Sod spends money frivolously.
By Erik Hagen • Nov 21st, 2007 • Category: General Sod
Hmm. I’m conflicted.Amazon is releasing something called the Kindle, which is, in essence, an iPod for books. You can download books, newspapers and even blogs to the Kindle and read them anywhere.
On the positive side, I can download books whenever I want without having to run to Barnes and Noble to do so. It has a nice screen that seems like it would be pleasant for reading. And it looks vaguely like the bastard offspring of an iPod and a Speak ‘n’ Spell.
On the negative side, why in the blue hell would I spend four hundred dollars for a “convenient, portable reading device with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines and newspapers”? Last I checked, books, magazines and newspapers were already portable.
Ah, screw it. I’m buying it. But only because it’s shiny.
Erik Hagen is comprised of equal parts X and Y chromosomes, snips, snails, puppy dog tails, and a whole lot of water. He was born into this world covered in blood, naked, and slightly hysterical. Very little has changed since.
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But if you get a Kindle, what are you going to fill your bookcases with to make you looked learned and smart?
Well, obviously I’ll fill them with hundreds of other Kindles. It’ll both demonstrate my high level of learnedness, my large amount of disposable income, and my dangerously low levels of common sense.
I want one. I want largestest amounts of disposable incomesness to wow other Kindle enviests with. That would almost be sweet enough for a sentence with real words.
I wish I had “large amounts of disposable income”. I would love to show off my new gadget irrespective of whether I actually read from it or not. I’d still prefer the hard copy books and newspapers, I guess. There is some thing about them that makes me “feel” like I really am reading. If I need to do it on a device, good old laptop is just fine.