More on the Kindle

[jennythereader]

The Kindle is better than paper books because:
- easier to carry
- completely searchable
- get more titles instantly
- add your own footnotes and highlights, which are as searchable as the text itself
- 2G of memory, which translates to approx 1500 books

Paper books are better than the Kindle (or other ebooks) because:
- you can't get an ebook autographed
- you can't loan a friend an ebook
- you can't sell an ebook to a used bookstore when you're done with it

(cross-posted to my review blog.)

Comments

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Amazon keeps a list of the ebooks you buy through them and will let you re-download them for free. I'm not sure if there's a limit on the number of times you can do that.

There are also non-DRM ebooks out there that are already in the proper format for the Kindle, so all you have to do is transfer the file over. I'm not sure if Amazon adds DRM to stuff that it converts for you.