if you're not reading kottke, you should be...

>   http://kottke.org

seriously.  the guy has amazing range, daily.

here's part of a post of his from yesterday...

>   http://kottke.org/10/11/kindle-and-kinect-christmas

>   The cheapest Kindle is now only $139
>   (and the one with free 3G is $50 more).
>   They are going to sell a metric crapload
>   of these things this Christmas. And
>   even if they don't, they're going to sell
>   50 million metric shitloads of Kindle books
>   because you don't even need a Kindle
>   to read Kindle books...Amazon has
>   readers for the iPad (which is way better
>   than Apple's iBooks app IMO), iPhone,
>   Android devices, Blackberry, WinPhone 7,
>   Windows, and OS X. I never would have
>   predicted it, but I am a firm convert to
>   Kindle books...and I don't even have a Kindle.
>   The killer feature here is Amazon's
>   multi-platform support. I *love*
>   reading books on the iPad at home but
>   when I'm out and about, if I've got my
>   iPhone in my pocket, I can read a book.
>   The best book is the one that's always with you.

that last line pretty much sums it up.

but remember when "the killer feature" for the kindle
was instant-download, then the sheer number of books?

i love that amazon keeps iterating the process.

yes, sir, i'm a big fan of what amazon is doing...

-bowerbird

p.s.  the line traditionally goes:  "the best camera is
the one that's with you."  kottke improved it.  twice.