Kindle Books
I’ve never been a massive book worm, going through school trying to read as little as I could so I could go out and play football, however in the past few months all that has changed, I’m not sure if it’s the Scottish weather or weather i’m just so passionate about what I do that I want to just keep learning.
After going on holiday and only being restricted to taking two books, as development books are quite thick and heavy I found myself yearning for a Kindle, but not sure if I would use it or not, so in stepped my iPad.
I’ve been using my iPad on and off recently for mainly browsing the web and controlling my Macbook when connected to the TV, I’ve always had the Kindle application but never really read anything in length on it, and wondered how it would perform with a development book with code snippets and images, I must admit I’m massively impressed.
As much as I think that digital will never beat holding a physical book, it is a totally different experience, and not in a bad way. I’ve now purchased five books from the Amazon Kindle store, and although they’re not that much cheaper than the physical version, I don’t mind after my ‘Actionscript 3.0 Design Patterns’ got destroyed on holiday this is a far better method of taking books away.
One of the best features about the whole Kindle network over iBooks is it’s ability to span across multiple devices, I have an iPhone, the iPad, a Nexus One and even my Macbook, all with the Kindle application installed and they sync perfectly between them. I will be purchasing a Kindle in the next coming months, just so my dog can lick it like on the advert.