[Air-L] Kindle For iPhone App Released

[Charles Ess]

Thanks, Rasha - very nice to know that not everything I think / believe /
feel, etc, is merely an artifact of advancing age (though that's always an
important hypothesis to explore ...)
Thanks as well for filling out the aesthetic side of the discussion.  I
couldn't agree more.  I would add a bit by saying that the heft and feel of
some books, in particular, seem to me to be so fitting to my hand as a
reader, it's just a delightful experience.
The same is true, it seems to me, of any well-designed tool or artifact.
Ultimately, they fit our preferences, sensibilities, and habits as embodied
beings, not simply "Cartesian minds on a stick," as one education colleague
characterized some earlier, cognitivist assumptions about our students and
ourselves.
In this direction, I would add: the Kindle is also enjoyable "to have and to
hold" - in my experience, that is, it _feels_ good in the hand/s, is
(usually) easily readable, etc. From what more experienced users tell me,
the redesign for the 2.0 version introduced a number of very helpful
improvements.  It would, indeed, be very nice to have one - but at this
stage, they are still a bit pricey for my budget. (The best of all possible
worlds is a both/and, not an either/or.)
Again, thanks!  And enjoy!
- c.


On 5/7/09 5:46 AM, "Rasha A. Abdulla" <rasha at aucegypt.edu> wrote:

> Call me old fashioned, but I
> love the feel of a book, and the smell of a book, and the notes or lack
> thereof that I make on a book. I like the fact that I know how to reach the
> graph I want based on how the page looks, and the pages before and after
> look, and the part of the book that the page is in looks. And I love the
> feeling of flipping the page.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I will still enjoy a Kindle if only for the convenience
> of the sheer volume of information literally at my finger tips, but I still
> enjoy my paper books!!