Scott's code and other ponderings…

Well, here I am, two days into Kindle ownership and I'm sold. There is a little bit of clunkiness but, overall, this is the best evidence yet that paper is dead. Actually, and more worrisome as some of my friends work in book publishing/distribution, I can forecast that we will have no need for traditional publishers and bookshops in 5-10 years…

So, what is it? It's a device that is roughly a third the size of an iPad (which my wife owns) that is designed for nothing more than displaying books and documents. The most striking aspect is the e-ink display that really (and, I mean, really!) looks like paper. The first time I was amazed by this was when I opened [...]

The answer? "Very"!

Oh Dawg, it seems that the magic cutoff for delivery by this week was 0600 on 6th August and I, of course, ordered it mid-afternoon on August 6th, which puts me in the twilight zone of "after 27th August and before some unspoken date in September".

To make matters worse, Amazon delivered (right on schedule!) my £30 Kindle Kover (my tm). So, I spent the day walking round the office, going "oooohhhh feel that… that is EXACTLY the place that my Kindle would occupy, if I had it"

To be fair to my co-workers; if they squinted enough, and could get as excited as I clearly was, and they remembered that "co-worker" = "employee, who I could get rid of at [...]