I go out to eat conveyor belt sushi a lot. And the last time I was there I saw a man at the belt using his chopsticks correctly, drinking wine, and reading a Kindle: a great stereotype of the Kindle reader. If I had a Kindle, that’s probably what I would do with it too—read on the go. I would read it at the gym, on the bus, waiting for a doctor’s appointment, or maybe even at home. If I were still an undergrad, I would love to have all my textbooks on the Kindle so that my backpack wouldn’t be so heavy and so that I wouldn’t forget to bring my book to class all the time.
Although, if that were how the Kindle would function for me, then I don’t know if I even want it. It would be just one more device that I would try to shove into my purse—forget the backpack, I’m not an undergrad anymore—and god knows I can barely snap it shut right now. I don’t even think I could fit the 7 ½”x5”x7” Kindle in there. Then what about the iPad when it comes out? I’d need to cram that in there too.
The thing is, I already have an iPhone that reads books. It also plays music and makes calls, wakes me up in the morning, and can stream videos from NBC. I pay extra for the Internet on it, and I don’t want to pay another $200 plus books for a Kindle, or upwards to $500 for the iPad and a separate Internet fee on top of that. I just want my one piece of hardware that I am investing all my money into that can do all the things I want. Kindles and iPads are neat, but really, I don’t want them.
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