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To Kindle or not to Kindle?

Amazon's Kindle, the electronic book device is shortly to be released in the UK.

It looks like a great product but I'm not sure if its for me yet.

I read a lot, at present getting through two or three business books a week and the thought of having all these books to hand on one device is appealing. I tend to "tab" interesting sections of the book with post-it type tabs, using these tabs as future reference points or points of interest for assignments/projects etc and I believe the Kindle allows you to highlight areas of the books held on it and make these highlights "searchable"  - I think this is possible, is it true?

The downside is the tangibility of the printed book. I like to pass on, lend my books - with the markups - to colleagues to share concepts and so on and think that this is not possible with Kindle due to license issues.

I'm appealing to any readers out there, who have experience of Kindle to let me know what their experience is. Does Kindle replace your book shelf? Do you miss the printed matter? Can you use it for research tabbing? Can you "share"?

Thanks in anticipation.

Bill

Watching the momentum grow....

Over the last few weeks, I've been both watching and participating in a very interesting event, developing right in from of our eyes.

Let me introduce Steve Cunningham, CEO of Polar Unlimited who has been working, can I say successfully, on a project to identify and summarise key business books for busy executives at Read it for (dot) me.

During this month, Steve has focussed on Social media and is reviewing the books of a number of key players: Mitch Joel and Six Pixels of Separation, Tara Hunt and The Whuffie Factor, and soon Chris Brogan and Julien Smith - Trust Agents with others to follow.

I'm following all of them on Twitter and Mitch and Tara have both taken tome to contribute to Steve's reviews and comments of readers and today Mitch, Chris and Julien announced an exciting opportunity to present together, joining up the content of their books to create an even greater momentum.

All I can say is join in. Watch new business opps unfold in front of your eyes.

Well done Steve, enabler extraordinaire.