Stephen Drivick's Blog - Posts Tagged "reader"
Kindle
This is my eleventh entry in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for April. Today we look at the letter K-Kindle.
I have always been an avid reader. It started with the little book fairs that schools used to have. I would always pick up a book or two.
All that reading created a problem. Books take up a lot of space, and I couldn't afford a library addition to the house. Having a garage sale every six months to unload books wasn't appealing either.
Enter the Kindle Fire. All the books you could ever want stored on a little seven-inch plastic rectangle. I could carry an entire library under my arm. I felt like Burgess Meredith from that Twilight Zone episode where he finds all the books after a nuclear war – and I didn't have to worry about an extra pair of glasses. The font size could be enlarged with a few swipes of my finger.
But wait, that wasn't all. There were magazines, movies, television shows to download. I could surf the web, check my email, play games, and view photos. I could even use it as a little second monitor for my computer. My Kindle Fire was the point of entry into a media empire.
I know some people still like the physical book, including me. In my opinion, the e-book will never replace the page. But an entire library in the palm of your hands? Pretty cool for a $200 device.:)
I have always been an avid reader. It started with the little book fairs that schools used to have. I would always pick up a book or two.
All that reading created a problem. Books take up a lot of space, and I couldn't afford a library addition to the house. Having a garage sale every six months to unload books wasn't appealing either.
Enter the Kindle Fire. All the books you could ever want stored on a little seven-inch plastic rectangle. I could carry an entire library under my arm. I felt like Burgess Meredith from that Twilight Zone episode where he finds all the books after a nuclear war – and I didn't have to worry about an extra pair of glasses. The font size could be enlarged with a few swipes of my finger.
But wait, that wasn't all. There were magazines, movies, television shows to download. I could surf the web, check my email, play games, and view photos. I could even use it as a little second monitor for my computer. My Kindle Fire was the point of entry into a media empire.
I know some people still like the physical book, including me. In my opinion, the e-book will never replace the page. But an entire library in the palm of your hands? Pretty cool for a $200 device.:)
