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As folks who know me will readily tell you, I’m into technology.  The Kindle 6″ screen is definitely high technology.

• Relatively new invention called an mp3 player, pre-iPod? One of the first kids on my block.
• Build your own Apple I from a kit? Yep. (it really did come as a kit, BTW)
• Work with a big scary mainframe system early in high school? Surely.

Then why wouldn’t I rave over a brilliant new device, this Kindle, or the somewhat larger 9.7″ screen  Kindle DX?  Both of these e-readers are already product improved versions in their second generation.  After reading a link from Yale, I found that even David Byrne had one.  Who am I to question him?

It actually isn’t just any one reason I’m not really into the Kindle.  I’ll admit, I like paper. I’m all for recycling and not wasting resources to start with, but I am just a little tradition bound since I started seriously reading paper and hard back novels at age six.  While it is a daily vice for me, there could be worse.

It does have some convenience factors vs. my other typical Amazon orders (old tech / paper and ink) but I just prefer to have a physical product to hold onto, and to pass down.

While the “1984 recall” was not-so-hot, it really isn’t the exact point. While to Amazon’s credit they did return the purchase price of the books they deleted, I’m essentially against any product / service that even has some mechanism to recall / remove / change data on my end of things. I simply don’t want to license my purchases, I want to own my particular copy.

Yes, I actually like to pay cash for things too, rather than purchase on someone else’s credit. And “librarians, unite”