Go Paperless With Amazon Kindle
This is absolutely amazing, what an awesome way to protect our Earth by using less paper and fewer resources.
With the Amazon Kindle you can buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute!
More than 230,000 books are available, including more than 105 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers, and New Releases many priced at $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
You can get top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes and top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
You also get more than 1100 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN’s Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post—all updated wirelessly throughout the day.
You don’t need a computer, cables, or syncing, no monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments.
And, it includes free wireless access to Wikipedia.org! How’s that for reducing paper use, and the resources used for shipping your favorite books and newspapers?
Kindle: Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday,
and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow:
Our life is the creation of our mind." ~Buddha
February 24th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I wonder if it will do email. If so, this is the purrrrrfect tool for the elderly as well.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Call me old fashioned, but I love to flip through the physical pages of books. I think staring at a computer screen for hours a day has already made my eyes worse, so I really don’t think I’d enjoy extensive pleasure reading on a screen. But for those that don’t mind (and especially with getting the newspaper this way) it will greatly reduce the print resources needed to have physical copies.
February 25th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Technology is definitely making everything innovative. I recently tried audiobooks for a change and was able to finish 1 or 2. It was quite interesting and very accessible considering that you only need to hear it and not open up a large book. The only disadvantage I noticed was that I can’t rush the reading process. I’m a quick reader so if I was given a choice, I would still prefer the book format.
February 27th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
You have a wonderful information-packed blog!
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:46 am
I agree with Melanie. I still like reading old fashioned books. And besides being paperless doesn’t mean it’s environmentally friendly. Most of these gadgets are not easy to recycle, unlike paper. We just need to plant more trees. If we cut one, we should plant two so we would have enough.