Amazon Kindle

It was pretty funny this week: As soon as I had finish my presentation on books I watched a couple of TV-reports about "Kindle", which enables people to read books without having to buy them but rather download them. You then can save them on your digital reader. Have a look:

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA

Actually, I'm not sure whether I like this form of New Media...Ronald J Zboray wrote in my chapter that the book will certainly have a future and resist all these new inventions, but, as we know, the book was publishes 15 years ago and time changes. Now might come the end of the printed books. I think that is really a bit of a shame since books have had such an important role in history and I just like the look of books standing in shelves-although my shelf is pretty empty ;-)
But I guess on of the biggest advantages is that you don't have to carry your heavy books around anymore. Or if you are on holidays, you can just grab your Kindle, download several books and that's it! Well, that is actually interesting for my Mum, whose suitcase is always pretty full of books =) Never mind...
I found a video from the Daily Show, that might convince you of that invention:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=218392&title=Jeff-Bezos

Remember, most importantly: it can be read with only one hand =)