Post by chanito on Jan 1, 2012 11:14:55 GMT -5
Because i have been a very good boy all last year (maybe because of my broken leg), Santa got me all the stuff i ask him for. One of them was a Kindle, which is super nice and i can put a lot of books there instead of them using room on my small book case, that i have on my bedroom (which is already fill to the max with old car books with outdated information, that i totally refuse to throw away).
Getting to be familiar with its use was a snap, as it only have 5 buttons to work it, and it works great and all, but (there is always a "but") soon i realized some of its shortcomings for someone like me that has done all his readings on paper and ink stuff.
One of them is that is painfully slow to take a peek at the ending (I know is bad, but i have been doing it all my life) because you have to keep pressing the next page bottom hundreds of time as it only turn one page at a time (holding the bottom down and expect it to keep turning pages does not work, i tried it). also on some parts of the novels they mention something that happened chapters ago, forget about flipping pages back to refresh you memory of those events.
I remembered a while back having a conversation with my father in law, who was a journalist, and he was complaining about having to use a computer instead of his old trusted IBM typing machine at the newspaper he worked on, because the lack of the tac-tac-tac of the typing machine made him feel like he was not working, eventually someone got him a program that simulated the typing noise on the computer and he was extremely happy, at the time i though he was just a whining old guy.
I have become one
Getting to be familiar with its use was a snap, as it only have 5 buttons to work it, and it works great and all, but (there is always a "but") soon i realized some of its shortcomings for someone like me that has done all his readings on paper and ink stuff.
One of them is that is painfully slow to take a peek at the ending (I know is bad, but i have been doing it all my life) because you have to keep pressing the next page bottom hundreds of time as it only turn one page at a time (holding the bottom down and expect it to keep turning pages does not work, i tried it). also on some parts of the novels they mention something that happened chapters ago, forget about flipping pages back to refresh you memory of those events.
I remembered a while back having a conversation with my father in law, who was a journalist, and he was complaining about having to use a computer instead of his old trusted IBM typing machine at the newspaper he worked on, because the lack of the tac-tac-tac of the typing machine made him feel like he was not working, eventually someone got him a program that simulated the typing noise on the computer and he was extremely happy, at the time i though he was just a whining old guy.
I have become one