I know my following commentary is not exactly on topic, but I wanted to share my experience with the kindle i-phone application. I too prefer to hold an actual paper book and I do not see this EVER changing. However, I recently took a month-long trip to Central America for which I had to economize mightily on the weight of my one bag...therefore I could only take about 2 weeks' worth of books. I downloaded the FREE kindle for i-phone app and read several books on my i-phone. It worked great and I highly recommend this app to any i-touch or i-phone user. I do not use it for the harder hitting fiction I like (Faulkner, Woolf, Rushdie, etc) but rather have only tried out the more beachie types of books (I admit, I read the Twilight series) and have found it to be a great reading experience, cost effective (I have only found a small handful of books priced above the $9.95 threshold and many priced below it), and easy on the luggage weight. I now keep a book always queued up to read while waiting in line, waiting to meet a friend, waiting for my flight, etc.
Kindle for i-phone and i-touch
By huntheatWed, 09/09/2009 - 16:35
I know my following commentary is not exactly on topic, but I wanted to share my experience with the kindle i-phone application. I too prefer to hold an actual paper book and I do not see this EVER changing. However, I recently took a month-long trip to Central America for which I had to economize mightily on the weight of my one bag...therefore I could only take about 2 weeks' worth of books. I downloaded the FREE kindle for i-phone app and read several books on my i-phone. It worked great and I highly recommend this app to any i-touch or i-phone user. I do not use it for the harder hitting fiction I like (Faulkner, Woolf, Rushdie, etc) but rather have only tried out the more beachie types of books (I admit, I read the Twilight series) and have found it to be a great reading experience, cost effective (I have only found a small handful of books priced above the $9.95 threshold and many priced below it), and easy on the luggage weight. I now keep a book always queued up to read while waiting in line, waiting to meet a friend, waiting for my flight, etc.