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May 27, 2008
Why I'm not buying a Kindle yet
It's grey on lighter grey. See Prof. Althouse.
I'm an inveterate flipper for everything but fiction. See Prof. Cowen.
And then there's the problem of what I'm currently (and not at all untypically) reading:
Bernard Berenson, Rumour and Reflection (his WWII years diary) - not available.
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style - not just not available - I can't imagine how it would look with its formatting violated.
Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity (though I'm reading a hard cover I lifted from my father) - not available
Eric Gill, Beauty Looks After Herself: Essays (a 1933 edition, though there is at least one reprint edition on Amazon) - not available
Guglielmo Matthiae, Le chiese di Roma dal IV al X secolo - not available
Orhan Pahmuk, Istanbul, Memories and the City - available
Steven Saylor, Roma: the Novel of Ancient Rome - available, and bed-reading, for which Kindle might be more comfortable (and if I hadn't gotten it for Christmas I'd be a little annoyed - it's REALLY not as good as the Roma sub rosa series).
And they dropped the price 10% today. It's $359. I'll wait, despite some of the very positive reviews I've read, like Miss McArdle's.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 27, 2008 10:48 PM
Comments
There's just something wrong about them ...
Posted by: Another Damned Medievalist 
at May 28, 2008 7:46 AM
lol :D enjoyed reading.You may find few more reasons not to buy kindle now.Have a look to the rants of Kindle users at Trendsspotting
"Amazon Kindle Buzz - Was that a Hype?"
http://www.trendsspotting.com/blog/?p=367
Posted by: iphone lover at June 5, 2008 4:29 AM