My brother ordered a Kindle for me for Christmas. I am so looking forward to it.
There's a used book I've been waiting for to arrive in the mail. I'm tempted to just get the Kindle version and start reading it on Kindle For Mac.
I'm a bit concerned that the Kindle does not have a touch interface. Isn't it awkward to highlight and annotate passages using the cursor buttons?
I am tempted to download a bazillion free and paid books onto the device. A temptation I shall resist. What would be the point of doing that? I would be building up a library of books that, honestly, I would never get around to reading.
Even with a Kindle, there are not enough hours in an evening to read even a fraction of everything that one would like to read.
Hi Jon,
ReplyDeleteVaguely on-topic: did you ever get permission to post the Kindleified Catechism?
God bless!
Mark
It is definitely easier and faster to highlight with the Kindle app on Android or iOS, but annotations are probably easier on the device because of its physical keyboard. I picked up a couple hundred classics, and it'll take me the next couple decades to get through them all. The quantity of works out of copyright is quite massive.
ReplyDelete@Mark - No, I unfortunately did not find any plain-text copy of the Catechism that had any notice that it was being legally distributed. Alas!
ReplyDelete@Nathan - Yeah, there are so many classics freely available that are worth reading. Even with the Kindle keyboard, I find annotations to be a pain, so I avoid doing them.