Kindle Vs Book

Here it is, the Amazon Kindle. It is one of the most amazing pieces of technology that i have recently been able to witness. These things that I come across make me really love technology. I have a few dilemmas with it but first let me talk about how amazing it is. I have been to a few electronics stores recently and I have played with the various new "desktop PCs." The ipad is cool, yea i dont really have a use for one, the HP version is cool, its a bit smaller, but really in this situation you have to ask yourself "how much more portable does a laptop need to be?" The one feature that makes the kindle so amazing, is the screen itself. They have made it in such a way so that there is no light behind it. This allows for an extremely detailed picture and one that is as similar to the pages of a real book as possible. There are no pixels, or loading, or lag time, because its not that type of screen. I am also pretty sure that the battery will last me a really long time.

How does this compare to reading an actual book? Well I am no stranger to books, this photo below is one of many bookshelves I own and I love having them around. I love the smell the feel, the act of going to a bookstore. All of it is amazing. I simply am not ready to give this up. Somehow the magic will be lost. If i take a step back and look at this from a global perspective it is more efficient and cost effective to have everyone using e-books like the kindle. we would be saving tons of pulp from

trees, and in reality books would be cheaper and more accessible to everyone. Sure bookstores would go out of style, but maybe the coffee shop would replace them. I firmly believe all textbooks now should be in online form and they are slowly heading that way. But every book? Its a hard idea to grasp. However, maybe our generation shouldn't make the same mistake that the one before us did. There were people who believed that computers, the space age, and technology would ruin our culture. In a way it has enhanced it. Maybe this is one of those things we will just have to get used to. As long as there is still a library around I can go sit in, I think I will be ok.