http://www.provocationofmind.com/2009/04/that-cover-looks-divine-on-you/
Been following her blog - she has interesting observations about the Kindle, as does the article her entry links to.
For the record, I’d love a Kindle 2! I love books, I love their smells, their typography, their beautiful, ugly, antique, shiny new, clever or utilitarian covers. But I also love accessability, and the idea that many, many books would be inexepensively at the tip of my fingers. The Kindle 2 is definitely not on my shortlist of things to purchase during the next year (the item itself costs more than I’ve spent on books in the past three years - I rarely buy them new, and frequently shop bargain bins, garage, estate and library sales). But, if I find myself in the position of possessing extra cash and a lack of more immediately necessary or desirable things to purchase (currently: college education, car note, credit card bills, digital cam, ipod nano and belly dance and/or karate lessons trump the Kindle), then yes, I’d absolutely love to purchase one. But I’m also afraid that it wouldn’t stop there. That if I could buy this novel and that novel at a mere $10, my lack of economic restraint would activate (or inactivate?) and that I’d purchase this book and that book because I really want them, and, well, they’re just so cheap, and soon there would be a credit card, and then I believe I’d possibly give the 1,500 book limit a chance to come into play.
So for now, I’m [lovingly] resigned to Friday nights spend at Barnes and Noble, trailing wistful fingers over books I can’t yet afford and occasionally snatching up an interesting title from the bargain racks. To Saturday mornings in dewy yards and musty houses browsing the titles of books that were popular 10, 20, or 70 years ago and chancing across something really exciting, every now and again. To long visits at the library, where I can indulge in my excessive love of books again and again. And I don’t mind. Much.
