19 Nov 09 The Many Benefits Of The Amazon Kindle
The new Amazon Kindle e-book reader is, in my opinion at least, the perfect product. Of course, I can't deny that, being someone who counts reading as one of my most enjoyable hobbies, I must be pretty much the Amazon marketing team's ideal consumer. On average, I would expect to read an absolute minimum of one book a week - and it's not so unusual for me to have one novel, one non-fiction and a fair number of reference books on the go at any one time.
I don't think that's so uncommon, otherwise traditional print books wouldn't sell so well, but it does mean that I can spend quite a bit of money on books. Over and above the financial side of things the space taken up by my collection of books can soon become quite large. Every so often, I go through the assorted volumes and, putting the reference books and any particular favourites to one side, have a clear out. Normally the books find their way to friends, relatives or charity shops.
I recently got rid of over fifty volumes in advance of moving house. It wasn't until I saw them collected, packed up and ready to go, that I realised I was looking at a spend of anything between $500 and $1000 which had accumulated in less than a year.
The Amazon Kindle is a fairly high ticket item itself of course, but the downloadable e-books on the Kindle webiste are generally a fair bit less expensive that the conventional printed equivalent. That's only to be expected. After all, there are no printing or distribution costs and Amazon doesn't incur any postal charges. Even a saving of just a few dollars per book - which seems perfectly achievable - would mean that anyone who reads on a regular basis could pretty quickly offset the price of the device and then start to actually save money.
There are other benefits apart from the finacial considerations. The Kindle 2 can store about 1500 e-books in its memory, the DX has capacity for 3500. That's a small library - and a lot of physical storage space freed up in your office or home.
Some users have suggested that the Kindle is a green, eco-friendly, device - based upon the fact that it will save on the usage of paper. Whilst you can see the logic in this argument, clearly some consideration must be given to the materials used in production and the manner of disposal when it reaches the end of its useful life.
The benefits achieved will vary from one user to another and will probably be strongly dependent upon the number of books bought each year. However, it does look as if the Kindle offers keen readers plenty of advantages which should be more than sufficient to justify the purchase price of the device.
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