[FoRK] Re: Kindle first impressions

[Jeff Bone]

Yeah, Powell's is awesome...  after I told him about it, my own actual  
little brother once flew to Portland for an afternoon just to go  
there.  (He worked for an airline at the time, so this wasn't as big a  
deal as it sounds, still a good story.)  Austin's got some decent  
stores, but nothing compared to Powell's, City of Lights in San  
Francisco, or The Strand in NY.  (Though to be honest, in an age of  
Amazon I find actually physically shopping for something in a  
bookstore, particularly like e.g. The Strand, to be a bit tedious.  I  
only go to brick-n-mortar now if they have something I can't wait on  
Amazon for, or occasionally to get a coffee and just scan the stacks.)

As for the workflow --- good lord!  Diff'ernt strokes, I suppose.   
That whole process would drive me crazy. (-ier, perhaps! ;-)  Sounds  
like an awful lot of work.  My typical workflow is:

   - type "amzn <title>" into Safari search box (that's my Amazon  
Sogudi shortcut)
   - press free 2-day shipping via Prime button if present, otherwise  
1-Click
   - wait

...and I'm irritated if my search takes me to a search results page  
rather than straight to the book page! ;-)

Soulless, I know...

jb

On May 5, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
>> PS - I also received my (print) copy of Little Brother this  
>> weekend.  From
>> Amazon! ;-)
>>
>>
> Color me spoiled. Portland has some of the most amazing Bookstores  
> such that
> amazon becomes a place I go almost of last resort. Oh yea, and zines  
> and
> comics (indi and othersise) as well. This is a reading city.
>
> The chain goes something like this....I want a book
>
> to read once
>  find the isbn online and use the library widget to then reserve a  
> copy
> from the Multnomah Public Library
>  find it as a txt,html,pdb,prc etc etc
>
> to keep
>  check Bookmooch (not a high hit ratio but has turned up some keepers)
>  check Powells (they stock used copies along side new ones, so I can  
> choose
> condition or edition)
>  check Amazon
>
> Recently my dead tree purchases have been doubling as I have to buy my
> daughter a copy so that I can read the one I got for myself (both  
> Little
> Brother and the Mysterious Benedict Society had to be bought in 2's to
> ensure I got a crack at them sometime this year)
>
>
> -tom(Citizen of Powells City Of Books)higgins
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