Comments on: Kindle sparks reading interest

By: Iolani Alumni 08

Iolani Alumni 08 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:42:56 +0000

1) You can’t/shouldn’t read a Kindle in the bath.
2) You can’t loan a Kindle to a friend.
3) Amazon can’t steal your copy of 1984 from you without your knowledge.

By: Deanne Kanekuni

Deanne Kanekuni — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:58:18 +0000

The Kindle also saves a lot of space at home. I read about 10-15 books a month. Imagine how much space the books would take after a year? Finding a book on the Kindle is easier than looking through piles and shelves of books.

By: Peter Greenhill

Peter Greenhill — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:58:53 +0000

Kindle also has great features for students to improve their vocabulary more effectively. Just place the cursor next to a word and a dictionary entry on the word appears on the screen. One can also take notes on the screen right then and there. There’s so much one can do with Kindle. And it saves paper and trees. Also, books cost much less via Kindle, e.g. a new hardcover that might cost $26 dollars is usually just $9.99 on Kindle.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:10:26 +0000

It would be great to be free of our textbooks, but…

You know when you use the eHistory book? It’s a lot harder to find a fact you want, because all the pages look the same. You can’t just go back to the page that had the picture of the zeppelin on it, you have to remember if it came before or after the section about the rise of Japanese imperialism.

There’s also something immensely satisfying about looking at a stack of 20 books and knowing you read them all in a week >_>

By: Karin Swanson

Karin Swanson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:42:16 +0000

It would be great if students could ditch those massive wheelie backpacks filled with textbooks.