| Happy Thursday - Angry Luddite Edition |
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The Kindle 2 has arrived....
....and I'm leaving. Let’s play a game real quick. What’s the first thing you think of when picking up a new book? Is it:A) “Is this book going to worth my time reading?” B) “Wait, this isn’t Us Weekly, this is an actual book. I must be in the wrong section.” C) “Man, I wish I could electronically transfer this new Stephen King novel onto a flat, gray piece of plastic and then read it from there.” If you answered B then you should probably go play leapfrog with a speeding car, but if C was your first choice then you are in luck! I’m sure anyone who shops semi-frequently on Amazon is aware that the Kindle 2 is now available for purchase. Pardon me, what I meant to say is that we have been graced with the amazing Kindle 2 now available on Amazon for the low price of $359. Yes, Amazon has done the incredible (read pointless), they have found a way to charge us even more for reading in the form of a flat gray piece of plastic that. It wasn’t enough to create the first Kindle and add the frustration of modern technology to the once simple act of reading. They had to do it again little more than a year later with the Kindle 2 that adds a whole other meaning to the word ‘useless.’ It proudly advertises that a person can find up to 240,000 books available for purchase and transfer, which essentially means you have the Nora Roberts collection and select Penguin Classics at your fingertips. You can also download an exclusive new Stephen King short story, which reads like an erotic novel dedicated to the Kindle and all the crazy metaphysical stuff that can happen to you when you buy one. Great, thanks I’ll file that one next to my copy of From a Buick 8. Here’s what Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had to say: “Think of a book and you can be reading it in a minute…provided that it’s a James Patterson novel or the new Steve Harvey authored self-help book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man (A Man Who Is A Bald, White Suit Wearing Steve Harvey). Incidentally Act Like A Lady once held the top selling spot for e-books on Amazon and still resides on its 10 Top Ten Bestsellers List. Hopefully Act Like A Lady is one of the books available for auto reading by the Kindle 2 voice feature. Then again Steve Harvey is an author of the highest quality and most likely will have disabled this feature for this and all his future Steve Harvey themed self-help books. I suppose it was too good to be true to know that we could have had his inspired poetry read by out loud by the Microsoft Word automaton voice. Sigh, pleasant thoughts. Happy Thursday |