Gemini Rising

Thoughts on Amazon's Kindle

Here's something that I thought was Cool - I was at work the other day and one of my co-workers had a Kindle by Amazon. A Kindle is basically an electronic book reader. It always one to read e-books and e-stories. He was gracious enough to say he paid about $300 for it. I was very impressed with it but I almost gagged on the price. He also said Amazon was backed up on orders until March and the backup was getting longer. I got the impression that the Kindle was in high demand.

On my Writing Workshop group, I learned that there are other ebook readers that range from between $230-300. Ereaders therefore, aren't cheep, but at my work, I can see why my co-worker liked it. I have a feeling ebook readers are going to get more popular. Many on my writing group felt the price would come down as well. Let's face it, I liked the Kindle but I couldn't afford it. Still - I liked the concept of reading ebooks like that.

Does anyone else have a Kindle? Thoughts on it?
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Steph