Apr 05 2009
Just Because I Have A Kindle Doesn’t Mean…
Just cause I have a Kindle 2 doesn’t mean I want to read every piece of media available on it. I am in the Embroidery Guild. I would not in anyway want to read a cross stitch magazine on the Kindle, imagine! I’d need much stronger glasses than what I already have. Knitting patterns? The same.
Cross word puzzles? Can’t do them on a Kindle 2, unfortunately. It’d be my joy if I could. But I don’t miss them, I just don’t use my Kindle 2 for it. I’d never want to read a newspaper on it. For one, it’d probably be condensed. For 2, too many page turns, and flipping back and forth, and such.
Each time a newspaper company closes or files for bankruptcy—as Sun-Times Media, the owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and 58 other newspapers, did this week—analysts are quick to hammer another nail in the coffin of the printed word. Roughly coinciding as they do with the advent of the Kindle 2, the failures give ammunition to voices who say newspapers are obsolete. Now that both of the Second City’s major newspapers are operating under the umbrella of Chapter 11, and with papers in Denver and Seattle shutting down, it’s tough to argue with those who say the industry has useless management, a fundamentally unviable business model, and not much of a future.
I seem very protective of my Kindle 2 and it’s contents…pretty cool, I just put Micheal J. Fox’s book on it. I have several other books on it. I have the latest Kansas City Star book of the month on it. I got interrupted reading another book, but when I open up “Rest Of Her Life“, it’ll be right at the last page I read. No need to worry about which page corner is turned down or where the bookmark was. I left the family at the funeral in the church. It’s an incredible book. But I’m protective of it. I have to be able to see my Kindle 2, or know exactly where it’s at, all day long.
I think it’s cool for my books. It’d make a great word search and it could be done, with the highlight button. I’d be out of luck if I ever went to a book signing, I’d be the one in the line, having to buy the printed version.
Every month, the first week, I add books to it. It makes me wonder if that’s how I go to the bookstore, or used to. Right now, unless it’s a magazine, (read the first paragraph), I don’t go into bookstores, and have no desire to.
I like to get my Kansas City Star, and open it up and read it each morning, and check the T.V. guide section every Sunday night-(thanks alot, Star, you suck today). I can get it for free on Kansas City.com. Do I want to read it on a monitor? No I don’t. I don’t want to print the T.V. Guide. That’s horrible. That’s not a thing like printing a recipe, at least you keep the recipe. They want to waste my papers? Screw them. They want to waste my ink? blow them. They want to rip me off? They can go to hell. My Comcast remote controller has a guide in the damn thing. this is the biggest rip off,and waste of paper and ink I’ve ever seen in my life. All I care about is what time Grey’s Anatomy is on, what time American Idol is on, and usually I don’t watch the second half of Dancing with the Stars, but I watch the first one. There are other shows, too, I like to know ahead of time.
So, in a way, I’m sad today, for the journalists. (I don’t feel sad for the bitch on the other end of the phone, who had to listen to my very inappropriate mouth, after they promised me a T.V. Guide I never received). We still have our paper. Thanks to www.bottomlinecom.com, I knew and know what is taking place. Printing the T.V. Guide today left a bad taste in my mouth. To even suggest I can put it on Kindle 2, ugh, that throws me over the line. Those people are asses, greedy and criminally malicious.
