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.