Kindle
How many people (who doesn’t matter very much!) do I have to kill to get one of these babies?! And how many more must I slay to get a 3G network in Iran so the wireless facilities work too?! You know what, scratch that. As long as the built-in DRM misfeatures are not too draconian and/or can be circumvented, I don’t care about the wireless connectivity. I could always USB my PDFs over.
I just told a friend the other day that how much I wished for a pile of good books and a lot of time to read them. The books I do have, more than enough, it is the time I find myself constrained about. A Kindle would give me the ability to read everywhere.
Most of the fiction I “read” these days is in the form of audiobook. And you can’t listen to audiobooks while going around on public transportation or walking on the streets or just stretching in your home in the mornings (that would be normal people’s afternoons.) Because people absolutely can’t leave you alone for 10 minutes, and audiobooks are not a snap to pause and resume. Besides, I can’t listen to technical books, even if there where such things.
And I can’t read books on my computers, because there are much more immediately fun ways to use a computer screen and attempting to multitask between writing code and reading an ebook is just not workable!
Anyway, I think a perfect solution for me is Kindle DX (because it has PDF support) as long as the DRM is not too constricting. I guess I’d have to dust off my old ninja outfit. We are raiding Amazon warehouses tonight!
I was totally thinking about the same thing yesterday!
Dude, send me a list of the closest Amazon warehouses to Iran … I’m on it
Count me in … I’ll bring my shurikens… need one too..
OK, I guess the nearest “targets” *winks* would be somewhere on the U.S. east coast. East end of Manhattan perhaps. Here’s the plan: we start out tonight at 0000, running in the night, all dressed in black. It shouldn’t take more than 6 months to reach there. At that point, ahf will neutralize the guards with his shurikens and we will extract the “white rabbit’s left foot” packages. Then we’ll disband and meet at the RV point 6 months later. Any questions?
@Pardis:
Yay, a new face! Welcome.
I saw the promo for Kindle a couple of month ago on Daily Show. I swear I was going to get online and order it right away. Then at the end he mentioned the price and I went: no way man, that’s to much money.
BTW, Canadian soil is closer to Iran. I can provide the ninjas with logistic intelligence
@Pardis:
Make sure you keep your distance from the edge