The Amazon Kindle: An Update (and a U-Turn)

In an earlier post, I gave an overwhelmingly positive review of the Amazon Kindle. This was my first Kindle, and Amazon's first generation device.

Later, when my first Kindle broke, I posted a picture of my second Kindle, a Kindle Touch.

Since then, it seems that Amazon's new Kindles are all touch-screen ones.

And as a result, I HAVE NOW RETURNED TO HARD COPY BOOKS.

Why?

All the People Imagine & Other Short Short Stories by Lee Ju-Lyn

This is a little anthology of works, written and carefully hand-picked from the blog The Chattering Matterings of the Original Meekfreak by (full disclosure here) my good friend Lee Ju-Lyn.

Ju-Lyn started her blog in 2005 as a creative space for her many wondrously imaginative essays, poems and short works of fiction. In 2008, she decided to self-publish All The People Imagine. I love that she did that. I am grateful for the ability to hold this selection of her best works in my hand. I don't personally know any other writer, but here's a little secret: When you know the writer, the knowledge transforms your act of reading. And then, having it on paper cements the tangibility of it. Her ideas, thoughts and sheer effort flowed almost visibly from the pages into my hands and into my head and into my heart. To me, the paper is incredibly light for the weight that it carries.

On to the review.