Normally, I don't long for electronic toys. I never had a PDA, I can barely understand my digital camera and have never bought one on my own -- my editors always get them for me because they want photos to go with my articles. I keep telling them that's what photojournalists are for, but do they listen?
I only got my first DVD player in November of 2005, because I noticed a lot of things I wanted to view were no longer being released on VHS. And I do not own an iPhone.
The first exception to this rule was my iPod, which Gina bought me as a gift and which I love beyond all reason.
The second is something I don't have... yet... but want with the burning fiery passion of a thousand suns. I want a Kindle. I don't want it enough to buy one, because ever since the total collapse of the American economy I'm not so much into the recreational shopping.
I've never actually seen a Kindle, but a couple of people I know really love them. They store hundreds of books, you can download and read a book instantly, you can read blogs and newspapers, there's no service plan or contract, and it weighs only 10.3 ounces.
They're $359, down from the initial $400. But even if this thing cost $200, I wouldn't buy one right now. Maybe if it was under a hundred, though.
Perhaps in some glorious post-Obama future, if and when we have a functioning economy again, and I'm not more worried about how to pay for my heating bill this winter -- and I live in California! -- I'll indulge in the luxury of things I want, but don't need.
I was looking at this just the other day and drooling over it too. Maybe one day...
Posted by: Amber Waves | 02 October 2008 at 01:30 PM
I keep telling them that's what photojournalists are for, but do they listen?
I wish they would listen ;) How else do I get sent to the cool places?
And I am so wanting a Kindle too, but I think I want to upgrade my iPhone more!
Posted by: KT | 02 October 2008 at 02:44 PM
Hey, I just discovered Facebook. I need time to adjust before wrapping my pea-brain around this new-fangled kindle thingy.
Travis
Posted by: Travis | 02 October 2008 at 06:05 PM
OMG, I have one in my Amazon shopping cart!!! It just...sits there, waiting for me to buy it. *sniffs* Maybe for Christmas! The blue one!!
Posted by: Red | 02 October 2008 at 06:10 PM
I would want a Kindle much more if it had backlighting so I could read it in the dark.
Posted by: coffenut | 05 October 2008 at 10:09 AM
I would want a Kindle much more if it had backlighting so I could read it in the dark.
Who are you kidding? You haven't met a gadget you don't love ;)
Posted by: KT | 12 October 2008 at 10:20 PM