After spending an almost restless night yesterday, reading about Kindle, thinking about its utility and breaking my head over its different flavours (like plain Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle DX, sponsored and non-sponsored versions etc etc), today morning I finally bit the bullet and bought the plain Kindle 4 sponsored version on eBay for INR 5390/- final delivered price.
The Kindle 4 comes with an inbuilt dictionary which would be a fantastic feature for somebody like me who is too lazy to keep one by the bed, and search as an when required. It's just a point-n-click on a word, that would trigger Kindle to find the word's meaning in a full-blown Oxford English Dictionary resting in its memory.
Also, another reason that prompted me to consider Kindle is the lack of space for keeping books. I have almost ran out of shelves to keep my books on. They are lying all around my room now - on the table, on a cupboard, around TV, on my bed, on the chair ... I am clueless as to where to place them, and it's driving me mad. So better - buy a Kindle, buy new books in digital format, and keep them inside that tiny device. And it's environment friendly too since it reduces demand for paper. And as an added bonus, it's possible to read PDF files on it too. Even better! A Kindle, it seemed, is to books, what an iPod is to music.
A Kindle Touch 3G (non-sponsored) would have been the best bet given it's strikingly awesome addon feature-set (over plain Kindle 4) - like X-Ray (what a concept!), all-time on-demand Wikipedia, free 3G, a touch keyboard, mp3 playback etc. A feature like X-Ray takes book-reading to a different level altogether. But it's pricing in India is ridiculous enough to give it a pass. In case, in future if I happen to like this e-Ink display and get addicted to reading on Kindle, well well, I will find someone to get one Kindle Touch 3G for me from US ;)
The Kindle 4 comes with an inbuilt dictionary which would be a fantastic feature for somebody like me who is too lazy to keep one by the bed, and search as an when required. It's just a point-n-click on a word, that would trigger Kindle to find the word's meaning in a full-blown Oxford English Dictionary resting in its memory.
Also, another reason that prompted me to consider Kindle is the lack of space for keeping books. I have almost ran out of shelves to keep my books on. They are lying all around my room now - on the table, on a cupboard, around TV, on my bed, on the chair ... I am clueless as to where to place them, and it's driving me mad. So better - buy a Kindle, buy new books in digital format, and keep them inside that tiny device. And it's environment friendly too since it reduces demand for paper. And as an added bonus, it's possible to read PDF files on it too. Even better! A Kindle, it seemed, is to books, what an iPod is to music.
A Kindle Touch 3G (non-sponsored) would have been the best bet given it's strikingly awesome addon feature-set (over plain Kindle 4) - like X-Ray (what a concept!), all-time on-demand Wikipedia, free 3G, a touch keyboard, mp3 playback etc. A feature like X-Ray takes book-reading to a different level altogether. But it's pricing in India is ridiculous enough to give it a pass. In case, in future if I happen to like this e-Ink display and get addicted to reading on Kindle, well well, I will find someone to get one Kindle Touch 3G for me from US ;)
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