Make your own Kindle
To date, I’ve seen exactly two Kindles in the wild. Both times I was on an airplane. For hot commodities, they seem fairly rare. Or maybe I travel in Luddite circles. Both times, I wanted to tap the owners on the shoulder and quiz them on their use. Have the gotten their $400 worth?
If you’re on a budget and have an iPhone (mutually exclusive?), you can make your own Kindle. Sort of. It involves some hackery and hollowing out a Moleskine notebook to slip your iPhone into for that “book feel”. It’ll make more sense when you check out the how-to at Wired.
June 17, 2008 1:03 pm 2 Comments
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By Elizabeth, July 2, 2008 @ 10:10 am
I own a kindle and love it. I do not have anything else remotely tech. (my phone is from the dark ages). I still read conventional books, and find that not everything I want to read is available (yet)on the kindle (The Savage Detectives for one..), but as a tool for me to conveniently carry around a substantial number of books (and newspapers), it is great, and I have found it to be really nice for reading. I love books in the conventional form, but my bookshelves are overflowing, and this is a way to condense that. Anyway…one readers’s opinion!!
By Chet, August 1, 2008 @ 11:59 pm
I have had my kindle for about two weeks and i’m addicted. Especially to the NY Times subscription. I still read conventional books (I have too many really), but having a huge library in a tiny device is amazing. I finally took the plunge when I got to try a kindle first hand. The screen is really readable. I read for hours with no strain on my eyes … unlike all the other ebook readers I have tried before.