Re: [tlug] Amazon Kindle

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

The Kindle was in the papers here today again.  They have 
about 1/2 page in the business section.  You can't fault 
their PR campaign.

They also mention that the e-books are generally about 1/2 
or less the price of the hard-covered paper books with 
prices of about $10 for new releases and $3 to $6 for older 
books.

One thing the article mentioned that I haven't seen on the 
list is that:
"You or any of your authorized minions can e-mail Word, PDF, 
JPEG and text files directly to your Kindle's special 
address -- including any of the 20,000 free, out of 
copyright e-books at Gutenberg.org."  That implies that the 
Kindel somehow reads PDF and Word files, right?  Either that 
or there is intervention that converts formats somewhere in 
the path.

Personally I don't see a Kindel in my near future.  I prefer 
the real paper to the e-paper.  Of course, I did end up 
lugging about 20 lbs of books back from Tokyo on my last 
trip, but I doubt that these will be on Kindel any time in 
the near future anyway.

Steve S.