Between Brackets

I’ve had my kindle for about 3 weeks now and I’m suuuper happy!

Some draw-backs:

• The wireless download functionality doesn’t work since I live in Europe, but otherwise it is truly a remarkably easy, pleasant and fast way to read.
• You can’t share a book as you would share a print version. And that’s a shame: I discovered many authors and stories thanks to friends that lend me one of their books from a specific author or about a specific topic; after which I often bought the book myself or the new releases.
• I’m not sure how to get my notes in a decent format off the reader or my account (Excel would be great, CSV would be even greater ).

There’s a couple of posts on the web that cover some issue with the Kindle. And many are viable.

Still the reading experience so far is fantastic (certainly better than on a laptop or iPhone/iPod). And if they iron out the bad parts (DRM, not shareable, world-wide wireless downloads) the future is certainly bright for Kindles

I’m hoping the Kindle comes to Europe soon!

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