Clean Your Desk with the Amazon Kindle 2
My wife is an avid reader. From her book group novels to New York Times bestsellers, she LOVES to read. So having a Kindle 2 is a natural for her. She can download books on the fly, can carry it in her purse, and can pick up right where she left off without fuddling with a bookmark.
Me, on the other hand, I do not read very much. As an engineer, most of my reading is work related, e-mail or technical articles. These are very short in nature so having a Kindle which holds thousands of novels really didn’t impress me. What does impress me is that I can use it to store my pdf’s.
So the question is now that we have a Kindle do I use it? Yes, I am surprised to say that I do use it.
Most of the articles I read are either on the web or in print. Many of these articles are available in pdf format, which is supported on the Kindle 2. I have found that I can use InstaPaper to send many of my web articles to the Kindle to read at my leisure. The pdf feature alone makes the Kindle worth its weight (10.3 oz) in gold.
An added benefit of the Kindle’s pdf feature is that it can actually help you declutter your office. Before the Kindle, I would continually print out pdf’s knowing someday that I will read them. Not only was I wasting paper by doing this, I never seemed to get the time to read all of them. They just ended up piling up on my desk. Now my reports, whitepapers and articles are no longer printed and sitting in a pile. They’re all patiently waiting for me on my Kindle.
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