I LOVE to read and I LOVE books, especially hardcover books. Plus, as you know from my "The Book Review Corner" blog I especially LOVE craft books. So, when I read a Newsweek article about Jeff Bezo's new Amazon Kindle device I was intrigued. How would this work for craft books?
If you haven't heard about Amazon's Kindle you soon will. According to Amazon.com Kindle's description is as follows:
Amazon Kindle (http://amazon.com/kindle) is a revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight.
Kindle customers, no matter where they are in the U.S., can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store and download new content — all without a PC or a WiFi hot spot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so there are no monthly wireless bills and no service commitments for customers. The Kindle Store contains over 90,000 books that can be purchased and delivered wirelessly to Kindle, each in less than a minute. Customers can choose from hundreds of top newspapers, magazines and blogs and have their subscriptions auto-delivered wirelessly. All New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
At 10.3 ounces, Kindle is lighter and thinner than a paperback book, carries two hundred books, and includes built-in access to The New Oxford American Dictionary and wireless access to the Earth’s biggest encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org.
Sounds intriguing - doesn't it?
If you're a reader of my "The Book Review Corner" blog you know that I love to read. But, as an aging baby-boomer I always look at the print size of a book before buying it. If the print is too small, no matter what the book is, I won't buy it. It's just too hard to read for my aging, tired eyes. So, I was thrilled to read that one of the nice features about Kindle was that you could change the font size no matter what the book. Now - that's a TERRIFIC feature.
Plus, another nice feature is that when you buy a Kindle book your Kindle reader downloads the book and stores it in your Kindle library. Another TERRIFIC feature.
So, I decided to take a look at what the Amazon Kindle store has to offer for crafts books and create a separate Kindle Products section for my Linda's Crafts Bookstore . Unfortunately, they don't have a lot of "arts & crafts" books as of yet, but I'm hoping that will change. I added some of the ones that they do have that I thought you might like. I'll keep looking and adding as they keep adding to the Kindle collection.
I do not have a Kindle reader as of yet, but it's on my wish list. I really wonder if reading "arts & crafts" books on the size of a hand held device will really be practical. I think it will work for novels, etc. But, instruction books and manuals, like most crafting books are? Hmmmm?
I do want to find out and when I finally buy one and download some of the arts & crafts books I like that are available, or some of the other books that I like, I'll let you know what I think.
It will be interesting to see if the idea of Kindle takes off. One thing that I know right now is that Kindle can never replace or replicate the joy of "bookstore" shopping that I have with my Mom and which I've posted about many, many times.
If you have a Kindle reader and have downloaded some books I'd love to know what you think. If you don't have a Kindle reader and would like to buy one, please CLICK on the link below:
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