Yes, The Kindle . Now your probably all wondering the same thing, "What the hell is that?". According to the fabulous Wikipedia, the Kindle also known as the "Amazon Kindle", is "a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 for reading e-books and other digital media." In simpler terms, It's basically a new alternative of reading a book. Instead of reading a novel the good old fashioned way, we now have the option of downloading a book off your Iphone or Ipod. But has technology perhaps gone a little too far with this new invention? Well, according to Americans, it hasn't. In fact, Amazons first offering of the Kindle sold out in five and a half hours! But of course, as all shiny new things do, it come's at a tad of a costly price. On May 6, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle DX, which retails for $489.
The point is, how on earth is it possible that people actually prefer to read text off a screen? Have we really become so relient of technology that we have to download EVERYTHING off the internet? Theres music, movies, videos of people being idiots (another term for youtube) and now books? How does the Kindle even work? I mean, I know if I was forced to use it, I would actually have NO idea how. Luckily for people like me that have absolutely no sense of how to even use a computer without making it blow up, the internet has various websites and even videos on how to use le kindle!
It's not just the issue of the book VS the kindle that has rised in the past few years. In today's issue of the Daily Telegraph there was an article about how notebooks are replacing textbooks across the state and is becoming a fading force in a technlogy revolution. Is this really a technology revolution or a ploy for teachers to do their job half-arsed? Some of the more sensible teachers and principles have "serious misgivings" about the new way children may be learning. Apparantly, the way this new "innovation" works is that the students are asked a question on screen and then fill in the answer and text it to the whiteboard so the teacher and all of the class can see it.
So, in conclusion, what would you prefer? Reading a story off a tiny screen, or reading of paper. Now i'm not normally a conservative type of chick, but there's just something plain creepy and un-natural about reading a book from your i-pod or i-phone. That's just nuts!!
What do you guys think? Would you use the Kindle? Leave me comments!!!!!
The point is, how on earth is it possible that people actually prefer to read text off a screen? Have we really become so relient of technology that we have to download EVERYTHING off the internet? Theres music, movies, videos of people being idiots (another term for youtube) and now books? How does the Kindle even work? I mean, I know if I was forced to use it, I would actually have NO idea how. Luckily for people like me that have absolutely no sense of how to even use a computer without making it blow up, the internet has various websites and even videos on how to use le kindle!
It's not just the issue of the book VS the kindle that has rised in the past few years. In today's issue of the Daily Telegraph there was an article about how notebooks are replacing textbooks across the state and is becoming a fading force in a technlogy revolution. Is this really a technology revolution or a ploy for teachers to do their job half-arsed? Some of the more sensible teachers and principles have "serious misgivings" about the new way children may be learning. Apparantly, the way this new "innovation" works is that the students are asked a question on screen and then fill in the answer and text it to the whiteboard so the teacher and all of the class can see it.
So, in conclusion, what would you prefer? Reading a story off a tiny screen, or reading of paper. Now i'm not normally a conservative type of chick, but there's just something plain creepy and un-natural about reading a book from your i-pod or i-phone. That's just nuts!!
What do you guys think? Would you use the Kindle? Leave me comments!!!!!
Argh, I hate this thing on principle!! As far as I'm concerned, nothing can or should replace a proper book. There is something special about the printed word, and it should be left that way.
ReplyDeletei totally agree ! :D
ReplyDeleteThere's just something about holding a book and being able to smell the pages which really does it for me. Maybe they should start making kindles that smell like old books.
ReplyDeleteAlso I was concerned about one of the cons that you posted being that it could spy on you.