Apple will, allegedly, launch their tablet computer today. Where they going to rip the need for me to get it? They’ll figure a way I’m sure. Maybe this puts an end to my everlasting pondering to get the Kindle or not. The idea behind Kindle is wonderful especially folks like me who lead an extremely nomadic life style. Books are best they just take space way too much. If you’d own an apartment and had a day job and wife etc. piling tons of books in your living room would not be a problem. But as for us moving five times a year it’s just not wise.

Why don’t I have Kindle yet? Maybe cause it does exactly the same as a book, it offers nothing new but the portability, and that’s not enough. Fake Steve sums it:

New technology spawns new ways to tell stories. That’s the really exciting thing here. Not the tablet itself, but what it means for news, for entertainment, for literature. Gasp. Geddit? Is the fucking light going off yet? This is what Anton Chekhov meant when he said that the medium is the message. This is why the Tablet is so profound.

There is no point in moving to digital readers if we’re just going to do what we did on paper. That’s why Kindle is such a piece of shit. All they did was pave the cowpath. And that’s why we’ve held back on our Tablet — not because the technology wasn’t ready, but because the content guys are such fucktards that they still can’t create anything that makes it worth putting the Tablet into the world.