The Kelley Library has recently made a Kindle available for circulation. I recommend that you check it out and give it a try in the comfort of you own home. If you have never used an eBook reader before, I am confident that you will be very impressed with this new technology.
There are many features of the printed book that are unlikely to be improved upon (portability, simplicity, ease of use). Fortunately, the Kindle maintains these advantages and adds more. It allows you to have all of your books in one place on a device that is less than half an inch thick and about the height and width of a paperback. You can bookmark multiple locations. You can annotate passages using the integrated keypad. It has a built in dictionary -- just move the cursor over the word and a definition pops up. It allows you to adjust type size from very small to enormous, so even if your eyesight is not perfect, you will find it very accommodating. The Kindle can even read a book aloud to you (as long as the publisher has approved the activation of this feature).
For those of you who are not techno-geeks, you should know that its interface is highly intuitive and everyone should be up and reading in no time. For those of you who might wish to own a Kindle, you will appreciate knowing that you do not need a computer to use it since you can download books wirelessly from your Amazon.com account (though not on the Library's Kindle, for obvious reasons). Of course, you will probably need to set up an account using a computer, but you can do that at your friendly neighborhood library. If you are a fan of older books and the classics, you have access to literally millions of free titles whose copyright has expired.
Come in and have a look at it.
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