[FoRK] Re: Kindle first impressions

[Jeffrey Winter]

FYI: Some time ago I put together an interface to Amazon Web 
Services that provides a super-compacted, printable view 
of *public* wish lists.  I find it to be a good way to 
keep a list on-hand when in a bookstore, etc.  It's 
something I wish Amazon itself already had but doesn't.

There is a bookmarklet also to produce the view directly from 
the Amazon wish list page itself.  

So, if you're interested: http://xefer.com/amazon/

e.g., one of mine:  http://xefer.com/wishlist/1BW9NHIFRE2ET

- Jeff



-----Original Message-----
From: fork-bounces at xent.com [mailto:fork-bounces at xent.com] On Behalf Of Tom
Higgins
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:56 PM
To: Friends of Rohit Khare
Subject: Re: [FoRK] Re: Kindle first impressions

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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