daughter, you may be exactly right, assuming we as humans have much effect on (gasp) global warming.
11.19.2007 5:29pm
T. F. Stern (mail) (www):
I tried ebooks when they came out, I still enjoy the turning of a page with the paper touching my fingers. I suppose I could live with one if you have the extra money to send them to folks who stop by and leave comments...lol
11.19.2007 7:57pm

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